A vent repair

We had a roof vent that was cracked and needed to have the housing on top replaced. Unfortunately, its location is very near the back corner of the roof and we weren't comfortable with replacing it from the top of the roof... so we decided to wait until we could get to the farm where we'd have other ladder options available to us.

Carl could use Jimmy's Little Giant ladder to come up the back side of the RV and work on the vent. You can see that it is right next to one of the solar panels, so there is not much room on top of the rig to get to the vent. He started by cutting some more of the old white plastic from the vent off -- it was very brittle and cracked off easily.

The new vent cover (a 360 Siphon) directed us to shorten the pipe down to 5/8", so Carl cut it off as indicated.

We wanted to use silicone to attach the new vent cover, but unfortunately, the tube of white silicone caulk that we had onboard had cracked. Initially Carl tried scraping the caulk out of the cracked base of the tube, but ultimately...

... we got a previously unused tube of silicone (not exactly white, but good enough) and he was able to complete the job.

All done - hopefully this one will last a long time!

These vent covers serve to pull air out from the holding tanks or from pipes going to the holding tanks. We have two over the bathroom area -- one for the grey and one for the black tank. The one we were replacing is over the washing machine. The intention is that they will prevent odors from the holding tanks from stinking up the rig!