After that our digital camera took a dump. Once the heat let up, I went back to work but the lack of a camera put the blog on the back burner. We got a new camera so it is back to updates. There is a bit of a backlog to cover so bear with me. Most of the things are now in a completed stage (or very close to with only minor things to do). For instance I don't have pictures of the cabinets and paneling in the raw right after construction. I only have them as they stand now with the new finish on them. Up to this point I have been trying to do in progress pictures but with no camera handy I just motored on. I apologize for that...
-I replaced all of the birch paneling that I had removed to get rid of the rot. I don't have any progress shots of any of this because of the digital camera issue but you can see which ones were replaced if you go back through the blog. I had a lot of the panels from when I tore them out so that wasn't real bad to get the new panels to fit. It takes some tweaking but it isn't real bad. The hard part was doing the trim work. I made a lot of the new trim myself trying to match the old stuff as best as I could. That coupled with some weird angles and contours made creating and installing the new trim pretty hard and time consuming all through the trailer...
-I rebuilt both platform cabinets for dinette. I used the face frames and put all new lumber supports to make it more sturdy and fit better.
The street side with the drawer...
Curbside with the slide drawer. The plywood you see is new with the original face frame. The original plywood was destroyed from a leak from the door area...
You can see that it didn't look that bad but when I started to take it apart it showed how bad the rot was in the area near the door. I also ditched that outlet...
Kept this outlet though. Replaced the outlet with a new brown one and a nice new chrome cover...
-I also rebuilt the back goucho platform also. Same deal. I used the original face frame and built new supports to make it a bit sturdier.
-Along with the goucho I rebuilt the tunnel and the nightstand. This area was toast. It was barely holding itself together. The doomed window AC unit created the moisture and dripping water that made this area delaminating mush. I could just pull the plywood of the tunnel off with my hands. That's not good...
-I did some cabinet reconstruction and rehab to the rest of the kitchenette. The main bank wasn't too bad of shape. I did reskin the two upper cabinets that I had removed (you can see that here) because they were dry rotting and chipping like crazy. I don't really have any progress pictures of that process. Sorry.
Because the roof vent leaked quite a bit at one point there were some problems it caused. The water fell and hit the floor splashing up onto one of the doors. Or at least that is my theory because the door at the bottom of the kitchenette was delaminating and not in good shape. In had to remake this door with new plywood. Here is the new unfinished door behind the old nasty one. Sorry about the crap picture...
-I also did a bit of work on the magazine rack. It also was in rough shape. The face was delaminating as you can see in the picture below. I remade this with new plywood. Again, sorry about the crappy pictures...
I have a lot more to share but I will throw this part of the story up. The rest will be right on it's heels. Stay tuned for more...
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