**The Importance of Sealing Your RV's Interior**

As an RV owner, one of the most crucial steps you can take to maintain your vehicle is sealing its interior. The process may seem daunting, but with the right tools and a bit of patience, you can achieve professional-looking results that will extend the life of your RV.

**The Shelf Life of Sealing Products**

When it comes to sealing products for your RV's interior, there isn't really a shelf life per se. However, it's essential to use them before they expire or lose their effectiveness. The best way to determine if a product is still good is to check the expiration date or follow the manufacturer's instructions.

**Choosing the Right Sealing Product**

There are various sealing products available on the market, and not all of them are created equal. When selecting a product, consider factors such as color, durability, and ease of application. White is usually a safe bet, but some manufacturers may offer other colors to suit your preferences. Regardless of the color you choose, ensure that it's compatible with your RV's interior materials.

**Applying the Sealing Product**

The first step in applying the sealing product is to prepare the surface. This involves removing any dirt, grime, or old adhesives from the area you want to seal. Use a suitable cleaning solution and a soft cloth to wipe down the surface. Once clean, apply the sealing product according to the manufacturer's instructions. It's essential to follow the recommended application process to ensure a smooth, even finish.

**Using a Rubber Glove for Clean Application**

To achieve a clean and even application, it's highly recommended to use a rubber glove. The glove acts as a barrier between your hand and the sealing product, preventing any oils or residue from transferring to the surface. This also makes it easier to apply an even coat, reducing the risk of bubbles or unevenness.

**Working in Small Sections**

When applying the sealing product, work in small sections to avoid creating uneven surfaces. Use a spatula or other tool to spread the product evenly, and then use your fingers or a soft cloth to smooth out any air bubbles or imperfections. This process can be time-consuming, but it's essential to achieve a professional-looking finish.

**Using Direct Sunlight**

While direct sunlight is not necessary for the sealing process, it can help the product dry faster. However, avoid applying the product in extremely hot or cold temperatures, as this can affect its adhesion and durability.

**The Importance of Regular Maintenance**

Sealing your RV's interior is just one part of regular maintenance. To ensure the longevity of your vehicle, make sure to check and maintain other essential systems, such as the plumbing, electrical, and HVAC. By staying on top of these tasks, you can prevent costly repairs down the line.

**The Results of Sealing Your RV's Interior**

After completing the sealing process, it's essential to inspect the area for any imperfections or air bubbles. Use a pin to pop any bubbles and then reapply the sealing product to ensure a smooth finish. With proper application and maintenance, your RV's interior will look like new, and you'll be able to enjoy your vehicle for years to come.

**The Cost of Sealing Your RV's Interior**

While sealing your RV's interior may seem like an expensive process, it's ultimately cost-effective in the long run. By preventing water damage, mildew, and other issues, you can extend the life of your vehicle and avoid costly repairs. The initial investment in a good sealing product may be higher than you expect, but the benefits far outweigh the costs.

**The Time Required for Sealing Your RV's Interior**

On average, sealing an entire RV's interior can take anywhere from 3 to 4 hours, depending on the size of the vehicle and the complexity of the job. While this may seem like a significant amount of time, the end result is well worth the effort. By taking your time and following proper application techniques, you can achieve professional-looking results that will enhance your RV's appearance and value.

**The Benefits of Sealing Your RV's Interior**

Sealing your RV's interior offers numerous benefits, including:

