Most Florida roofers won't touch a mobile home. The structure is different. The fastener pattern is different. The decking and trusses are lighter. Sarge does mobile home roofs because Marion County has thousands of them and the homeowners deserve a real licensed contractor, not a handyman with a magnet sweep.
A manufactured home is not a stick-built house. The roof structure is engineered differently:
Many Florida mobile homes have factory-installed aluminum or galvanized roofs that have oxidized, leaked at the seams, or lost reflectivity. A new metal roof installed over the existing system - with proper isolation membrane to prevent galvanic corrosion - is often the cleanest path. Long lifespan, hurricane-rated, low maintenance.
An asphalt shingle roof can be installed over a manufactured home if the underlying structure can carry the additional load. Engineering review is sometimes required. We assess and tell you straight whether your specific home supports it.
For factory aluminum or galvanized roofs that are still structurally sound but losing seam integrity, a properly applied silicone or acrylic coating system can extend service life significantly. Coating system details.
Where the original roof is too low-pitched for shingle, single-ply EPDM or TPO membrane gives you a fully sealed, low-slope-rated roof. Common on older single-wides with under 2:12 pitch.
Manufactured-home roofing requires the same Florida contractor license as any other roofing work. Hiring an uninsured handyman to "just nail down some metal" voids your manufactured-home certification, creates problems with your carrier, and leaves you with no recourse when it leaks in three months.
Some crews will sell you a roof-over without inspecting what's underneath. Wet insulation, rotted decking, soft trusses - all get sealed up under a new roof that looks fine from outside while the structure deteriorates underneath. Sarge inspects the existing roof and the attic before quoting a roof-over.
Mobile-home roofing in most Florida counties requires a building permit. Crews that skip the permit are saving themselves money, not you. When you sell, the missing permit shows up in title work and costs you a lot more than the original permit fee.
Standard 1-1/4" roofing nails do not hold properly in 3/8" manufactured-home sheathing. The fastener has to be matched to the deck thickness. Wrong fasteners = wind uplift = roof failure.
HUD-coded manufactured homes built after 1976 are classified by wind zone. Most of Central Florida is HUD Wind Zone II, requiring specific wind ratings on the original roof and on any replacement system. Some coastal counties (parts of Citrus near the Gulf) are Wind Zone III with stricter requirements.
Your carrier may require documentation of the replacement system's wind rating to maintain coverage. Sarge provides:
Any roofer who can't answer those quickly is not the right roofer for a manufactured home.
Yes. Manufactured home and mobile home roofing across Marion, Lake, Sumter, and Citrus counties. We handle factory metal replacement, roof-overs, coatings, and low-slope membrane systems.
Sometimes, depending on the underlying structure's load capacity and pitch. Sarge inspects first and tells you straight whether your specific home supports it.
Most Florida carriers will, provided the new system has documented wind-rating matched to your home's HUD wind zone and the work was permitted and inspected. Sarge provides all the documentation your carrier needs.
In most Florida counties, yes. Permit requirements vary slightly by county. Sarge pulls the permit and handles inspection sign-off.
Most single-wide and double-wide re-roofs are completed in 1-3 days depending on system type and crew size.
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