How to Completely Remove, Repair, Clean & Replace a Leaking Caravan Roof SkyLight Vent & Surround
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Chapters:
01:30 - Caravan Skylight Repair How to remove a Caravan Skylight from the roof surround
02:30 - Caravan Skylight Repair - Identifying the source of the leak
05:22 - Caravan Skylight Repair - The incorrect method to separate inner and outer dome of the Caravan Skylight
09:36 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to use a Dremel to remove the handle from the skylight dome
10:38 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to adjust the handle to allow for refitting
12:58 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to separate the outer dome from the inner dome for cleaning
14:21 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to repair cracks in the upper dome using a fibre glass kit
16:09 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to reassemble the handles to the inner and outer domes
21:03 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to reinstall a caravan skylight
23:01 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to remove the caravan skylight frame
24:05 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to separate the caravan skylight frame from the caravan body using white spirit to split the mastic
25:23 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to remove old mastic from the caravan body and clean the area
26:37 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to remove old mastic from the Caravan Skylight plastic frame
29:24 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to clean the area with methylated spirits
29:33 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to apply caravan mastic tape to the caravan body and cutting it to size
33:39 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to reinstall the caravan skylight frame
34:44 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to trim back the mastic on the caravan body
36:21 - Caravan Skylight Repair - How to reinstall the caravan skylight
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Hello Everyone,
This week’s video shows a #repair that I did to our #caravan #roof #skylight vent & surround. It had developed a minor leak, which caused drips to run down the handles during rain and land on the floor of the #caravan. After I removed the #skylight, I could see the problem - the indented sections of the plastic upper section had split, which was where the water was getting in. This damage was likely caused by us raising and lowering the #skylight often, as well as the plastic being old and fatigued by U.V. light from the sun.
New #caravan #skylights were available online for £50, but with postage to be added on top, this became expensive. Being the tight-fisted northerner that I am, I reckoned that I could #fix the #skylight using a fibreglass kit to seal the holes, which I did. I don’t think that these #skylights were designed to be repaired - the way that the #handles are bonded to the upper #skylight mean that you have to adapt them to refit them after repair. Luckily, I show my solution for doing this also.
Finally, I also show how I remove the skylight frame from the roof aperture, by using white spirit and a fish slice in place of a scraper. After cleaning up the old #mastic, I show how I prepare the roof surface for applying the new #mastic before refitting the frame and skylight again.
If you have any questions, please feel free to put them down below.
Best wishes,
Jamie
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thank you,you've provided me with an idea of what I need to do to diagnose and fix my leaky skylight. I also live in a caravan!
Awesome! Glad to have been of help. :)
This is litrally a job i had planned for today, Good timing!
Perfect! How did you get on?
@@TheMcNeillsonWheels i had planned it, but didnt execute it, i am thinking of replacing my dirty opaque one with a clear one to modernise it a bit
I use Sikaflex 292i marine sealant to reseal the hatches on boats. Just an alternative for people. It’s available in most good chandleries. It can be used above and below the waterline of a boat so it’s serious stuff.
SikaFlex is the dog's danglies! :D
Great job done love videos like this well done
Thanks 👍 I am pleased with how it turned out!
Great video - i think i have the same problem with both my sky lights - one seems quite serious
Very good.
Just found your channel and subscribed
Do you live full time in your caravan?
Looking forward to your next videos
Thanks Charlie
Hi Charles,
Thanks for subscribing and I am pleased to hear that you like the channel. Since 2018, we were living full-time in our caravan between March and November, and occasionally February also. This fitted in with the open season times of the campsite which we were working on. We tended to travel in the winter - working seasonally allowed us to do this. We also have family close by and we would spend Christmas with them. We have no house of our own any longer!
The pandemic stuffed us quite a bit - my hours at the pub were obliterated due to closures in both the early summer as well as the winter and the campsite was closed for a large part of 2020. This meant that we took quite a hit on our finances, which is why in February 2021 I took a temporary job in the NHS and Stacey started her own business. We left the campsite in November 2021 and have been staying with family since - Stacey's business went mad over Christmas and has continued to be busy ever since, which is why getting back into the caravan has been more difficult. However, we plan to do a lot more touring this summer, visiting the numerous country fairs selling Stacey's products. A bit of a different year for us!
Thanks for your reply I wish you both well for the future and look forward to seeing your videos
Thanks again Charles
You are right. 65 quid is absolutely scandalous. Maybe if they were cheaper, people would replace them.
The dome itself is nearer £45, £60 is for the whole thing inc frame etc But even £45 is a lot, they used to be about £25 but everything spares wise has shot up since covid.
I could've afforded to replace it, but I would rather spend the money saved on other things - namely pints of cask ale down the local 🍺
Yup, everything is going insane price-wise at the moment. I don't know how the manufacturers can even justify it. Perhaps making as much money as possible before a possible recession?
@@TheMcNeillsonWheels. 😂Real ale sounds like a good idea.
Hello, I am new at caravanning, is the tape you put enough to prevent water from comming in? Puting some sealler on the eadges after was not better? Thank you so much for answering :)
I would have chucked it out and fitted a maxfan
Might have been easier just getting new dome. They’re about £40 on eBay.
Ha ha! Yes, but you forget that I am northern and adverse to spending money on such FRIVOLITIES like a NEW one!!!
You still saved yourself £30 doing your repair .Well done.
@@kevinjohn725 Thanks Kevin. We still owe you a diary. Drop your email address below and we'll get in touch.
Hello to you lovely pair how you doing hope your ok well not sure if you remember me but I have been subbed to you for quite some time now on my private TH-cam Jamie Ellmers but this is now my new channel which I also just subbed to you with so you know who it is when this pops up lol well you all take care all the best
A double subber! That's what we like to hear! I'll go and give you a sub back now also!
Solar UV damage weakens the plastic….endless repairs. I would bin the whole skylight and buy a brand new one.
They are cheaper than the time you waste repairing.
its always a pain in the ass not having your caravan where you live - backwards and forwards to storage yards is really annoying - especially with no electricity
It cheap just buying new skylight it need a new one
It's cheaper repairing, and saving means more money for 🍻
it might be ''cheap'' for you and for someone who has no idea how to do anything like a simple repair job