Roof coming apart

pickjare wrote:
Eaaaazzzzy, gmw photos...if I had to choose to either take it to the dealer and have a high school kid work on it as you stated, or your "repair" idea, I think I'd take it to the dealer. Reason is because I like things fixed, not patched up. Eternabond is good, but op should at least try and get it done right first. There is a problem with roof panels creating too much stress on the membrane as op stated. The dealer has a repair procedure to adhere to. The membrane needs to be pulled off, then resecure roof panels, then reinstall membrane. Op, I think you should take it in right away.

To do this repair and make "as it should have come from the factory" would require removing moulding at edges, and possibly one or more items like roof vents, plumbing vent stacks, etc. Then pull back the roofing material, re-affix the plywood sheeting, then reassemble it all.

No thanks. I'd rather, to use your words "patch it up"....because a correctly done patch job using eternabond etc is as good or better than original.

In this case, no matter, this is an old thread and the OP got it fixed already. I post to these kinds of threads also because there are often new folks looking for advice or doing research, and I believe it to be helpful for them to consider there are alternative methods.

But then my shop is likely pretty much like Grandpa Kip's.... I have a full woodworking shop, plus metal working ( I'm retired machinist ) and over 50 years of tinkering, restoring and working on things. I prefer doing my own repairs. I bought my travel trailer new and never even considered taking it back to the dealer for any of the little repairs or mods I've done to it.

To each their own, there's plenty of ways to skin these cats.