Caution - Water leaking into the van.

Topcat
Topcat Forum Participant Posts: 17
edited April 2013 in Caravans #1

I did a check of my stored van last week and found water had leaked into it on the left front side. I remove the soft furnishing for storage and fortuneately, had placed a plastic box under the leak. This meant that the water was obviouse. Very worried I
started to search for the source. No sign of water above the plastic, no damp in the locker or on top of the blind cassette??

Mystified I considered other sources. Then I noticed the culprit. I have a van cover and when fitting cover the windows with the protective material and fix it by pulling it through the window and locking it. What had happened was the material had acted
like a wick and brought the water into the van which then dripped on to the plastic box. So be warned, If you do the same as me look closely for water entry via this route. Next time I am going to be more careful how I fix this material!!