* Preventing water damage and mildew

* Extending the life of your vehicle

* Enhancing its appearance and value

* Protecting against fading and discoloration

* Reducing the risk of insect infestations

By following these steps and tips, you can achieve a professional-looking seal on your RV's interior that will last for years to come.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi Shannon here from house improvements.com in today's video I want to show you some uh some more uh RV type maintenance tips again so we have a few different RV tips and uh my one today is showing you how to clean and reeal all these different uh joints that you're going to have on your RV roof so this one here particularly is on the back Edge but you'll have one at the front and back Edge where the uh fiberglass or metal meets the roof you're going to have them around all the different protrusions in the roof like where the fridge vent is this is a plumbing stack over here roof vent another Plumbing stack Skylight you know all these kinds of areas and as you can see this material this cocking basically over time gets cracked or gets pin holes or whatever and these are all potential areas is for leaks and it's something you should be looking at every year on your RV to be sure that you're in good condition another important spot is down here on the corners a lot of times you'll get a leak here and that leak just goes straight into the wall and this is what rots out your walls and you don't even know what's happening until usually there's major signs of damage inside so this is something you should look at every year and touch up here and there uh my RV is at the point where I'm going to redo every one of these seals on here because they're all getting kind of cracked but you can see here where I've cleaned it to prep it for the new cocking and where I haven't so we're going to start with this area with the cleaning and just show you exactly what I do so what I do is I just use uh ordinary brake cleaner uh it doesn't matter on the brand or anything nobody sent me any the products that I'm using today I'm just using what I normally would use so just take some brake cleaner spray it on the dirty area and clean it off you see it works pretty quickly another good thing to do is to do this you can do the cleaning any time of the day but when you're going to put on the sealant you want to do it on on a on the warm part of the day when you're going to have a dry day no rain in the forecast so it can sit during the day the product I like to use is self-leveling and uh once you put it on just takes a little bit of time for it to level itself out and uh that works always better on a day that's you know um 70 80° so say 25° C so I just uh clean it up like that you're never going to get it 100% but just try to get you know all these little edges and stuff cleaner you can get it to start with the better adhesion you're going to have okay so we got it all cleaned up uh this shouldn't hurt your rubber roof or metal roof or doesn't seem to cause any problems on your fiberglass sides but I try to not get it on the fiberglass or if I do just wipe it off pretty quick just in case but I have never had a problem with it okay so we've got our got our product here actually I'll just grab a tube that I was using before so this uh again nobody sent us this this is just what I use you can get this at most RV dealers it's Dore it's uh made for sealing this stuff it's you can get it in self-leveling uh this this is a non non leveling uh what's it say non sag on this one this one's a self- leveler so the non sag uh where you might want that is out on an edge like out here above the drip rail uh non sag you probably want to use along here because if you use the self leler it uh eventually is going to run and maybe even drip off the edge so I'll use non sag out there but any of these spots right up on the roof like this uh it's basically flat and I'll use that up in on here cuz it'll just nicely form around all this uh roughness here so so it's uh made by dor uh there are other ones out there I've just always had really good luck with this and uh that's why I keep using it I see there's a price tag here so this stuff's about $650 here in Canada or it was when I bought this this is a couple years old old so uh I don't know if there's any kind of probably a shelf life on this uh I don't know what it is I'd have to look it up online but anyways I'm going to use this tube here up I'm going to have to buy buy a couple more anyways so you want to get it clean want it dry clean and then you're basically going to it's going to look kind of messy at first cuz you're going to basically cover this whole area with this walking tube type style and then I'm going to put a rubber glove on and just kind of lightly smooth it around making sure that I work it into any low spots uh and that it uh is kind of smoothish and it'll just self level after that so the first thing I like to do is I like to get right along the edge down in here first to make sure I got a good seal right right along the edge you don't need a huge be spe usually just run it along there sealing that Outer Edge first okay same thing back on this side just kind of being careful here trying to get it in this crack along the side there okay so I've got the two two sides done then in the middle here I'm just going to liberally spread it on and then I can work it with my hand I don't know if there's different colors or not this I've always used use white that's usually what you find on