Follow Our Progress

September 14th 2003

We started out today by visiting the trailer again.  I managed to get the fresh water tank drained, remove the sinks, most of the plumbing and took down the canopy.  There were about 50 or so screws to remove along the top and 12 or so bolts that were holding the main supports.  I forgot the ladder, but the utility trailer made a pretty decent work platform.

I didn't realize how heavy the canopy was until we had to lift it on to the roof of the Jeep.  We removed both of the supports to make it easier to carry. We threw everything else in the trailer and headed to our home to clean everything up before hauling it off to the bus.  The sinks are both stainless steel and cleaned up nicely.  The one from the bathroom is a bit beat up...  It was glued down to the counter so well that I had to use a pry bar to break the seal.  It has a few warps along the side that I will have to do my best to bang out. After everything was cleaned up, we took it over to the bus and dropped it off.

That's all we had the energy to do today.  It's going to take a couple of days for the water under the trailer to dry out, so I'll most likely not return to the trailer until later in the week or next weekend.  It seems to work well to work the weekend at the trailer instead of at the bus.

Tomorrow we will most likely head back to the bus and start working on putting better insulation in the ceiling.  Pulling the ceiling panels will require me to remove some of the newly installed wall studs, but we made some changes to the floor plan that would have had us removing part of the wall studs anyway, so it's not too discouraging.  After we have the ceiling done, I think we're going to have to get the shower for the bathroom.  It needs to be hauled in there before there are too many walls in the way, so even though it will not be hooked up and might be in the way, it makes sense for us to get it now and put it where it will easily go into the bathroom when the time comes to hook everything up...