How To Build A Tent Trailer Roof

A roof top camper usually consists of a rigid bottom and heavily reinforced tent.

How to build a tent trailer roof.

While you can buy these commercially they usually cost over 1 000 a young couple decided to make their own. Same thing on the back. Use the plywood to build the base of the rooftop tent and go with the 1x4s wood boards to install the raised side boundary or bottom lips. Open tent frame bolted to the roof rack.

Those things i do once complete the frame and platform sit perpendicular to the car s length bolted to the rooftop frame with u bolts. The design will complete in approx 8 hours and will last long. While rebuilding the roof of the pop up camper wasn t necessarily difficult it was tedious. The unit mounts securely to the roof of a car or suv.

There will be times your pop up camper roof needs repair due to cracks from small accidents or extreme weather conditions. Apply butyl tape to the underside of the metal trim and get the new metal screws and start attaching the trims meeting up with the corner pieces if your trailer had separate corners. Feb 25 2020 explore bryan s board diy roof top tent on pinterest. Make your own rooftop tent.

This is going to be a long series. Once he put see how this guy built his own homemade camping trailer with a pop up roof a simple inexpensive trailer and it can be towed with any car. Next cut the top folding frame install the roof rafters vertical supports and finally cover the top frame with 1 4 plywood. How to do a pop up camper roof rebuild.

With a trailer you can set up basecamp then make the beer run. A large notch cut at the folded down end allows access into the tent via a ladder. Instead they ve created a super strong platform for the top of their jeep that can be used to pitch a. Then the top and bottom frames get connected through a hinge at the back.

We really want to go into detail on just how we tackled our pop up camper roof rebuild so we are breaking this post up into several smaller posts.