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, October 19, 2011

FLOATING FIBERGLASS & SCRUBBIN' the 'STREAM

  With the shower pan and barrel wall in place it was time to address a variety of unresolved issues in the bathroom. The first step was to fill the voids left by all the demolition. This meant securing and connecting the floating fiberglass edges to the walls and floor. Here is an example:






  With no flat walls to work from and the not-so-friendly nature of fiberglass, I was getting bogged down. Jack had the idea to put the bathroom on hold and make some big changes in the rest of the Airstream. I was on board.


One major step towards livability: 
Remove the mold that now coated the walls. 


  Having sat through a handful of insane rain storms, mold was gettin' down and dirty in the Airstream. So we had to bust out the big guns: buckets full of TSP, hot water and bleach and three days of scrubbing. 



Ok, it wasn't quite that bad.
It was more like this:


Now the place is sparklin' clean. 

I also removed wasp and bird nests from the vents.
Sorry fellers... try the chicken coop next time.


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