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agteacher
Jun 25, 2015Explorer
Finally getting ours back from being repaired. We tore a front corner loose last fall while towing. Went almost back to the slide. We were lucky - nothing broke or came completely off. My husband quickly pulled over and we put duct tape over the whole seam and up onto the roof to seal the seam. We discovered that the fiberglass was held by the trim strip (less than 1/8" in some places). The day it pulled loose, we had a lot of wind. The insurance covered almost $3000.00 of the repairs for the corner and we had the dealer do some additional work on the roof. We replaced our bedroom A/C, the skylight had sun damaged and cracked, and we had a section at the back that had water damage. We are friends with the owner of the rv and even though he retired last year, he decided that the whole roof needed replaced - no patching. The fiberglass is all original on the camper (the dealer was able to remove and reinstall). The whole job is going to cost us less than $500 plus a few hours helping at the campground grinding out some ash tree stumps (okay, lots of hours). The owner agreed to an hour for hour on labor. We got almost $11,000 of repairs done on our camper and now have a new roof on the camper with no water damage there or in the walls. This will be a real selling point when we go to sell the hauler in the near future (planning to downsize since only one or two of the kids usually goes camping now and they will soon be leaving for college and jobs.
We hope to get it home tomorrow and pack it for camping next week (no more rain, please).
We hope to get it home tomorrow and pack it for camping next week (no more rain, please).
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