waterproofing slide floor

bamaboy wrote:
i suspect that is exactly what happened. and exactly what the repair man told me to do if it happens again (sell it)??if you can share a bit more detail about what to use for a drip edge and how to attach please do so. i love this forum everybody is so kind and helpful.

Hi,

I have all the pics and background on both of my slide issues. The one Burbman is talking about above, and a new one that happened a few years ago with water flowing in a sliding end wall window.

This post here on RV.net is the first one with slide floor rot in 2010 that Burbman followed and fixed his. There are pics of the problem, and later in the thread, how I repaired it and created a drip edge.
https://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/23443150/srt/pa/pging/1/page/1

Since that time in 2010, I have followed the RV industries changes in slide manufacturing. And the trials and tribulations of how several of the next generation slide design changes, fixed one problem and created another. Which in turn, creating follow on changes again... Now a days, some brands have changed the way the slide floor is made and sealed at the floor level. Other brands still keep creating the same issues from 10 year ago. Every time I go to an RV show, I look at all the brands and how they build the campers and the slides. I'm under the camper looking up, and the wife in side looking at the inside...

This is where pics of your slide will help show what "vintage" your slide is made to. And how it may be able to addressed if it has any of the older or next generation issues. When you get time to post them, we can see and possibly help on what the new fixes are as they are made different then mine.

My other issue more recently was with water coming in the slide open window in the end wall of side room. I did not post this yet on the web about the problem, nor the correction so I can't link it, yet anyway. If your slide room does not have a window on the ends of the slide that opens, then it won't be an issue. If yours does have a window that opens, I can load up the pics and explain once we see what yours looks like.

Hope this helps

John