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Hi there and welcome to UKCS!

Usually, damp gets in to a caravan via one of the rails then works it's way down through the insulation and the evidence as you have spotted is the soft boarding below, if there is not a window or rail anywhere above the damp patch then as you say the water must be getting in through a hole somewhere around the wheel arch area. If it were me i would find and seal the 'hole' then tackle the boarding on the inside. Such a small area of damp should be straight forward enough to repair, but more often than not the damp patch that we think looks small and simple to repair can turn out to be a lot more work than we planned! Removal of the soft boarding will reveal the extent of the problem.

But never fear, there are many members of this site who have tackled allsorts of damp problems and are happy to lend advice should you need it!

Feel free to click on our damp project below, you will find other links to the 'fixed-it-club' members projects there too!

all the best.

Hello again,

Yes O'leary's are very well respected by some members of the fixed-it-club, and from experience their mastic-on-a-roll is the cheapest you'll find anywhere!!

I would say for your small project you will get plenty of change from £50! Our project, which as you can see on the link above cost us around £50 in total, so yours should be a fair bit cheaper i'd say!

Hi again...Im just wondering how easy the cupboards and bed areas are going to be to remove them.My thinkin is as the damp is patchy behind the seats right at the bottom was to just remove the paper up to the seating area.Also on inspecting the main area of concern ive notice a vent just above the damp patch which is probably the culprit,

stuart

Hi Stuart , the bed/seating units are easy to remove and the cupboards are straight forward too , have a look at my web page it should give you some interesting info
http://hp-h.com/p/wizard41/

atb

Wizard