All I Want For Christmas.....

The weather is extreme for the north woods with temps in the 50's and six days to Christmas.  With the weather at ideal working conditions, out to the trailer I head.

I got an interesting, useful, and early Christmas present from my Boaz.  An auto creeper that flips up into a seat.  I also found a good buy at a local store on auto wheel dolly's.  I got them put together and wanted to have a race with them but I will leave that to another day.

There's not a lot of clearance in the garage to fit the trailer in to begin with, now I take another three or so inches to add some manueverability.  I cannot take the trailer out of the garage on these dollys.  I will surely lose vents and do other damage, though it is very nice to have the ability to swing it a couple of feet from side to side.  I envy those that have the large indoor space or the NBN (nothing but nice) weather to complete the project trailers.

I continued with removing damaged paneling on the inside.  Glad I had taken the back window out first thing.  The lower back bed was removed and did not fit out the door, so through the window it went.  BIG HINT! I must remember the back window will be the last thing finished since it is very useful for moving large items in and out.



Continued working near the back of the trailer and found some areas of concern.  I poked around the back and on the street side put my fingers through the back and pulled out a piece of wood, or more correctly, a piece fell out into my hand.  The next piece I attempted to grab fell into my hand as dust.  Being that I have allergies to molds and dust, out came the mask.  Even though it's almost 50 degrees outside, it's going to be a long winter....

Well, since it feels like Halloween with the mask on, lets tackle the ceiling on the inside.  I know it's got some damage and needs to have panels replaced, so onward and upward. I pulled a few pieces and found the top is actually cardboard or maybe it's called pressboard.  Not really sure but it's a heavy laminated paper none-the-less.  It's lined with silver on the tin side and a type of plastic sheeting on the other, similar to being wallpapered.  With the sheeting, it really didn't show the water damage. However, it's there, and bad.... bad, bad, bad.

There's still so much more ceiling to take out that I'm going to wait for another day when I wear a hat to keep the ick from infiltrating in my hair, down my back - well, I'm sure you get the idea.  With all the ick that fell on my head, I decided to move to the outside and enjoy some fresh air without the mask. 

Got both of the curb side back windows removed.  The bottom removed very easy and yes, there's problems.  Wood rot on the upright towards the back of the trailer. Top of the window looks ok, front upright looks ok, bottom is good up to where it intersects with the upright at the back of the trailer.  How does that happen?  



Bumper side of curb window

Hitch side of curb window.  Upright is good, bottom is good and was covered by a (dried and cracked) plastic edging.



Top window came out easier after I remembered to remove all the screws.  Yes, there are times when  your brain takes a break before you do.  The windows will need to have new gaskets all around. 

I removed the screws of the streetside back windows along with some of the back trim rail so that I can peel the back panel off to make the repairs.  I do believe I will remove the entire roof skin so that I can repair the roof rails in a proper fashion.  Again, not much height left in the garage, I'll have to figure something out there.

I'm calling it a day at this point.