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Re: Just had enough
Lots of wisdom here, as usual. I would add that learning to be happy without spending a lot is often easier than earning and saving more. Get out of debt, buy what little you actually need used, and shoot for humble and functional rather than shiny and fancy. I got "retired" by my last evil boss, and I decided that I had had enough, and would shift over to living low on the hog, and not go back to work. I'd rather have the time than the money, at this point in life.631Views0likes0CommentsRe: Electric heater vs using furnace in fall?
I have used a propane stove to heat up both my camping van, and my 18 foot TT. I have a CO detector in both, with a read out of CO available. My Wave 3 in the van would bring the CO up to .40 within 30 minutes. I don't trust it at all, even though it has great reviews here. I never got the CO to register at all in the van with the Coleman stove on high, and shut the thing off due to the heat, rather than any sign of CO. In the TT, I have run a burner on high under a tea kettle, or a big pot of water, and found it heated up the trailer quickly and easily, with no CO reading on the detector. I would not run the stove while I slept, but feel comfortable heating up a two gallon pot of water, and letting the pot sit, with a lid on, over night to keep things from getting cold. I am currently looking for a direct vent propane heater of some sort, having an old and cranky furnace that drains the batteries too soon.328Views0likes0CommentsRe: vintage terry travel trailer help!!!
Plumbing pretty much done today. TO finally tore out all the old stuff, years of patching and cobbling together, and ran pex all the way. Only a tiny bit of moisture at this point, at one joint. Next, the furnace, which cuts off the pilot every time the thermostat shuts down the burners.1.3KViews0likes0CommentsRe: vintage terry travel trailer help!!!
The paint job is just Rustoleum, gloss white and light blue, laid on with a brush, after cleaning up the surface with a wire brush on a hand drill. Took a couple of days, and cost about $50. The decal on the back is a copy of the old one I found on eBay for about $20. This is my first trailer, although I have had three motor homes, and a camper van. The whole job is mostly about getting it usable and pretty enough, not really perfect, for as money as I can spare. I think I will have it all done for under $5,000, solar and tankless water heater includedand in good enough shape to use for the next several years with little repair or upkeep.1.3KViews0likes0CommentsRe: vintage terry travel trailer help!!!
WHen I got the trailer, the roof was sagging, patched with tar and silicon, and kept under a tart for the last two owners. The inside was pretty dry, since the tarp had gone on early, rather than too late. There is a local sheet metal shop in Roanoke, B+M, with a bunch of old guys interested in problem solving, and I took the trailer there, and asked about metal roof. I had priced out a rubber roof at around $1500, but really wanted to make it stronger, as well as water proof. The had the sheet metal there, a single sheet of .040 aluminum, and together we planned out the fold over and rivet on job. I hope that this makes the roof both very strong, in terms of flying off, and very water tight, with a good over lap over the existing sides, as well as a strip of butyl rubber under the seam, squished out by the rivets. The roof is also secured by fan and the vent, as well as the fridge vent and the tank vent, both of which are thick metal covers that screw down through the roof into the wood of the trailer. I think it will last, and stay dry.1.3KViews0likes0Comments
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