Update 9....The Floor is in!

The floor is in! And I love it. It just needs a edge of caulking (poly) around the walls. Then I was motivated to clean the walls and start working on replacing the exterior caulking and rusty screws. Billy removed the rock panel (maybe there is another name for it....?) and we got some paint made for plastic to freshen it up a bit. I'd love to put diamond plate stainless steel there, but we just don't have the money for it. Maybe down the road. Mike and Billy picked up some plastic rivets to put the rock plate back in. And we got some screws with anchors to replace the ones that really aren't catching anything. Partially why the drivers side tail light caulking cracked, because two of the upper right screws were just there. We'll also squirt some poly caulking into the screw holes too. We picked up some panels for the end walls, 10% off at Lowes because some of the edges are a bit tattered, which is not going to effect the project anyway. Tomorrow Mike and Billy will cut and install the end wall panels and probably start putting in the cabinets. I will work on replacing caulking and cleaning things up. It's really starting to come together now that the floor is laid. There are more pictures on the sidebar in the Album called Update 9.

Update Five

One week since we brought her home now, we got some work done today too. We are working a bit at a time taking out the rotted floor and replacing it with new because we do not have the space to take the top off from the bottom. We have started at the door and to the right. You can see all the pics on the right hand side here --> Update 5. We also had an end of the year party for our youngest today too, so we are beat! We are going to have some dinner and relax for the rest of the night. Rain is knocking on our back door so we've had to do some temporary sealing to keep the rain getting in on our new floor, a trashbag over the baggage door and some packaging tape across the top of the rock guard. Tomorrow is Father's Day. I'm kinda hoping Mike is planning on relaxing for the day.

Update 4

Everything but the floor is out! We worked for about an hour and a half after supper tonight and got the rest of the cabinets, wiring and heater out. We're going to replace the water pipes with PEX so we need to take the old pipes out too. Using flexible hosing will reduce the leakage opportunities at all the connections and elbows. But otherwise everything is our but the floor....which is starting to dry up, lol. Mike is going to be tired tonight, but I think he's pretty happy all that stuff is out. We're going to have to figure out where to get rid of all this stuff.

Update Three

I'm going to stop calling them days and call them "updates" now. Welcome to update 3. Over the last couple of days Mike and I have worked on things when we can. It's hard during the week, he works nights and I work days. But the kids will be out of school next week and I can start going in early and getting out early.

We got the power converter, the water heater and the refrigerator out. I had worked on the front end of the fridge last night, and he had the sense to go from behind and unbolt it back there, disconnect the gas line and unplug it (not hardwired in). The water heater is pushed out from the inside after everything is disconnected. The power converter is easy enough, just tedious pulling out the wire staples. Pictures are on the right sidebar, labeled Update 3.

Advice is coming in from the Yahoo group too. I learned today why everyone takes the top of the bottom and it makes sense. If you take the floor out it is part of the support system (along with all the cabinets and such) then the walls will come down on themselves. So now we are thinking about doing one section at a time.

Oh and the fridge will not fit through the door. Guess we'll fold in the wall and lift it out. I want to clean everything as much as possible before we reinstall them. I want to reuse as much as possible, not just for money reasons, for not being wasteful reasons too :)

Day Two

The floor is worse than we thought. And we are having a hard time finding any details of how anyone actually separated the floor from the rest of the unit. We have found a lot of pictures of before and after, but not so many during. We joined the Yahoo group, there is one member who has done several floors according to the postings. I left a message asking for some more details, so hopefully we'll hear from him. In the meantime we are going to take and post as many pictures and details of our process, hopefully it'll help the next guy out.
We also took a ride out to Mann's (in Rutland, not Barre....silly me, it's been a while since I've been out there). We looked at the new ones and some other campers. They had some huge pop ups! New these Aliners are going for around 17k! That's kind of motivating. Mann's had some replacement parts and Mike is going to call back tomorrow when the "Aliner Man" is there....I forgot his name, hopefully Mike didn't.
I am going to probably start posting the slide shows in the side bar to help document the pictures. There are too many to put right into the daily postings or updates.
Mike is going to document the wiring and plumbing so we're not so lost putting it back together. The work week starts tomorrow so not to likely we'll get much done during the week, but I will keep researching as much as possible.