So, here we are almost at the end of June and a lot has happened.  We have been working steadily and it is starting to look like a trailer.   Each part seems to take so long and is frustrating.

As a whole, we are getting there and we are now sure that we can finish it.

We found some bendable plywood up in Summerville to use for the ceiling,. It bent but those curves are tough.  "Molding is your friend", we have been saying and the creases will be underneath some.  Susan primed it, it will be painted while and looks good again the natural birch finish.

We put up the stapling rail and then insulated the front, back and top.

So I started wiring for the clearance light but as soon as I saw all the connections, I knew there had to be another way, once the skin is on, there can be no repairs.  So, I took it done, and started over. I  bought some marine wire, each light now has its own wire.

We put underlayment on the side and top so that when the metal sweats, it will not get into the wood and ceiling.  Notice the wiring, you can see the individual runs if you look closely.

Then, we started to put the skins on, amazingly, they seemed to fit.... okay we had to make a few snips there and there but they are up.

Then, the roof!

There was no way Susan and I could do this part and we asked our good and faithful friend Paul to come back (he helped us with the walls as well).  This turned out to be a major engineering project.   The roof material had to be really forced into the curves of the trailer.

To get the roofing material onto the trailer without tearing the underlayment, we ran it over a fence post.  It worked.




Then rolled the rest with PVC




Getting the wires out was a pain.




The stapling begins, the staples be covered with corner rail.  Paul came up with this spacer to make sure the staple when where they needed to be..... quite clever and I can claim no part of it.


















There's Paul with the roof stapling process beginning.



Getting the roofing material around the front curve was the hardest part of this project.

We did by ratcheting down on a fence post.  It worked but it was way beyond anything I could have done to myself.  Thanks Paul!






The last thing we have done is to trim the the excess roofing materials and make a slight overlap to reduce leaking.  This will also be covered by the corner rail, luckily, because I found the roofing difficult to cut evenly.







So, onward and upward, I have also started the wiring underneath the trailer and we are checking out painters, I think we decided this is one we have to get an expert to handle.

Thanks for looking.