POKE SALAD ANNIE

   This is in no way noteworthy news, but I did just use a machete and a weed wacker to clear out the 6 foot tall poke weed that had all but engulfed the Airstream...

THE OL' UNDER & UP

How to install the shower pan...


   We figured it would simply take four guys and a lot of expletives to manhandle the shower pan into place. But that bathroom doorway is barely wide enough for one person, much less four guys hoisting an awkward 300 lb object. It was certainly possible... but certainly would be unpleasant.


   Jack had the idea to pull "the ol' under and up".... or at least thats what I've been calling it. Now, I'm not talkin' about whistle pig tunneling tactics here, I'm talkin' about the ol' under and up where you lift a concrete shower pan with the forks of a tractor and sneak that sucker under the rear of an Airstream and up through a hole in the floor into place. 

   With a little forward and back, up and down, and nudging with a 2x4, the shower pan found its final resting place. We threw some safety jacks underneath and went crawling around to reinstall the C channel supports.

RESEMBLIN' REASSEMBLIN' CROSS-MEMBERIN'

Thought I was done under the rear of the Airstream?

You thought wrong.

There was still more cutting to do 

to make room for the shower pan.

...awkward, disorienting cutting

Balancing on the threshold of enclosure

... Or sittin' in a hole

Call it what you will. 

Either way, it was dirty.

   We replaced two cross members that supported the floor with new members that rest on the bottom flange of chassis's primary C channels. This would allow the shower pan to sit 5 inches below floor level. The project started off heavy (replacing a fiberglass tub with concrete shower pan...), so in the spirit of things, the new members were made far beefier than previous ones.

GETTIN' A HOSE-DOWN

The shower pan passes the shower test

... i suppose