Today - Finishing framing prep at the galley wall and installing bead-board on interior walls at galley, and above entry door.
It's been a little blustery outside - that's no fun to work in, when you don't have to. But I got me some extra time yesterday so went to work inside Tow-Mater. It was nice and cozy inside, hadn't ever smelt bad, but now it smells even better. Was in Lil' Queeny the other day and she smells new, but I guess she is, what with off-gassing the poly and all. And Tow-Mater will smell similar too, once we start using more of that same body wash on him!
Theoretically, Tow-Mater's "systems wall" and galley was ready to put back together. I've found the secret to successful movement forward on these projects is to work on what you want, what you're in the mood for. So I did.
First I made some measurements and an adjustment cut on the tomato-soup red bead-board galley back-wall upper-piece ceiling-curve. Say that fast three times.
I made a template out of newspaper for the curve pattern. That raised the entire board up an inch to accommodate the final curve to fit the shape I've ended up with.
Then after examination of the framing portion of the wall, I made up some last metal gussets from my diminishing store of dryer duct. I had to go take down one piece of duct-work in the laundry room, DW will never miss it.
Then I dragged the air-hose out to Tow-Mater's new parking spot, way out in the western forty, and stapled the gussets up on the top half of the wall, the six mostly around the upper framing of the window opening. Lots more sturdy in there now than those original large staples alone. Also note, I finished insulating with both the foam board, and with some excess fiberglass bat left over from the galley wall.
Then it was multiple measurings and cuttings and drillings until the window and propane line and 12 volt wiring were accounted for. Note the small hole at left, that's for the 12 volt. The big hole for the propane light line.
And then that got installed. No picture. Yet.
Now, using the piece removed for the window, I went to my next biggest place to make the repair board, here on the other side of the camper. Yeah, I decided to keep the same color theme, even though we had stepped out of the kitchen.
Here again I made a newspaper template to get the curve. And I made the cut in the spare piece with the curve first, not a rectangle first on the table saw. That got me a larger "excess" piece than it would have otherwise.
Once up, it looked like this.
Then I marked and measured and cut for the last place needing the bead-board, and had enough height to do so from the "excess" piece cut-off in the previous step - for here.
And got this.
Now, back on street-side, I needed an original style piece of the wood paneling to place between the top of the entry door, and the new shelf plan above the entry door. I eyed these curved pieces removed from Tow-Mater's ceiling.
Fronts.
Backs.
Took them over to the table saw and cut off the bad stuff while carving a correctly sized piece out of the choicest spot on one board. Like cutting off crusts for a kid.
Had to get the wood grain running in the right direction too. It ended up like this.
Note the two nail holes. They happened to be in what I felt was the best section to use. I'll eventually put decorative screws in the holes to match the rest of the camper, as I do it, so I can set up an over-all pattern when it's time, and not start willy nillying the pattern now as I go. Minimal first (on the screws), and fill in the fields later as the design element falls out.
Stepping back now, we have a galley wall like this.
Tomorrow let's work on installing cabinets!
