DearMissMermaid said:Let's see... about 8x25 feet =200 square feet
I bought 50 foot by 6 inch Eternabond from Amazon at about $85 per roll, so that is 25 square feet per roll, 8 rolls, so yeah, it adds up to about $680
Did I say I am completely dry? No leaks? ;D
Far cheaper than a new roof. It looks great. It holds up fabulously. It cleans up white and nice. It appears to be thicker than the OEM rubber roof, so yeah I am super happy.
I had no labor costs because I have a super friend and we work together on projects. I did do some bribery by cooking his favorite meals and traveling in the rig for fun.
It took me about a year to get it done, I ordered one roll at a time. It was slow going due to other circumstances but one day it was completed!
We cleaned each roof section thoroughly first. Dried it up with microfiber rags, then sun baked it for a day. Then started laying the Eternabond strips. You get ONE chance to place it right. Instructions come with it how to fix boo-boos.
In a few areas where we needed to make custom cuts to lay down the tape, we first made templates with wax paper.
The first two pics are the roof in progress.
I had been given a quote of $6,000 to replace the roof. A repairman told me one day that I could just tape the entire roof and call it a done deal. ;D
Ironically I was traveling with roof tape for emergencies when a tree branch stab crashed through my galley roof making a small hole. I was at a remote beach with 2 weeks to go on my reservation, 30 miles from a repair place and it was the weekend. I used the emergency tape to fix the hole. First I cleaned it all up, then since the hole was like a dimple, I used small pieces of tape to fill in the dimple, then some larger ones to flattened it out over the top. A few minutes later, the next storm rolled in while I was still pressing the tape into place.
It has remained dry ever since. That's what impressed me. Plus the aggressive glue on Eternabond is phenomenal.
Don't use any knockoffs, use the real thing, Eternabond.
The inside ceiling now had a hole to hide. I bought one of those plastic rectangle blank plates to hide an electric outlet and screwed that into the ceiling. 8)
I used to live on far flung islands where we were always coming up with strange methods to "get it done!" and move on.
Cool. Looks great. Thanks for sharing!
It looks like you laid each layer of the eternabond "butted" up to the layer next to it. Did you end up caulking in between the seams? I was just thinking that the space where the two layers meet could leave a tiny opening for water to get in. Obviously, whatever you did has worked great so job well done!!
Thanks for sharing the pics - they are worth a 1000 words!
