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Hey folks, a bit more progress. We're hoping to get this finish for next Monday in time for a nice week away near Matlock. Lots to do before then though. There's the all the rails on the front to get back on and the front half of the awning rail. Which reminds me, the awning rail was a nightmare to clean. My girlfriend and mum spent a day and a half of scraping, scrubbing and wiping.

I'm not 100% sure what to reseal the awning rail with. It looked like just seamseal in the channels when cleaning, what would be best to use?

Precautions against the schizophrenic British weather - tarpaulin! 

Frame work up:

Sticking in the wallboard:

Hi Ant , Well Done mate  what a change from what is was like . It looks a whole lot better now  .
Personally i would go for roll mastic for the awning rails , window hangers and joint alloy trim strips .
If your re-using your window rubbers i would use Tigerseal ( in a tube ) to reseal them .

Keep up the good work .

atb

Wizard

One thing is bugging me about the way I sealed up the awning rail though. I applied FC40(cheaper alternative sikaflex 512) into the screw channel on the rear of the rail and then applied roll mastic over that. Is this acceptable? Sounds fine to me .

I did the roof rail with seamseal in the channels and roll mastic over those but found it very messy when fastened down and started oozing out everywhere.
Yep that seamseal is horrible runny stuff .

I'm really pleased for you it's nice to hear a success story, and you can be proud you've done it all yourself , very well done
I would guess your repair including the awning rail reseal would have come to about £1500 atleast , so you've saved yourself a fortune and done a top job at the same time .

atb

Wizard