Its a new day and we can't wait to get started on the renovation, but it we jumped right into demolition. There were a few things that did bug us, like why did the ceiling feel soft in some spots. There isn't much water damage, and no sign of it on the ceiling so far. Alex was eager to tear into the ceiling to see what was the cause of that softness so parts of the ceiling came down. We discovered one of the rafters actually had cracked at a big knot, and it had already been repaired. Rather poorly I might add. So this is the first thing on our list to fix - Replace rafter. Not really a hard thing to do.
Its the rafter just after the hatch that needs to be fixed. In the photo below you can see where it has already been repaired.
So see that set of cabinets on the left? Those are being torn out so that we can fix that rafter. Crappy use of space if you ask me. Two doors where three should be, a lot of wasted space that's hard to get to. Ikea cabinets to the rescue. Nice ones with glass paneled doors that lift up and not out for easy storage. That row of cabinets will go all the way forward to where the front upper bunk used to be to add more much needed storage. I may get ambitious and build the cabinets myself though with Ikea's for my design model.
My big issue was that I REALLY wanted to get out that front upper bunk, and pronto. Here it is all pulled out, it brings so much light into the whole space. You can see that nifty little window on the left. We plan on making this bigger and installing an air conditioning unit in that space.
After pulling that front upper bunk down we did find some water damage. This is something we need to further investigate. Someone has been into this camper before. The panel on the right just above that side window had been replaced with wood paneling. So that will need to be removed and replaced with smooth luan. The rail that held the bunk in is fastened from the outside from the factory and still needs to be torn out, carefully.
Don't you just LOVE that mustard yellow tweed? All gotta go.
A bit higher from where the bunk was will be a shelf going across the front for open storage.
So after this day of demo I asked. Do you think it's still worth what we paid for it? Alex's response was $200 less. But I am confident that when we get done, it will bring the value much higher than what we paid.
Oh did I mention the bathroom is pretty much a full gut job?
Signing off for now!
- Is it still worth the price we paid? -
