Demolition
7/24/2020 It’s Demo Day
In reality, it took all weekend. HGTV has always made demo day seem so easy. Well I’m here to tell you it’s trash. It’s dirty and stinky. We had to use a sledgehammer a lot and I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would.
We quickly realized the entire roof was full of mold and rot. The base hid old hornets nests and lots of spiders. I’m not gonna lie, at one point during demo I thought I was in way over my head. Thankfully, my husband was all about the sledgehammer and literally crushed it.
So much mold oh my god. We were trying to figure out how to break the roof down and finally realized the roof was rotten enough to crumble right off the brackets.
This is how far we got on Saturday night. I rented a 9x12 Uhaul trailer for the next day. We had way more debris than I expected and we needed to take it to the landfill ourselves.
Sunday morning Derek bought an angle grinder and by Sunday afternoon the trailer was completely bare. We took a family trip to the landfill “to see the cool dumptrucks and vultures” (it was v. gross). And I finished by powerwashing the grit, loose rust, cobwebs, hornets nest, and remaining dust off the frame.
Here’s a list of items we kept from the original camper that I hope to reuse in the new camper:
The awning which is in really good shape.
The sink
The stove
The converter
1 cabinet
1 bench seat
One of the slideout posts
The water and electrical inlet sockets
The door
The entry step
