ChristmasKathy
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Today we went on the roof and saw some water damage. There is a soft spot about 6 by 8 and you can tell the water has gotten in, the problem is we dont know how. After a big rain storm I came in the TT and it was leaking from the roof. We didnt go on the top because we wanted it to dry some and we are having a dry spell and didnt worry to much. Today we see a problem. I was thinking it may be the air conditioner, but my thinking is if it was the AIR it would still be dripping but it has not since the night of heavy rain.
We live in our RV and cannot take it to get repaired for days, so my thinking is spend a weekend and fix it. What do you all think. Can we do it our selves?
Any idea on where to get some info to help us out?
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ChristmasKathy
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Since I dont have any biters, here was my plan.
I was going to cut open the roof, pull out all the rotten wood then place a piece of wood over the area, then put a metal sheet over than and screw it all in place. Then patch it all up with ethabond and then give the whole roof a coat of whatever I can find at the rv store for roofs.
Does that sound like a logical way for a women who don't know much on rv roof repair? I got my ideas from you tube because it has so many videos I found one that looked right to me.
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rgolding
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ChristmasKathy,
Careful with the screws, make sure they are not too long and that they end up recessed, so the screw heads do not punch through the rubber roofing repair.
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Gale Hawkins
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It will depend a lot on your construction. We have laun/1.5" pink foam board/laun. We just slit the roof in a couple places where it was not glued down due to water damage and blew air under it for a day or two with a shop vac until the laun got crunchy and rolled it down with a steel Eternabond roller until it became someone smooth then sealed it with Eternabond. That was 5 years ago.
Oh you have to fix the leak. Ours was due to a bad prep job at the factory when installing the radio antenna and 12 pin holes from the PO's long term use of a RV cover.
We did replace our 20 year old roof AC gaskets last year. They had been seeping for years we found on removing them.
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JIMNLIN
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ChristmasKathy wrote:Since I dont have any biters, here was my plan.
I was going to cut open the roof, pull out all the rotten wood then place a piece of wood over the area, then put a metal sheet over than and screw it all in place. Then patch it all up with ethabond and then give the whole roof a coat of whatever I can find at the rv store for roofs.
Does that sound like a logical way for a women who don't know much on rv roof repair? I got my ideas from you tube because it has so many videos I found one that looked right to me.
I had my own mobilehome/RV repair business years back. I specialized in roof repair/structure repair. There is a right way to do a job. Unless your repairing a junker to leave in the woods and not resell in the future.
Please don't cut the roof open. Doing so creates even more potential future leaks. From what you described to do will be a future maintenance issue and a hell of a mess for a tech to repair in the future. As a prospective buyer and I saw a repair like that I simply would walk away.
Repairing the wood structure underneath requires removing the rubber roof cover far enough to make the repair/reinstall the rubber roof just like the factory installed it.
I did a quick google and came up with several blogs on how to make a repair as your requesting. Some came with pictures and a couple had vidio clips.
You can do it but just do it the right way.
"good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" ............ Will Rogers
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Golden_HVAC
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Here is a link to reparing my roof and coating with Herculiner.
http://forums.woodalls.com/Index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/24993453.cfm
What I would recommend is the two part roof coating. It is simple to mix, and wait an hour, then apply within the time limit to apply before it starts to set up. You can place the mixed product in a refrigerator, it will not start to cure until above 55F for a time.
Links to both products are on the post in the link above.
Fred.
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Golden_HVAC
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Good luck!
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ChristmasKathy
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Thanks for the replys.
I really dont care about future/potential buyers.
The way I describe doing it was on a few you tube videos.
I dont see any potential problems with leaks using ethnrabond after the repair and then sealing the whole roof. Anyone?
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