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Subject Topic: flaking roof...help!!!
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17/3/2008 at 8:54pm
 Location: north east lincolnsh
 Outfit: Lunar
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Can anyone help please??? My 1994 Eccles Diamond has a roof rail running across the width of the van. On one side of the rail only, the roof is flaking away from the rail towards the back of the van, revealing a spongy peachy coloured substance (insulation?). 

The user handbook states that the caravan has a "part bonded construction roof." 

I've done a search on this site and looked at the Fixed It Club sites but cannot find anyone having a similar problem. Has anyone ever encountered anything like this, and if so, do you know the cause of the problem, and how did you fix it?

 



17/3/2008 at 10:01pm
 Location: Lancashire
 Outfit: Caravan now Sold
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sounds like and i hope i am wrong, damp has got into the roof area and is rotting the thin alloy on top. possibly the rail could be leaking.

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18/3/2008 at 9:37pm
 Location: Lincolnshire
 Outfit: Auto sleeper Duetto
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Is it possible that a whole piece of trim is missing?

Shame no one has a photo of the roof of your caravan when it was new.  Also doesn't help that we don't know what type of roof you have.



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