Wet Floor - intermittant

I have the weirdest problem on my Wildcat 32QBBS. When you walk into the door the wall right in front of you, the one that gets hidden by the slideout when you close up the slide, has wet carpet in front of it. It's just in that one section but it's pretty wet.

It happened about a while back years on a camping trip and I had a soft guitar case sitting there and it wicked up a bunch of water and ended up cracking my Blueridge acoustic :( I turned the water off, it dried, and it didn't get wet again. I assumed it was just some water coming in the slide gaskets or something because it's right next to it.

This summer it happened again. Not much, but a little water. I checked everything I could, went underneath the storage area where the water pump is and looked at all that and didn't see or feel any water. It went away again. Again i thought maybe it was from the rain a couple days before and I was un-level or something.

Well this weekend we're in Bahia Honda in the FLorida Keys for a week. It's wet again. It hasn't rained in probably two weeks we've been camping so it's definitely coming from my water system. And we've camped a ton in between these incidents so it's not something that's happening every time. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the rv being tilted one way or the other, water pressure, or something else. I just can't figure it out.

The problem is that any water coming from there would have to be coming from under our shower I think. We never use the shower, it's actually a storage area for us. We use the sink in front of it but the shower is never on. But I can't get underneath the shower to look. Also, the plastic piping going up to there goes through a small hold from the storage area and it's impossible to see anythign up there.

Has anyone experienced this before? Or does anyone have any suggestions how to figure out what is causing this?

What year is your Cat, I have a 201132QBT with the same problem, when I washed it in the spring, I found a small peice of caulk on one of the slide out tracks that looked like it fell off something, i picked it off, it was about 1/8 by 1/8(small) well it turns out after about 2 months of troubleshooting I had the idea to put a small blurb back on there, low and behold no more wet carpet, nice fix??????. It only occured when the unit was closed!!!!!

It's 2007.

It's interesting it only happened when closed. I was at one campground, closed up, drove to another. I noticed the wetness at the new campground the next day. I wonder if it's related. I normally release water pressure before driving but it's very possible I forgot to.

Where was the piece at? Any idea what it was doing?

Per your request for more help via private message, Rod Batts should be contacting you shortly!

love4God,
When you and Rod come up with a cause and solution, please let us know. There may be others with the same problem. Thanks.

The small piece of caulk was placed on the slide track mechanism close to the end or outside of the slide, it was just pushed into the track, it didn't look correct so i pulled it out of the slide track mechanism by flicking it off with my finger the way you would flick a fly on your arm. I knew exactly where it would leak, so I put a pan there to catch it, it would travel the whole length of the slide to the inner most part and drip off into the pan. After I put a small glob of caulking back on the slide mechanism no more leak. I am not sure how it gets in behind the rubber when the unit was closed but we know these things sure are not air tight....and yes the unit was on a level cement pad if that makes a difference. I checked all my slide mechanisms and they all have caulking on the slide mechanisms in the same places.

I had the same problem on same model. Go into small access door on that wall and check your water fittings going to shower faucet. My fitting going to the hot water side was loose causing the water to drip on the plastic sheet under shower floor and running out getting carpet wet.

That's exactly what it was. Rod pointed me to the access panel, i can't believe i didn't see that myself... DOH!

I pulled it off and my hot water connection was loose and dripping water. I suppose when i've been just out of level with my nose up a hair it would drip down onto my floor and I noticed. When tipped forward it would go to the front where i wouldn't notice it.

Anyway, i tightened it up and it appears fixed now.

Of course right after I got it fixed my toilet stopped up. UGHHH!!! It was the hold going down to the tank that stopped up and when flushing it was burping at me. After I got it to go down I ran the power cleanser down it for a while and connected the water to the black tank cleanout and ran that for 15 minutes. Everything seems better now, we'll see.

Is there a vent on the roof for this? Maybe I should climb up and check that too, if it's not venting properly.

Thanks for your help everyone.

I'm glad it all worked out for you!

Yes there is a vent on top above bathroom. Funny how many issues we all encounter that are the same.

love4God wrote:
Of course right after I got it fixed my toilet stopped up. UGHHH!!! It was the hold going down to the tank that stopped up and when flushing it was burping at me. After I got it to go down I ran the power cleanser down it for a while and connected the water to the black tank cleanout and ran that for 15 minutes. Everything seems better now, we'll see.

Glad you got your leak fixed.

Do you leave your tank dump valves open or closed? You should always leave them closed until the tanks are almost full, then dump them. first the black, and rinse it a little, then open both the bathroom and kitchen at the same time, this washes out the hose. Then put a good 5 - 10 gallons of water back into the black tank, this keeps everything wet in the black tank so MOUNDS don't start to build up.

A mound of you know what is really hard to clean out.