Cider House...some finishing touches, 9.27.10

[John T. Hodgen]

Hey JiffyPop207,
I've been following your build in silence...BUT...That Ceiling is...HOTTTT!!!! Good job
Til later by the fire--John T. & Linda

[vwbeamer]

Wow, that ceiling is nice.

[Wolfgang92025]

Jiffypop207.

That one heck of a nice ceiling...........

Wolfgang

[S. Heisley]

Ditto the applause above. That is one very clever ceiling.

(I wish I had your wiring skills and building know-how, too.)

[Jiffypop207]

Thanks for all the kind words.

Adam

[Jiffypop207]

Got some more work done. A couple hours here...a couple there. Slowly but surely it is starting to really take shape. I got the walls and ceiling all insulated.





Sunday evening I attacked the big roll of aluminum that has been sitting in the middle of my garage for some time.

Here it is rolled out on the swept, scraped, and then leaf blower cleaned garage floor. One side cut out.


I cut out both side pieces, the cabin piece, and the hatch piece. I had enough leftovers to be able to make my counter tops as well as some narrower material to be bent into galley wall covers etc.

Shot of the material with my HF shear that worked superb!


Trimmed the excess spray foam insulation down. Last night I got the outer plywood sides on. Man that surely stiffens thing up.

Here you can see the plywood waiting to go on


Here you can see my switches protruded through the framing layer a tad


Nothing my trusty circular saw planer can't fix in a jiffy. Marked there general locations and took off a couple plys resulting in this


Pictures of the sides on






That the beast to date.

More to follow!

Adam

[parnold]

Wow!

[grizz]

Wow!

WOW !! Indeed, Nicola looked at the detail earlier on and asked me why my build was not so complex

Lovely.

[Miriam C.]

Oh my! I would love a tutorial on this ceiling.......Just fantastic.

[Jiffypop207]

I got some more done last night. I sealed the plywood with CPES last week. I bent up a piece of black aluminum trim metal to finish off the edge where the hatch will meet the cabin. I then used some Grace Vyor that is 6" to run along the edges of the cabin as well and the plywood seems.




Then I got some metal on. I put the roof piece on, floated, and fastened the edges. I also cut the hole in the aluminum for the fantastic vent. Really starting to take shape.




More to follow.

Adam

[S. Heisley]

Hi, Jiffypop207:

You are doing an awesome job!

...By the way, your build hasn't been "meager" for a long time.

[Jiffypop207]

Not meager anymore...retitled. Here is the tutorial on the ceiling. Very easy. I went to Home Deposition and picked up enough of these peel and stick vinyl tiles to cover the square footage on my ceiling.


Choose the style of your liking. Peel and and stuck them on the ceiling starting on the center line working towards the sides to keep the side pieces equal width. Then picked up the ones that fell off overnight and stuck them back on. Bought enough lineal feet of 1 1/4" pine lattice to cover the joints of the tile squares. Cut the required pieces and that is the outcome. For the pieces on the radius at the front of the cabin I had to frequently scar the back side to ease the bend. Halfway through I started scarring even deeper with a much better result.


Adam

[Jiffypop207]

We have aluminum! The past two nights I was able to get one side of aluminum on each night. Looking fantastic. I had 1 mishap....re-drilling a hole for one of my side marker lights the drill grabbed through the aluminum skin much faster than any time prior and I ended up mangling the wire. I was able to hold the aluminum back and "dig" out some plywood to get enough wire to splice the tail back on, solder it, and then apply a piece of shrink wrap on both the feed and ground wire. Ample caulking in my "dig-site" and back to applying the skin I went. The skin got a slight bend at the last nail I had placed before holding it back creating a slight wave on the side of the trailer. Oh well. It will make for a good story.

So here are the two sides and roof skinned



I just place the roof vent there to see if the hole was correct and see how it looked.


Next up is some bottom trim, then build the doors and hatch. While the doors and hatch are in their poly/CPES drying phases I will get the front box mounted, cut in the exterior outlet and shore-power connection hole so I can wrap up the electrical. After that I can get the fender mounts doped out so I can send the mounts off to be powder coated and the fenders off to be Rhino-lined. Getting there....slowly but surely there will be an end.

It's nice to have to floor around the soon to be trail cleaning up as things get used. It is scary to look at the begin and not to long ago pictures at how the areas around the trailer changed in volume of clutter.

Adam

[Hitec4you]

A little here and a little there allows things to progress. I got the wiring terminated. I am at the point that I am ready to insulate and then put the outer plys of sheathing on.

Here are some pictures of the wiring terminations. I still have to build and install the runs to link all wires together on there respective circuits, but that is no a top the priority list at the moment.




Hooked up my netbook to the stereo mini jack I put in the galley and used a temporary battery to test the sound system and adjust the gain on the amp. Those 2 6"x9" speakers sound pretty sweet and can put out some decent volume.





Here are some pictures of how my finished ceiling turned out.



I vacuumed all the areas in between the spars on the roof so that I can start insulating when I get a chance.

That's all for now. More to follow when time permits.

Adam

Love the ceiling! Great work.

[Rigsby]

This build is fantastic, Keep up the good work