slide topper drainage
I’m looking for ideas to stop rain water from pooling on my slid toppers. Thanks and Happy Travels
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Why are you concerned with pooling. They are designed to handle pooling with spring rollers and extra material. A pool of water puts zero pressure on the topper mechanism and the slide roof is engineered to handle the weight - at least mine have always been designed to handle a human on the slide roof.
No one can really see it so it isn't an aesthetic thing.
If you're in a location for a while, nature's dryer will take evaporate it. If you are leaving, the water will spill off as designed. If it bothers you to have water run down the side of your rig, dump the water off the side before running the slide in by lowering or raising your, in your case with a 5ver, landing legs as needed for hookup to the tow vehicle. Your rig, coming out of level will shed the pool off either the front or rear side of the slide. Or you can just bring your slide in a few inches, wait 10 seconds to partially drain the pool, run it back out to tighten and repeat a couple of times.
Whether you get water on your rig from dumping all the pooled water at once or get water on your rig from some sort of tenting of your topper, seems to me to be pretty much the same. It the pool leaves a dirty stain on your topper, who sees it? When it's out it's above eye level. When it's rolled up, the edges which weren't subjected to the pooling present a clean face to the observer.
On the other hand, if you want to carry some sort of anti pooling mechanism, put it up, take it down, store it together with a ladder, that works too.
Next question, how to keep bird droppings off the roof :)
No one can really see it so it isn't an aesthetic thing.
If you're in a location for a while, nature's dryer will take evaporate it. If you are leaving, the water will spill off as designed. If it bothers you to have water run down the side of your rig, dump the water off the side before running the slide in by lowering or raising your, in your case with a 5ver, landing legs as needed for hookup to the tow vehicle. Your rig, coming out of level will shed the pool off either the front or rear side of the slide. Or you can just bring your slide in a few inches, wait 10 seconds to partially drain the pool, run it back out to tighten and repeat a couple of times.
Whether you get water on your rig from dumping all the pooled water at once or get water on your rig from some sort of tenting of your topper, seems to me to be pretty much the same. It the pool leaves a dirty stain on your topper, who sees it? When it's out it's above eye level. When it's rolled up, the edges which weren't subjected to the pooling present a clean face to the observer.
On the other hand, if you want to carry some sort of anti pooling mechanism, put it up, take it down, store it together with a ladder, that works too.
Next question, how to keep bird droppings off the roof :)
