OSI GS121 Clear Synthetic Polymer Sealant
A friend of mine turned me onto this stuff at Lowes, we both have to re-caulk our campers and are going to try this stuff, he uses this and geocel and says the both of them are about the same. I neve...
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sorry Mellow, I spent a good part of this weekend sealing my 2011 Open Range 5th wheel again. I have learned that what even the RV dealers and even the factory's use don't really work. so I am skeptical of any solution. Plus a sealant failure is real expensive.
My Open Range has to be the worse trailer I have ever owned for factory sealing. I have owned it 4 years and have 4 major places of delamanation )it was a leftover that I bought in late 2012, than it spend the next 2 winters stored inside, so problems did not show up until after warranty was up)
On the sides of the roof they put this piece of metal strip on the side of wall to hold down roof materiel. on the front and rear corners they stuck a plastic rain gutter extender under this metal strip, than squirted a little caulk on it to keep water out.
well the plastic, wood, metal and roof all expand at different rates, and this joint keeps ripping open. it only last like 3 months with dicore non leveling, and the 3M stuff just cracks and leaks. Plus its white, and RV is gray :(
I also had water running down the side walls of slide, then it was soaking into the plywood floor because the finishing trim was installed too high. When I fixed that problem I discovered that apparently all the trim materiel is sealed with double sided open cell foam tape that they felt would keep out the water.
of course I am out of warranty before any of this showed up.
but I did install a slide out awning and used Geocel and its holding up great.
let me know how this stuff works out. I need to do something different. But its already too late, its now too ugly to ever have a trade value again. I just need to keep it sealed to prevent further damage, since I will probably be forced to own this one forever.
PS: the dealer that sold me the Wolf Creek sealed the whole thing with Geocel before I picked it up new. its holding up great!
My Open Range has to be the worse trailer I have ever owned for factory sealing. I have owned it 4 years and have 4 major places of delamanation )it was a leftover that I bought in late 2012, than it spend the next 2 winters stored inside, so problems did not show up until after warranty was up)
On the sides of the roof they put this piece of metal strip on the side of wall to hold down roof materiel. on the front and rear corners they stuck a plastic rain gutter extender under this metal strip, than squirted a little caulk on it to keep water out.
well the plastic, wood, metal and roof all expand at different rates, and this joint keeps ripping open. it only last like 3 months with dicore non leveling, and the 3M stuff just cracks and leaks. Plus its white, and RV is gray :(
I also had water running down the side walls of slide, then it was soaking into the plywood floor because the finishing trim was installed too high. When I fixed that problem I discovered that apparently all the trim materiel is sealed with double sided open cell foam tape that they felt would keep out the water.
of course I am out of warranty before any of this showed up.
but I did install a slide out awning and used Geocel and its holding up great.
let me know how this stuff works out. I need to do something different. But its already too late, its now too ugly to ever have a trade value again. I just need to keep it sealed to prevent further damage, since I will probably be forced to own this one forever.
PS: the dealer that sold me the Wolf Creek sealed the whole thing with Geocel before I picked it up new. its holding up great!
