Author: elly

  • Shitake on the floor

    Thanks to Endwell Rug for the quality service and the installers, Bill and Jamie for getting the Forbo Marmoleum cut, glued, and seam sealed. They did a GREAT job and it looks fantastic. Rosie was a big hit sitting in the Endwell Rug parking lot. It was also fun having her at mom’s in West Corners. Thanks to the neighbors for letting her sit in front of their house (missed photo op, next time…).  I suspect she will occupy that spot many times to come.  Thanks mom for helping to make it happen!

    Taken with camera, colors more accurate than ones below…

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    Phone shots…  nice cut job!

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  • Waiting for installer

    At Endwell Rug …

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  • Say goodbye to my beautiful subfloor.

    The marmoleum will be installed this weekend. I hate covering up Frank’s handiwork, just like I hated covering up my reflective insulation, but I’m excited to move into the next phase. Next post will be of the new floor.

     

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  • Tick tock, status update

    Only one piece of inner skin left to install, the long ceiling piece.  I’m waiting for my antenna to come before I put it up.  I had the floor measured for Marmoleum sheeting.  I’m going with Shitake and hoping it doesn’t take too long to get into the store (Endwell Rugs).

    The bumper frame now has a hole drilled in it and a fresh water connection run into the trailer.  Thanks to Marc for sharing his more powerful drill to get through the steel (I will return it soon).

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    I dry fit the bathroom fixtures to help fine-tune the Pex layout.  Since I can’t find a new/used shower seat, I’m going to try “Plasti-mend” on the cracks — thanks to my buddy Nick for pointing this product out to me.  First I need to sand off the fiberglass, filler, and paint from the failed repair.

    In addition to getting the bathroom roughed out, I’d like to have some “room” walls and get the roadside twin bed in before I head out to Alumapalooza.  The other areas (office, kitchen, dinette) will get attn later in the summer.

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    You can check out my Pinterest boards related to technology for Rosie and other wish list items.

    She’s not a work of art like so many are, nor a classic vintage restoration. I think of her as a recycle project and the best therapy I could buy.

  • Recovering…

    I’m having a hard time breaking out of my funk after losing our good friend and family member, Fred the dalmatian (14 yo). He was my white-trash trailer dog.  A very special guy who worked his way into my heart and left me with a hole in it.  I’m hoping I can come up with a good way to honor him somewhere or somehow in Rosie the trailer.  Craig wrote a wonderful tribute: Remembering Fred (4/8/2012).

  • Rear end cap

    Sitting in the basement for 2 years didn’t help the yellowing of the aft end cap dome.  So I took it outside in the recent nice weather and put on several coats of RetrOBright (see previous posts). I reinforced the top edge like the front dome.  I was very glad to get it hung up today, before anything happened to it.

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    Rear dome in the basement
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    Retrobright application
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    Hung in place.