You know, building these is a whole lot of work.
I work on this thing a few hours each night and several hours each weekend day. Oh well, some progress is still progress but I think I'm burning out so I've slowed a bit. I don't want the fire to burn out completely. Anyway, here is this weeks progress report.
The roof is going on!
I would like to have Franks Dog House weather proof as soon as possible. I figured out the hard way that my canopy is NOT water proof.
I foresee some water proof treatment for it some time in the future.
I don't have any of those ratchet strap things that most builders have so I had to improvise. I stretched this heavy duty tarp over the camper and cinched it down tight with these ropes tied to the tongue and the rear rails.
It's kind of hard to tell but I tied a loop in the rope and fed the end of the rope through it and cinched it down really tight and tied it off, after glueing the roof foam down with the spray foam.
I did the same treatment on both sides of the roof of course.
After the foam cured all night, I hooked the camper up and we went to my place of employment, my Boss was good enough to allow me to sand and shape the foam in our big garage. I didn't want all of that foam floating and blowing all over my neighborhood. To be honest, this is not the look I was hoping for. It's not as streamlined as I had wished but it looks nicer than I was anticipating after I had the profile cut.
I cut kerfs in the outside of the roof foam therefore I had to fill the gaps with expanding foam and I had a little extra as can be expected.
During the sanding and shaping process.
After. Take notice of the floor. I did clean up my mess, Thanks Boss.
Today, 4-22-2012 I had hopes of painting and applying the frabric to my Dog House, but the sun did not shine and the foam and vinyl spackling did not want to cure. Anyway, I did foam the rain gutter on. Notice the bamboo skewers,
thank you foamy builders.
And this is where I am at now. With a bit of good weather, I will give it a final sanding and maybe aven start the canvassing process.
Sometime this past week, I also stained the front part of the interior [no pics] and today I ran 2 circuits of AC electric [not pic worthy].
Thank you for your attention.
Frank