TheTrailerShowroom 7X14

[aggie79]

Your design and execution is inspiring! (I'm also envious of your shop.)

May I ask you a few questions about your CT? I like the flush or inset wheels. What are these called exactly? Can you say what the actual interior width of your trailer is?

Thank you, Tom

[bigbendhiker]

The interior of your trailer is absolutely gorgeous. Your layout and cabinetry puts commercial RVs to shame. Congratulations to you and your Dad on your work.

[bdosborn]

Pretty!

Bruce

[8ball_99]

Looks great. I also enjoy wood working and it looks like you did a great job on your cabinets.

[pappaw]

sweet!

Cheers:

[pmspirito]

It has been a busy couple of weekends. Dad has been working with me on the TT. We have all of the wallpapered panels in place. I have put on the primer coat and the first top coat of paint on the bead board.

I purchased the TT one-year ago last week. so far we have put in 331 man-hours of labor.

I have spent more money than i planned, but have done a better and more livable conversion than i thought i would.

Dad's help has been real important, both as a skilled helper and a cheerleader.

I am glad i changed the interior paint color from that "other one" I originally selected. The wall paper has a vertical pinstripe pattern with yellow/tan stripes.

[d30gaijin]

The interior of your trailer is absolutely gorgeous. Your layout and cabinetry puts commercial RVs to shame. Congratulations to you and your Dad on your work.

+ 1 Absolutely gorgeous work.

Don

[pmspirito]

thanks for compliments and encouragement

[pmspirito]

The original plan to build the cabinets, then remove then so they can be spray painted and then re-install them has changed. The amount of work involved was twice as much. Here is the new plan. The ceiling panels and the cabinet doors will still get sprayed. I have already brushed on 2 primer coats and 2 top coats on all of the bead board. The cabinets and bed area have 2 coats of primer only and at the last minute i decided to paint the inside of all of the cabinets which has one coat of primer.

I am using Benjamin Moore Regal Select in the Pearl finish. The primer is also BM and is tinted 50% of the finish color. I also put in a little Flo-Trol to help it dry slower and to lay out flat with no brush marks. Most important for hand painting is getting the very best paint brush that you can afford and caring for it like it was gold.

Going to Paris for vacation for a couple of weeks on Monday. I have seats on the tour d France finish line.

The end is in sight. Looking forward to getting back on the road.

[pmspirito]

Paris was wonderful. Great people, food, weather.

The TT is all painted out in the inside. the new photos are of the ceiling panels installation. The are 4 sections. They are just glued to the ceiling furing strips. We did one side at a time. You can see all of the sticks we used to press the ceiling panel in place until the glue dried.

I have purchased and prepainted all of the trim molding. I also purchased the floor tiles.

[Bkcreation34]

So with glueing your ceiling panels in place what kinda glue did you use ? You will have to let us all know how that works when you are driving down the road and hit some pot holes or gravel road. I am not sure if glue would be strong enough for the vibration. What I did on my CT was put tongue and grove pine planks up which are lightweight and screwed them into the metal studs on the ceiling and then to cover up the screw heads i used a narrow piece of pine that I stapled up to cover up the screw heads. I have been down Gravel roads and bumpy roads and it has not moved. But glue I am not sure that will be strong enough but with your build you have outbuild everyone on here with your design and woodwork skills so that is why I am just curious on the long term how it will stand up to the glue not breaking away with the vibration.

[roadinspector]

I agree with bkcreation34. But the glue intrigues me. I hope it works for you. So please let us know how it works for you. bkc34, Would you please post a pic or two of your ceiling.

Earnest

[pmspirito]

I used Loctite Power Grab adhesive caulking. It is kind of a new product available at Home Depot. I had planned to screw the panels to the ceiling. So you See a few screws? Who cares? DAD CARED !!!!! His position was lets glue it up and if it comes loose we can add the screws later. It sounded like a good plan.

I did a test piece. I took a scrap of the ceiling material, put on a couple of beads of adhesive and stuck it in place. It stayed when i let go. A few days later i tried to pull it off and the wood broke on either side of the caulking.

We used a lot of props to keep it in place. I think there were 27 props on each side. we did one half, front to back, the first Sunday and the other half the next Sunday. I kept the props in place for the week.

[pmspirito]

I needed to add two small strips on the back of each piece of the door casing trim in order for it to fit right against the metal door frame. I used 45 clamps.

I had to do the same thing for the window trim around the front picture window.

[pmspirito]

All of the chair rail, crown molding etc has been installed.

The big project recently was installing the peel and stick vinyl tile flooring. This was probably the easiest project to date.

I used Trafficmaster Ceramica resilient tile flooring purchased from Home Depot. I first cleaned and sanded the floor with a belt sander. The Home Depot web site says that you definitely needed to use a floor primer or the tiles will not stay stuck down. Other web sites including the manufacturer merely alluded to the availability of a primer.

The primer is water thin and i put it on with a roller and brush. The primer drying time was 90 minutes. The tiles felt good going down. they really went down securely. I feel confident i have a good installation.

One little set back so here is the tip if the day. YOU CANNOT CUT THIS STUFF WITH A UTILITY KNIFE as the directions and all of the web sites claim.

This stuff is thick and tough.

I did my cuts on the radial arm saw and the couple of tricky cuts i did on the router table with a straight bit.

I have just 2 weekends to wrap this project up. Thanksgiving week me and the doggies will be in the North Georgia mountains.

all that is left is to reinstall the cabinet doors and install the mini-blinds.