Leininger Homestead

During another violent NC thunderstorm, a growing puddle on out floor had Ed and I very concerned. We watched the water creep out of the corner and wondered what was going on behind the thin wall to the pass-through storage.

"Last time it leaked there was water in there too," I remembered.

Here's a link to the video of what happened.

There was a hatch by the bed that lead to the storage. It's often known as a laundry shoot because one can place a basket inside it and then take laundry out from the outside hatch. Ed and I are both pretty small people and I had crawled into the hatch before (just for fun). Ed decided to go down there and see what he could see.

Sure enough the water was coming in under the wall on that side too. It traveled along the entire length of the wall. I was very disconcerted. There was still no indication of where it was coming from. Ed kept going back to the idea that it had something to do with the seal on the awning.

We turned to our RV Facebook groups for advice. We were told to wait out the storm and go over the suspect areas with a hose to find the leak. Ed did this the next day and found two spots where water was coming though: the awning attachment and the window below it.  "It's going to have to be re-sealed," he told me.

Our friends at the dealership showed great concern when we told them about the issue. They asked us to get in touch with maintenance and Ed is talking to them now.  They gave us a five year warranty on the camper since Evergreen shut it's doors a few days before we purchased the camper.

Ed thinks he can fix it himself and wants to go ahead and reseal anything suspicious looking so we can avoid future damage. Hopefully we can do that without voiding the warranty.

A lot of my Facebook friends were very upset to hear the news of the leak, and to be honest I was upset at first as well. But maintenance is the nature of a camper. We chose this! And knowing how to make repairs and do preventative work on our home is going to serve us well in our lives.

Someday I do want to have a quality built house, but right now this little camper is my dream come true. It's our little homestead on wheels. We're going to take care of it, fix it, improve it, and it's going to allow us to be free and mobile. I'm grateful to the Lord who gave it to us and I'm not afraid of what the future holds.

Thank you all for being with us though the first of many crazy moments!

~Hannah