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Pendleton Round-up or bust!
You might notice it has been something like 7 months since my last entry. The DF1 project had to be put on hold because I thought I had mono. I was wrong. As it turns out, I'm just really, really lazy. However, I have been prodded back into action! Enticed by friends who would rather put their money towards materials for DF1, than spending money on renting an RV to take to the Round-up. (Suckers.)
I don't intend to get it completely finished by then (less than 3 weeks from now), but I think I can do just enough to make it livable. Throw down some flooring, throw up some wall and ceiling panels, and frame in the bathroom and fridge. Maybe add some carpet in the cockpit, if there is time.
For the past 7 months or so the old girl as been parked up at Big Frank's (my Dad's), where she has had plenty of company from other vehicles in various states of disrepair.
(Waiting for pictures to add here)
The first thing on my list of things to do was to get the wet bath put back in its place. This involved screwing the sub frame (which I put together months ago) down into place. This was a big pain in the butt. There were some 1x1 joists glued to the bottom of the fiberglass bathroom shell that had fallen off and gone missing. To fix this I decided to just remove them all together and lay down some extra flooring fill the space.
It doesn't look like much, but it worked well enough. It actually added a little too much height, but after a bit of wrestling and sweet talking, I was able to convince the bathroom to go back into place.
Next on the agenda was to lay down the bamboo flooring I've had laying around. This involved laying down some 1/4 inch plywood to make a nice smooth flat surface to lay down the floating floor on.
That picture was taken after half the flooring had been snapped into place, and then taken apart again because I realized I there were some seriously unlevel spots that were causing problems. Once I took care of those by trimming a little from here an there off the under layment, snapping the floating floor together was a breeze. I only had to take 1 first aid break!
That hole is for the kitchen sink drain, and will be behind cabinets.
I'll need to find some sort of flashing for the entrance.
I did intend to run the flooring all the way to the back, but I encountered too much of a hump here. I will even out these ends and then lay the rest of the floor east to west.
Still left to do: Build enclosures for the generator and propane tank, panel ceiling and walls, frame in bathroom and fridge, clean up and re-install the toilet, plumb in bathroom, finish the door latch, and probably about a million other things. Oh an maybe carpet the cockpit, if there is time.
