Hi! I bought myself a van to go traveling and am working on fixing it up, the fan came pre-installed and while there was watermark on the wood around the fan, the seller lied and said that it was because they had left it open a few times in the rain. Whatever!
It finally started to rain out here and I discovered that the area around my roof fan is indeed leaking. I took apart the fan itself and there was no water inside so I'm both pleased and inclined to believe that the seal around the fan is failing instead. I climbed up on the roof and saw that the seal is roughly intact though there's a crack around one of the screws that may be letting water in and the seal itself looks like it's seen better days.
My question is a very simple one, and sorry if it's something I should've looked up -- am I going to need to remove the pre-existing seal to re-seal and if not, what material would be best to re-seal the area?
Thank you.
It finally started to rain out here and I discovered that the area around my roof fan is indeed leaking. I took apart the fan itself and there was no water inside so I'm both pleased and inclined to believe that the seal around the fan is failing instead. I climbed up on the roof and saw that the seal is roughly intact though there's a crack around one of the screws that may be letting water in and the seal itself looks like it's seen better days.
My question is a very simple one, and sorry if it's something I should've looked up -- am I going to need to remove the pre-existing seal to re-seal and if not, what material would be best to re-seal the area?
Thank you.