Replacing Rubber Gasket on Slideouts- DIY??
I'm not sure what you actually call the rubber barrier that is on the three sides of a slideout (gasket, seal, trim or whatever). Six months ago one of these pieces of rubber on my trailer had a small...
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Once I learned that the operative words are slide out seals with "wipers", I got more responses from Google than before. I see there are two types in terms of how they attach, but basically they both slide in a groove as indicated above. And, they come in both black and white. They also have different wiper widths from something around 1 1/2 inches to 2 7/8 inches.
It seems they typically come in 35 foot rolls and a person cuts them to size. I did not shop much for price yet, but it appears this material is in the neighborhood of $170 per roll. Since my rotted wipers are only on the corners on the top of the slides, I do not think I will change out the side wipers unless they actually need it. Normally I would be tempted to just change out everything while I was at it, and start out fresh with all new wipers. But that would more than double the cost and labor. Scrap could also be a problem. For example, if I have 3 slides, and the sides are 6 feet tall, I need 6 pieces, six feet long. So now a 35 foot roll comes up one foot short and I have to buy another $170 roll and I end up with 29 feet of scrap.
It seems they typically come in 35 foot rolls and a person cuts them to size. I did not shop much for price yet, but it appears this material is in the neighborhood of $170 per roll. Since my rotted wipers are only on the corners on the top of the slides, I do not think I will change out the side wipers unless they actually need it. Normally I would be tempted to just change out everything while I was at it, and start out fresh with all new wipers. But that would more than double the cost and labor. Scrap could also be a problem. For example, if I have 3 slides, and the sides are 6 feet tall, I need 6 pieces, six feet long. So now a 35 foot roll comes up one foot short and I have to buy another $170 roll and I end up with 29 feet of scrap.
