The Old Trailer Floor Yikes

Here are photos of Toad's old floor. Ewww! Gross! It will be taken off and an entire new floor placed on the metal trailer piece after the metal trailer is totally reworked and fixed and painted and new tires etc.

Toad Gets "Jacked Up"

Tim added structural supports to toad and jacked him up! Tim jacked up the body/shell of the trailer and then pulled out the actual metal trailer  with the floor still attached (next the old floor gets taken off the metal actual trailer) Here are the photos!

Toad today 6/25/2016

Where'd the walls and windows go? Tim is taking the trailer apart to eventually separate the trailer walls/shell from the floor and the metal trailer frame. Then the trailer frame will be repaired to fully functional, de-rusted, painted, new tires and any other trailer (frame) parts that need to be replaced and THEN a new floor put in and then the walls/shell repaired and put back together and any wood repaired and or replaced. Then the outside shell will be sealed completely and the windows will be put back in and sealed. Then the insulation need to all be replaced. THEN  the decor/fun stuff will finally happen. It's a long road still.....

Day Two Gutting of the Trailer (Evening )

I see studs! We discovered some issues of leaks behind the walls especially both corners at the rear of the trailer. A bad spot by the corner of the entry door  and a few more spots...

Tim's full report:

Damage from leaks in both rear corners, the left (door side) corner is the worst. It leaked and caused rear (door side) floor to rot from back of wheel well to rear corner.

Leaking occurred either from entry door or window and caused lower door frame and small area of floor to rot.

Left side of cab-over leaked and caused lower frame and where the loft slide out bed (in cab-over) to rot between wall and bottom of where the bed frame sat.

Waiting on report of the right side of the cab-over ...still not finished gutting that piece...I think that's the last of the demolition work.

Day 2 Trailer Gutting (am)

The morning photos

Toad the Trailer/Camper gets "Dissected"

Time for Tim to gut the Toad. As I mentioned before the trailer had been unused for 10 years and also had a variety of critters living in it in the past 10 years as well. Between the critter smells and the air quality we decided Toad needed to be gutted. Day 1 was yesterday 5/28/2016 and Day 2 continues today.

 Hopefully by the end of today we will see the studs and see what we actually have and how much or how little wood rot and what state the insulation is in. Most likely we will replace close to everything.

Some photos from the gutting of Toad the Trailer. We bought a canopy to hold any parts we will keep or to save some wood for patterns to make new tables/counter/dinette etc.

A Vintage Trailer Book

Found a book at my local library called "Vintage Trailer Style". The book has incredible color photos and LOTS of them! The book has many ideas for set up and considerations on use of the trailers while camping. From themes, color schemes to road trips, it's really worth a look/read.

http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Trailer-Style-Restoring-Decorating/dp/1446304523