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Skylight Bathroom and Caulking
Yahoo Message Number: 114959
Days before we bought our used Lazy Daze, the bathroom skylight was damaged and replaced, but the installer they hired reused the old gasket, though they left us a brand new one. We decided to replace it yesterday rather than try to clean the dirty gasket. The original (?) installation had huge gobs of dirty caulking of some kind on the inside at the two little indentations on either side of the skylight and small dabs of caulking beneath the gasket. Do your skylights have any of that? If you do, I will assume it is necessary.
 Can someone recommend the correct type caulking to use inside if it is needed? And outside as well, as there were several extra holes drilled in the dome itself as if they had drilled it in the wrong places at first. (I haven't seen it yet, I don't know if they are where the Eternabond will cover them or not, they probably are... I saw the archived suggestion to use it and we have it.)
 I appreciate your time, y'all! We have paid close attention to the advice from everyone in this forum. Panoply is getting closer to being on the road.

Marcia and Leon Panoply - aka, Lazy Daze 2006 26.5 MB
 "Life is lived like poetry is written: though each moment is its own rough draft, we can then ReVisit our past, ReValue our decisions, ReVise our forward path, and ReVitalize our passions." Marcia M Bogaert

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Re: Skylight Bathroom and Caulking
Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 114962
I'm on my third plastic shower roof cap on my 30", IB LD. Sun damage over it's 6 years renders it fragile and begins to crack and deteriorate within two years. I have now painted the outside of this new third cap with regular UV protectant white paint that's used on trailer rubber roofs. It's supposed to protect it from more sun damage. Also, it's helping to cool the shower room from the heat transfer on hot days. Cuts down on sun light, but it doesn't matter if the cap wll last more than just two years.
Good Luck.

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Re: Skylight Bathroom and Caulking
Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 114988
Marcia,
 I replaced my shower roof cap last year and there was no caulking used. Just the gasket that I reused. It was a simple unscrew/rescrew process.

David G
 
Re: Skylight Bathroom and Caulking
Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 114996
Thanks, David. I can only wonder why there were wads of caulking inside, hopefully the new skylight solved whatever problem there was. There were no signs of water intrusion when he removed it, so just won't worry about it.