Aluminum Roof Replacement Mobile Home

[Marc]

We need to put a new roof on a trailer. We have an old trailer, built approx. in the early 1950s. It has a 6 panel seamed thin metal roof that needs to be replaced, the floor and walls are good. We have a second larger trailer, built approx. in mid 1980s we can salvage the roof from, it's missing walls and the floor. The roof looks like it's one large continuous aluminium sheet. Question? When we remove the screws along the roof edge that seem to be holding the roof in place will it be possible to just roll the roof up, or pull it off. The roof seems to be seamless and doesn't seem to have anything else holding it in place or do they use some type of industrial glue to hold the roof to the cross members besides the screws around the edge? Do manufacturers provide diagrams for this sort of thing? Any advice on how to do this sort of thing would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Mark Bower]

Generally the metal roofs are just stretched over and fastened along the edge of the mobile home. Simply unscrew the edges and roll it up (after the vents and such are removed of course). Of course if the roof rattled and bugged the occupants, then it may have been screwed to the trusses.

Not sure if its worth the hassle of removing it from one home and putting it on the other. I think I'd just buy some corrugated metal and use that for the new roof.

Mark