the RVs already is white any that I've seen anyways so it takes a fair bit of this product and it it isn't cheap but this is uh way cheaper than thousands of dollars of rotted walls you have to replace afterwards in your in your RV okay so I get a good good amount on there you can see you know bunch of beads on there I don't know that you need a rubber glove it's just cleaner to use a rubber glove and I'll just simply use my finger to it's already trying to level out don't do too big of an area at a time cuz it will skim over a little bit after you know half an hour or so so just kind of do little pieces you can do I'm just smoothing it out filling making sure it runs into any gaps and voids there are and then right along the edge just making sure I'm getting a good seal at the outer edges uh if you get any bubbles or anything just make sure you work those out okay and it won't take long you know if you got a good uh you don't need direct sun on it necessarily but but what you need is a good warm day uh this is a little early in the morning right now but I wanted to get out here before it got too hot and uh that'll give it a chance to get some heat here later this morning and uh level out and it be looking pretty good okay so I'm going to come back in a few hours so you can see what the final uh thing looks like but here's what it's looking like already you can see it kind of laying down and smoothing down so I'm going to work away at this for a little bit and then we'll come back and check on it in a few hours later today today and see what it looks like okay I'm back just to show you uh how this sealing process has worked out this is about 5 hours later it's not completely uh set up and and done uh sealing off but it's definitely skimmed over and I just want to give you a little bit of a a view of what we've got here so you can see out on that end and you can tell you know how it lays down nice and flat now I've got a couple spots here where there's like there's a little bubble here a little bubble there looks like there might be one there a little air bubble so I'll go back around and just look at those areas and just pop them with a pin let the air out squash them down a little bit with my finger and then just reeal that little spot you you tend to get that you trap some air here and there when you're uh smoothing it out so but I think overall worked out pretty well I haven't completed the whole roof yet but I did this this whole back area here's another bigger bubble right there and down on this end I actually ran out of the self-leveling and I used a bit of a tube of the non- leveling so you can see Fair good difference on uh how it is when it doesn't self-level so anyways hopefully that uh explained to you how to how to do that uh it's probably going to take you on an average RV 3 4 hours to get it all cleaned and sealed up but it's definitely something worth doing to save your life the life RV extend its life thanks for watchinghi Shannon here from house improvements.com in today's video I want to show you some uh some more uh RV type maintenance tips again so we have a few different RV tips and uh my one today is showing you how to clean and reeal all these different uh joints that you're going to have on your RV roof so this one here particularly is on the back Edge but you'll have one at the front and back Edge where the uh fiberglass or metal meets the roof you're going to have them around all the different protrusions in the roof like where the fridge vent is this is a plumbing stack over here roof vent another Plumbing stack Skylight you know all these kinds of areas and as you can see this material this cocking basically over time gets cracked or gets pin holes or whatever and these are all potential areas is for leaks and it's something you should be looking at every year on your RV to be sure that you're in good condition another important spot is down here on the corners a lot of times you'll get a leak here and that leak just goes straight into the wall and this is what rots out your walls and you don't even know what's happening until usually there's major signs of damage inside so this is something you should look at every year and touch up here and there uh my RV is at the point where I'm going to redo every one of these seals on here because they're all getting kind of cracked but you can see here where I've cleaned it to prep it for the new cocking and where I haven't so we're going to start with this area with the cleaning and just show you exactly what I do so what I do is I just use uh ordinary brake cleaner uh it doesn't matter on the brand or anything nobody sent me any the products that I'm using today I'm just using what I normally would use so just take some brake cleaner spray it on the dirty area and clean it off you see it works pretty quickly another good thing to do is to do this you can do the cleaning any time of the day but when you're going to put on the sealant you want to do it on on a on the warm part of the day when you're going to have a dry day no rain in the forecast so it can sit during the day the product I like to use is self-leveling and uh once you put it on just takes a little bit of time for it to level itself out and uh that works always better on a day that's you know um 70 80° so say 25° C so I just uh clean it up like that you're never going to get it 100% but just try to get you know all these little edges and stuff cleaner you can get it to start with the better adhesion you're going to have okay so we got it all cleaned up uh