I spent a few hours at the RV and should have stayed longer but I was getting a bit overwhelmed if you by the project so I quit and went home but all I could think about all day was the RV. It's too bad I have to do such repairs but I have too and I'm surprised at how eager I am to do them. The wood is drying out and so I will soon be able to make up a batch of LiquidWood and apply it to all the exposed and previously wet wood so it can set up and become better than it was.
In the meantime, I need to get at the exterior of the RV and get that cleaned and resealed. It is no one that an older RV will eventually leak if they all do that is. When I removed the trim pieces around the front of the RV I discover that the walls and roof area have no overlap what-so-ever. The overlap is created by the trim. When the putty and/or caulking fail as it did here water easily penetrates between the walls and soaks into the wood for as long as the leak exists. In my case the the failure is only where the front cap and side wall meets so the water made its way down the corner and soaked the wood for probably the last few years realistically speaking. The bottom area of the corner is very well sealed so the the water had no where to go and just sat in the corner and the wood failed in many areas so now I need to fix it and replace the wood that essentially leaked out with the water when I removed the paneling inside the RV. Luckily as I think I mentioned before the damage although quite bad is at the same time minimal and could have gotten a lot worse if I did not catch it now.
The repairs to the RV occupy all of my thinking process these days and if I could I would be there now but the day job is in the way and so is my side business but these two areas although bothersome are necessary as they help pay the bills so I must struggle with these repairs and do them as time allows.
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