drainage for van roof
Hi Ant, I know this is not really your field, but I've just finished sorting out water ingress to little Kip caravan...
Although it now doesn't leak and all is dry, the water 'puddles' on the roof when the poptop is down, as in when stored on the drive. Runs off ok when poptop is up (ie. whilst camping) but there seem to be no run-off points at the back by the door, it's just a box, boxed in. It looks like someone has stood on it at some point in the past before I owned it(hence the puddling) but even if this was straightened (goodness knows how I would do that!) I still think the puddling would happen. I think it's only a question of time before the puddles of water start finding a way in again...
As a temporary measure, I have the caravan parked on an angle so that the water drains off towards the front. It's ok, but would be level (hopefully) when pitched on a site, and I may have to lower the poptop if it got too windy at night.
I sent off for some samples of different rubber strips from seals direct, with channels of one sort or another. I thought if I could stick them to either side, they would channel the water off where it collects. I would run them down either side of the length from the back where the door is to the front, leaving a short bit protruding to form a sort of spout? The rain does run off anyway when the poptop is popped up, at the front there are two exit points, sort of!
However, none of the seals direct samples look like they would do the job. someone suggested the stuff they put in double glazed doors, but where would I get that from?
Any clues if this would work? Or any other method of getting the water to drain off the roof instead of collecting there?
Thanks, JayJay
Although it now doesn't leak and all is dry, the water 'puddles' on the roof when the poptop is down, as in when stored on the drive. Runs off ok when poptop is up (ie. whilst camping) but there seem to be no run-off points at the back by the door, it's just a box, boxed in. It looks like someone has stood on it at some point in the past before I owned it(hence the puddling) but even if this was straightened (goodness knows how I would do that!) I still think the puddling would happen. I think it's only a question of time before the puddles of water start finding a way in again...
As a temporary measure, I have the caravan parked on an angle so that the water drains off towards the front. It's ok, but would be level (hopefully) when pitched on a site, and I may have to lower the poptop if it got too windy at night.
I sent off for some samples of different rubber strips from seals direct, with channels of one sort or another. I thought if I could stick them to either side, they would channel the water off where it collects. I would run them down either side of the length from the back where the door is to the front, leaving a short bit protruding to form a sort of spout? The rain does run off anyway when the poptop is popped up, at the front there are two exit points, sort of!
However, none of the seals direct samples look like they would do the job. someone suggested the stuff they put in double glazed doors, but where would I get that from?
Any clues if this would work? Or any other method of getting the water to drain off the roof instead of collecting there?
Thanks, JayJay
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