this shouldn't hurt your rubber roof or metal roof or doesn't seem to cause any problems on your fiberglass sides but I try to not get it on the fiberglass or if I do just wipe it off pretty quick just in case but I have never had a problem with it okay so we've got our got our product here actually I'll just grab a tube that I was using before so this uh again nobody sent us this this is just what I use you can get this at most RV dealers it's Dore it's uh made for sealing this stuff it's you can get it in self-leveling uh this this is a non non leveling uh what's it say non sag on this one this one's a self- leveler so the non sag uh where you might want that is out on an edge like out here above the drip rail uh non sag you probably want to use along here because if you use the self leler it uh eventually is going to run and maybe even drip off the edge so I'll use non sag out there but any of these spots right up on the roof like this uh it's basically flat and I'll use that up in on here cuz it'll just nicely form around all this uh roughness here so so it's uh made by dor uh there are other ones out there I've just always had really good luck with this and uh that's why I keep using it I see there's a price tag here so this stuff's about $650 here in Canada or it was when I bought this this is a couple years old old so uh I don't know if there's any kind of probably a shelf life on this uh I don't know what it is I'd have to look it up online but anyways I'm going to use this tube here up I'm going to have to buy buy a couple more anyways so you want to get it clean want it dry clean and then you're basically going to it's going to look kind of messy at first cuz you're going to basically cover this whole area with this walking tube type style and then I'm going to put a rubber glove on and just kind of lightly smooth it around making sure that I work it into any low spots uh and that it uh is kind of smoothish and it'll just self level after that so the first thing I like to do is I like to get right along the edge down in here first to make sure I got a good seal right right along the edge you don't need a huge be spe usually just run it along there sealing that Outer Edge first okay same thing back on this side just kind of being careful here trying to get it in this crack along the side there okay so I've got the two two sides done then in the middle here I'm just going to liberally spread it on and then I can work it with my hand I don't know if there's different colors or not this I've always used use white that's usually what you find on the RVs already is white any that I've seen anyways so it takes a fair bit of this product and it it isn't cheap but this is uh way cheaper than thousands of dollars of rotted walls you have to replace afterwards in your in your RV okay so I get a good good amount on there you can see you know bunch of beads on there I don't know that you need a rubber glove it's just cleaner to use a rubber glove and I'll just simply use my finger to it's already trying to level out don't do too big of an area at a time cuz it will skim over a little bit after you know half an hour or so so just kind of do little pieces you can do I'm just smoothing it out filling making sure it runs into any gaps and voids there are and then right along the edge just making sure I'm getting a good seal at the outer edges uh if you get any bubbles or anything just make sure you work those out okay and it won't take long you know if you got a good uh you don't need direct sun on it necessarily but but what you need is a good warm day uh this is a little early in the morning right now but I wanted to get out here before it got too hot and uh that'll give it a chance to get some heat here later this morning and uh level out and it be looking pretty good okay so I'm going to come back in a few hours so you can see what the final uh thing looks like but here's what it's looking like already you can see it kind of laying down and smoothing down so I'm going to work away at this for a little bit and then we'll come back and check on it in a few hours later today today and see what it looks like okay I'm back just to show you uh how this sealing process has worked out this is about 5 hours later it's not completely uh set up and and done uh sealing off but it's definitely skimmed over and I just want to give you a little bit of a a view of what we've got here so you can see out on that end and you can tell you know how it lays down nice and flat now I've got a couple spots here where there's like there's a little bubble here a little bubble there looks like there might be one there a little air bubble so I'll go back around and just look at those areas and just pop them with a pin let the air out squash them down a little bit with my finger and then just reeal that little spot you you tend to get that you trap some air here and there when you're uh smoothing it out so but I think overall worked out pretty well I haven't completed the whole roof yet but I did this this whole back area here's another bigger bubble right there and down on this end I actually ran out of the self-leveling and I used a bit of a tube of the non- leveling so you can see Fair good difference on uh how it is when it doesn't self-level so anyways hopefully that uh explained to you how to how to do that uh it's probably going to take you on an average RV 3 4 hours to get it all cleaned and sealed up but it's definitely something worth doing to save your life the life RV extend its life thanks for watching\n"