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BUS CONVERSION 

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BATH FLOOR POUR

Today I poured the bath floor. I had cut it out before and fit it. This is shown in other photos here. To prepare for the finish I...

Living Room

The living room is allot of fun. My intention was to have a TV pop up from behind a fire place. But last week I removed a cabinet from a...

KITCHEN

I am diving ahead a little into things that are easy: I can't resist. Decisions about the counter and sink instigated the whole thing. In...

GENERATOR PROGRESS

With Thanksgiving 2018 I had a four day weekend and I thought I might slip in some progress on the generator. I started a few days early...

About roughed in.

I am almost done with electrical and plumbing rough in. I took pictures to remember where things are once covered. These are actually a...

Short Commute!

Just wanted to show current work site: I absolutely love working on a project right outside my bedroom door! That is the generator in the...

Experimental Bath Floor

The material I had wanted to use, a turquoise Avonite, was going to run me $1000. There was no way I was going to pay this but was bent...

Cool Paint! ...literally

This new paint is amazing! It cut the temperature down in the bus about 15 or 20 degrees. And true to their advertising claims, the...

Shape of bathroom to come.

You can really see the shape of the bathroom now. Here it is shown from the back before the walls are put in. All that is missing is a...

Cutting panels to fit.

First step is to create an accurate template of the contour. I already trashed the template so can't show it entirely. But the way a...

Walls, wires, pipes...

Finally getting to some of the fun stuff. Roughing out and sorting through what is needed and where it goes and how to supply power,...

More on the AC design

I went round and round trying to figure out best and easiest way to air condition this bus. I had wanted to use under floor ducting but...

The path to COOL is not.

Had a pretty good day this last weekend as I got allot of the electrical supplies together and cut the openings in the roof for the AC...

ALL FRAMED UP

Framing... not a ton of it ...but it is really hard to do in here with nothing level or plumb. Walls angle out at bottom and in at top,...

Cleaning the slate

First tasks were to gut the rest of the stuff in the bus and start getting it cleaned up. I cut the air controlled locks on the luggage...

NO MORE CRAPPY BATHROOM

Bus had a little bathroom that was kind of like an airplane bathroom. It wasn't horrible but it was in the wrong place. Since bus is so...

BIG PROGRESS!

After a month at the mechanics and almost $5000 in repairs the bus is now home and the the real fun can begin! Along with a couple minor...

OFF TO THE DOCTOR

I did what I could to try to solve the air brake system issue. The problem was that the brake side of the system would not air up and...

Generating some progress

Even with out the bus here I have found possibility to progress on the project by working on the generator I picked up. I showed it...

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