This is my home. In December last year my family got into an accident with our bus and it was totaled. This beauty is our new Prevost we purchased as a shell. That means there was nothing, absolutely nothing inside when we bought it!
This is what the inside of the bus looks like currently. This is where we start our building project. It's not much to look at, but it's a whole lot to work with. We are going to build this ourselves. My family lives on the road and travels full-time, so the bus is our home. This is going to be fun!
These pictures are from day one when we got the bus earlier this year, but I want to step you through how we've been building it for the last several months. To start we layed the groundwork, literally. The first day was all about ripping out the old, rotted floor so that we could lay down the new floor. However, when I say "floor", I really mean the plywood surface upon which the floor will be built.
When we got there, the original wood flooring was covered with a thick material cover and looked something like this:
However, once we cut and peeled that back and got underneath to the wood, it was rotted to splinters. So we took hammers and crow bars and tore the front floor to pieces. During which, it looked something like this:
It took a long while to rip all of the bad wood out and find the bolts and such, then remove them. It was almost perfect, the front boards were rotted and we could've just removed them. But the rot had spread to the edge of boards farther back, this required the use of a buzz saw to separate the rotted wood from the good.
After the major destruction was done, cleanup began. The front is no longer rotten, neither is it piled with splinters and chunks of wood. It actually looks a lot more like this:
all cleaned up and ready for the plywood to be layed down. This is the bus. This is the work. I'll keep you updated with pictures and posts, stayed tuned for a crazy, bus building adventure!
