Very weird ....... the skylight on my Burstner 660 suddenly has started leaking ?
Thought I had a small leak some months ago but was not sure ? So I did a super cleaning job (like never before) and cleaned with warm water and stiff paint brush all around the exterior flange of the skylight (lots of 'crud' came out) then hosed everything off and was quite confident there was in fact no leak.
So, we fitted the new Carpets very nice.
Went away in the MH last weekend and on returning to the house decided to reverse into the drive and park facing out ..... instead of driving straight in and parking facing in. After a few days I went into the MH & shock ... horror ! the carpet under the skylight was soaked ! major leak
Taking the side ventilation strips of the skylight I could see the water dripping in ..... opening the hatch and looking outside, it appeared to be coming in through the standing water around the external flange.
Wait a minute ....... STANDING water ?
The drive has a small slope so when parked 'facing in' (as have done for the past 3 years ) the MH slopes towards the front probably by around 2 ft. With the MH facing out, the roof of the MH is just about level. So ...... after torrential rain = standing water !
Have concluded that the skylight has probably been capable of leaking for some time ..... but as we've probably only been parked up 'true level' a few times in the past few years when, this might have coincided with torrential rain .... we haven't noticed ? (we were in Scandinavia for 4 weeks last year and it rained only once, for best part of a day .... but we were driving.) Also I think the 'super clean' I did, actually made things worse ?
So, my approach is going to be ..... apply a Sikaflex bead around the external flange and push the bead in under the flange to re-seal again. (I am quite confident using sikaflex .... been using it for 25 years)
I don't particularly want to & I don't think I need to remove the skylight and re-fix the whole thing ?
Any similar experiences from anyone ??
Thought I had a small leak some months ago but was not sure ? So I did a super cleaning job (like never before) and cleaned with warm water and stiff paint brush all around the exterior flange of the skylight (lots of 'crud' came out) then hosed everything off and was quite confident there was in fact no leak.
So, we fitted the new Carpets very nice.
Went away in the MH last weekend and on returning to the house decided to reverse into the drive and park facing out ..... instead of driving straight in and parking facing in. After a few days I went into the MH & shock ... horror ! the carpet under the skylight was soaked ! major leak
Taking the side ventilation strips of the skylight I could see the water dripping in ..... opening the hatch and looking outside, it appeared to be coming in through the standing water around the external flange.
Wait a minute ....... STANDING water ?
The drive has a small slope so when parked 'facing in' (as have done for the past 3 years ) the MH slopes towards the front probably by around 2 ft. With the MH facing out, the roof of the MH is just about level. So ...... after torrential rain = standing water !
Have concluded that the skylight has probably been capable of leaking for some time ..... but as we've probably only been parked up 'true level' a few times in the past few years when, this might have coincided with torrential rain .... we haven't noticed ? (we were in Scandinavia for 4 weeks last year and it rained only once, for best part of a day .... but we were driving.) Also I think the 'super clean' I did, actually made things worse ?
So, my approach is going to be ..... apply a Sikaflex bead around the external flange and push the bead in under the flange to re-seal again. (I am quite confident using sikaflex .... been using it for 25 years)
I don't particularly want to & I don't think I need to remove the skylight and re-fix the whole thing ?
Any similar experiences from anyone ??