roof part 2

The screw were bought, the awning was taken off, the plywood was sanded down and swept clean, the rubber roof and the glue was bought and so now comes the hard part.

Here is the material being laid out so they could cut it roughly to size.  It was supposed to be a gorgeous day out, but ended up being about 50 and windy.  

The glue stinks...just thought you wanted to know :), also it has to be rolled on the wood and the rubber roof, dry partially and then stick the two together. That is what they did, but apparently they didn't let it dry enough and in the end it produced many air bubbles in the finished roof.  If any of you know my husband you know that he was totally crushed by this.  The rubber was laying flat when they put it on, it wasn't until later that it started to lift.

This is actually what it looked like AFTER I sat up on the roof for almost 2 hours with a small metal roller and went over each air pocket to try to smooth it out.  Our neighbor, who has replaced these type of roofs before, told us that we (Andy) didn't give the glue enough time to dry, therefore the gasses from the glue released and made these air pockets in the rubber roof.  This makes sense, and there have been many opinions as to why this has happened but in the end all that matters is that the roof, or any other part of this camper, will not be leaking in the near future!

So basically Andy got on the roof when he got home and worked out some more bubbles.  We will try this a few more times and actually I will add another picture tomorrow of what it looks like now, there are even less air bubbles than the above picture.  

He plans on putting all the vents on this weekend, we will see how that goes, oh and notice the awning is back on.  That went on and off in a matter of minutes, now to find the strap, it is probably wrapped up in it somewhere???