Apparently I am thee most inept builder... Thought I'd share my weekend for your amusement.
Everything started off well. The kids were with their dad for the whole weekend, so Saturday morning after an hour of laundry and picking scotch tape out of the carpet I'm on teardrop time. "I'm going to get sooo much done"...
Hooked up the chassis for the maiden voyage to the lumber yard, and although it sounded like it was going to rattle apart, it did not. Sounded better on the way home (weight helps?).
Notice, the tear takes precedence over mowing the yard. Now to build some 10' panels of plywood.
I carefully line up my cut...
carefully line the floor of the dining area with paper, lay out and glue my first panel, and [bleep], I grabbed the wrong sized screws, they do not hold, so I weight the panel with anything I can find. After half an hour I look and feel as though I've run a marathon (on my knees) and the panel looks thus...
I wait the recommended time frame and ta daa
That lawn really needs to be mowed.
So I mow the lawn and think, ok, most likely I did 3 things wrong, not enough glue, didn't work fast enough, and not enough weight. The lumber yard is long closed by now until Tuesday, so I buzz down the road (89 miles) to Home Depot for more glue and longer screws.
Sunday morning dawns bright and surly. I lug the glued pieces to the garage and bring in fresh plywood. This time I work one section at a time and screw firmly in place as I go...but wait, how did this happen?
As I hump this lovely piece of workmanship to the garage I can't help but notice it weighs about as much as a baby elephant. I am now not only concerned about the structural integrety of the wall, but the overall weight of the trailer. I'm seriously thinking of abandoning the solid plywood side plan and going with the framed sides. I cracked a cold one and spent the rest of the weekend huddled under a blanket with a good book while listening to the heavens weep for me.
Hope you all had a more productive weekend than I.
Sam
