Here it is folks... my first post-architecture-school project:

...creating a home for myself out of Jack Larimore's 1971 Airstream trailer. Follow along as it comes to life.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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.





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