I give up - roof light still leaks

[ja9allen]

After my 3 attempts at removing, cleaning, drying, and resealing with gallons of sikaflex, and replacing the elevating gas struts (in case they were in some way flexing the roof) the rooflight on my van still lets in drips of rain when the devon roof is elevated.

I am more than happy to pay for this to be fixed but am drawing a blank on finding anyone to do it. Can anyone suggest somewhere I can try please? I am just south of Farnham in Surrey, but will gladly travel to get this done once and for all. Maybe I need a general caravan repairs place rather than a T25 repairer?

Hope you can help me, I am really getting fed up with this.

[Plasticman]

can you post up some decent picks of it open and closed and inside as well
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[Shindig]

It may be wicking in from a different source?

A bit off topic but when I was fire alame engineer, I regularly had water damaged detectors, the thourght that the water came down onto the device was normally correct but some times it had ran down the cables to the device.

Only my take on it but look for any other potential sources.

Rob

[faggie]

make shure everything is bone dry then tape the roof light up with a plastic sheet and waterproof tape , then next time it rains, or test with hosepipe , if its still wet inside you can now iliminate the waters not getting in through the roof light , and can look for another source of the leak

[DavidPallister]

The roof light may be sealed down around the edge, but is there a small crack in the roof light itself, or even a crack in the fibre glass?

[ja9allen]

Thanks all for your advice, will try and post up some pics when I can (you may have seen I have a far bigger problem now ). There are some other hairline cracks in the roof which look superficial, but you never know. The water only comes in when it rains when the pop top is up though and seems to come down from one side of the roof light, and I would have expected if it was coming in generally from elsewhere it would get wet all the time. Janine