Saturday, 3 March 2012

First afternoon of striping, the whole of the rear end appears to be suffering from damp and rot, so much so that some of the timbers are actually sodden. I'm amazed she didn't fall apart on the way home to be honest, it does explain the cracks above the door as the rear support timbers that hold the side to the chassis and the chassis end timbers have rotted to nothing.

You can see the rear of the caravan below, where the bathroom was, I'll have to replace about 1/4 of the top layer of the floor and about a 30 cm strip of the lower floor.  Looking at the cost of exterior ply compared to marine ply I may as well get a sheet of marine ply and use that.

I still haven't worked out where she is leaking from, I have a feeling its something to do with the roof and/or the side rails. I need to figure it out and seal it before I fully fix the interior for obvious reasons, however she needs to dry out before I can start work on the rebuild.


The door frame had rotted to almost nothing:


You can see through the floor here where the door frame was:


I'm hoping to have the back end sorted by the end of the week, fingers crossed!