Poor Mans Fiberglass Roof

It s waterproof wood glue instead of epoxy for the layer between substrate and fabric then any natural fiber fabric instead of fiberglass then exterior acrylic paint on top.

Poor mans fiberglass roof. The diy camper people have an exterior treatment they call poor man s fiberglass. 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. I am going to use a sheet of aluminum as my seal on the roof. We were using a technique called poor man s fiberglass basically you glue canvas down tightly to the wood using titebond ii glue which creates a water resistant seal.

Now we have come to planning out the roof for our teardrop trailer. 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. I tackled what i think is the hardest section first the tapered front end. On the walls i think i m going to go with poor man s fiberglass pmf.

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. We ll touch on that later when we get to it but it is a pretty cool option. They refer to it as pmf a lot. I got the plans for the teardrop free from the best teardrop traile.

I started a new phase in the camper this morning. Poor mans fiberglass pmf one year later torture test part 2. Testing how well the pmf poor mans fiberglass holds up under extreme heat and sticking to plywo. Building the roof on a teardrop trailer.

I chose canvas and paint specifically glidden gripper. Poor mans fiberglass permanent exterior paint never paint again almost waterproofing with out epoxy fiberglass epoxy allergy relief.