Bessie gets beds part 2

Walls going up

First bed ready to go up

                                     

 First bed up

Inside one of the cabinets

Another view of our wall bed, being supported by a piece of wood until we come up with a plan to lock it in place when not in use.

 Kitchen cabinets... kinda

Bed #2 ready to go up

Full sized mattress that I will cut to fit two wall beds.

Two mattresses

Two wall bunks, for the kids, and two sofa beds, for the big people

Bunks stowed away

A lot has happened in the last week, as you can tell.  My life has been too busy to keep up on a daily basis.  Homeschool is back in session.  Bessie is coming along nicely.  We went to DMV to register her but were told to come back after she had been weighed.  We will do that soon.

Bessie gets beds

It has been a slow week.  Most of the stuff done this week was done on paper with my father.  We plotted out where the cabinet walls would go.  He prepared some wood for the two beds that would hang on the walls.  And as of yesterday, one of the beds was ready to have a sample hanging on the wall to double check measurements.  My mother was photographer this week.

Walmart bed frame

I needed a lightweight bed frame made of steel, so it would be strong.  Walmart had just the thing.  The Spa Sensations full sized bed was the proper size for the kids beds.  It comes in two pieces with each piece being 28" x 75" roughly.  Certainly narrower than a twin bed, but I needed something as low profile as possible.  Knowing that the beds were going to be an irregular size, I also went ahead and bought the full sized Spa Sensations 4" foam mattress topper which I will cut in half.

Wood sides for beds

Dad with 1/2 a bed frame

Bed plans on chalkboard

Wood going on

The bed turned out great.  Very lightweight yet sturdy.

Bessie gets flooring

Lighted license plate mount

Inside of back wall finished

Flooring down

We haven't done much lately.  Carl added a license plate mount, finished off the back wall, and installed the flooring.  I think it looks AWESOME!!!  Today we are going to Home Depot and buy the supplies needed to put the wall beds together and build a couple of walls to support the beds when they are down.

Bessie gets her curves insulated

Pesky little curved ceiling

1/4" foam glued to fiberblass 

Gluing

4 layers later and a wall piece up

Ceiling piece over foam

Yesterday and today we worked on getting the foam on the curved part of the ceiling.  I'm really hoping it stays but if it doesn't we do have a partial piece of hardboard over it, but only on the flat part.  Not sure what I'll do to finish the curve.  I will be using Metalaire ceiling tiles over the whole ceiling so I just may glue that straight to the foam still showing.  I had planned on gluing hardboard over the foam but the foam was having issues sticking and I just knew that the additional weight of the hardboard would have spelled disaster.  All except the back wall is done for the shell of the RV.  Tomorrow the sound proofing should be in and we can install the real flooring this week.

Bessie gets underlayment

 First thing this morning, well after 2 cups of coffee that is, I went out and put another coat of Kilz on the floor.  I made sure that every crack was filled in.  Looks so pretty!

Kilz on the floor, again

 Carl and I decided to put 1/4" rigid foam and 1/4" wood underlayment on the floor to even out the divots.

1/2 done

foam and wood

floor done... for now

Another piece of ceiling is up

Bessie is now off to the truck doctor to get her new fuel tank and muffler.  She will be back tomorrow so we can finish the walls and ceiling over the weekend.

Bessie gets filled in

 Although I didn't think I'd have time to work on Bessie today her floor was beaconing me.  Tons on screw holes were begging to be filled.  So I filled them.

Once Carl got home he sanded it down.  We are going to have to buy some liquid leveling mix and do a skim coat on the floor.  There are so many divots on the floor from 8 years of rolling bread trays that I am afraid they will carry through to my new floor.  Better to level it out now than to have problems in the future.

Bessie gets walls

Homemade slingshot

 Yesterday I made a slingshot so we could experiment with paintballs.  My boys have their hearts set with splattering Bessie with their favorite color, red and blue respectively.  I plan to seal it in with poly because paintballs are water based.

Test shots.  Works like a dream!

Experimented with throwing vs. slingshot.  Slingshot gave best even splatter.

 The slingshot worked better than I had ever dreamed it would!  Not too much membrane was left behind.  Easy enough to pick out when the time comes.  I will probably experiment on a piece of cardboard with our base paint, paintball splatter, and poly on top to see if I can really pull it off.  It will be so cool if it works.  Backup plan is to use short bursts of paint with a paint gun.  The boys are not excited about that prospect.

Looks like Bessie got attacked by bugs.

Hardboard going up on walls.

 We got most of the walls up today.  The only parts we didn't put up is where we will have to get creative with some insulation installation.  There is a slope that we need to navigate over.  Thinking of a few layers of 1/4" rigid foam with liquid nails holding it all together.

Most of the walls done and one ceiling piece.

 The first ceiling piece went up but then it was time to quit for the day.  We will work again Sunday if we don't have time before.