slide topper drainage

After losing a topper by following the directions I was told by selling dealer, "just retract the slide and it will ALL just roll off", well-mine DID NOT and the topper (due to weight, I presume) was actually pulled into the coach...end up having to get a mobile RV guy to fix. It had to be cut and pried out. This is within 2 months of buying the coach. Any way, I made a broom head attachment on the end of a pole and use it to "sweep" the topper after each downpour. It only takes a few minutes and easy breezy to do, plus I have peace of mind that-the water pooling issue will be put to rest and no more worries...

Aaah. I forgot BarneyS. Been gone from Michigan so long that I forgot that the sun rarely shines there such that yesterday's rain is evaporated today :) :) :) I've always had the philosophy that when the mosquitoes breed, I move on to the next CG. Gotta agree with the running the slide in. Course if one wants to carry beach balls, noodles and ladders to use for building little tents... :)

Not a good idea to leave standing water around a campsite. Mosquitoes breed in it very quickly and you will have a problem with them. I would just run the slide in, than run it back out. Only have to do it once per rain storm. Problem solved! :)
Barney

Why are you concerned with pooling. They are designed to handle pooling with spring rollers and extra material. A pool of water puts zero pressure on the topper mechanism and the slide roof is engineered to handle the weight - at least mine have always been designed to handle a human on the slide roof.

No one can really see it so it isn't an aesthetic thing.

If you're in a location for a while, nature's dryer will take evaporate it. If you are leaving, the water will spill off as designed. If it bothers you to have water run down the side of your rig, dump the water off the side before running the slide in by lowering or raising your, in your case with a 5ver, landing legs as needed for hookup to the tow vehicle. Your rig, coming out of level will shed the pool off either the front or rear side of the slide. Or you can just bring your slide in a few inches, wait 10 seconds to partially drain the pool, run it back out to tighten and repeat a couple of times.

Whether you get water on your rig from dumping all the pooled water at once or get water on your rig from some sort of tenting of your topper, seems to me to be pretty much the same. It the pool leaves a dirty stain on your topper, who sees it? When it's out it's above eye level. When it's rolled up, the edges which weren't subjected to the pooling present a clean face to the observer.

On the other hand, if you want to carry some sort of anti pooling mechanism, put it up, take it down, store it together with a ladder, that works too.

Next question, how to keep bird droppings off the roof :)

gdweb wrote:
I use a small beach ball. little air, shoved about a foot in from the front edge by the door, to keep the water from running off on me. the rest I don't worry about.

X2, and at the end of the summer they are marked down 90 percent at discount stores. I used to get a few then and when one got a hole in it no big loss.

I use to shove a tether ball under it....(it already has a rope attached so it's easy to pull and and remove when we pack up to leave)

Now I just let it pool...it's not a problem. The water runs right off when we retract the slide. No big deal.

I use a small beach ball. little air, shoved about a foot in from the front edge by the door, to keep the water from running off on me. the rest I don't worry about.

3ares wrote:
I’m looking for ideas to stop rain water from pooling on my slid toppers.

I don't have a slide topper but I some here on the forums have previously suggested sliding pool noodles between the slide roof and topper so water can't pool.