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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

My kingdom for a box of rivets......

When we started the project I got a box of 500 1/8 inch pop rivets. Tonight I ran out of rivets! Even so, I was able to get a ton of stuff done. I finished installing the final Aluminum panel in the kitchen, so the walls are DONE!

I laminated the bulkhead wall that will be at the end of the kitchen counter. This required removing the wall, attaching the laminate and reinstalling it. I also built a end panel end for the kitchen sink base from Luan and Laminate, and a filler panel that had been damaged for the bathroom sink base cabinet. All of the panels have been installed either in the coach, or back in the cabinet frames.

Once I realized I was out of rivets I looked at the punch list and realized that much of the list required the floor to be installed, so I started working on that. We are installing a click together laminate floor. I was able to get about 80% of it installed tonight. The floor is installed, all but 3 pieces in the hall. I had to shutdown the table saw at 10:00 PM to keep the neighbors from coming out with pitchforks and torches.



That was when I realized I was going to have to move the kitchen sink base cabinet off the drive where I had repaired it to start my clean up. Once I picked it up it was just as easy to load it in the coach. Other than where I need some rivets to finish attaching it to the wall the base is re-installed too.

Check back tomorrow, who knows how much I can get done...........

1 Comments:

At 9:31 AM, Rich Luhr said...

Amazing work! I wish I'd been there for the flooring job. That's actually fun to do.

We chose laminate flooring because it hides a multitude of sins on the subfloor. This coach was designed for carpeting, so Airstream left a bunch of things in the floor and along the edges. That, combined with the floor repairs we've made, would mean a lot of floor leveling for vinyl tile or sheet, or Marmoleum. But laminate can go right over most everything.

 

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