Brand new TT - day one 1 at home - water leak around windows

Hold on a minute here, this may not be as terrible as you think. What kind of humidity do you have in MD? Have you had the heat on I the trailer? Are you sure it's not condensation from the inside of the windows pooling in the channel? Is the trailer sitting level? When we camp in the winter our windows are dripping wet on the inside and the weep holes allow that water to exit at the bottom.

Hopefully your dealer is close by and you can get a decent explanation for what is going on. Almost all entry level RV's use the same type of windows and it's hard for me to believe you were unlucky enough to get three leakers on a new rig.

Our 2002 Forest River Wildcat has been a great trailer since day one. Don't ever use silicone when it comes time for maintenance, stick with what they sell at the RV stores, like Dicor or Sikaflex. I hope you will be reassured by your dealer all is well with your new trailer and enjoy the RV experience. All the best, Hans

If the windows are sliders, that's the way it's designed to work. Yours _may_ be leaking more than usual, tho'. Be sure the lower slide track or channel is centered, with equal gaps at each end between channel and frame. That's what allows the water to drain down to the weep holes and out.

We (the factory & I ) looked & looked for a small leak that I had in the overcab bunk. The mattress kept getting damp in one front corner. Looked, applied sealer to the roof-side joint, still leaked, looked more, more sealer, damp again.

I _finally_ found it. Turned out that the slide channel in one window had moved to the front blocking that drain path to the weep holes. At home, I was parking ever-so-slightly nose down, so water accumulated and dripped out, to the inside. Took less than 30 seconds to fix.

Jim, "Mo' coffee!"

I went out and took a closer look. The leaks appear to be coming from the lower center of the window. One half of the window slides. On the outside there is a factory 'dab' of caulk at all centers, top and bottom of the windows. The caulking looks shotty to me. There is also a screw at the bottom center of the frame on the outside, it looks like it could be coming from this area to.

Ugh, I was afraid it wasn't normal. Its been raining its ass off and more to come. I've got 4 windows on the unit and 3 leak. I can't tell on the 4th, its a different design. Cheap ass crap, just my luck.

Weep holes are for outside water so water that lands in the gutter drains out. There shouldn't be any water on the inside of the unit. Call the dealer tomorrow and tell them you want them fixed. Do some more checking of the unit (flush the toilet, run water, fan, generator, check electricals, etc.) and put a punch list together. The sooner you report the issues, the better off you will be.

Back to the dealer tonight and make them fix it right!

The windows are not designed to leak... Well, they are not the kind of windows you would find on a submarine ;) You will get some water intrusion. If it is a driving rain, some can enter in gaps around the seals. The weeping holes are intended to drain off condensation that would otherwise collect on the inside of the window.

I would check to see where it is leaking from. Keep the outside caulked where the window frame meets the trailer. If the issue is a seal in the windowpane itself, you have a warranty issue on your hands. If it is where the seal where a fixed pane meets a moveable pane, and it is not too much, this may be the intended operation.

The windows are not supposed to leak.