The Parker Travels

Ok remember this disgusting mess ?  Well look at it now! This post is going to have a lot of "potty talk" so be prepared. hehe. Let me explain how we got from gross to beautiful! This was actually Kyle's project that he took on while my dad was out. We knew that we wanted to save the cassette toilet that was inside the shower. Kyle worked his magic at getting that sucker out of the shower, fixed and cleaned up nicely. He then added some casters to the bottom of the potty so we could roll it in and out of the cubby it will be hiding in. We may or may not have had some toilet races down the driveway after the wheels were on… Next Kyle built this box that will be the cubby for the potty to hide it when not in use.  We put it in the trailer and slid a bed in to make sure we had clearance. Just made it, phew! The weather strip glides across the top of the box but other than that nothing else touches it when closing up the traile...

Ok this is a big one. But we are so happy with the transformation! The original plan was to rip these doors out, take the shower out, then replace that wall with something more structurally sound than this flaky MDF stuff the trailer is made out of. Well as we started taking more and more parts in this area apart we came across some water damage issues and this projected slowly started to become a lot bigger than we thought. No problem though! Like we planned, to start we took these doors out, Kyle literally had to rip them out of the wall . The wall was so water damaged the screws were just spinning in their spots when he was trying to unscrew the hinges.  Next was the shower. That was quite the project , we saved the potty though (thats a post for another day). Ok so now we have a hole in the wall and a hole in the floor. Thankfully this wonderful man from "Tom's Tools" showed up just in time to help with the rest of this project...

- Shower Demo Before and After - Demo day part two!  Not sure we went into the trailer this weekend thinking we would be ripping the shower out, but it happened anyway.  It was going to happen eventually, considering the obvious water damage that had resulted from previous shower usage (you'll see the extend of this damage a few photos below).  The idea of a shower inside a PUP sounds better than it actually is.  Yes, you can take a hot shower if you want to, but you'll need to spend a considerable amount of time cleaning the shower and the surrounding area afterward to avoid water damage. Anyway, we started straight away and removed the screws holding the shower in place.  Some of the screws we found looked more like tacks, as evidenced in the above photo.  There was some persuasion with a crow bar but eventually we got the face of the shower box off. Look at all that water damage!  Gross.  You can see now why the shower ne...