Finding my leak
I had posted about a leak I had back in 2016, took it to a dealer and they supposedly used a SealTech and found the issue. Well only a couple months later when I brought it down to my land in TN, I ...
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I had an extremely difficult time trying to find leak in the roof of my pickup camper... I repeatedly tried by using two very large toro leaf blowers thru a baggage compartment door that went directly thur to the camper’s interior... I’d also duct taped the shower and sink drains, and the pressure in the camper was waaay more than adequate, but no matter how many times I tried, I couldn’t find this dang roof leak..
On a previous camper, the leaf blower method worked exceptionally well when trying to locate a similar roof leak (but that camper had f/g batt insulation in the roof)...So I was certain that this leaf blower method would again work, but this time I used two - but to no avail...
In the end I was able to find the leak on this newer camper by sequestering off the suspected area of the roof using a lawn bag and duct tape then deluging the same area with water until finding that the leak had stopped - a very time consuming process. But using this ‘last ditch’ method I was eventually able to narrow it down to a bathroom skylight that had a Eternabond surround around it. The eternabond was acting like a dam around the moulded skylight bubble - go figure!!
In spite of using the two leaf blowers, and the repeated, dogged soapy water attempts over this EXACT same area, I was unable to reveal the leak, I could only then conclude that the block styrofoam insulation the manufacturer used between the sectioned roof members was nearly air tight and preventing even extreme pressure (actually air volume) to communicate up thru to the skylight’s eternabond surround.
After having caulked the side-edges of the eternabond, no more leaks ever again!!
On a previous camper, the leaf blower method worked exceptionally well when trying to locate a similar roof leak (but that camper had f/g batt insulation in the roof)...So I was certain that this leaf blower method would again work, but this time I used two - but to no avail...
In the end I was able to find the leak on this newer camper by sequestering off the suspected area of the roof using a lawn bag and duct tape then deluging the same area with water until finding that the leak had stopped - a very time consuming process. But using this ‘last ditch’ method I was eventually able to narrow it down to a bathroom skylight that had a Eternabond surround around it. The eternabond was acting like a dam around the moulded skylight bubble - go figure!!
In spite of using the two leaf blowers, and the repeated, dogged soapy water attempts over this EXACT same area, I was unable to reveal the leak, I could only then conclude that the block styrofoam insulation the manufacturer used between the sectioned roof members was nearly air tight and preventing even extreme pressure (actually air volume) to communicate up thru to the skylight’s eternabond surround.
After having caulked the side-edges of the eternabond, no more leaks ever again!!
