Strength of Roof and Solar Install question
Hi all, Have been getting the bug to install a solar system on the roof of our Coachmen Chevy based Class C. Was looking to do 300-400 watts (3 or 4 panels). I researched that the roof board ...
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Thanks for the replies to date everyone.
Believe me, I wish (hope) that were true. I got the info from Coachmen. I also asked a dealer and they thought the same. And finding out that it is only 1/8 inch verifies an observation I had the first time I went up on the roof.
After returning from our first trip, I went up on the roof to wash it. As I was on my hands and knees scrubbing, I would come accross small areas that had, for lack of a better word, variations in it. Especially near the area where the dealer installed a vent cover, or in the areas I walked to get towards the front. I figured I was just paranoid, and that they were just variations in the TPO material being glued down. But to be on the safe side, I never walked on it again. Only crawled on hands and knees to spread the weight.
Finding out it is only 1/8 inch thick luan leads me to the belief that my initial paranoia was correct, and that those small areas of variations are very slight "dips" created by walking on it. And I am not by any means a weighty person. So now, not only will I only crawl on hands, knees, and rear-end (moving like an inch worm), I think I will bring a board up there to sit on to distribute weight even more.
Harvey51 wrote:
It seems to me if you walked on the roof it has to be stronger than 1/8 inch luan with supports 4 feet apart.
valhalla360 wrote:
I'll give you 1000-1 odds it's more than 1/8 inch with 4' support spacing.
Believe me, I wish (hope) that were true. I got the info from Coachmen. I also asked a dealer and they thought the same. And finding out that it is only 1/8 inch verifies an observation I had the first time I went up on the roof.
After returning from our first trip, I went up on the roof to wash it. As I was on my hands and knees scrubbing, I would come accross small areas that had, for lack of a better word, variations in it. Especially near the area where the dealer installed a vent cover, or in the areas I walked to get towards the front. I figured I was just paranoid, and that they were just variations in the TPO material being glued down. But to be on the safe side, I never walked on it again. Only crawled on hands and knees to spread the weight.
Finding out it is only 1/8 inch thick luan leads me to the belief that my initial paranoia was correct, and that those small areas of variations are very slight "dips" created by walking on it. And I am not by any means a weighty person. So now, not only will I only crawl on hands, knees, and rear-end (moving like an inch worm), I think I will bring a board up there to sit on to distribute weight even more.
