RV Service Centers... and Caulking
I'm fairly new to RVing and had thought I'd found a good local (San Antonio, TX) service center to help me keep my fifth wheel in good repair. I just had it in for repairs. They were supposed to che...
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I am going along with the DIY crowd. I was not aware of the Winnebago caulking requirements for the roof to body seams and evidently neither were the previous two owners. Last raining season 2016/17, the roof leaked and I didn't see it until we pulled it out of storage and opened the slide. The white ceiling material was badly stained and the caulking an absolute bugger to replace. Plastic scrappers were useless and I used a utility knife, window paint scraper and hooked tool I made myself to remove the caulking from the fiberglass roof and aluminum body trim.
Heat was of no use at all due to the location and after the caulk was removed the cleaning and drying and scrubbing and all those other adjectives were a pain. I'm not too spry, my 78th birthday will be Father's Day next week and I developed tendinitis due to the shape of the rungs of the ladder.
Had I taken it to the local dealer or had the guys at the storage yard do it it would have been 8 tubes of caulk($12 to $15 a tube and all would have been self leveling and that is not what is called out in the Winnie manual. I know this because they caulked our last rig and didn't remove any old or damaged caulk.
I can live with the pain in the heel but not with more leaks, it's done and it was done correctly. And it only took three and a quarter tubes of caulk.
Heat was of no use at all due to the location and after the caulk was removed the cleaning and drying and scrubbing and all those other adjectives were a pain. I'm not too spry, my 78th birthday will be Father's Day next week and I developed tendinitis due to the shape of the rungs of the ladder.
Had I taken it to the local dealer or had the guys at the storage yard do it it would have been 8 tubes of caulk($12 to $15 a tube and all would have been self leveling and that is not what is called out in the Winnie manual. I know this because they caulked our last rig and didn't remove any old or damaged caulk.
I can live with the pain in the heel but not with more leaks, it's done and it was done correctly. And it only took three and a quarter tubes of caulk.
