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The ceiling and Air-con down the front part 2

03/11/2018 Bernie Cross

Is it a nightmare or a dream.

Yes it is a dream, just a lot of work to get there. With the air-con fitted into place now I can finish off all the small bits still to go. So back out with the tape to mark out the next pice to be cut.

Now I’ll have to move the air-con pipes.

I have also covered the top of the driver side window above the pull down shad with insulation behind it, because the heat that comes off the window when the sun’s on that side make’s like not that nice.

The door side will look unfinished till the new door go’s in.

Now to cut more ply to fit into place across the front to finish off the bottom of the air-con housing. Making every measurement count as I don’t wont to stuff a pice of ply up.

The things you do by your self

Now all I have to do is get it into place, glue & screw it by myself as Charmaine’s at work.

Now to tidy up the little bit’s to finish it off across the bottom of the air-con.

Lot’s of small bit’s the fit into place.

Somewhere to put the GPS, Two way and reversing camera screen.

Should have lot’s of room for everything.

This will be covered later on and have a panel to fit the GPS, two-way and the reversing camera screen as well as anything that I think of later.

The hole is for access for running power and the air-con drain’s.

The drain for the air-com was fun to put into place. It needs to have a drain on both side’s because when your driving down the road and the coach sways from side to side the water go’s every wear. We found this out driving down the coast from Townsville, They was no problems in the outback because of the low humidity.

I ended up running the drain down through the middle windscreen support bar then through the floor so it will drain out on the ground below the driver’s seat.

Looking for somewhere to run the drain pipe.

I had some fun running the pipe up the RHS tom the air-con.

Well that’s done thank goodness, even the drain works when your driving down the road.

The start of this job

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The ceiling and Air-con down the front part 1

24/10/2018 Bernie Cross

A Bigger job than it looks

The last owner had put some sheet aluminium across the top of the front windscreen then fitted the Air-con there. This might have been ok then, but now things will have to change. I was going to make this one of the last jobs to do, but now it will have to be done before I can go any further .

To start with I will have to remove some of the old overhead T.V. cabinet to make room for the air-con. I must admit I do like pulling things apart, then trying to work out how I’m suppose to make it fit back together again.

Screws and pop rivets holding things on.

the thing you have to do to move the air-con, there go’s the clock.

This job is turning out to be bigger than I thought.

Carpet ripped off and all other trim gone.

As you can see the air-con will not fit in the old T.V. hole, so I will have to make out where I have modify this section. before I go to far There is some 240v and 12v cables to run around behind where the air-con will go, I thought it might be a good time before I make it to hard for myself later on.

240v and 12v cables that I can think of for the passenger side.

The switch board will be above the drivers seat some were.

Now out with the grinder for lots of noise and dust, as it’s time to make a space for the air-con.

Now to start fixing this mess

As you can imagine nothing on the coach is square, so I can only cut and fit the ply one pice at a time. I can then work out where the next pice will go and what shape it will be. First of will be the backing board that will give me some thing to work from.

You just have to make it up as you go a long sometimes.

There are lot’s of thing to think of When you are making thing on the go.

The slot on the bottom of the side panel is for the air-con pipe’s.

Let’s see if the air-con fit’s

To start with pulling thing apart so that I don’t stuff things up. There is not much room to play with or put things apart from hopping the stuff does not break.

Well all I have to do now is some how by myself lift the air-con into place, holding the pipe work at the same time shape the pipes into their new area.

Well it fit’s, but just, now to move the air-con pipe work.

That’s all for this blog, more to come soon.

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The last of the wall to go in.

15/08/2018 Bernie Cross 2 Comments

It’s so nice to finish off the wall at last.

After starting on the bedroom wall at the Bowen house sit, now at a house sit in Laidley Heights a year and a bit later it’s finally time to finish them. With the floor down and the front window in place, all that needs to be done is to cut the ply to length with the window cutouts. I’ve packed more insulation around the window with some 12v and 240v cables to go into place.

Just the NOT so much fun one to cut on this side now.

I’m glad that all the wires have been tagged both ends, otherwise I’d have a hell of a time working out what I have put where. On the passenger side window I have painted some of it black as I’m covering some of it up. I will be putting in insulation where I had painted.

Well that fitted like a glove, more ass than class.

Only one side painted as the other side of the coach has stuff everywhere.

Apart from where the new door will go in and around the driver’s seat all the wall panels are in place. We are still looking at different products to finish off the walls, but that will do for now.

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The last of the flooring

05/08/2018 Bernie Cross

The front floor

I’m so glad, soon the whole floor through the coach will be flat. The front 1800mm of the floor slopes down 165mm, which means that I will have to build up the floor some how. That’s after I rip up the old floor, at least this will be the last time on my knees making a mess.

As normal I’ve started ripping up the old floor and with head down ass up, I forgot to take photos again. This is after cleaning off the old glue and fixing the rust, then two coats of undercoat paint and three topcoats.

New sheet metal cover to go over the front passenger wheel.

I had a sheet metal workshop cut a sheet 2400mm x 1200mm x 1.2mm down to 2400mm x 950mm, then fold a 50mm lip down one side that will go up the inside wall. All I have to do is cut it to length and glue then using 5mm pop rivets fix it into place.

Yes I know it’s been one of though’s days, I keep forgetting to take photo’s. As you can see I’ve fitted the sheet metal into place as well as the ply over top. From here on I’m going to mark out the floor level on the side wall’s and start lifting the floor up.

I need to pick my feet up as I’ve snapped the string line so many times.

Nothing is ever straight forward, so I’ve had to plane every bit of timber that goes down. This side is a bit of over kill, but one big chair will be fitted here somewhere.

The driver’s side has a cut out area for the seat and down beside the wall the air-con pipes and power will run. I will have to make up some kind of cover for this later on. The next job is to set up for the step up onto the main floor level.

With the floor lifted up this should help.

I had an idea about moving air around the coach, so with a fan out of an old floor heater I’ll be able to blow air down the back of the coach through the floor cavity.

Setting up for a fan to circulate air down to the back of the motorhome.

Later on I will have to make up a cover with vent to finish off this part of the job, but now it’s time to put down some floor sheets.

There is always something more to think of, ….I’ve run some 12v cable for lighting up the stairs and to run the three stage fan. So after drilling lots of holes and pulling cables then putting in some insulation it’s time for the last sheet.