Some good & not so good news...

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Some of you may recall that whilst staying at Dot's Strathalbyn garden campsite - Apr/May - we had the 4 season hatch on the van resealed (allegedly) by a Caravan repair centre situated to the north of Elizabeth. I say allegedly because all they seemed to have done was to put bloody heaps of sealant around the outside of it!!

It didn't work!

Whilst over here in WA we had a couple of downpours &, you guessed it, it leaked again.

Fortunately, whilst passing time at Goomalling, we met & became good friends with another couple, Greg & Gail, whilst they were also in the same van park. They have since moved down to Albany & we caught up with them again a few days ago & mentioned about the leaky hatch. He promptly contacted a new caravan repair place there, that also does a liquid roof sealant, & booked us in for the morning of the day we were due to arrive in Albany.

They were pretty bloody good, stopped the other jobs they were working on & spent nearly all day on our van, cleaning a lot of the old crap from around the hatch & found 2 areas where the water was still gaining access even with all that shit the other mob put around it!!! :x

They then mixed up some of the liquid roof sealant & painted that around the base of the hatch to seal it, hopefully permanently. As the sealant requires some time to cure completely, they suggested we stay there overnight - with power - & they could then complete the final touches in the morning. Done deal.

They charge $88 p/h & my watch indicated the worked from 0930 - 1700 on Monday then again from 0800 - 0930 on Tuesday... 9 hours, cost was $553. Reckon that's around $64 p/h.

Nice people too, Dad (Alan) & Dave (Son) both with a great sense of humor. :D :D

So if you're in the area & looking for a good team to work on your RV, I can highly recommend them.

http://www.albanycaravanrvcentre.com.au
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From what I have read Camec's plastic Hatches have to be fitted using the Camec supplied foam tape rather than the usual silicones.
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Good to know theres some good repair spots around
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Hi chuck, let's hope this is permanent fix, get the name of the stuff they used for furture reference so if it's a winner you will know what product to recommend.
$88/hr, hmmm...... I wonder what the going rate for fixing solar and installing good batteries is ;) :lol:
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I hope you let the wombles that did that patch up job know :D
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Good result Chuck. Let's hope that's the end of it.
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T1 Terry wrote:Hi chuck, let's hope this is permanent fix, get the name of the stuff they used for furture reference so if it's a winner you will know what product to recommend.
$88/hr, hmmm...... I wonder what the going rate for fixing solar and installing good batteries is ;) :lol:
Terry, you would be looking at $100 ph I reckon. Perth caravan repairers charge that much. No lube supplied :o
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Can't think of anyone that doesn't charge $100 these days. Car dealers are over that locally.

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I'm free!! :twisted:
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That's not G's opinion though!!!
I'm sure I heard him mumbling something about "high maintenance" .............. ;) ;) ;)
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