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I have had a little on the laminate of the bunk.
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Not sure what you mean laminate? Can you explain that term? INSIDE BUNK DOOR?
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It's vinyl on outside and canvas in the inside.
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Well I think you mean it is colored vinyl on the outside with a white cross-hatch pattern on the inside, but vinyl is still vinyl.
My side zip curtains are a cotton fabric... not sure what the older style bunk ends are... I have heard they are 100% vinyl sides, end and top.
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I mainly seem to get moisture in front bunk on laminate when down.
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laminate again? are you talking about the inside bunk door that the mattress lays on?
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The back on seems to make moisture at the top like mentioned and across the inside tent when folded up it has down some moisture down the canvas, cause it will have like black kind of marks going down.
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sorry not getting any sense of what you are trying to say here
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I think I will caulk around the latches
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I might try Eternabond tape... once the tape is applied it will not need to be serviced again...
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They are spotting up a little. I have about 10 of the dollar tree style damp rids in the camper now.
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Keep the bunk open and put a fan on inside to move air around that bunk end... al long as you have dry sunny weather it should dry quickly.
If you are seeing some black mold I understand... mold/mildew will grow in the warm dark spots overnight...
I use 2 X mold remover from HomeDepot... melts away the black stuff in a minute... see pic below... you can wipe it with a damp rag in a few minutes and will never know what was there a few minutes before.
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I plan on doing the black rubber weather stripping like I saw on a video to put around the frame of the door. It seems like that would have came standard.
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The black rubber weather striping is sold by the foot from FR... that gasket is important to have on correctly especially on the top edge with no gaps to keep water out of the bunks ends when folded up... typically the correct adjustment of the latches are to put a dollar bill between the gasket and the side and when latched into place the dollar bill should be snug but you should be able to pull the bill out with some tension on the bill... too tight and the gasket gets overly compressed...
The idea with the blue tape was to keep rain water from getting into the inside rear folds of the tent near the hinge area where it can weep into the inside of the bunk door bed area.
I BELIEVE THERE is a reason that the bed door ends were overhauled in the 2013-2014 model year... my tent ends are generally 100% dry up or down being used. Occasionally a get a cup or two of water laying on the tent vinyl when I open a bunk after a long storage time, but because the vinyl tent ends are permanently attached to the bunk door, no water gets inside to the inside bunk door sleeping area and the water runs off harmlessly never having soaked thru the vinyl... because the windows are always zipped shut.
Take some more pictures and clarify your language as I asked about above so we can get on the same page...
The gutters you added will help... lots of people over the years added their own design gutters.
As I said before start reading this ROO/Shamrock forum from back in the 2007 time frame and read what those owners had to say... NEW owners have different tent end problems.
I ran into a 2009 Roo owner last week and he had made himself a vinyl tent top/side curtain that he attaches above the side walls above the tent ends and velcros to the tent bunk to help shed rain water while camping. He camps a lot in the summer and claims they also shade the bunk and keeps it darker and cooler in the summer.
I have actually read here over the years of a number of Roo owners doing something similar.
Hopefully you can keep the camper in the driveway while you perfect what works for you.
I hope we are getting closer to fixing your problem...