Re: Re: renewing roof seals
@marc78 wrote:
Hi,
Hope this will help, yes fingers get premature ageing on this job…
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That was just what I was looking for! Thanks very much.
I’ve installed one of the skylight windows so far, having spent five hours finding out what didn’t work. The system that did work was to glue the gasket onto the fiberglass, on the outside only. The insert was on the outside because that’s really the only way to work … over the van, with the top down, instead of having to do everything while looking up and trying to hold the glass up.
I held the gasket in place with every small clamp and spring clamp I had. When the glue set up, I set the glass in. That was actually the hardest part, since I was working alone, coaxing the glass in using a putty knive and two butter knives to pull the rubber lip up and over the glass. The last step was to put the insert in. I didn’t have the special tool, so I used a large dull flat-bladed screwdriver.
When setting in the glass and inserting the insert, I used Windex (a type of ammonia-based glass cleaner) as a lubricant, and that definitely helped.
When my fingers stop spasming, I’ll do the other one tomorrow.
