In The Beginning or A tale of 2 Motorhomes - Part 2(The catch up)

As I had mentioned in my first post I actually started this project over a year ago, so whereas the last post explained what the project was and how it came about, this post will bring you up to date with where I am on the project now.

I'd like to thing that if Justin Bieber or Brandon Flowers had a tour bus that it would look like this my RV

So one of the first things that I worked on was removing everything from the RV that I am keeping (the burned one). This meant gutting the back portion of the RV. I had to tare down what was left of the walls that devided the bedroom from the bathroom area.

The bedroom itself was totally gutted execpt for the engine cover/bed box(which I also tore out), but in the bathroom I had to tear out everything, the shower, the sink, the toilet and all cabinetry because they were all burned or melted or destroyed beyond repair.

Everything forward of the bathroom was spared and just had smoke damage, as far as wood walls and cabinets goes.

I removed both the drivers and the passenger seats so that they would not be in the way and so that I could have them re-upholstered.

Next I had to remove anything that could hold the burn smell. So that meant taring out all the carpet(including all the carpet pieces that had been installed at the bottom of all cabinets, wall paper, all furniture(a couch and 2 lazy boy recliners), and the fabric headliner on the ceiling. While I was doing all the taring out and removing I also removed all the doors from the cabinets that I was keeping so that it would be easier to sand and refinish both the cabinets and the doors.

In order to remove the fabric headliner I had to remove everything from the ceiling first. This included air registers(5 of these), floresent lights(about 8 of these) and other assorted things.

Next, I broke up all the ceramic tile from the kitchen and bathroom(no easy task) because there were about ten pieces that were broken and also we decided that we wanted hardwood floors in the kitchen and living areas.

Oh and here is a strange side note. This RV had a washer/dryer unit in it back in the bathroom area, which is great. However the manufacturer(Monaco) put tile everywhere in the bathroom area except for where this washer/dryer unit went. Consiquently, the unit must have had a leak and it destroyed a portion of the subflooring(approx. 3' x 2') that I still need to cut out and replace.

All of this gutting work took about 3 months, but once it was done I had kind of a clean slate to work with.

I was going to use this post to get you all caught up with where I am on the project now but as I see how long this already is, I think I'll divide it up a little.

Tune in to the continuing saga of "What have I Done So Far"