Another Shasta Sunday, and it's coming along nicely. This past weekend focused on the bathroom compartment:
Isn't it cute? Here the toilet is just set on its mount, not yet installed because I still need to clean off all the glue from putting in the plastic panels. Also still need to get in there with a caulk gun and caulk all the seams. (Remember, since it's a marine/wet bath, the toilet sits in the shower... or the shower is in the toilet. Either way, I'm putting a razor in there so I can accomplish a personal goal of S S S all at once.)
Wax and grease remover also does a great job of taking off glue. Which is good, because the shower pan was covered in stickers, too. And ladies, it whitens your nails and really makes a manicure pop. Oh, and garage-grade hand cleaner? Forget the sugar scrubs, that pumice E36 M3e makes your hands lily soft! (Like I said, I'm super fancy.)
After spending way too long in a way too tiny space with a caulk gun that was almost as long as the compartment is wide, I had it caulked. This was a sweaty, contortionist process that was not, believe or not, helped by Tim's constant caulk jokes. Yes, it was too long. Yes, I got some caulk on me. Yes, caulk is messy. Honey, please go plumb something somewhere else now.
This didn't help my mood. Tim's shop is man-sized. I am not.
Gotta admit, this perked me up a bit. The Shasta's bathroom is me-sized. Tim is not.
At left you can see the plumbing access that Tim's working with. We have gotten a lot of really close together time with this project. Once I succeeded in shooing him outside, Tim put the finishing touches on his genius A/C installation.
Do you see it tucked away behind the cute Continental kit he came up with? Here's the rear view. What A/C? Uh, we're sweating along with all the other period-correct purists. Honest!
Here's a close-up look at the A/C and spare tire mount.
Inside, we'll build a cabinet around the unit and wrap the seating that's already next to it over the top of the air conditioner for a nice L-shaped lounger, and once I rub some of the stain on that plastic, I think it'll fair disappear.
Other systems are going in, too. The batteries, water heater and water tank will all be under the front bunk:
Oh, and remember that rockin' floor? It's still there, but we've got some of Tim's beloved scrap carpet thrown over it. There's actually a layer of craft paper between that and the floor--one of the tips from Tim Heintz at Heintz Restorations was to tape this paper over the floor before anything else went in, then cut it away once all the insides were installed and varnished. That's how they did it at the factory.
The plumbing is going down, and we’ve got lots of woodwork to finish. After that it's electrical, which is kind of scary because... well, I'm scared of electricity. And Tim's mind doesn't really comprehend things that can only flow in one direction. We'll keep you updated as we go along.
Margie