{"id":5209,"date":"2022-10-01T17:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2022-10-01T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T17:25:27","slug":"heiki-roof-light-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=5209","title":{"rendered":"Heiki Roof light cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our Heiki Roof Light hasn&#8217;t been cleaned since we took delivery of our Swift Caravan back in 2015. It&#8217;s absolutely filthy and there is very little light penetrating into the bathroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the right tools, it&#8217;s a very simple job to remove \/ deep clean and the results are outstanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see plenty of videos on Youtube but some of them are painfully slow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, make sure you have a set of long reach Torx keys \/ wrenches. This set cost me nine quid from Screwfix.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_180219-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_180219-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_180219-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_180219-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_180219-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_180219-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_180219-767x575.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Long reach Torx keys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>How to remove the roof light:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Raise the roof light into the up \/ open position.<\/li><li>Using the Torx 15, unscrew the 4 screws in the handles of the roof light. <\/li><li>The handle stems then pull off their spindles (pull them gently inwards).<\/li><li>Once all stems are free, place the roof light to one side on the roof and retrieve it with a ladder<\/li><li>The light can now be separated unto it&#8217;s two components &#8211; the outer cover and the inner vent. For this you need the Torx 25 key. Once all 4 screws have been removed, the plastic can be thoroughly cleaned with washing-up liquid and a splash of bleach.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Assembly is the above in reverse. The result is outstanding; shame I forgot to take a before picture!!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_114847-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_114847-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_114847-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_114847-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_114847-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_114847-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221001_114847-767x575.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Heiki Roof vent &#8211; like new<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Heiki Roof Light hasn&#8217;t been cleaned since we took delivery of our Swift Caravan back in 2015. It&#8217;s absolutely filthy and there is very little light penetrating into the bathroom. With the right tools, it&#8217;s a very simple job to remove \/ deep clean and the results are outstanding. You can see plenty of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=5209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heiki Roof light cleaning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caravan-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}