Today – revealing the curbside roof/wall edge and building the top plate transitions - left and right.
Now, the next few days, and the 15 day forecast, gave us summer; mostly dry. Also, the rain we got yesterday didn’t wet the camper at all from what I could tell, and we’re a long way from sealed. These took off the pressure – in my mind anyway.
So let’s work both sides at once. Curbside, the reveal. But first, see the edge? Note not only the 3 inch stress crack, but the lack of maintenance exactly where sealing should have taken place.
On street side, the top plate transition (curved roof line from high to low) has been removed. Here’s what we get from top side.
Back over at curbside, the reveal shows this.
And note here, not only the lack of roof stringers at the lower curve, but also a factory recognized need for reinforcements in the form of floor tiles. This was discovered on street side as well.
Here’s street side with the top plate curved transition removed, view from below.
And curb side coming down, then removed.
Again, it was off to the scrap pile. Most of this is particle board I got for another project, and some few other materials like door segments for Lil’ Queeny’s bathroom.
But I found two 3/4” plywood boards I could use, the doors from an old bathroom wall cabinet that was in the house when we bought in the early 90's! That cabinet was in the basement bathroom, first used by DD as a child, who now gets those doors in her camper. That’s what the world is about see – connections and positive energies.
I used the removed paneling as a template and cut the boards to shape, and a little long.
I wasn’t able to exactly visualize how that end would look. There’s a lap joint on the bottom edge and outer surface (to fit the other top plate lap) and a lap joint on the curved upper edge for the INNER surface (to fit the roof stringers and filler boards). How would those appear when they arrive at a point? So after cutting to shape and marking dimensions for the lap, I just kept working them with the router.
And kept fitting and cutting until it worked.
Once they fit well, I Gorilla glued the right angle edges and gusseted them in with the last of my flashing, and 5/8” staples.
Now to address the ceiling panels.
