Rain blows in stove exhaust fan flap when closed!?
Outside Tabs are in position, when windy, rain blows in, runs across counters, starting to get some swelling in counter....and ideas on how to keep flap tighter????
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To the OP etc,
Without an actual pic of your outside vent or a link to it in an RV parts catalog or something like that, it nearly imposible to give you much real help. Even the year and model of your RV may enable a member to look it up and know what your outside vent looks like. Most RV's have a cover at an angle which covers nearly the entire flapper area and fends off rain but some RV manufactures simply used the exposed flapper to somewhat protect the outside vent and yes, they do leak in a rain and let air blow in or heat being sucked out too.
We have never gotten as much as a drop of rain come in thru any of our many RV thru the range vent or air either and all had the angled flap cover. For winter, we slide or snap the screen off that's on the top inside of the range hood and put a plastic storage bag over the screen and fold the excess on the back side and tape it there so the range side is smooth and invisible. Then slide or snap the screen back on. Of course, the outside flapper lock tabs are also nolding the flapper closed. Then when using the range to cook, just open a ceiling 14" X 14" hatch cover a little and out goes the smells and humidity and then close it. We can't stand that constant flapper snapping open and closed noise when the wind is blowing so ours are normally locked in the closed position and use the ceiling vent even in spring, summer, and fall. They're about useless as far as we're concerned.
Without an actual pic of your outside vent or a link to it in an RV parts catalog or something like that, it nearly imposible to give you much real help. Even the year and model of your RV may enable a member to look it up and know what your outside vent looks like. Most RV's have a cover at an angle which covers nearly the entire flapper area and fends off rain but some RV manufactures simply used the exposed flapper to somewhat protect the outside vent and yes, they do leak in a rain and let air blow in or heat being sucked out too.
We have never gotten as much as a drop of rain come in thru any of our many RV thru the range vent or air either and all had the angled flap cover. For winter, we slide or snap the screen off that's on the top inside of the range hood and put a plastic storage bag over the screen and fold the excess on the back side and tape it there so the range side is smooth and invisible. Then slide or snap the screen back on. Of course, the outside flapper lock tabs are also nolding the flapper closed. Then when using the range to cook, just open a ceiling 14" X 14" hatch cover a little and out goes the smells and humidity and then close it. We can't stand that constant flapper snapping open and closed noise when the wind is blowing so ours are normally locked in the closed position and use the ceiling vent even in spring, summer, and fall. They're about useless as far as we're concerned.
