HI All, I have a leakin my van roof which seems to be hard to fix , A friend told me of a paint like substance to paint over the entire roof, and its 100% but he cannot think of the name , the trade name may be simailar from anywhere in the world , I live in the country (Remote Australia ) so I have had no secess tracking it down ,
PLEESE any HELP Lural from down under
Not sure whether you'd be able to get it over there, but try a search for EPDB rubber... Might (ok, will) look like crap unless you can find a way to make it look neat, but it should be pretty effective :-}
Leaks are easy to FIX, they are just bloody hard to FIND.
I had one on our camper.
I looked like a teeny bit of mastic had fallen out of a window frame. Didn't seem to be enough to account for the leak, but I filled it with decorators caulk, and no more water has come in.
Suggest you go over every single joint in the van, and remake any suspect ones with a mastic.
What is the roof make of - is it fibreglass or sheet aluminium? If the latter, the leak will almost certainly be in one of the joints - in which case it is necessary to remove the trim strip which covers the joint and re-pack it with non-drying mastic. That would be better than painting something over the whole roof.
i find aluminium caravans roofs always leak every year because of the heat of the sun expanding and contracting the joints.. i just scrape them out with a blunt chisel and paint with any old paint...
Our two caravans are aluminium, one a 1960s and the other from the 1970s.
Their roofs have never leaked.
Mary
The van roof panels don't usually leak (barring impact damage), the _seams_ in the van roof leak.
If you go to a yacht chandlers, there's something called "Captain Barnacle's patent leak cure" (Captain Tolley? Something like that). This is a runny goop that soaks into thin seams or crazed fibreglass, then sets. Not cheap, but you don't need much to do the seams with a thin brush and it does work.
Weatherproof PVA might work just as well.
cheers, Pete.
HomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.