Day 2: Hardware Cloth / Wire Mesh We got to work on figuring out the mesh. I had my calculations screwed up in my head, but it actually helped us out. I had planned on the mesh itself to be 30″ wide, so I made the top edge of the supports 30″. Fortunately, the mesh … More Fiberglass Front Cap: Day 2 and 3
We had already planned on using fiberglass for the front cap, but hadn’t fully looked into it. Sheet metal was pretty much out of the question unless we were going to pay someone a lot of money to fabricate and weld it. After two online “customer service/help” chats with a online fiberglass supplier I came … More Fiberglass Front Cap: Logistics and Day 1
Finally, we get around to closing up the front gap, but a quick update as to why we’ve had such a long break. After “completing” the roof raise, Julie got a new job in Southeast Wisconsin so we closed up the bus the best we could with our scrap sidewall sheet metal. Driving the bus … More Update before Fiberglass
Before we started the raise, we knew we had to have some warm weather–not just because it’s nicer to work in than freezing your fingers off–but also because we needed to put our new sheet metal (skin) up on a warm day in order to heat the panels up to prevent any wrinkling (a.k.a. oil-canning). Oil canning … More Roof Raise Part 3: Skinning
The roof is raised, but we still had all of the scaffolding up. We actually extended our return date on our rented Menards equipment twice. We thought we would be done with it on Sunday, but Nick wasn’t able to return it until Tuesday. Recap: we progressively raised the roof Saturday through Monday. Monday night, … More Roof Raise Part 2: The New Ribs
I meant to update a while ago, but we were busy for a good few weeks on the roof raise and too mentally and physically exhausted (even on recovery days) to post. So, we basically did our roof raise in three parts. We really hadn’t planned it that way, mother nature guided us: work when … More Roof Raise Part 1: Cutting and Raising
Hey it’s Nick For me, the two (and very important) decisions were the height of the roof raise and the fasteners. The stock hat channel (ribs) is 13-14 gauge, and the stock skin is ~16 gauge. So based on other builds and those numbers I had already decided on 14 gauge hat channel and 18 … More Logistics of the Roof Raise
Here in northern Wisconsin, we have been running out of warm days, and the weather is starting to feel more and more like winter. We have been scrambling a little bit in order to get the roof raise done before the snow starts flying. The bus was more or less neglected for a good month … More Winter is Coming
Nick and I have been working vigorously these past few days in preparing the bus for its new paint job. Over the last week, I had been removing all of the letters and reflective stickers (I kept discovering more stickers that I had previously missed…they put reflective everywhere!). We then spent all day yesterday removing … More Our bus from Jamaica
Hey everyone it’s Nick. I just got back from making another run into Superior. The DMV lady that helped me on Thursday gave us the wrong month/year sticker for our plate so I wanted to get that fixed right away which ended up being super easy. I also brought in my Subaru car title to … More Taking the seats out
Our Tiny House Bus 