Posted 2009-07-01 12:24 PM (#107424) Subject: Water
Elite Veteran
Posts: 1069 Location: MI.
Ok, we went camping and parked in a spot with a slight downgrade. Nice spot but a little tight getting in but we did manage. We back in and dropped the front of the trailer down as far as it would go. It still wasn't level. It wasn't extremely bad so instead of hooking up and moving, we just decided to deal with it for the rest of the weekend. Well, a major rain storm came through and dumped massive amounts of water. We heard this drip, drip, drip. We thought, this isn't good. The floor starting to get wet and it was coming from under the front of the fridge.....Rain was coming in from the fridge vent on the roof. Because of the unlevel trailer and the large amounts of rain the "holding pan" was overflowing and leaking out onto the floor. Thank goodness for fluffy rugs on the floor. We didn't find any damage. Hubby says it's an easy fix but in the mean time we put a towel in the pan area which stopped the spilling over until the rain ceased. I am just glad we were in the trailer to catch this problem. Has anyone ever heard of this happening?
Posted 2009-07-01 12:56 PM (#107426 - in reply to #107424) Subject: RE: Water
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Posts: 197 Location: MT
I don't think this was caused by your trailer being un-level. I would check around the vent where the water was coming in because it sounds like the vent wasn't properly caulked or something on that order. That vent shouldn't let water in for any reason.
Posted 2009-07-01 1:39 PM (#107428 - in reply to #107424) Subject: RE: Water
Location: Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain...
I have had it come in my side vent with a blowing rain, but not the top. But when it did I was really unlevel. Like about 3-4 inches side to side. How unlevel were you?
Posted 2009-07-01 2:16 PM (#107431 - in reply to #107424) Subject: RE: Water
Elite Veteran
Posts: 1069 Location: MI.
I couldn't say in inches but.....when you were inside walking towards the bed area you could feel the incline. It wasn't too unlevel side to side, more front to back. It was blowing hard towards the vent side during the storm. Maybe it was the side vent and not the roof vent...If that was the case, what do you do?
Posted 2009-07-01 2:39 PM (#107433 - in reply to #107424) Subject: RE: Water
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Posts: 233 Location: Tennessee
I just recently had a power fan installed in my bathroom. The installer discovered a plumbing vent on top that had been broken off. I had no idea. He said rain could come in unless it was replaced, so I did. Maybe you have a broken vent??
Posted 2009-07-01 3:38 PM (#107435 - in reply to #107424) Subject: RE: Water
Location: Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain...
Never had the problem level. I opened out the side vent on mine and realized that there was a bunch of crud in the drain line to the outside. Run a piece of baling wire down through it.
Posted 2009-07-01 4:07 PM (#107438 - in reply to #107424) Subject: RE: Water
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Posts: 5870 Location: western PA
The vent cap overlaps the vent stack quite a bit, much more than an un level trailer would expose. As was previously stated, an inspection of the cap and the stack vent caulking, would be a good place to start looking for leaks.
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