Recently renovated an '98 Dutchman Electra. It had a lot of damage around the windows and so we had to replace the walls and re-seal the windows... 6 in total. With the crazy rainstorm the past week or two, the walls are showing water coming in from the bottom corners of nearly each of the windows.
We removed one of the windows between rainstorms and the inside of the window hole appeared to be dry. This thing has an aluminum frame so it could have just dried and we couldn't tell.
Anyway, during the renovation we used two different materials on the windows: butyl tape and closed-foam gaskets (the kind you get from Home Depot/Lowes). It didn't matter what kind of seal was used, practically every window had some form of leakage. The worst was the front window (the one on the incline toward the hitch). Even after covering it with a tarp it still managed to leak...
One thing I didn't do with all of this was to re-seal the screws for the front window hinge... I just don't see how that'd cause this much water to get in. The rest of the fixes on the roof have held good (I used Lap sealant up there).
Anyway, should that closed foam gaskets be doing this? I used ones that were .75" wide and I'm thinking now that perhaps part of my issue was that maybe I didn't put enough butyl tape to account for the ridges/valleys in the siding.
Any hints? Is this something that happens a lot? What else can I try/look for? Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.
We removed one of the windows between rainstorms and the inside of the window hole appeared to be dry. This thing has an aluminum frame so it could have just dried and we couldn't tell.
Anyway, during the renovation we used two different materials on the windows: butyl tape and closed-foam gaskets (the kind you get from Home Depot/Lowes). It didn't matter what kind of seal was used, practically every window had some form of leakage. The worst was the front window (the one on the incline toward the hitch). Even after covering it with a tarp it still managed to leak...
One thing I didn't do with all of this was to re-seal the screws for the front window hinge... I just don't see how that'd cause this much water to get in. The rest of the fixes on the roof have held good (I used Lap sealant up there).
Anyway, should that closed foam gaskets be doing this? I used ones that were .75" wide and I'm thinking now that perhaps part of my issue was that maybe I didn't put enough butyl tape to account for the ridges/valleys in the siding.
Any hints? Is this something that happens a lot? What else can I try/look for? Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.