May was getting close to it’s end; which means if I can keep it up we are getting close to this blog being in real time! 🤞 So during this time we were also working a bit on The Ithaca. This was a picture of the bathroom floor taken from when I was chasing the water leaks and fixing plumbing.
RJ had cleaned up the carpet and staples, designed her own black water vent take cover, and started painting the bathroom. Laura and I cut and dropped in the new subfloor.
Once the new subfloor was installed, RJ was able to paint the bathroom and entryway, and entry step in bed-liner!
With a bit of trim and some entry carpet- The Ithaca’s threshold was looking shiny!
Once her floors had dried I was able to get inside and finish up her plumbing, and get her to the status of water tight inside and out! 😅
Since RJ’s rig had the same design flaw that Our Ohana did, I went up top and built a little cricket to divert water around her front skylight.
Then Laura and I were headed back inside to cut up some stained Mahogany I had left over to make the new wall and ceiling panels for the bathroom.
While we were in there we removed the blocks the previous owner had installed around the bathroom door. (For what reason, we are not sure…)
And with that, it was up to RJ to finish painting and trimming the bathroom. But for now- she had a fully operational banyo! Last but not least for the month, I installed LED bulbs throughout the interior or her rig.
Meanwhile, we were starting to put Our Ohana back together…
…starting with re-installing the rear diamond plate box. We ended up replacing all the old hardware with Stainless Steel.
Now that we were done being covered in Gaco, and getting it everywhere- the front bumper needed some serious touch-up love.
Next it was a mission to install new running lights!
And with the Gaco finally painted, I was able to finally do a project I had been waiting forever to do; design the new mudflaps and install them.
I went ahead and bought a new semi mudflap from O’Reillys.
This time I was going to contour the mudflaps and install them on the back of the fender flares. This way I could create adequate distance away from the tire and still be able to run the mudflap a little lower to compensate for the height of The Ohana, and hence the spray that it created.
Laura preformed literal magic when she did clean up on the windows. Here is the first one she did.
We began figuring out the carpet layout for the time being inside on the fresh bed-lined floors. I also ended up trimming the edge of the wood stove hearth with metal underneath. This allowed the tile above it to overhang the edge, thus making it easy to sweep off and not catch debris.
We finally got our special order roll of metal in, so we were able to continue on to get the rest of the ceiling cover with metal!
I began building the new box to replace the area I had cut out. There would be a lot of trim work ahead…
And with that, May came to an end- and that is how our Ohana sat.
Geoff Murphy 7/24/2020