Water leaks in the pop top roof

hi maverick, are you sure it is leaking from thr top part of the pop top?

Hi Maverick,
There used to be a product called "Wastolan" which was a plastic paint type product. It was originally used for sealing on-farm grain silo's for weevil control by fumigation.
It was heat reflective and obviously air and water tight. Was painted on or could be sprayed with a suitable spray gun.

The firm I worked with used it to paint their work van roofs to lower the internal temperatures, also to stop annoying leaks, (your problem).

One of the secrets of stopping leaks in caravans is never get on the van roof. Use scaffolding trestles and long planks to span the van while working on the roof or you will just create other leaks.

Hope this helps

Disco.

David, I suspect your leak is will be in a seam, either where the aluminium cladding sheets join on the rood top or around the outside edge of these sheets. I have an '86 Jayco poptop that had the same problem. I removed the old silastic around the edge of the roof and applied new silastic - problem fixed. Make sure you use a silastic like Sikaflex that is rated for external use. Good luck, Rob.

yep -----follow the advice of previous answers ther right on

Thanks for the great advice everyone. Maverick One.

Gidday Maverick,
We had a similar problem with our poptop, used a product called "roof proof" , Camec carry it, it is a latex sort of paint it is quite thick, just cleaned around all of the seams on the roof and applied a coat of roof proof. We have had alot of rain since then and thus far no problems. From memory it cost about $50 for 1 litre, and we have enough to do a second coat.

Regards,
Guy