So, first you take everything out. Well, not really. Although we would have loved to replace the cabinets, this was a project on a budget, and that would have been an extravagance. The good part is that we didn’t have to empty all the cupboards. And a lot of things were just thrown in the closet. Other items, such as the mattress and the dinette, were stored in the garage. The bed frame had an adventure. Max put it in an open shed at the RV lot with a note that it was just stored there temporarily and put his phone number on it. A couple days later, I was working in the Airstream, and noticed that the shed was gone. Yes, the previous day the shed had been demolished by the HOA. Where was our bed-frame? At the bottom of the demolition pile. Well, when we recently put it back together again, we discovered that we luckily were able to find all the pieces, except for one piece of plywood on top. Whew!
With the furniture out, the ozite could be pulled right off, leaving a residue and a not-so-pretty surface underneath. Apparently some items required “test holes” before the final screws were inserted. And, there are places the aluminum overlaps. It does not leave a lovely CCD shiny finish.
When the flooring is removed, there is a nice layer of good-looking plywood with staples from the foam carpet underlayment (screw driver and needle nose pliers needed) and some round fasteners that manage to stick up in places even if you take an electric drill and try to screw them in. I should have taken photos. We finally removed the last of the pale blue carpeting from under the bed – which is in the outside storage compartments. That was pretty foul.
But, there we were, looking at a very bare and surprising spacious Airstream, that a few months ago had been Home Sweet Home.
