Poor Mans Fiberglass Roof

Building the roof on a teardrop trailer.

Poor mans fiberglass roof.

Now we have come to planning out the roof for our teardrop trailer. I m using a technique called poor man s fiberglass which involves canvas or bed sheets and paint or glue. Poor mans fiberglass permanent exterior paint never paint again almost waterproofing with out epoxy fiberglass epoxy allergy relief. In the pictures you continue reading 3 2 2019 poor man s fiberglass.

Poor mans fiberglass pmf one year later torture test part 2. Back in 2011 i built a teardrop camper at the time i needed a place to sleep a few nights a week as the long drive home was causing me to fall asleep behind the wheel way to often. On the walls i think i m going to go with poor man s fiberglass pmf. We ll touch on that later when we get to it but it is a pretty cool option.

I am going to use a sheet of aluminum as my seal on the roof. I tackled what i think is the hardest section first the tapered front end. I started a new phase in the camper this morning. Testing how well the pmf poor mans fiberglass holds up under extreme heat and sticking to plywo.

This poor mans fiberglass is an old boat deck sealing technique and used else where where bare wood is sealed by gluing a fabric to the surface and then painting the fabric. The diy camper people have an exterior treatment they call poor man s fiberglass. They refer to it as pmf a lot. I chose canvas and paint specifically glidden gripper.

I got the plans for the teardrop free from the best teardrop traile. Then you spread glue over the canvas then paint over it with several layers of exterior grade paint making sure the canvas soaks up all the paint and fills the fibers in.