DFW Rusty
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I was googling a forum to join during our remodel, and I'll be danged, I joined this forum in 2010..... I've owned a lot of campers since my first rv in 2010. We got out of camping for a bit after we built our house in 2020, and we started to really miss camping so last year we started looking, but the last 3 campers were all brand new and I find them kind of boring, so we went looking for something older that needed some TLC. Late last year we found our kodia, my wife has always wanted a hybrid camper and the price was right so we snagged it up. The floors were shot when we bought it, I had never tackled an rv floor before, but I really wasn't scared to do it and it needed some updating. Aside from the junk floors everything in the camper was in pretty working condition. The bunk canvas was in pretty ok shape as well.
Fast forward to early April and we finally got around to doing some work on the camper. At first it was simple plans; fix the floors, clean everything, maybe re-do the counters.... then it got a little out of hand...
What it looked like when we bought it. (pic from the for sale ad).
Almost immediately we stripped the old fading stickers, which didn't really improve the looks a lot. I also added led strip lights around the frame.
Back on April 1st I re-coated the roof.... I only took a pic of my 1st coat. I put it on SUPER thick...
Then I took the camper to my dad's shop to start the flooring fix.... These campers are not what I expected, they have no real sub-support, the structure is from the foam board and thin ply-wood... which was tricky to work around, but luckily I'm a metal fabricator and I plated 75% of the floors with galvanized sheetmetal.
About this time, my wife started painting the inside of the camper. While I was laying the finished flooring.
Then she decided to re-upholster the furniture. The only thing currently left is the couch.
While we were at it, my wife decided she wanted to re-paint the outside of the camper.
I decided to get a new toilet, because the one we had leaked.
Fast forward to early April and we finally got around to doing some work on the camper. At first it was simple plans; fix the floors, clean everything, maybe re-do the counters.... then it got a little out of hand...
What it looked like when we bought it. (pic from the for sale ad).
Almost immediately we stripped the old fading stickers, which didn't really improve the looks a lot. I also added led strip lights around the frame.
Back on April 1st I re-coated the roof.... I only took a pic of my 1st coat. I put it on SUPER thick...
Then I took the camper to my dad's shop to start the flooring fix.... These campers are not what I expected, they have no real sub-support, the structure is from the foam board and thin ply-wood... which was tricky to work around, but luckily I'm a metal fabricator and I plated 75% of the floors with galvanized sheetmetal.
About this time, my wife started painting the inside of the camper. While I was laying the finished flooring.
Then she decided to re-upholster the furniture. The only thing currently left is the couch.
While we were at it, my wife decided she wanted to re-paint the outside of the camper.
I decided to get a new toilet, because the one we had leaked.