Well we’ve
been busy since I last posted on Monday.
Unfortunately, we haven’t been out having fun. I mentioned a while back that we were working
on finding the source of a leak we had in one of the bedroom slide outs. We worked most of one day dismantling the
inside trim to get to the basics of the slide out. We caulked and coated where we thought might
be a problem. But, a few days later we
had a leak again and it hadn’t even rained!
The water came from the air conditioning system. Greg got on the roof and worked on the
gutters to make sure the water from the air conditioning system was being
diverted correctly. Even though he got
that fixed we still knew we hadn’t fixed the leak problem so we made an
appointment for Tuesday at a local RV service center.
We spent
most of Tuesday at the RV service center while they worked on what they thought
would fix the problem. They were able to
remove the slide out awning which was too big of a job for us and found that one
of the brackets that attaches the awning to the slide out hadn’t been
sealed. Since this leak had gone on for
a while before we detected it, we did have some inside damage – this is what
has kept us busy for the rest of the week.
On Wednesday
we had a small area of vinyl ceiling on the slide out that is right above the
bed that we had to take out so the wood underneath could dry out. When we got the vinyl off we headed into town
to JoAnn Fabric and got some headliner material and marine vinyl to replace
what we took down. Took us two trips to
do that because I decided I wanted to put up a color other than the original
white, so we brought home samples and then had to go back once we decided what
we wanted.
The padded headboard
we made before we moved into the coach was also damaged by the leak. So we decided to make another one using some
of the same material we decided on for the ceiling.
We also had
to get a battery operated nail gun so we could put back the trim pieces we took
down. We went to Lowes and they told us
what we wanted wasn’t made. When we got
home Greg went on line and found out that Home Depot had what we wanted, so we
headed back to town to Home Depot. While
we were there we found the trim we wanted to use on the headboard. We were thinking though that we would have to
wait until we got to Kansas to use David’s truck to get the lumber, so we put
that on hold.
I know I
should have taken pictures of all of this, but we were making such a mess I
didn’t feel like documenting it. I’ll
take pictures of the finished project.
On Thursday
we measured the ceiling to make a pattern before we cut into our repair
material. I dug out some leftover
Christmas wrapping paper which worked just fine. Our pattern had to be seven foot long and it
had two angle cuts to it so that took us a while to get just right. We managed to get the headliner material up on
the ceiling and got it covered with vinyl and it looks pretty good so far.
On Friday we
went into the Sheriff’s Office to apply for our gun licenses. We found out that we have to go back next
Friday to pick them up, so we are going to have to stay here a day longer than
we originally thought.
I had a
vision of some type of metal decoration worked into the headboard so we went “looking”
at a local furniture store and then Hobby Lobby for the perfect piece. We found what we wanted at Hobby Lobby and
decided we could figure out how to get it home on the bike, even though it was
about 4 foot long by 2 foot wide. We did get some funny looks and one lady even
rolled down her window and commented on our “bike decoration”. This thing was lying across my lap as we went
down the road. We made it without any
problems so I’m thinking we may go back after the lumber.
When we got
back home Greg caulked and sealed everything he could get to on the slide out
before he put the trim back on. Our
repair project is looking pretty good so far.
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