So we had The Ohana for awhile longer before it had to return to Redline for the shocks to be installed. That meant it was back to work! I finished cleaning up the area where the captain’s chair had lived.
And now it was time to build the box Laura and I had planned out! We pre-bedlined any horizontal surfaces inside the cabinet in case liquids ever spilled inside and then got to creating.
After it was built I hung the door and we got to painting the box and the side wall next to it.
We removed the headache bumper pad over the door in hopes of re-finishing it.
And we also planned on getting rid of the fine collection of command hooks the previous owner had enjoyed putting everywhere. Guess how much Laura loves these…
Our new On-Demand Girard Hot Water heater had arrived! So I was more than happy to install the hot water heater into the RV. I would get to the plumbing and electrical install later, but I just wanted to get into place to get us that much closer to being able to Gaco!
Our next goal on the list was to re-finish the kitchen walls, and a few other walls too. We used and extremely thin layer of plastic and pressed it into the walls and contours of the kitchen, letting the static cling grab everything as it went.
After we smoothed down the plastic we were able to trace everything with a sharpie.
We had picked up some pretty nice looking faux brick paneling from Home Depot (the product is called Kingston) which was pretty light weight.
We laid our template down and got to cutting.
Once cut we would stand up the piece and make sure it didn’t need any more trimming for a nice fit. We had to not only align it with the walls, countertops, and cabinet bottoms; but we also used the window trim to make sure it fit properly around the windows too. Not only that, we had to make sure the brick pattern matched up between pieces! Trust me, it wasn’t an easy process; at least a hundred trips back and forth to the saw. There is a reason we avoid pattern matching projects… 😅
Once we confirmed each piece was fitting properly we hit the surface with 2 sprays of clear coat to protect the finish, applied some liquid nails to the back, and screwed them up in place around the edges to let the glue set.
Next we were on to the wall behind the wood stove.
Here is where we started problem solving the gap created in the window trim by adding a new layer of paneling into the mix. We ended up purchasing longer metal screws of the same size and running them through foam backer rod to fill the gap. It ended up working out really well!
We moved on to the area over the new box/bench seat we had just made.
Then it was to the big window over the couch. This wall had taken quite a lot of water damage, so I decided to probe around a bit for all the weak points and voids inside.
We ended up spraying those areas in with spray foam, and then letting it set. Then it was on to templating out the pieces to go over the couch.
During this time the new shocks had arrived at Redline. With the truck going in the next day we just wanted to put a little of the countertop trim in to preview what it was going to look like. Overall, we were pretty stoked on how the kitchen was beginning to turn out!
With that, the next day the truck went back to the shop and received her new Rancho shocks!
Geoff Murphy 7/13/2020