Day Three

I got started early this morning. I woke up around 6:20, and I got a quick breakfast and was out working by 6:45. The first thing I did was take down the remaining side rail, then pull the 100 or so staples out of the side. Despite the fact that this side is down hill in it's normal parked position in the drive way, the staples and screws were a lot more solid. Although the front 3' of header on the wall section is completely rotten. It looks to be a 2x2, but some how I'm going to have to replace a section of it.

I got a surprise at 9:30 when my wife came out and offered to help in the scraping and peeling department. She did a ton of work: at least half of the total time we spent today, 9:00 am - 5:00pm non stop. We Traded off watching our 3 year old and sitting up on the roof.

I took advice from others and taped plastic in all of the roof openings to prevent dust and debris from filling the inside of the rv.



This bag of debris is 3/4 of the rubber from the roof. It mostly came up in little pieces or small stips. The rubber was paper thin. It was like scraping off a label only the label is 8' wide and 20' long. That's why in 8 hours we still weren't done.

Here is a picture of the 1/4 of the roof remaining. I realized this morning while working on the side of the rv that the rubber extends 5" under the lamanant piece that makes up the nose of the cab-over. I won't be able to get all of that out, so I'll just have to pick a point and cut it down inside there. Fun Fun.

Day Two - Part 2

It took a lot of work, but I finally have everything off the roof. Here is all of the vents, antenna, and assorted vents all laid out on the ground. Along with a box I put together to lower everything down.


The next step was to remove the side rail from one side. This was the last major task for day 2.


Here is one corner of roofing peeled away. The existing roofing is very thin. It looks like it's going to be a very tough day tomorrow.



Here is the first sign of a extensive work to be done on the roof even after the rubber is up.

Day 2 - Part 1

The start of day two was the air conditioner. I took the cover off on the roof only to see nothing in the way of bolts to remove. I then came inside and found 4 7" bolts in the four corners of this metal flange.


Here you can see I'm using my cordless drill with a flexible socket driver. This was an answered prayer for removing the screws on the roof, and taking out these 7" bolts in no time flat.


Here is a view of the roof with everything off. My plan based on some others who have done a similar project is to leave the air conditioner on the roof and simply move it around as needed.



Here is a view the other direction. The two vent pipes are loose, I'm leaving them in until I'm ready to roll out the new roof. This should help keep debris from falling into the tanks.

Day One - Part 3

Here are the last things I got done on day one. Here is the Wineguard Antenna unscrewed and sitting on the roof upside down. I had to take the set screw out of the handle down below, and then the antenna just lefted off the roof.
















The very last thing I got done was the removal of the cab-over fan. You have to love southern california weather. It's the last weekend of January and the forcast is mid to upper 70s and 0% chance of rain for the next 10 days.

Day One - Part 2

The first part of the project was removal of the awning. I did it first because I had my wife around to help. One lesson I read was it takes two to remove the awning, and three to put it back up. I see now how true that is.

I found the instructions online. Got to love the internet. It saved me an hour of fiddling. The first thing was to remove the rails from the rv.

Then we slowly slid the awning out of the awning track.

Here we have the awning almost completely out of the track. It does get a little hard to handle as it gets out. We remembered to lower the legs of the rail back down and that made it only about 7' tall and much easier to handle.

Day One - Part 1

I built a tarp set-up because my Father-In-Law decided to come visit after I began to take the roof off. He stayed in the RV for a week, and this setup allowed him to stay in the RV and stay dry.

Here is a better view of the truss system I built to hold up the tarp. Since the roof is coming off, I wasn't too conerned about what setting the trusses on the roof might do.







Here is a good example of the damage I discovered a month ago when I first decided something had to be done. None of this was here 6 months ago, when I put the Eternabond tape on.