cedar ceiling, part 1

Three drills on deck and a fully charged spare battery. Lets do this ...

Y'all, this was challenging. These cedar panels have grooves and slide in together. Only it's really tricky doing it looking up. And holding your arms up is harder than it sounds. But DANG! It looks good!!

Uhhhhh ... still a lot more to do ... but the FRONT ceiling looks beautiful!

crazy garage

I like this crazy garage picture. All of the captain chairs are pulled out right now and just chillin in the chaos. I'm pretty sure the only thing that would make this manageable for my SBF is that, at the very least, all the tools are in their right places. That's a thing that people who work with tools REALLY CARE ABOUT. I mean really, really. 

The fabric chairs on the left are from Sister Van, and the plasticy ones on the right are from CWV. Eventually the fabric ones will go in the front and the original chairs will shift to the back.

Finally! The floor is gone!

All the seats in the CWV were attached to these brackets that were bolted down with these huge bolts. They didn't have the tool size we needed to remove them at the Home Depot so SBF ordered one from the Internet. Unfortunately, that one was too big. Grrrrr. However, that man is super handy and made do with another tool.

The brackets were like this ...

And this ...

The tool we needed was one just a little bit smaller than THIS one.

All the bolts and brackets pulled!!

The moment we've been waiting for. (Well, one of the moments.)

It wasn't as bad we expected. Lots of dirt, some pens, an old SweetTarts packet, but otherwise pretty good.

 The emptier it gets, the more exciting it is!!

Oh! And some random plants were growing under there. Apparently moisture can be a big problemo with these vans, so if this is all the plant life she grew (no molds!) then we're doing pretty good. We haven't pulled the carpet from under the front seats year, but that's happening soon.

The next steps are more cleaning, some sanding, and addressing the rusty spots.