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Subject Topic: A little leak :(
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Personmadspaceangel
01/10/2012 at 5:54pm
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We was doing some maintainence on our 1993 lunar Venus this weekend when the husband noticed a puddle of water on the top shelf of the larder cupboard.

He's mopped it up and although we have had rain overnight I've checked today and it's not wet but there is a definite dampness along the roof panel joining strip in that area.

The strip was coming away slightly where the ceiling meets the side and I've pulled it away a bit more and felt withmt fingers and there is wetness there.

Where might it be coming in from and how is best to repair it?

Hope someone can help.


Personjeff juke
01/10/2012 at 6:16pm
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Sounds as if the awning rail is leaking if on that side or rail at the other.You will find help here in the fix it club on the top right..click

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First thing I would do is cover it up. Then it will start to dry out instead of getting ever wetter.


Persontherigbys
02/10/2012 at 6:56pm
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First off, check the roof make sure no obvious holes.


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Personmadspaceangel
02/10/2012 at 9:44pm
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I've had a look on the roof. Nothing obvious. The wet area is near the chimney/flue so possibly the seal is gone?

We are going to try some new sealant on the awning rails and round the chimney, any dos or donts?

I need to stick the plastic joining strip for the interior roof panels back on. How is best to do this?

Cheers for all you help so far. I adore our 'van I just want to keep her in lovely condition.


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03/10/2012 at 1:34pm
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The flue area is a bad place to attract water. The flue is held in place with a bracket underneath. I released the bracket took out the flue and cleaned up the whole area and flue and then replaced. I used mastic on a roll, pushed it back in and pulled it down tightly and tightened the bracket. The flue was supported with a piece of wood with a hole removed for the flue to go through, it was completely rotten so I replaced that also. When I was putting the joining strip back on I used a staple gun to secure the base and then the strip I had clipped to it. Not sure what joining strips you have.

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04/10/2012 at 8:37am
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I am not quite sure how I would access the internal parts of the flue without cutting a large chunk of the roof panel off?


Persontherigbys
04/10/2012 at 1:17pm
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Inside my cupboard I had to do just that, to access that point. It was then that I discovered the wooden strut that is behind the awning rail was dust! Not saying yours will be like that but your strut will come down and be connected to the heating pipe, you will have to disconnect that and you should see the bracket that you unscrew and loosen to allow you to lift the flue up from outside to enable the reseal. My van had a lot of damp so I was ripping out panelling, you are just trying to reseal the flue?
My rebuild blog.

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Yes just need to reseal the flue, apart from this little leak the van is virtually immaculate. Dry as a bone everywhere else.


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Just make sure you get rid of the old mastic as the new wont fix to it.

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