Apart from protecting you and your family, good roofing does add to the overall beauty of your manufactured home. Harsh weather, temperature changes and constant wind movement does make manufactured home roofs vulnerable to instances of leakage. Most manufactured home roofing choices do provide such home owners with options when it comes to keeping water from dripping from the ceiling or trickling down the wall. it is worth noting that even though it is possible to replace your roofing yourself, it is always advisable to call in a professional to help you out since a slight mistake when doing your roofing can cause great loss, both in terms of damage caused to the house and financial loss due to spoilt or wrongly measured fittings. The available roofing materials for manufactured homes can broadly be categorized into steel roofing and shingles. Steel roofing can either be galvanized or non-galvanized. Most shingles on the other hand are made from Asphalt. Here is a brief look at some of the most common manufactured home roofing choices readily available:
Steel Roofing
1) Product Name: 14 foot Classic Rib Steel Roof Panel in Burnished Slate
Product Price: $ 39.98
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Product Details: this product is built for value, durability and beauty all combined. It is an exposed fastener low panel that’s quite ideal on any roof, be it a manufactured or conventional home. It is designed to be used over either solid substrate or open framing. The roofing material is made from strong twenty nine (29) gauge steel panel and comes with a 45 year warranty. It has an approximate length of 14 ft and an assembled height of 75 inches. Each panel weighs around 30.8 lbs and covers an area of around 42 square feet.
2) Product Name: 8 ft Galvanized Steel Corrugated Roof Panel
Product Price: $ 10.47
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Product Details: this corrugated panel is good for a variety of residential purposes such as manufactured and mobile homes. It is made from galvanized steel for that added durability. It is an ideal roof cover in extreme precipitation, heat, wind and humidity. It is worth noting that this panel can be installed over shingles and has an assembled height of 5 inches and has a length of 96 inches. Each panel does cover approximately 14.32 square feet and weighs around 7lbls.
Shingles
1) Product Name: GAF Royal Sovereign Weathered Gray 3 Tab Shingles
Product Price: $ 23.00 per bundle
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Product Details: these shingles combine timeless beauty with a simple yet timeless protection technology pioneered by GAF. This is by far one of the most beautiful strip shingles you will come across. It does minimize the use of precious natural resources. It does look great due to the color lock ceramic firing process that fine china undergoes: allowing the shingle to maintain its color for much longer. This shingle has also passed the industries 2 toughest wind tests, the 150 and 110mph. It is the most preferred 3 tab Asphalt shingle in its category. It does require an underlayment, has an assembled width of 36 inches and a height of two inches. It does require 3 bundles per 100 square feet and has 26 pieces per bundle. They do come with a 25 year warranty.
2) Product Name: GAF lifetime Camelot Antique Slate Ultra Premium 35in x 17in Shingle
Product Price: $ 35.26
Product URL: http://is.gd/H9RFNm
Product Details: these are top of the range asphalt shingles which combine oversized tabs with artisan crafted shapes to give your manufactured home an ultra dimensional profile, ensuring that your roof espouses sophisticated beauty that’s unmatched by other shingles. The slate like design of the shingles accentuates any architectural design. It also has StainGuard protection which ensures that the original beauty of the roof is not altered by the unsightly green-blue algae. The micro weave core implemented does offer the shingles superior strength foundation that’s resistant to splitting and cracking. It is sold with eight pieces per bundle and does require the placing of an underlayment, 7 bundles will cover around 100 square feet and has an assembled height of two inches. It also does require attic ventilation. These shingles can also withstand very harsh weather conditions.
3) Product Name: Timbertex Shakewood Ridge and Hip Shingles
Product Price: $ 43.00
Product URL: http://is.gd/X68Pqf
Product Details: a perfect finishing touch for a new roof, the protective ridge cap does accentuate the beauty of the newly installed shingle, adding some depth and dimension to the overall look and offers protection to the highest stress areas of the roof such as the ridges and the cap. There are thirty (30) pieces per bundle and you require at least 5 bundles per 100 square feet. It has an assembled and depth and width of 12 inches.