What to use on my trailer rubber roof
Once a year, we clean and then condition the rubber roof on our trailer, and today was the cleaning day. While we were doing it we noticed that on each side of the AC unit where the condensate runs ...
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I researched this a lot in the past... A old search will turn up what I found.
A summary:
Dicor doesn't make roofing material.. They SELL what other manfacturers make.
They get the roofing from Carlise. Which is the the largest commercial building manufacturer of roofing material.
Dicor USED to frown on cleaning RV roofs...It was on the FAQs section of their website.
Carlise still does frown on cleaning their roofing material. Stating that it is only to be done, if one wants to maintain the reflectivity of the white material for energy conservation purposes. (It comes in white or black)
Rvers kept asking Dicor how to clean their roofs, so they obliged by coming up with a product and recommending it.
The fine cracks on your roof are normal. The Roof is designed to chalk off. In fact that outer weathered material acts as a 100% effective sunscreen for the unweathered material under it.
So you really don't NEED to do anything to it
If you want , for asthetical reasons to clean it, there are products sold for that purpose.
Just make sure that you use a sunscreen (UV) protectant on it religiously, since by cleaning it, you are removing the protective layer it has.
There are products available to do this too.
As for myself.. I never clean mine. Got a thicker wallet and more time to go camping as a result.:B
A summary:
Dicor doesn't make roofing material.. They SELL what other manfacturers make.
They get the roofing from Carlise. Which is the the largest commercial building manufacturer of roofing material.
Dicor USED to frown on cleaning RV roofs...It was on the FAQs section of their website.
Carlise still does frown on cleaning their roofing material. Stating that it is only to be done, if one wants to maintain the reflectivity of the white material for energy conservation purposes. (It comes in white or black)
Rvers kept asking Dicor how to clean their roofs, so they obliged by coming up with a product and recommending it.
The fine cracks on your roof are normal. The Roof is designed to chalk off. In fact that outer weathered material acts as a 100% effective sunscreen for the unweathered material under it.
So you really don't NEED to do anything to it
If you want , for asthetical reasons to clean it, there are products sold for that purpose.
Just make sure that you use a sunscreen (UV) protectant on it religiously, since by cleaning it, you are removing the protective layer it has.
There are products available to do this too.
As for myself.. I never clean mine. Got a thicker wallet and more time to go camping as a result.:B
