
WEEK TWENTY-FIVE: 3D Modeling & Holiday Hiatus
Impending work deadline + busy holiday = essentially no work done this week. Happy (belated) Thanksgiving! 3D Modeling I managed to set up a base model that incorporates each of the components I've been building as I go (rear bedroom wall, kitchenette, bathroom cabinets, rear futon coming soon...) featured in previous posts. This will be used for interior studies but most importantly serve as a documented as-built model.

WEEK TWENTY-FOUR: Plumbing, Plumbing, Plumbing...
Shower & Black Water Tank Piping This week was all about rebuilding the piping for the shower drain and black water tank. After FINALLY getting under there and removing the old parts I was able to match up the fittings and rebuild almost exactly what was originally there. Currently hunting for a replacement pipe that will attach directly to the tank; there is a lock-nut type of fitting that I would like to preserve though it's proving difficult to find a 3" pipe with a 1/4" l

WEEK TWENTY-THREE: Cabinets, Aluminum Backsplash & More Plumbing
Refrigerator Cabinet Housing for the refrigerator framed in. I cut the hole for the vent and laid out the framework for the cabinetry. Focus: notching around the wheel well, providing adequate support for the fridge shelf, allowing access to the gas lines at the floor below and maximizing usable storage space. Upper Cabinet
Finished framing the upper kitchen cabinet and lifted into place. Currently well secured from both the inside and outside, additional fastening at the ro

WEEK TWENTY-TWO: Black Water Tank (continued), Kitchen Counter & Upper Cabinet
Black Water Tank
Situation: closet flange rusted and broken, impossible to get loose. I've tried WD-40 and hammering it with a crowbar. No budging. I tried to rig a pseudo-wrench with a piece of angle steel and some bolts that would fit into the flange but that didn't do a thing. In the end I hacked the rotted plywood off layer by layer and I'm hoping to get at the flange with a Sawzall this coming week, at which point a new adapted fitting should work just fine. Kitchen Cou