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SCREWS BLOCKING GUTTER?

July 19, 2017, 10:22:13 pm

The photo shows one of two one-inch screws drilled and installed into the right side gutter botton where water flows. The left side has none. Water can pass through but small debris cannot pass.

I unscrewed one screw, but the hole appeared to enter the side of the coach, so I screwed it back in to prevent water intrusion.

Two questions:

1. Why this was done?
2. Should I remove and seal the hole?

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Reply #1 – July 19, 2017, 10:26:54 pm

Looks like a screw that keeps the awning from sliding around in the rail. I'll look in the AM but I think mine has one also.

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Reply #2 – July 19, 2017, 10:53:10 pm

Yep, we've got them on our coach also.  They bug me.  I was going to pull them out, but then I thought "What is the worst that could happen?"

In my past life, most of the times when I thought that, and then went ahead and did it...I regretted it.  So I left them alone.

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Reply #3 – July 20, 2017, 09:28:34 am

Correct.  It keeps the awning from moving fore/aft.

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Reply #4 – July 21, 2017, 12:11:02 pm

That screw wasn't replaced following some awning service.  Later an abrupt stop sent the main awning two feet forward.  It was quite a job getting it back in place.

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Reply #5 – July 21, 2017, 12:32:54 pm

I've never seen these "lockers", I assume the awnings are Zip Dees?

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Reply #6 – July 21, 2017, 12:39:07 pm

Mike,

Unless removed when the "owner between us" had the coach painted, they are there.

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Reply #7 – July 21, 2017, 01:48:37 pm

Thanks a lot, everybody, for getting me out of my chair!    I see no screws, and no caulked screw holes in the big awning curbside.
I have no files if the awning was replaced, along with the full length gutter when the coach was painted. I do know, that big awning has lockers all over the place in the awning itself! 

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Reply #8 – July 21, 2017, 02:04:56 pm

The screw(s) secure the fabric/bolt rope (actually plastic) from moving fore and aft in the channel as you move down the road.

If, when you put away/roll up your large awning, it does not roll up "square" but leans fore or aft, it is likely the screw(s) are missing or securing the awning in the wrong place.

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Reply #9 – July 21, 2017, 02:23:55 pm

Okay, I'll jump in late in the game and say that the photo isn't necessarily of a screw holding the awning. It is in the dew/rain gutter, not the awning bead track. I would think if it were securing the awing it would be screwed farther down with just the head showing. On my awning originally and when I replaced it the screw went in horizontally into the bead track to stop the lateral movement of the awning. I think it's to keep the  dew and maybe the rain from running out the leading end of the gutter and running down the molding. Probably keep it from messing with hinge and leaking into and onto the wooden interior steps. There are those little gutter spouts that can be installed but the main awning keeps the leading edge of the gutter from accepting those spouts. Just my two cents worth.

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Reply #10 – July 21, 2017, 05:13:21 pm

One good thing about being on the ladder today, looking for "the mystery screw", was I got the wisk broom out and cleaned the gutters! 

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