Today - Rear stabilizer jacks installed, interior worked for quicker than planned finishing, windows worked for function and cleaning.
DW and I have been moving right along on the house. Okay, so we've been a little lax on the high stuff, the scaffolding work. Who wants to go climbing into scary places when you can work from the ground, or at worst, three or four ladder rungs? But that's not to say we've avoided to tough spots altogether. No sir! The point is, we're far enough along that we can (with some justification) say, "let's concentrate on the camper for a few fast and furious days!"
So DW is finishing (to whatever extent we end up with) interior stuff, while I work on odds and ends elsewhere. Let's just see where this goes.
While DW got to work on the inside, I spread the packing blanket and laid down on the job drilling holes in heavy steel c-channel framing.
I looked over both the frame rails and the bumper metal, and decided I'd rather have the stabilizers on the frame rails. Once holes were drilled 25/64", up went the new jacks with 3/8ths hardware.
Here's the right side in stowed position.
And the left.
To deploy, you pull the jack forward from that, toward the tire and it pops (spring-loaded) out of a retention and swings down into lock. Stowing is the reverse.
While down here, I put in new screws across the bottom of the metal siding. Prior to that, all of these screws had fallen out and the metal was flopping.
From that position, you push down on the foot until it touches the ground. Here is right side down, left side still up.
And with both down.
This is a neat little feature. With the jack handle you can both tighten the jack incrementally, or release pressure safely.
Depending on circumstances, we may or may not use blocks of some sort. I found the jacks quite strong, but not the best for leveling. Best to level first, deploy stabilizers last.
And again, easily stowed.
Inside, we removed pieces.
And prepped surfaces.
The windows were mostly covered in years of hard-water deposits from "spray off with the hose" maintenance.
That's a before picture. After's to come.
Countdown to camping, 8 days.
