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07-07-2020, 07:27 PM #11
You want to get a dehumidifier running ASAP. Fiberglass insulation can take a little wetting. The skylight will be a complete replacement so I wouldn't keep getting carried away with tube sealant because it just makes the R&R work more risky. Gorilla tape is your friend here. Inside and out over the cracks. Trust me here as I have had hail blow clean through the outer and inner domes! Our last camper took a pounding from a tornadic cell and I had Niagara Falls through the skylight and was able to dry out everything with a dehumidifier and installed a much higher quality skylight.
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07-07-2020, 07:28 PM #12
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Thanks. Sadly it has become the norm to expect such issues with new units.
It is a step up from my previous trailer, which was used - from the same dealer. Came loaded with mice droppings, leaked from both slides, but the skylight was great.
Regarding the leak, I certainly hope the leak has been correctly identified and repaired for at-least short term before I can get it in to have it fully repaired. I'm keeping an eye on it. I should have perhaps explained my picture a bit ... so I didn't have a fan that would do justice - but, there is a vent in the RV right next to the skylight. Garbage bag an some painters tape later, and it's blowing right in one side and coming out the other (about 5+ hours now and still going). Eventually i'll need to piece her back together, hoping enough air got in there.
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07-07-2020, 07:34 PM #13
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You nailed it, "much higher quality skylight". I couldn't agree more. A few hours ago it was pouring here again, as I was standing out there looking up to see if it would leak again (not that I saw....) - for a moment I had to step back because I was pretty sure the sky was going to open up with hail, and I just knew if it did, that plastic would shatter. Luckily it was just a lot of heavy rain.
I don't have a dehumidifier, but I have been directing one of the RV A/C vents (it's been 80s-90s for the last two weeks) directly into that area that was wet. I'm hoping that helped with something. I also know that I'm pretty "lucky" (feels downright dirty saying that) to have caught this when I did.
Hand is scratched to the bone from the nails in that small hole (trying to feel around) - but whatever the insulation is, that isn't any kind of fiberglass - at-least not any kind I have ever worked with.
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07-07-2020, 07:43 PM #14
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07-18-2020, 08:13 PM #15
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In 2012 I purchased a Tiffin Phaeton diesel pusher Motor Home at over $250K it had a leak that nobody could find. It can happen to any rig. I called Tiffin and they sent me to a dealer in Ct, I was living in NY then, they had a machine that pressurized the coach. They found the leak and I never had another leak problem.
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