Welcome Home, Llamaluminum!

Here we go! Mar 2 we purchased our new family project. We're a little more than a month in and what a beast this project is. Fortunately, it is a very satisfying one!

Here she is still on the lot:


Here we are preparing to leave South Carolina and take her home:

As purchased, it had the original carpet (gross!) which we ripped out the first day and discovered bow and aft water damage/rot on the floor, two holes in the under carriage from its stabilizing jacks...front curb punctured through the floor, no vulkem in the seams, lacking or cracked ext trims, baked/cracking window gaskets, 'holey' window screens, very yellowed bulkhead, street window frames and spice rack, broken bathroom slide door, missing roof vent fan and missing main door entry key. Here are some photos of the original interior:

Diggin' that gorgeous '80's fabric!


Looking from Living Room back toward Bedroom:


Teenie-Tiny Bathroom:


Bathroom Shower...


Rear Twin Bedroom


On the plus side, all of the appliances, A/C, Furnace, Water Heater, electrical outlets, vents, windows, doors, cabinets, tambours, folding privacy doors, rock guard windows, axles, etc. are in great working order. The seller put new tires on it the day prior to our purchasing it as they were well-cracked.

To date, Apr 9, we've removed remaining vulkem in the seams and installed new vulkem in all of the seams (about 40hrs of work), removed and replaced window gaskets (another 40hr job), replaced all window screens, removed carpet/pad/staples (is it necessary to use 1,000 staples in each square foot???), prepped and painted the bulkhead & lower window frames with textured paint, painted the spice rack, repaired the flooring, installed engineered bamboo flooring throughout, dry-cleaned, repaired (with slides) and reinstalled curtains, removed old window shades and replaced with new ones, removed old missing key lock on main entry door and replaced with ordered new one, removed gaucho for repair, re-built gaucho bin support, sent gaucho cushion & arm-rests off for recovering, recovered wall pieces, front face of gaucho & cabinet end caps, and are currently working on rebuilding the ends of the gaucho (storage frames) and recovering them, reinstalled gaucho and reinstalled/reconnected the stereo cabinet.

More photos to come!