Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road collapsed. Because of a number of issues dealing with the wrecker truck, we had to release the camper as the truck was reeled up over the bank. The good news is that the truck is as good as new after a thorough rinsing, inspection of brakes, etc. The bad news is that the camper was thoroughly drowned. A lot of people had far worse trouble than we did, so we consider ourselves lucky. The floods are ongoing as I write.
Our planned trip to Montana in June is called off. heh.
However, I have now convinced my dear Jane that its time to really update the TC. After drying for several days we pulled out the interior. Amazingly the Zolatone paint that I had applied last year is good as new after a cleaning.
Without burdening the TC family overmuch, I'd like to ask some advice other than don't park too near a flood :-).
My DW was overjoyed that I had a plan for the bathroom: a composting toilet developed by Nature's Head http://www.natureshead.net/. Our holding tank was practically unusable and there was no real grey water tank on the 67 Avion. Our plan is to rip out the bathroom and install one of these and converting the blackwater to a greywater tank. Any experience with this?
Finally, the roof. I admit that I have not really done the work I should have. Now, I need to remove the various sealants on the roof and repair it. We are also setting up for a solar installation. Any advice as to this?
Here's hoping I have posted the pictures correctly. And many thanks in advance for your advice.
Our planned trip to Montana in June is called off. heh.
However, I have now convinced my dear Jane that its time to really update the TC. After drying for several days we pulled out the interior. Amazingly the Zolatone paint that I had applied last year is good as new after a cleaning.
Without burdening the TC family overmuch, I'd like to ask some advice other than don't park too near a flood :-).
My DW was overjoyed that I had a plan for the bathroom: a composting toilet developed by Nature's Head http://www.natureshead.net/. Our holding tank was practically unusable and there was no real grey water tank on the 67 Avion. Our plan is to rip out the bathroom and install one of these and converting the blackwater to a greywater tank. Any experience with this?
Finally, the roof. I admit that I have not really done the work I should have. Now, I need to remove the various sealants on the roof and repair it. We are also setting up for a solar installation. Any advice as to this?
Here's hoping I have posted the pictures correctly. And many thanks in advance for your advice.
Cajunavion, your inquiry comes at a good time; I too am working on a layout for my C11. It started life with the side dinette. I decided that I wanted a front dinette for both the social nature of sitting across from Annie but also because I could put the table down and have a 72x42" platform for the two German Shepherds to lie on and stick their noses thru the front window into the cab. I am putting a 40x15" double slider window in the front of the camper that matches the slider in the back of the truck cab.
If we were to be 4 eating inside, 42" seems a sort of minimum width for two people to sit next to each other at a dinette table, A standard single bed is 39" wide - that's pretty narrow for dining elbow to elbow... but I could still end up with less than 42" width.
I start with the premise that the bed needs to be 72" long, which allows 16" extra to use to reach the full interior width of 88". My solution, at the moment, is to make a smaller propane locker on the right side with an aluminum bottle and place my water tank - about 30 gallons - in the box formed by the right hand seat extending out into the center floor space. Each side of the dinette is 22" wide - 18" of seat and 4" of back cushion. The table is 28" wide. It will have 4" fold-under flaps on each side to make it a table that doesn't require hunching forward to eat comfortably. The table will slide either far to the right or to the left to create an additional work surface.
Both propane and water are on the right side. Plumbing occupies more space under the sink so I'm thinking to put the sink on the right and the stove on the left. I want to have as much food prep surface as possible. The demand water heater mounts on the wall of the bath and the gray water tank goes directly below the bath. No black water tank with the cassette toilet. All water and plumbing on the right and propane piped over to the stove on the left side, as well as back to the water heater and a heater somewhere. The refrigerator remains on the left side, utilizing the existing outside door vent. And I'm keeping the closet and storage area. This rig is woefully deficient in storage space.
I am uncertain about the space where the original water heater went. Perhaps batteries, or just seal it up from the outside and utilize the increased undercounter storage. Or batteries in the bottom of the closet space.
I had been lead around by the OEM stove hood being located in the center of the right wall. Upon reflection, I realized that I hardly use the fan in the hood over the range in my home kitchen. Plus the camper will have two Fantastic vents with fans and the window directly behind the stove. I'm satisfied that I won't miss the vent hood. If I do, I'll install one on the left side. I really like open work space in the galley in this plan!
A note about my model: the upper walls and rear cabinetry haven't been represented here. The fridge will be built-in, with storage above, as in the OEM.
More will be revealed!
Dick
If we were to be 4 eating inside, 42" seems a sort of minimum width for two people to sit next to each other at a dinette table, A standard single bed is 39" wide - that's pretty narrow for dining elbow to elbow... but I could still end up with less than 42" width.
I start with the premise that the bed needs to be 72" long, which allows 16" extra to use to reach the full interior width of 88". My solution, at the moment, is to make a smaller propane locker on the right side with an aluminum bottle and place my water tank - about 30 gallons - in the box formed by the right hand seat extending out into the center floor space. Each side of the dinette is 22" wide - 18" of seat and 4" of back cushion. The table is 28" wide. It will have 4" fold-under flaps on each side to make it a table that doesn't require hunching forward to eat comfortably. The table will slide either far to the right or to the left to create an additional work surface.
Both propane and water are on the right side. Plumbing occupies more space under the sink so I'm thinking to put the sink on the right and the stove on the left. I want to have as much food prep surface as possible. The demand water heater mounts on the wall of the bath and the gray water tank goes directly below the bath. No black water tank with the cassette toilet. All water and plumbing on the right and propane piped over to the stove on the left side, as well as back to the water heater and a heater somewhere. The refrigerator remains on the left side, utilizing the existing outside door vent. And I'm keeping the closet and storage area. This rig is woefully deficient in storage space.
I am uncertain about the space where the original water heater went. Perhaps batteries, or just seal it up from the outside and utilize the increased undercounter storage. Or batteries in the bottom of the closet space.
I had been lead around by the OEM stove hood being located in the center of the right wall. Upon reflection, I realized that I hardly use the fan in the hood over the range in my home kitchen. Plus the camper will have two Fantastic vents with fans and the window directly behind the stove. I'm satisfied that I won't miss the vent hood. If I do, I'll install one on the left side. I really like open work space in the galley in this plan!
A note about my model: the upper walls and rear cabinetry haven't been represented here. The fridge will be built-in, with storage above, as in the OEM.
More will be revealed!
Dick
