I have a 1997 Rockwood Freedom 1620 that I would like to replace the ceiling panel. I have searched Youtube with out any luck.
Is their anyone that can provide any guidance?
Is this simple and straight forward?
I have a 1997 Rockwood Freedom 1620 that I would like to replace the ceiling panel. I have searched Youtube with out any luck.
Is their anyone that can provide any guidance?
Is this simple and straight forward?
I have no idea why these are oriented like this when they were uploaded.
They are oriented that way because you held your phone in portrait mode. The only way to get pictures to display properly here is to hold your phone with the button on the right, one of the two possible landscape orientations.
Replacing those panels is going to be tricky. I'm working on our 2002 Northwood Nash which had some pretty bad roof damage. My first step was to peel back the roof membrane, remove the roof decking, the ribbon, and the worst of the trusses. Trailers of that vintage are built like this:
The walls are built with with 2x2 studs (actually 1-1/2" square).
The headers and footers are also 2x2, of course.
The ceiling panels overlap the headers.
Atop the outer rim of the headers is an upright 1x2 ribbon. (Yes, a 1x2 is actually part of the structural materials.)
The trusses rest on the remaining 3/4" of the headers. Screws through the 1x2 ribbon, into the ends of the trusses secure the trusses in place. Long screws through the 1x2 in the vertical direction and through the ceiling panel, secure the roof assembly to the headers.
There seems to be construction adhesive holding the panels to the trusses.
Also every four feet there's an H-shaped metal trim piece at each joint between two panels.
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