Wow...there's a bunch of windows!

[Note: all of the windows were completed prior to installing the new floors]

Having 9 windows, 8 of which are operable, presented quite the task when it came time to replace the baked on and cracking window seals/gaskets with new ones. We knew the rear window seal was leaking after several downpours in our driveway, so there was no choice as to replace or not to replace. I spent a whole Saturday removing the majority of the old seals on four of the windows, but the rock hard adhesive remained.

To do it correctly, all of the old adhesive would have to be removed. Together, we spent Sunday morning suffering through picking, chiseling, scraping and dremeling off old seals...upside down, backwards and twisted. I couldn't take it anymore, so I jumped on-line at www.airforums.com and found advice from others recommending Permatek Gasket Remover sold by auto parts stores. I bought out three different auto parts stores...there were only three 4oz. bottles to be had. It definitely made the work MUCH easier! Especially once we dropped the awnings and the sun quit evaporating the remover before we could get to it. Here are a few photos of this grueling task:

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Squeaky Clean!!

Rain was headed our way so the new gaskets had to go on that day...even at 10:00 at night!

As you can see, the new gaskets fit snugly and are just what Llamaluminum needed!

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Final touch on the windows was to replace all the screens. Joy. Airstream installed white screens with white spline originally on the roof vents and gray screen with white spline on the windows. No luck finding white screen or white spline, so we went with black on black for it all...at least they're clean and hole free!