Today - continue fastening roof edge fillers left and right, positioning insulation, final prep for stapling down the roof metal.
The day dawned dismally gray, with rain threatening, and much cooler. Maybe yesterday's thunderstorm was more frontal related than surface heating.
I got out to the camper before breakfast and took a look.
Street side, the one with the cedar board on the lower, rear roof-line. Still have fillers to cut and glue here...
But the expanding, and void filling Gorilla glue was doing a pretty fine job so far.
Note at the ends of the bottom two boards making up the triple stringer, the two-piece filler and lap joint repair, just forward of the single lower stringer.
Back over on curbside, right above the entry door, the cut out top plate lap. The gaps look huge! They are not as bad as they seem. What's mostly happening here, is the plastic requires a trim on this edge...
Which I did with the utility knife.
Here's my selection of filler pieces, and the one longer inter-locker filler/lap replacement combo board. As opposed to the other side, where the cedar inter-locker was on the lower roof-line, this one at curbside goes along the upper roof-line.
It had begun to sprinkle, but no lightning anywhere - not that kind of rain; I looked over the work area, finishing my prep...
and started gluing and stapling.
Then as the rain got heavier, I did the same on street-side, but had to stick to business - no time for pics as the rain worsened.
Up and down on the scaffolding, and back and forth to the table saw, I measured and cut the filler pieces, and got them all fastened as well.
Now we'll just let that glue expand, and fill, and dry for a while. Rain fell for about three hours, in a more-or-less steady drizzle.
But once it stopped, the sun tried to come out. Things began to dry and again I lifted the metal. The glue was doing a good job. At this stage of drying, it was easy to scrape smooth for receiving the metal down onto it. I also cut and rounded edges until it was a pretty smooth transition between pieces, stringers and along the curve.
Then it was on to tucking and re-positioning the insulation.
With added strips cut from excess, originally in the systems wall.
And back over at curb-side.
And the rain moved back in. I secured Tow-Mater's roof again with the bags-o-chains, and tipped his nose into the approaching storm.
Like Captain (er, uh - Lieutenant) Dan in Forrest Gump he took on a whole new attitude. This little camper has more spirit than we thought!
