Insulating A Mobile Home Roof

Mobile home insulation is one of the home improvement areas that is the most oversimplified.

Insulating a mobile home roof.

This installment covers another technique for insulating a mobile home attic. As we shared in our complete mobile home insulation guide blowing insulation into the belly and the ceiling of a mobile home is the most recommended method to insulate under a mobile home. It also helps with coolness in the summer. Insulating your mobile home is one of the first three upgrades that we recommend.

The early roofs used a lightweight bow truss a layer of insulation over the trusses and a seamed metal roof. When someone brings up insulation most people only think of fiberglass rolls or insulating foams in large quantities covering an entire area. However this method of insulating a mobile home underbelly requires specialized equipment and advanced knowledge of a mobile home s construction. See our guide to mobile home roof insulation.

The best ways to access the roof cavity are either through a hole in the rooftop or by disconnecting the long edge of the roof where it fastens to the wall. Add mobile home roof insulation. Insulating the roof cavity will typically save between 10 and 15 percent of heating and cooling costs and cost around a dollar a square foot assuming you can find an insulator who will do it. Mobile homes present unique challenges when seeking to increase warmth in the winter.

Installing a sloped roof allows extra room for insulation in the ceiling of your home. It s often recommended that you try to purchase insulation with an r value of no less than 30 50 for the roof and 15 30 for the floor but even these values are largely based on the climate of the location that your mobile home is in the type of hvac system your mobile home has and what part of the mobile home you re planning to insulate. The cavity under the insulation was usually left un insulated so insulating the roof cavity is one of the best ways to reduce heat loss in an older mobile home. Blowing insulation into the belly of your mobile home.

It takes a little more work but you can save up to 15 of heating and insulation costs simply by insulating your mobile home or manufactured home roof cavity. Many have only 1 inch of fiberglass insulation in the roof cavities.