Camper Rain Gutters Anyone?

mhjackson123 said:
I would love to see more photos of solutions to this problem. I have the same problem with water dripping on or into the driver and passenger windows. Hawk on a GM Sierra 1500
If you go to the first page of this post there is a link to the RV gutter I PMed you about.
Frank
 
The pictured Rain Gutters would cause a lot of problems clearing Snow off the roof of our Campers. Into every life a little rain must fall; however a load of snow can result in damage
 
Jon&Sue_DeArman said:
The pictured Rain Gutters would cause a lot of problems clearing Snow off the roof of our Campers. Into every life a little rain must fall; however a load of snow can result in damage
I live in Tennessee, I might see 1-2" of snow.

My plan is to put the guttering on the side of the front corners of the roof slightly angled down so the drip isn't over my cab doors.
 
FWC suggested vinyl drip rails similar to these: https://www.brandsport.com/trmg-wrt02-01.html?cmp=fwgs2011&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx-aK-JOK2QIVk1uGCh2KgwbZEAQYAiABEgKAPPD_BwE. The adhesive is still holding after about a year.

I put the drip rails on the roof, with the "gutter" facing the rear, because I thought all the screw heads on the side of the roof would leak. Without Yakima tracks I would have curved the rails in the opposite direction. See photo. I still get a few drips on the windows but it's greatly reduced.

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This is what I ended up doing, before I thought to see what others had been doing with this situation. I looked at the flexible premade stuff with the J-bend gutter that others have posted about, but the largest channel I could find was about 3/4". I figured it needed to be at least 1" of channel to catch the drips\stream coming off the latches which stick out from the sides about an inch. What I ended up using was a 1 1/4 D" channel, widest I could find, then just cut it so it made a J shape. I didn't trust the adhesive that came with the material so I added a side-by-side 1/2" strip of thin 3M UHB tape directly over the existing adhesive (after pulling the protective strip). After applying to the camper I discovered the flexible material would pull in the corner edge in it's tendency to not want to stretch uniformly so I added a short bent 1/2" spine of aluminum stock to keep the width of the gutter around the corner more or less uniform. It works fine to keep drips out of the cab unless it is a real heavy downpour, I couldn't get much slope on the gutter within the limited space so it can simply overflow.
 

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Here’s what I did to solve the problem years ago, has worked great ever since. That’s just an aluminum threshold plate turned upside down. Cut it in half then rounded the edges. installed one piece on each side

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