Manufactured Home Roof Connection

[Michael Roberson]

Originally Posted by bdehaan

Just curious; do modular homes have a good or bad reputation where your are? Two manufacturers close to where I live. Both have a good reputation.

In my area, the manufacturers have a varying reputation, Its the sellers, set crews and contractors that have a worse reputation. I see similar caliber work on manufactured homes in my area, usually done by the set crew that wanted to get done before 3, and collect their pay.

[Larry J. Michael]

I agree with Michael. What is built at the factory is usually above average. The below average workmanship usually occurs on site from subs.

[dquigley]

That is some very poor quality framing/craftsmanship. It almost looks as though it is missing a ridge board --- all the mis cut blocking. I would think that each half would have its own ridge board so that the two halves could be joined properly. Although I don't think these are ridge boards by definition, since major roof components are running paralell. One method that is sometimes used to connect ridge boards to rafters is flat strap. A length of flat strap, say 24" is laid on top of the rafter and crosses over the ridge board and continues the same distance over the top of the adjacent rafter. These straps are hidden once the roof deck is applied. The straps keep the rafters from separating or pulling apart, but do not provide any resistance to live and dead loads. I don't think that this is the scenario that we are looking at here, but it is possible due to the two halves needing to be joined after the fact. Either way, something is very wrong here.