Owners of flat-roofed mobile homes can add a pitched wooden gable roof above the original roof. Such a roof addition provides a barrier from the sun's direct rays and also offers an excellent opportunity to add loose fill insulation or fiber-glass batts to meet recommended energy savings standards. This provides extra protection for the roof and helps shade the sides of the home, while providing the roof for a porch or covered patio. In hot, humid regions of Louisiana orient the active living zones of your mobile home 5 south-southwest, and if possible use trees or shrubs to cut northern winds. No less important is air infiltration.
Air can infiltrate through cracks around doors and windows.
Check your doors. If there is, add or replace the weather stripping and caulking. Make the same test at all your windows. If you can, then you've just discovered another wasteful trouble spot. Other areas to check are around the moldings, joints, roof vents, and wheel housings.