Travel Trailer Rubber Roof Blew Off
We have a 2018 Heartland Trail Runner 34SLE. Coming home this weekend the rubber roofing material blew off all the way back to the air conditioner and even ripped off the antenna! Has anyone ever hear...
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I noticed a bubble in my roof a couple weeks ago on a trip to Moab. My camper is 5 years old now and 2 years ago I put a strip of eternabond across the seam on the front cap. I cleaned the area really well but putting the tape on was challenging due to the different heights on the surface.
during this trip is was particularly windy. I noticed at a gas stop that the eternabond had started to lift from the aluminum front cap. By the time we reached our destination we had a huge bubble I could see in my mirror. I got on the roof and pulled off as much of the eternabond and old caulking as I could. I went and bought some dicor and sealed it all back up.
On the trip home I was still getting the bubble. When I got home I removed all the dicor and disassembled the front cap far enough back to get under the tpm material. I bought a gallon of adhesives and reapplied as far back as I could reach. I then resealed it all up again. Hopefully this will take care of the issue.
My point in this story is that I think the eternabond tape softened the dicor underneath it and caused it to crack. Once the eternabond lost its grip on the front cap it was flapping in the wind and causing the wind to be pushed under the front cap. Moral of the story is eternabond is great stuff but if I use it again I will follow up with dicor along the edges of the tape for extra protection.
during this trip is was particularly windy. I noticed at a gas stop that the eternabond had started to lift from the aluminum front cap. By the time we reached our destination we had a huge bubble I could see in my mirror. I got on the roof and pulled off as much of the eternabond and old caulking as I could. I went and bought some dicor and sealed it all back up.
On the trip home I was still getting the bubble. When I got home I removed all the dicor and disassembled the front cap far enough back to get under the tpm material. I bought a gallon of adhesives and reapplied as far back as I could reach. I then resealed it all up again. Hopefully this will take care of the issue.
My point in this story is that I think the eternabond tape softened the dicor underneath it and caused it to crack. Once the eternabond lost its grip on the front cap it was flapping in the wind and causing the wind to be pushed under the front cap. Moral of the story is eternabond is great stuff but if I use it again I will follow up with dicor along the edges of the tape for extra protection.
