Pop-up roof
The roof of a motor vehicle or caravan is referred to as a pop-up roof if it can be folded up when the vehicle or caravan is stationary in order to achieve standing height in the otherwise lower interior space. Colloquially, a pop-up roof is also known as a lifting roof .
Areas of application
Pop-up roofs are mainly used for smaller mobile homes and caravans .
advantages
With a pop-up roof, the vehicle's low overall height can be combined with sufficient standing height while driving. Compared to a comparable vehicle with a fixed, high roof, this reduces fuel consumption. Depending on the construction of the roof, additional sleeping spaces can also be accommodated underneath. Owing to the low construction height, underground garages and multi-storey car parks can often be used. Furthermore, significantly higher tariffs are often charged for vehicles over a certain height when crossing a ferry.
disadvantage
As a rule, the foldable walls in the area of the pop-up roof are made of tarpaulin and therefore offer significantly poorer thermal insulation than the fixed walls. Therefore, camping vehicles with a pop-up roof are usually not suitable for winter camping. If the pop-up roof was folded down when it was wet, it must be opened again to dry as soon as possible so that no foxing stains form.
These disadvantages can largely be compensated for by using so-called covers or hats. Fabric hoods are pulled over the pop-up roof to keep the rain away from the tent bellows and thus keep it dry. In addition, the insulating layer of air that is created between the cover and the tent bellows also provides relatively good thermal insulation.