How To Raise The Roof Bus

12 inch roof raise in a school bus conversion sow the land.

How to raise the roof bus.

We originally wanted to cut off the entire top of the bus and lift it to have a full roof raise. Our videos are made possible by our viewers patreon supporters. Cutting the last hat channels and raising the bus roof. That being said go for it.

It s all very exciting so let s get. Skoolie bus conversion roof raise on today s post. But having not done a roof raise myself and given the structural engineering implications of cutting your bus in half and then putting it back together exactly how to raise your roof is outside of the scope of this bus conversion manual. A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value.

Quality motorhome roof repairsmelbourne or australia wide. Whenever you buy a commercial passenger coach there are modifications you will need to make it a comfortable private coach. We guarantee you will be provided with quality work when you need a motorhome roof replacement in melbourne or nationally. Unsubscribe from sow the land.

The most popular reason is value. Like 75 steel costs etc. View from under the bus. At first class motorhomes we can do any structural modification work with engineer certificates supplied with our specialty in raising roofs or lowering floors.

Today we raised the roof on our new school bus conversion. Become a patreon suppor. They fit our rented scaffolding. Our new 6 ton car jack.

As most of you probably know we have a flat nose front engine bus. How to complete the roof raise using the walk board method including. Why raise the roof. The only real con of doing a roof raise is the amount of extra work and effort involved.

If you do plan to raise your roof please take into consideration all aforementioned complications expenses. Without raising the roof we would have already been half way through building out the interior of our bus at the same point in. Subscribe subscribed unsubscribe 101k. Roof raise costs will vary of course depending on how you do it the cost per hour.

So we prepped the bus for the raise most of the day on saturday removing rivets removing windows setting up the scaffolding and putting the whole bus up on blocks. We greatly underestimated the amount of time and energy required to cut up a perfectly good bus and put it back together again. Construction of the walk boards using cribbage and a bottle jack strategy. One of the most popular structural changes to make is raising the roof.

I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.