More RV Bedroom Tear Down

We’ve gotten further on the bedroom tear down.  Literally, the walls and ceiling peel off with ease because they have been so waterlogged from the leaks in the ceiling.  Thankfully, the insulation doesn’t seem to be affected by the water.  We’re hoping to be able to reuse as much of that as we can. 

This is a view of the insulation under the wall and ceiling boards in the back bedroom.  

 

Wet stain above the ceiling and insulation.  

 As you can see, the boards just under the outside roofing is wet.  We are hoping that once we fix the leaks, we can dry this board out and seal it with a primer and then reuse the insulation, and then add in the ceiling and wall boards back on.  

Another order of business on our list is to take a wire brush to the steel framework.  It has rusted from all the water leakage and will need to be cleaned up.  We will then seal that to prevent it from rusting further.

Here you can see all those layers of waterlogged wall/ceiling board, insulation and framework.

Wiring is starting to appear exposed throughout the bedroom since the ceilings and walls are coming down.  We did start to pull apart under the twin bed that had a false bottom to try to figure out why it is raised there.  We found all the main water and wiring coming into the RV under the twin bed drawers.

Under the driver’s side bed

The floor is raised under the bed.  The drawer is higher than you would expect as well.  After pulling all that out, we found that ll the main wiring is hidden here as well as the water pipes.  Fortunately, none of this looks like it has leaks or issues, yet.

There’s a plastic sheet under the bed sealing the underside of the RV from the bed.

The mice were definitely busy in this area, so we are going to have to try to figure out where they are getting into the vehicle and close up any holes.  The previous owners had steel wool just sitting under here, but he amount of mouse poo here is really gross!  Steel wool wasn’t doing it’s job of keeping the mice out.

The tape for the roof has been ordered, so the next big event for this RV is going to be applying the tape to the roof and getting it to stop leaking.  Then start the rebuilding of the ceilings and walls. Stay tuned for more gutting and hopefully redoing it