Everyone loves a nice deck

Why waste the space from the old air conditioning? We have decided to turn it into our roof top deck. There was some eco decking on special at Bunnings so we couldn’t pass it up. We had to come up with some idea because when it rains it was filling up with water, not that it was leaking but the sound of it dripping when in bed made it sound like it was, so you would keep waking up looking for leaks. We only found this out when we were camping on the floor of the bus on our trip down the East coast to Brisbane.

The first job was to fill in under the fiberglass area where we cut out for the walk way and then seal it up.

Time for some sheetmetal work to start with.

The areas I have to fill in on either side of the walkway.

Cut to size just need to bend it to shape.

Now for the decking

Apart from climbing up and down the ladder what felt like hundreds of times, this job was pretty straight forward. My legs and lower back are feeling it now. I had to first set out for the deck supports then pop revetting them in place, it was just a matter of cutting the decking to size, screwing and lastly gluing them into place. It was important to prevent any water getting under the decking so I sealed every joint with sikaflex. I also decided to use expanding foam under the deck for insulation.

Aluminium glue and pop riveted into place for the walk way to the deck.

The walkway from the hatch to the decking almost there.

Starting from the back screwing and gluing as we go.

The white silicon is where the pop rivets from the ceiling come through.

Got to love the expanding foam, great insulation.

Now the fiddly bits….. the air is sucked out from inside through this boxed off area.

Job Done

The slates down the back are for the air flow and to let the water out when it rains. We will be putting the sola panels back up over the deck temporarily till the budget allows us to cover from the front of the coach to the back hatch. Now it’s time to get back inside and do some more work on the bedroom.

Old Air-Conditioning, Part 1, Part 2

2 thoughts on “From Old Air-Conditioning To Roof Top Deck”

Heather Arthur says:

04/08/2017 at 6:59 AM

Wow that came up pretty well. Nice job. If you ever get down here we could do with your talents on a couple of jobs.
1. Bernie Cross says:
  
  04/08/2017 at 11:20 AM
  
  Thanks Heather, I’ve made a lot deck when I was in the building game and it’s nice to build one for myself at last,even if it’s on the top of the motorhome. this is the first time I’ve been back on the tools in along time as I gave it up about 8 years ago, but no the way through next time we can have a look.