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mikakuja
Aug 15, 2013Explorer
Sat inside the trailer and had a beer, then went out and stared at the torn apart front corner of my 05 Desert Fox... Sigh... The siding pulled free from the corner trim on the freeway and tore back about two feet on the way home from our week long camping adventure. Guess that is the end of the camping season for us..... Now for the big rebuild project.... It looks like it was leaking for a very long time. probably since new... The whole corner was not put together properly from the factory. The siding was not glued to the first two studs and none of the staples that were supposed to be holing the siding to the frame were even through the siding (all were just in front of it). The siding was cut so that only 1/8th of an inch in places was being held by the corner trim, and at the top near the transition strip the trim was barely touching the siding but was not actually over the siding, what a surprise that the wood is completely rotten, no sarcasm at all there........ To add insult to injury the floor is also rotted under the bath tub from the leak... What annoys me is that the trailer did not appear to be leaking, the interior has no damage and the siding did not appear to be delaminated even though the front two feet was actually delaminated. Oh well, in the end I have to rebuild the damn thing and it will be better than new when I am done.... I will post some pics and a rebuild story in a new thread once I dive into the project....
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