Drippity, Drip Drip

 

Adventure Location:

Decatur, Alabama

Date: March 17, 2024

An important item was tackled this morning and turned out to be a bit of work to say the least. The second leak that showed up a couple of days ago during the rain storms was tackled today. It came in from the end of the skylight and ran along the frame for a ways before coming into the trailer to visit. Here is where the entry was from inside the roof.

We removed all the trim etc. and cleaned the fuzz and dirt etc on the inside. The leak turned out to be in the near vicinity of an older leak that had been repaired a couple of years ago. After all the examinations were done we decided we could spray the rubber coating on the outside and get a better seal. So out came the six foot step ladder and up the OFM went to clean the application area. We used an aerosol can of rubber mix to spray a heavy coating on the area. This fix it stuff has done wonders on several other leaks we have seen it used upon. Then we cleaned up and put the equipment away. Back inside we got busy using our wimpy healing shoulders to reinstall the twelve overhead screws back in place to hole the inside trim in place. And finally it was back together again. The OFM then vacuumed the whole 147 sf of the Castle before we put the cleaning tools away. Hopefully that will be the last leak for a good while. For those who think RV life is all lazy lay around you are wrong. Especially these little repairs are a constant item to take care of.

Commercial RV repair folks charge about $100 an hour labor charge for these kinds of repairs if done in their shop. We do not know what the onsite service calls are but it probably is at least a little more per hour.

After this effort the OFM took a dose of ibuprofen and had a long nap to let the pain in his shoulders ease off. The was a wise choice we are certain.

Then we took it easy and worked on and finished our first full painting from scratch in over a year. It is based on a hot air launch we saw in Oregon over ten years ago.

It was fun to try to do a painting again instead of just coloring other folks drawings.

Well it was a full day for sure and we plan to rest our upper body tomorrow but still get in some decent walking in, Have a great nights sleep everyone.