freelanderuk
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i noticed a couple of small marks on the skin of the van near the toilet cassette door and realized that they were small corrosion marks, i open the door and removed the inner cover to find rotted wood
the marks can be seen on this photo
i then removed the thetford locker door to find that some of the non setting mastic had dried up and cracked allowing water to penetrate in to the wooden frame, the wood was not to damp as we have had a fairly dry spell in Lincolnshire just lately, started to remove the timber that was rotted ( then remembered the camera )
removed all the bad timber frame back to good wood and treated with ronseal wet rot timber hardner , you paint this on and it soaks in to the wood and hardens over 6 hours , i even used a syringe with a long 4inch tube to inject the treatment ether side
of the timber i could not get to
i will leave the treatment to work over night then another coat in the morning and the treat some new wood and replace the frame and new non setting mastic on the door frame and back together
there was no smell of damp or any damp patches in the van so if i had not seen these small marks i hazard to guess how much longer it would have been leaking
the marks can be seen on this photo
i then removed the thetford locker door to find that some of the non setting mastic had dried up and cracked allowing water to penetrate in to the wooden frame, the wood was not to damp as we have had a fairly dry spell in Lincolnshire just lately, started to remove the timber that was rotted ( then remembered the camera )
removed all the bad timber frame back to good wood and treated with ronseal wet rot timber hardner , you paint this on and it soaks in to the wood and hardens over 6 hours , i even used a syringe with a long 4inch tube to inject the treatment ether side
of the timber i could not get to
i will leave the treatment to work over night then another coat in the morning and the treat some new wood and replace the frame and new non setting mastic on the door frame and back together
there was no smell of damp or any damp patches in the van so if i had not seen these small marks i hazard to guess how much longer it would have been leaking