jrod420
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I will get some pictures up tonight illustrating the situation. I have a bad feeling about the chance for success with this repair. The front of the roof section has a small gap between the tin roof and the aluminum flashing that runs around the roof portion of the camper. Although there is no sign of water intrusion into the interior roof area the plywood and fiberglass that is directly underneath the tin is rotted bad. The front marker lights have failed because of green death in the ground wiring and the fact that the screws have been rusted into small nubs. All screws have been reduced to 1/4 inch nubs with no threads left, just rusty nubs. Anyway, enough about the nubs.
The affected wood is the 8 inches of vertical lumber that makes up the front panel of the roof portion. The water damage is substantial as i can remove the wood with my fingers as it falls apart with little effort. I am going to let the lumber dry out so I can cut it out of the roof and make a template. Hopefully this is the right way to do the repair.
I am posting because I am sure someone has done this repair before because this seems like it could be a common problem with some older popups that have not been properly maintained/cleaned.
This is depressing because I have done a major repair to a overhead camper before and It was labour intensive and in the end it still leaked. Probably because of my lack of expertise dealing with rv components, tin, flashings, those things.
Should I look for a complete replacement roof?
I really should've been patient and got the fwc shell I wanted but this starcraft was 2500 bucks and up here they go for 5000.00 in the same rough shape. Hard to find a fwc here.
Kinda depressed about this thing.
The affected wood is the 8 inches of vertical lumber that makes up the front panel of the roof portion. The water damage is substantial as i can remove the wood with my fingers as it falls apart with little effort. I am going to let the lumber dry out so I can cut it out of the roof and make a template. Hopefully this is the right way to do the repair.
I am posting because I am sure someone has done this repair before because this seems like it could be a common problem with some older popups that have not been properly maintained/cleaned.
This is depressing because I have done a major repair to a overhead camper before and It was labour intensive and in the end it still leaked. Probably because of my lack of expertise dealing with rv components, tin, flashings, those things.
Should I look for a complete replacement roof?
I really should've been patient and got the fwc shell I wanted but this starcraft was 2500 bucks and up here they go for 5000.00 in the same rough shape. Hard to find a fwc here.
Kinda depressed about this thing.
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