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It depends what your roof is made out of, but most motorhomes and 5th wheels have a "walk on" roof. If your roof is the typical half inch plywood decking with a rubber membrane, then you are fine to walk on it.

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The roof may be 3/8 inch plywood and if you have a latter attached to your

RV you should be able to walk on it. If I did I would walk softly. I don't walk on mine but

I would if I have to. So far I have been able to wash and treat the roof from a latter

that I move around. I am 225 lbs. Good Luck

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Thanks folks!

 

I will use the ladder as much as possible - I'm pretty heavy. But I know there's stuff I just won't be able to reach without at least crawling up there. I have a 3' X 6' laminated 1/2" board left over from a project in my garage, so I think I'll drag it up there and sit on it in case there is a soft spot.

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The board is a good idea... it will spread the load and avoid surprises. :) I do as much work as I can from either a ladder or from a scaffold (which is MUCH better) when I'm at my home base. I can walk up there but I do not like the rear ladder (narrow, feels loose-ish, and nothing to hang onto when you get off or back on). I carry a much better ladder.

 

I'd take the rear ladder off but I have an antenna on it. :P

 

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Clean soft shoes too, don't want to poke holes or leave scratches from gravel or thorns embedded in the soles.

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I don't think many AC units, Satellite dishes, or solar systems are installed or repaired from a ladder.

 

If you have one of the above. Then the roof supported someone OK.

It would be real hard to wash all the roof a couple times a year from a ladder.

 

Or go to a NASCAR race and see how many are standing on a roof of a RV like yours. :)

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Don't fall and be added to an ever increasing list of those who have. We bend not break at our age.

 

Notify next of kin.

 

Seriously, pay someone else to do it.

 

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I was all worried about getting up there and falling through. I was cleaning out an old mouse invasion around the water tank while waiting for my mechanic to show up when I heard him calling me from outside. When I got out there I found out he had been tromping around the roof looking for a broken wire for the last ten minutes. I guess I can assume it's safe up there! :lol:

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