The floor is done! (almost)

After a quick trip to Kelowna to meet up with my sister Anne, it was back to building. First step was the framing for the subfloor using 2x4's on 16" centers. This was done in three sections. I flipped the direction of the joists on the tail section after reading that it would be stronger that way. Time will tell if that was the right decision. It was also very frustrating at times trying to drive 3 1/2" screws into the wood even using an impact driver (my favorite tool!) and pre-drilling holes on the corners. Something to do with hand & eye coordination that will hopefully improve with practice!

While this was going on, a special order arrived. A beautiful glass bowl for the bathroom sink. It will sit upon a live edge maple plank that will be used as the counter.

Then came the flashing. I started with a 50 foot roll of 36" wide galvanized steel. Boy, was that heavy! So after using that on the first section, I switched to aluminum for the mid-section over the axles and the tail section - it's so much easier to cut and handle. We flipped the frames over to attach the flashing and then bolted each section to the steel frame of the trailer. Then the insulation was put in (the super easy part). I was going to use the Styrofoam insulation but the Roxul was much cheaper and much more environmentally sensitive.

Finally it was time to complete the subfloor by laying down tongue & groove plywood sheets. Things got pretty slow last week though, between news of a friends death, a chicken keeling over with an apparent heart attack and then to top it off, my Bichon got so sick I really thought she was going to die too. So that's why this post was delayed. So the subfloor is almost done, just a few more sheets to glue and screw down - once I figure out why nothing is lining up evenly in the last section - next post!