Bringing up the rear!

How ya' all are? Daryll here. Daryll B. Aday. Now ya'll know there is good and bad in everybody and no one is perfect, right? Well, my rear end was all kinds of catawampus. In other words, it's all askew, awry, cater-cornered. Let me show you what I mean....

Here is some rot on the curbside.

Same kind of rot only not as bad on the streetside.

This curbside wall is just an awful mess!

Streetside is not so bad.

So, we aren't exactly sitting in high cotton over here. Any of you who have been in 99's shoes know that this is not a pleasant site to see. Kind of makes your heart fall straight down into your stomach with a big ole thump when it lands. Then it just kind of sits there for a while. Only one thing to do, as scary as the thought may be, and that's to dig a little deeper and tear into that wall. Since there were still some nice days here, 99 removed my trim rails and then removed my lower skin.

We call this installing air conditioning!

The damage is mostly at those lower corners, but since she had it open she decided to take it a step further and remove the upper portion of the wall too. There was some damage at the window edges. This will be the tricky part because she rather not remove the upper skin. Jack Frost and Frosty are expected in town any day now. So she going to try to lift the upper skin and attach a wall in this way.

The water tank has been removed. 99 had the worst time trying to get the inlet out of the side of the skin. She asked a buddy, whom she calls Doctor Blaine if she could borrow a pipe wrench and he snuck out there and did it for her while she wasn't looking. She musta loosened it up for him, but he was the hero that night!
The floor was cut where it was rotted and new brace boards put down. The boards that go along the back will also be replaced and new framing put in.

Brace boards have been cut and fitted.

The new wood will be coated with rubberized undercoating to protect it from the elements. This was a tip 99 learned from Toaster's human, Gary. If you have not done so yet, check out Toaster's blog here Adventures of Toaster. He has all kinds of fun!

Back to reality....the warm days came and went. This is where things became a little unpleasant and about as much fun as a warm bucket of calf slobber.

The side wall portion was replaced using new plywood cut into the proper shape. The floor board was fitted in place and carpeting was laid over my rear storage are floor below the bed. Next came the ceiling and the rear wall replacement. In order to make the curve the ceiling portion was replaced using luan. 99 tried to do this herself, but realized she needed more than two hands. Two people offered to help, but neither was able to make it. So, it's buddy Dr. Blaine to the rescue. He showed up at around midnight after a long days work. Bada bing, bada boom. They had that wall up in no time. The next day 99 prepared the lower wall portion and with a hand from Ironman, she got it up and sealed me right tight.

My rear has since been almost completely braced up across the back and along the sides. It's just so dang cold out there things have to be done a little at a time! After it gets insulated it will be time to do the wiring, replace the lower skin and the aluminum trim. The windows have to be cut and fit into place also.

Here are some updates since I started writing this...