MsLaurie wrote:
We are located at the bottom of a canyon so wind is rarely and issue.
Just wondering about snow load. We can get lots of snow here in the northwest.
There are tons of RV dealerships around our area with hundreds of motorhomes and we don't see any of them going out and getting the snow off the Motorhomes/trailers etc. In the Winter.
So I guess ours would be fine for snow load...
That sure seems like you don't need to worry about a cover.
I did all those snow load calculations for my old '94 Bounder and it turned out the engineers knew what they were doing. Snow load has to do with how much snow falls, how dry it is, and helps you decide whether you're going to shovel it off, or let it melt off.
As an aside, up in Alaska I had 2 feet of snow on my roof and the RV handled it just fine. And the calculations showed the roof was more than able to handle it. The low moisture content of Fairbanks snow helped keep the weight of that snow load down. What you can do, is cut out a 1' X 1' X 1' foot cube of snow and melt it. Measure it as a liquid, convert to gallons, multiply that by 8 lbs/gallon and there ya go. Snow load per square foot. It was all kind of fun figuring all that stuff. Hardest part was finding the rating of the roof...and as I recall, it was 270 lbs per square foot snow load rating.
But I didn't want to have that much melt water on the roof even though I knew there weren't any leaks...so I climbed up there with a cell phone, broom, and a snow shovel and pushed and scraped off 1.5 feet of snow as spring approached.
No damage was done so basically, no cover was needed. Imagine if I'd wanted to go camping and had to scrape off tons of snow, AND roll a 100 lb cover off too.
But, you do what's best for you.
