Molding Around Everything Outside

Calicajun wrote:
Brought our 2775RB Heartland Wilderness trailer home to wash and de-winterize. Noticed while washing the trailer that all the molding around everything, lights, seams, windows and around all the doors was either gone or dried up and flaking off. Leaving a great way for water to get in and cause a problem.

What should be used to re-seal everything? Read somewhere in here, can't seem to find it again, not to use Silicone which would have been my first choice. Plus while on the subject of up keep. What is suggested for keeping the fiberglass sides from fading or reduce the fading?

Thanks,
Craig

For lights, doors, windows, hatches you use butyl rubber rope caulking which can be bought at most any RV dealer. Kind of a grey looking putty which is a rope form. It is very sticky and comes rolled with a release paper backing.

The very best way is to remove the window frame/door frame/hatch, from the trailer.

Then you can scrape off the old caulk clean with mineral spirits then put new caulking rope around the perimeter. Then reinstall the item..

REMOVING THE OLD CAULK IS the only way to do it, plastering new caulk around the outside edges only makes you feel good and wastes your money AND the life of the RV..