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10/8/2020 at 3:30pm
Location: Near Alton Towers
Outfit: Bailey Burgundy S7 H
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Hi Ray and welcome to the forum. I had a smallish patch of damp due to water ingress. I removed, cleaned, and resealed the rail but continued to get some damp at times. I too peeled back the vinyl coating (which wasn't too difficult when damp) in a vain bid to stop cutting out the wallboard.
First, I tried keyhole surgery, making as small a hole as I thought I could get away with, but ended up having to cut out a larger size of the panel. 1) to get access to all the actual impacted area, and 2) to hide the cuts in the fabric of the overhead locker framework so that the job looked pretty much invisible when done. The hardest job was the removal of the overhead lockers to get at it.
Like you, I had no external staining, only of the plywood which when dry was pretty useless. In the end, removing everything allowed me to see the cause of the leak in the first instance. It was a rusty steel screw through a large hole the sidewall but it was tucked under the roof aluminium and hadn't been sealed.
Basically I'm glad I did pull it to bits and fix it properly, once and for all.
Dave.
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