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Hey, everyone. Shane here with etrailer.com. Today, on a 2015 Grand Design Reflection fifth wheel, here in just a few minutes, I'm gonna be walking you through how to install a new roof membrane. But I wanna go over a few things, maybe how to determine if you need a new roof or if maybe you just need to replace the sealant. Now, you know you don't necessarily have to replace your roof. You haven't find any soft spots.

You haven't find any leaks. But you maybe found a tear or two in your roof. There are patch kits here at etrailer that you can get. One thing I will say is if you have a rubber roof, the patch kits, I'm not really excited about 'em. I don't know if they really work as well as they're supposed to as far as staying down.

So if you put one of them on, it could be just a temporary fix. I would suggest that you do put it on, get up and check it once in a while to make sure it's still on there. I wanna do is I wanna go up on the roof, kinda walk around a little bit, and I'm gonna show you what the old membrane looks like, what it kinda looks like now, and why we're replacing it. Hopefully, I can help you determine whether you need to replace yours or maybe you just need to reseal the edges to keep any water from getting underneath that membrane and damaging any of the wood components. This is what our roof looks like now.

As you can see, it's pretty wore out. It looks like it hasn't really been maintained very well. When you have the rubber or these synthetic rubber roofs, you have to maintain 'em. You have to clean them and put a conditioner on at least once every two years. Once a year is probably best.

If you don't, you can see this is broke down. It doesn't have a texture to it anymore, which your rubber and synthetic rubber does have a texture. This doesn't have a texture anymore. So it's really broke down to where it's not really giving you a benefit. It's really not helping you anymore. So what happens after it breaks down is it tears really easy. If it tears, you can get a leak. It's not holding out water as good as it used to. What happens is it's gonna get underneath here. You have wood panels that run across like this. The water gets on there. You're not gonna see it. It's gonna cause it to mold. It's gonna get soft. I know there's a few soft spots in this roof, I just don't know where they are exactly. We'll know better once we start taking the old stuff off and get down to the wood. Another thing you wanna look for is the sealant that runs along all the edges. Anything like around here, around your vents, around your steps if you have stairs coming up the back, sealant that runs along the outside edges, anything going to your roof membrane. If you find it's cracked, and it's gonna happen, it happens on every single camper, it's inevitable, but you need to look at it. If it's cracked and you allow it to keep going, the crack's gonna get bigger and it's gonna allow water to seep in underneath all those edges. It could be a small crack. If it's a small crack, you're gonna determine whether you just need to put a little bit of sealant over the top. If it's a very large crack or maybe the sealant from one side, one end to the other looks pretty bad, maybe a good idea to take all that sealant off and just reseal the whole thing again. Keep in mind, this is your sanctuary away from your home. You want this to stay as nice as possible. You wanna save yourself a lot of money. Don't allow it to get damaged on the i