Island Girl Ceases Being My Shop

Since my subfloor has epoxy and a layer of fiberglass cloth on it, I've not needed to be careful with it and the trailer and its subfoor have been my shop for a couple of years. That ended today and I will now have to be careful.  Last week I made a stupid epoxy spill on the subfloor but it was easy to clean.  Tomorrow I shall move the epoxy out of the trailer.

Pam has bunches of bears, but mostly Pandas.

Those pandas dictated the choice of bamboo for the floor.   It was fitted around the cabinets as opposed to under mainly so I could replace it later if bad things happen to it.

It went in easily in a couple of work days, even with all the fitting. Still have the moulding yet to go, but that should be pretty simple. Shouldn't have been in hindsight, but I was surprised by the amount of waste. I'd gotten three boxes and figured I'd barely use more than two, but there are only 5 or 6 full pieces left and a lot of cutoffs thrown away.

I'm afraid to walk on it now, but I'm hoping that feeling goes away.

-steve

Holding Tank Venting

Island Girl had no holding tanks originally and only one vent that exited through the bathroom.  I utilized that existing hole along with the original scoop type vent cap for the black tank.  The gray tank vent runs through the wardrobe closet.  For both vents, I decided to use marine through hull fittings.  They make a watertight seal and terminate with barb type ends.  I stayed with barb type fittings for the tank as well and used marine sanitation hose for the actual vent lines.

The inside hole is large to allow access for installing nutplates that will let the vent cap be easily removable for maintenance.  I’ll add a trim plate to cover the hole later.

The vent cap came from a posting on Airforums about finding these neat little caps at some mobile home supply store.

Here the nutplates are installed along with the through hull fittng, ready for some Vulkem for a seal and 6 machine screws for the cap.

I also used Vulkem to add a bit of screen on the top of the fitting to keep the critters out.

Today the toilet got its final install as well.  Other than the flooring install, all the big systems are now in and functional.  Still several hundred little things to finish, but we’ve made it to the point that Island Girl is now totally useable.