Dave tells me he's been working on the bed so even though I have to work again today, I ran over to see what he's done so far.

 He's brought the bed out to the cabinets. We'll have lots of sleeping room now!

 

He patched the hole in the floor near the wheel well, and fixed the wood around the storage door

 The kitchen cabinets are all shored up and solid..

 And unfortunately, when he peeled the front panel back the wood just disintegrated..so that will need shoring up too. Might as well replace the water damaged interior panel, even though the dinette covers most of it. So, it's off to the lumber store again!

More done, but not by me...

I've had to work my regular job pretty much all this week..

(don't they know I'm BUSY ? lol )

but Dave continues to get stuff handled.

He pounded out the wheel well, and fiberglassed it..

He also got the side wall all screwed in securely and was able to take down the interior roof support beams we had holding it..

 I was half expecting the whole trailer to make at least a noise (or worse) when he took them down, but she is SOLID!

 The seams are now water-tight, nailed and are ready for the "j" rail, after paint/polishing.

 Next he will finish the wheel well, install that bit of flooring missing (see hole above) and start to build the bed platform back in. We are extending it to the cabinets for some extra sleeping room.

You can see I have some shellac work to do. The seams we will cover with birch finish strips. I am hoping it won't be too hard to get close to the vintage color the wood has. 

She needs her new vintage style rear lights too..on backorder from Vintage Trailer Supply, maybe in 2 weeks? Can't wait to get them on, she looks a little naked without them.

She needs wings too...but those can wait. Why is the fun stuff always LAST? :0)

TON'S of work done!

We dedicated Sat & Sun to working on the trailer. Hard to believe we've only had it for a week and done this much to it already! The guys worked like CrAzY!

They fixed the wheel well that was destroyed during a blow out someone had, welded on a support beam that was missing (Dave said the whole wall was basically held together by the cabinets) and so much more.

Check out the new back end! No more wobbles and no more sag.

I'll bet this trailer is stronger than it was from the factory! 

A new birch interior skin and more support in the rear will make it nice and stable.

My guys can fix ANYTHING!

Blown tire did a LOT of damage..
needs more pounding and fiberglass

Welding a new support bar on

Hey what's under here?

Wobbly wood..great..

wow...the wall is bowed out. Not good.

Shoring up the ceiling while we get the wall straight

This is going to be beautiful eventually

New support beams being added.


The guys worked long and hard...I owe them a beer and my gratitude. I sure am lucky that I have wonderful people in
my life!

MORE polishing...

Grrrrr

This is HARD work.
But tomorrow...no more Ms.Nice Girl.
It's time for the heavy equipment.

 

Polishing..

This is more work than it looks

So shiny we can see Phoebe!

Spent some of yesterday polishing, since Dave is doing woodwork in the back. Not much in the way of excitement or progress..but we are chipping away at it.

Been thinking about a name. There are so many clever and cute names out there..the Sister's on the Fly website has pages of members, and I spent too much time looking at all the funny names. Some I liked;

Hillbilly Hilton

Taj Wehaul

SlapHappy

The best part of this trailer project will be decorating it!

I was looking at fabric for curtains on Ebay, and ran across this vintage piece of barkcloth.

I thought it was perfect since we found the trailer in Santa Barbara. Too bad there wasn't enough of it to do anything with. I am gonna keep hunting for this pattern!
I love it!

Small things, and BIG things

Okay, so I am told I need to get some screws. A LOT of them apparently. Thanks to the Shasta Forum, I kinda know what I need.

So, I look online and call a bulk supply place, located close to me.

~

You know how dealing with customer service reps these days usually requires the patience & faith of Mother Teresa, AND no small amount of foreign language skills?

I normally look like this in about a nano-second.

So anyway, I got the local place on the phone, who said that they could get me what I needed...but I would be better off calling 

These People

 ..as they could do it way cheaper. He even gave me the web address and the phone number.

HUH?

Someone honest? And that cares about my pocketbook?

HuH?

Okay. So I thank him and look it up. Place order online. No shipping charge? 

HuH?  

Order placed... Feeling good!

Went to trailer and did some stuff. Dave says she needs some woodwork to shore up the sagging back end. 

(Don't we all?)

So I come home...and what is waiting for me at my doorstep?

That's right!

IT'S MY ORDER!

On the same DAY that I placed it?!!

All I have to say is..

YOU ROCK!

Day 2...flooring...

We (and by 'we' I really mean 'Ken') finished scraping up the RIDICULOUSLY difficult tile floor..seriously what the #%$# did they use to glue that stuff down? 

It took blood, sweat, and a blow torch..but it finally came up.

no picture of that mess, but now that the ugly floor is gone, it's got me looking at floors for the future.

How about this pattern?

wow!

I LOVE THIS!