We had a tornado here in MN last Sunday along with lots of hail (grass was covered like snow with ping-pong ball sized hail). Fortuneately our neighborhood faired well, no injuries or structural damage. Unfortunately a couple miles east didn't do so well, one death and lots of homes that are now matchsticks.
Back to our neighborhood. Lots of big trees down and other such. One of our toys was flipped over in the lake (pontoon boat) and the other toy (our TT) was left very well.
The purpose of this long message is to ask a question about TT roofs. When I looked at it I don't see any damage, but see LOTS of dime-quarter size gray/black marks all over the roof from the hail. Is this OK? Anything to worry about, or should I just give it a good wash? Or maybe nothing and leave it alone?
Yup. I was up on the roof a couple of weeks ago and it looked like it could use a cleaning, but wasn't polka-dotted all over kind of like many car hoods are now...except car hoods are dented, the TT roof isn't indented just colored in those spots (hundreds). Kind of like the hail mashed down the rubber and exposed darker stuff.
MNRon wrote: Yup. I was up on the roof a couple of weeks ago and it looked like it could use a cleaning, but wasn't polka-dotted all over kind of like many car hoods are now...except car hoods are dented, the TT roof isn't indented just colored in those spots (hundreds). Kind of like the hail mashed down the rubber and exposed darker stuff.
Are you sure the hail didn't come down and "splat" whatever dust or dirth there was on the roof leaving a mark or "ring" of dirt? Kind of like the round dirt marks after a rain on a dirty car?
I'd wash it and see. On rubber - it should have just "bounced" - but i'm a Southern Californian - what do I know?
I would take a very close look at your roof and look for any signs of damage. Jayco used a different type of roofing material (not rubber) for a couple of years (2005 was one of them), and this particular material can be prone to leaking if not properly maintained.
The type of roofing material used had some kind of felt backing that once a small leak was formed the water would be absorbed under the roofing material thus compromising any wood it came in contact with.
Check all your seams as well. Jayco has since gone back to the rubber style roofing material.
If the hail damaged your roof, you may have an insurance claim on your hands.
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We live in St. Michael and our camper got rocked!!! We had golf ball and baseball size hail for about 10 minutes. It busted out all our vents and skylight. Opened the camper door to hail an water everywhere. Took a ladder and looked at the roof didnt think it was that bad untill i took a closer look. I have inch cuts everywhere the hail hit something solid on the roof (corners, sides, supports). I also think it busted up the material under the rubber roof as some spots are really mushy now. We have a Crossroads Zinger ZT32QB so there is alot of roof. The front and sides of the camper look like i let my four kids loose with hammers. Our adjuster will be out next week and I dont think i will like what he is going to tell me.
I would take a closer look and you will probably find some damage.
We had a very large hail storm about a year ago here in Texas. Our neighborhood was hit extremely hard to the point that the majority of the homes in the area had to have new roofs, skylights, etc. Our TT was parked in our driveway at the time and did suffer damage to roof vent covers, skylights, refrigerator vent cover, etc. We also had the "ping" marks on the rubber roof, caused by the hail stones shattering and causing a cleaner spot to emerge amid the traditional dirty rubber roof. No damage occurred to the roof fortunately and all that was necessary to repair the damage was to replace the skylights and vent covers. :-)
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