Saturday Continues to Sunday

Fiberglass in hand, we continue, what is step 1 of a camper redo?  Take the top off… ummm sorry canvas.

As I stated before, there was significant water damage to the roof, we called everyone we could, seriously some amazing friends and neighbors who helped us raise the roof and put it in the back yard.

So we are able to roll our topless trailer into the garage.  So the body is in great shape, but we want to make this a very comfortable home away from home, so I wanted to redo the interior, this includes my fabric choice here for the curtains, it is the basis of everything we will be doing in the camper.

The camper is full of what I think is MDF or thin plywood with veeneer placed on top.  We took out all the doors and drawers, and as a design choice, added blue tape over the brass fittings.

Here is my wonderful dear husband taking off loads of hardware.

I took my trusted sander, made by Ryobi here. 

I love this sander, sometimes it feels like the triangle loose their sandpaper-ness too easily, but other than that I am always happy with the results.I scuffed up all the surfaces, just enough to get some grip for the paint.  Now I know someone likes all of this “wood” and it was in nice shape, but I felt we needed to help seal up a few mold spots and the mildew smell.

I ended up using Zinsser super primer on the wood, two coats, this took about a half of gallon.  You can get this delivered through Amazon here.

For the “white” which is actually a light grey, it was left over from a few exterior projects.  it was the Valspar which we had purchased from our local Cashman’s True Value.  I love going there, they are always nice and non judgemental on my projects.

The red was an oops paint for Gidden from Home depot, the can cost $7.50 for the gallon.  This was extremely different paint than what I was used to, it was very watery and to get the cabinets this red, it took 5 coats or so.  To be honest I wasn’t happy with how it went on, but I think it looks good in the end and I am super tired tonight!

Also my hubby and I were able to hash out a logo last night, may we present, Family Adventure Awaits.

 

 

Mini Road Trip Saturday!

So we got the trailer on Friday and it is now Sunday, and I am sure it is looking like a very different camper on the inside.

Our adventure started on Saturday, we knew that we would have to redo the roof and fiberglass seemed the way to go.  We found www.fiberglasssite.com and found out they were based outside of Baltimore about an hour from us.  What luck, morning road trip!! We packed into the car and headed out.  Many times when we travel we need this thing called gas for our van.  So we found a great convenience store in Maryland, for gas it was 2.15 a gallon, let us talk about exciting to us!

We also found the biggest can of Coke for 99 cents.

Not to our destination so we continued on and about 30 minutes later arrived.  The man at Fiber Glass Site happened to be working that Saturday so we were able to discuss in detail what we were going to do and he was able to calculate how much fiberglass and resin we would need.  We ended up purchasing 1.5 oz chopped mat, a 5 gallon bucket of polyester resin, and a roller thing with spikes.

Note: We ended up spending about $200 on this part of the project, but the materials are pool grade so if it ever leaks it will be surprising,do it once do it right.

I highly suggest if you are looking at replacing the top of your camper looking into this, if you are doing tons of work, then best to make it as tight as you can.

We then got to have some family road trip fun and go across the street from the fiberglass place to a pizza shop, This is Hilltop Pizza.  We order a large cheese pizza and a 2 liter of coke for the family and with a bill of $9, mommy the accountant was very happy!

 

We headed back out to our home and picked up a can of paint at Home Depot on the way, it was the perfect oops shade!

Our Family Adventure Awaits

Our family has a tradition of turning a weekend into a memorable day road trip.  In a world where you can become too focused on your destination, we like to find a journey.  Last year we took a road trip through Ohio and ended up tent camping in places we had never dreamed of.  It was wonderful, the sense of adventure the unknown journey, if we wanted to go left we went left, when we decided we needed to get to a hotel we found it.  But now we are on a new adventure.  We bought a camper.

It is a 1995 Jayco KB, here is a list of the current real issues

• Mold/mildew on the canvas
• Rotted Roof
• New Curtains

So the good things, the bottom part of the trailer is in great condition, but another month or two it could have been in real trouble.

A list of things that need done in my opinion,

• Clean and make new covers for the dinette and sofa
• Wash the mattresses
• Paint the cabinets and walls
• New floor
• Upgrade the king sized bed to have a mattress topper on it

How about we give you the 10 cent tour:

I think I would like to remake the vinyl on the sides, that will happen some day…

Here is a closer picture, rain was getting in and rotting things, like I said another month or two this would have been serious trouble.

Here is the Queen sized bunk.  I am so happy that this camper has tons of room, but as you can see, it needs loads of lovin’. The water had made the roof sink and all the wood is rotted on that end of the camper so we will be replacing the roof.  On the sides the canvas that is on the windows needs replaced.  I don’t think it will be too difficult, also the corners need some more vinyl added. Really glad I am a seamstress!

The sofa is very functional, but the cushions are very 1995.

Cabinets, fantastic shape!

Our Family Adventure Awaits!!

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