Our travel home, a 24’ trailer was a refuge for my son’s family in the firestorm days of a couple years ago, but we discovered leakage earlier this year. Traced some to the A/C gasket seal, and some other cracked sealant spots, so I went looking for bids to repair it…
Stripping, replacing the roofing material ran from $10k at Camp World, but as it’s a 2002, they refused to even work on it… Other guesstimates were also similar, but booked, didn’t really care to bid. My mobile repair guy of the old days retired, new contact bid, but wants $12.5K to do it… I expected maybe $6K, but… So I worked a deal for him to replace the A/C gasket, seal all the other vents and edges for $1270…
They just left, 2 guys, about 3 hours, done, for now… Leave for 48 hours for the sealant to set up, then a quick wash…
But, they, and I can feel the deterioration of that top decking under the rubberized roofing, dry rot, but for now, contained… Just hard to justify the expense of the full replacement…
I also, myself, removed the 14’ awning, we never used it, the material just sun rotted away, I left one upright, next to the door to help enter, but the other upright blocked a window from opening, gone! Will recycle the aluminum tube one day, or use it for a big potato gun!
I guess we need a covered space for our vehicles, but there’s no way I’d get away with one… Maybe a better cover, Sunbrella or such, that can handle the sun here in NorCal… I had two earlier covers, way back, gave up on 'em, as both failed by sun rot, but maybe there are better ones today…
Progress…
