Oh no! Water leaks

Well I will certainly try to do that when I can. However I'll be living in it full time in about 10 days, and I know there might be times when I can't always do that. Just trying to do every preventative thing I can.

What does your owner's manual say about slides and severe weather? On my Monaco coach it says to retract the slides if severe weather is expected, even with the slide toppers. In addition to water, winds can destroy slide toppers just like any other awning.

I'm trying....really hard....to put dicor along that seam. I think I have the living room slide done ok....it's not pretty at all, but I think I have it sealed up. It took about four days.

It's such an impossible place to caulk. I can't see what I'm doing. I barely have room for the caulking gun to fit up there, let alone hold it at the right angle so it actually hits the place I want it to go. I tried using some plastic tubing to extend the tip of the caulking tube, but anything more than a few inches and it takes so much pressure to get it though that it blew a hole in the side of the dicor tube.

I'm trying to do the bedroom slide. It's even harder. I'm about to give up. Im just making a mess at this point.

I called Fleetwood and they said they use geocel and the sealant on the top of the windows. So hopefully no silicone....

I started adding dicor to the seam between the slide and the inner wall where the water leaked in, but I ran out of dicor before I could finish. It sure is an awkward place to get dicor into.

I just hope that when I get done with all of this I'll be leak free. Water damage is my worst nightmare.

zach477 wrote:

Pirate wrote:
An often overlooked area to make sure is sealed up is the top of the slide. Even though you have a slide topper, water can and will end up on top of the slide. Any seams that are not sealed properly will end up giving you leaks inside.

How can I check this? It's 11 feet in the air and under a slide topper. I'm pretty sure this is where the water is coming in.

I see you figured it out but if the manufacturer did not build it to be water tight, you may have to remove the topper, seal the top of the slide up real good with dicor, and then replace. I thought about using eternabond but the slide seals may have a problem with that.

I'd peel off the silicone and get a good cleaner that will take ALL the silicone off or nothing you use from here on out will stick where the silicone was. Most say to never use silicone on your RV.

So I had a chance to pull the slide in tonight. There was quite a bit of water pooling on the roof of the slide. It got passed the slide topper, passed the seal/gasket, and collected where the roof of the slide meets the inner lip of the slide. I suppose it doesn't help that the slide kind of bows down in the middle.

You can see on the picture the spot where the water was pooling. I used a towel to soak it up and now I'm using a fan to help dry it, but it was that little seem on the left that let the water in.



In the near future I will lube the seals, but in the event that water still gets through, I don't want to make its way inside the rv. It already damaged the "wood" in a couple spots and I'm pretty torn up about it.

I'm thinking about using some dicor on that seam. Any problems with doing so?

I also checked the little window which would be behind the drivers seat. It looks like the PO put some silicone caulking over the top part of the window frame, but not the rest. Looks like water could maybe get in here as well...through the sides that they didn't seal and the part of the seal on top that is peeling off. Should I peel the silicone off and use dicor here as well?

Thanks.

Pirate wrote:
An often overlooked area to make sure is sealed up is the top of the slide. Even though you have a slide topper, water can and will end up on top of the slide. Any seams that are not sealed properly will end up giving you leaks inside.

How can I check this? It's 11 feet in the air and under a slide topper. I'm pretty sure this is where the water is coming in.

Just went through this with my RV, Bedroom floor would get wet when it rained next to where slide meets outside wall. Well we had a storm through Thursday night and low and behold the wife woke up and felt water on ledge under window. Got a flashlight and seen the water running in from the bottom of the window. I resealed around the window from 3/4 way down the side all the way over the top to same point on other side. I flooded window for 3 minutes when we got home since we didnt get anymore rain while camping and didnt see anymore water coming in. So if you have a side window in your slide that could be it.

Remember water is a big fan of gravity, & the water at the bottom could have started at the top.