Love your videos! We've actually learned quite a bit about our own camper from watching your videos and then having to dig in a fix different things with ours. Look forward to seeing the reno on this bad boy.
Awesome job, thank you. I'm very impressed! This is exactly the video I needed to attempt to fix my front wall from water damage. I'm definitely more confident now, we'll see how it goes in real life! Lol
I have been following along since the day 1. We are repairing water damage and renovating a 2006 puma palomino I’m trying to find materials to match what you are using. I have managed to get mostly everything out and identify the what’s wet and why. Having trouble of best order in putting back together I think I’ve watched every video a dozen times
I’m watching your videos because the 10 yo travel trailer I just bought, has a few curiosities . The mystery of mega lap sealant on front cap seam / Straddles the vent fan and skylight. All vulnerable if the seam isn’t sealed up and leaks. Mystery lead to suspicion, so I scraped ( scraping , actually I’m not through, that stuff is gooey 🥵) lap sealant from seam/trim and removed skylight . Found a few rusty screws and a few much longer wood crews . ?? And there wasn’t a gaping gap like I thought, afterall . (So why all that lap sealant ? )My suspicion was that the cap meets the fiberglass roof: to put 3M Marine grade adhesive/sealant since that is rock n rolling down the road, maybe keep it from shifting . Yet flexible. To me, lap sealant and screws doesnt give me peace of mind, even if it does keep the water out. It’s hot on the roof - it’s been put off and now I’m having to talk myself into finishing it. What’s your advice after the 3M marine sealant/adhesive cures - can I just use EternaBond tape over the seam , then self tapping screws on the trim . Cover over again ?
Great question-you definitely had a leak if the screw underneath was rusty. I have suspicions that the wood around the vent might be soft, so someone put a longer wood screw in to pull the vent into the roof. You won’t always be able to ‘see’ where the leak is. Sometimes it’s guessing based off signs from around that area. If it were me, I would take that vent off and investigate. If you don’t want to do that, scrape as much of the old sealant off as you can, and apply new self leveling sealant. Don’t skimp, be generous with it. Don’t use eternabond tape-that stuff is like a temporary bandaid. Over time, the sun will case the edges to lift up and create air bubbles underneath, leading water to get trapped inside. It’s great stuff in a bind, but absolutely terrible as a permanent fix
Haha kind of a long story…but a guy reached out to me for some advice on repairing this camper, and then it was more than he wanted to get into, so a few months later he made me an offer and I bought it 😂
I don't think it would have occurred to me to nail into the aluminum strips. That is why I watch these videos to learn and pick up tips. Did the manufacturer leave out insulation in the front cap?
Some do and some don’t. This camper only had 1 inch space between the walls so it would have been really hard to get it to stay in there while I put the panels up. I probably could have (probably should have) but it was hot and I was tired 😂 The original insulation was like 1/4 of a sheet and I don’t even know if that’s enough to do anything
@@fallenintocamping Probably too small of a space for insulation to be useful. The heat is horrible so I know how you feel. I've got a few projects going that could have been completed but I bail out of finishing them on a regular basis because of the heat. Be safe and as usual good work.
You use a 16g nailer with 1 inch nails. Finish nailer? Will a 18g work? Having a problem envisioning them going into metal and holding on the bowed wood but you're the pro not me!! Great video, learned allot!!!! Going to do the interior nose on my Palomino. Guessing I'll be running in to rewatch alot!!!!!
18 gauge won’t work. I tried 😂 it jammed my nail gun up and broke it. 16 gauge can throw a nail through aluminum no problem. A 16 gauge staple gun is probably better but I don’t have one. Liquid nails also keeps the bow in addition to the nails
@@briantrusty9906 it’s terrible, stay far away 😂 It’s ok if you have a hole and are in a bind, but never as a permanent solution. It can bubble up in heat and water gets trapped under it…bad situations
We've definitely got heat here in Florida! Gonna take your advice and stay clear of it. Have you ever patched aluminum siding? Have what I think is dissimilar metal corrosion around the water hose hook-up and don't want to replace the whole siding panel with decals and all? Thanks for all your great videos!!!!!! What a tremendous help!!!!!! Watching them all! There maybe hope for me yet! LOL@@fallenintocamping
I see you use many different sheet panels (wall panel, plywood underlayment, etc.) for the walls internally and externally. Does it matter what and where they're used? Under filon, could you use a wall panel or better to use plywood underlayment / something else?
Yes and no. I really fluctuate for the Interior between 1/8 and 1/4 inch. If I need it to bend, or if it’s an interior wall, I always use 1/8. Ceiling is always 1/4. Floors I try to match whatever thickness is already in the camper, and same with roof thickness
I use 1/8 for under filon, just because it bends and the manufacturer originally uses 1/8 inch so I want it to be seamless. Think: If you put a 1/4 inch panel beside 1/8 panel, you would have a 1/8 thickness difference and it dosent really look that good
@@fallenintocamping Thanks for the reply, that makes sense but I was more thinking about the type of panel. 1/8” wall paneling vs. 1/8” underpayment. I think of the wall panel as something that has a finished surface on 1 side. It looked like you used that but had the “back” was what you epoxied the filon to. Either way, thanks for the videos.
Thank you for your videos! I've been chasing some water damage in the rear wall of my rPod. The trouble with these trailers is that there is no way for the interior panels and flooring to breathe, if they get wet. . I thought I read that it wasn't recommended to use paper backed insulation. What are your thoughts? Thanks!
Nah paper backed is fine. And even then, there’s only paper on half of it because I split it. If it makes you feel better, they sell unfaced, which is the same thing just without the paper. It’s not like an all aluminum trailer, where the walls will condensate and cause moisture. Most horse trailers are all aluminum and need a different type of insulation, but campers either use r-13 or some type of foam.
I have a question there is some raw wood in my travel trailer like under the bed and the dinette is it okay to paint those there are out of site did not know if it has any benefits Thank you.
@@fallenintocamping Thank you we do keep up on maintenance and are in Arizona and don't get much rain. I think I will not paint them just thought I would ask Thanks again love the channel
