Short Bus Roof Raise

Things we had to consider.

Short bus roof raise.

I am new to this sub as me and my partner just purchased our short school bus yesterday and are working on the floor plan. We have been tossing around the idea of raising the roof just past. We originally planned to raise the roof a full two feet. Our bus was a little less than 9 tall in its original state.

One of the most popular structural changes to make is raising the roof. 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. By raising the roof 8 you now can be standing and look out your windows without leaning as much. This turned out to be unnecessary even for bart who is 6 4.

They fit our rented scaffolding. We plan on living in it full time so we definitely want a decent kitchen shower and permanent bed space. A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value. Short bus skoolie roof raise.

The roof was raised a total of 18. This dramatic option basically involves chopping off the entire ceiling of the bus fabricating support struts to elongate the existing ones replacing the severed roof onto the higher struts and then sealing all the gaps with sheet metal and so forth. See more ideas about bus school bus conversion bus conversion. I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.

View from under the bus. In order to keep things legal the bus cannot be more than 13 6 in height.