Floor? What Floor.

   We were not sure what to do about the floor. Knew that it was a double floor and that the edges were rotten. After much discussion Scott decided to make a exploratory cut to see what we up against. Crap. The lower floor is worse than we thought. Guess that is going to have to be taken out also. This led to much more discussion about how we were going to do this.

  
   The decision was made that we would take out the middle section of the top floor and see how the floors were attatched. Found lots of treasures that the carpenter ants and mice left behind. There were lots of acorn shells, and shredded insulation in addition to things that we can only imagine what it was at one time. Sure glad that we bought dust masks for this project.

   One of the selling features of the Vagabonds was the double floor and that the heat from the furnace was fed into the floor to heat the trailer. On day two of demo we found the front vent. Today we found the heat exchanger that is in the floor. It is a unique system that the hot air is channeled in between the channels in the floor. Kinda makes you think if it really worked to keep the trailer warm? Anyways we removed it and I would like to make some kind of artsy fartsy thing out of it.

   Who is that masked man? And what did he do to my trailer floor? Fear "Frontierman" and "Frontierbar" demo-ers of rotten wood!

   At what point do you decide if this trailer is worth it? At what point do we stop? One good thing came out of the day was we found that the truss frame is in really good shape. To be continued....