Modular Home Hinged Roof

Workers continue on the hinged roof.

Modular home hinged roof.

Hinged roofs are most commonly found on multi wide homes. Resulting in air pockets around electric boxes and wiring. Learn how to install the new mmhc hinged roof connector for modular building. The exterior walls of most modular homes are installed with lower value r 19 fiberglass insulation that usually isn t blown in.

You ll find one possibly two or even three features unique to modular home construction. Roof insulation for most modular homes is rated at r 30 or r 38 resulting in a less efficient insulating value. Two good indications that a roof is hinged are the sidewalls and the roof pitch. There may be hinged roof rafters photo at above left and sketch below.

Once the home is placed on the site and the hinge is opened it becomes difficult to detect without close inspection of the trusses. Now they have started work on a hinged roof. Once the roof truss system is completed the manufactured home roof structure is moved over the rest of the home. Also notice how the power nailer the builder is using is attached to the roof of the factory.

If the home is a double section or triple section home this is where structural lumber headers and a laminated ridge beam are used over the openings to join the two sections of the home together. Many modular homes have roof slopes which would be much too high for the upper roof bearing sections to travel up the highway. Bringing the roof and home together.