Progress

I've picked my pace up again and have some additional help so we are making good progress once more. Taylor and two of his friends, Garrett and Patrick, have been a tremendous help!

Here's the new work crew, Patrick on the left, Garrett in the middle and Taylor on the right - these guys rock!

The rain slowed for a few days allowing us to work outside

Here is a before photo of the rear curb side prior to rot repair...

An after pic of the same area, I used oak plywood to make a solid piece for the corner - I used the old lumber for temporary bracing

Street side before...

New framing completed, this is the area where the gray and black water tanks are located - Taylor is working on the mounting bracket and support for the tanks....again old  lumber is temporary bracing

Test fitting the outer skin

These young men are hard workers! I had trouble giving them enough to do...

This gives a sense of the framing requirements for the rear, all 4 corners seemed to be asymmetrical

Another view

I found that I needed to add 3/4" on the edges to make the skin fit properly, I cut 3/4" strips of plywood on my table saw to add to each side

Here we've installed a section of the interior paneling using screws and fender washers rather then nails

A closer view of the attachment method 

Interior shot, I pre-finished the birch prior to installing this time

This lower panel was a lot of work to attach securely, the bottom bend is very tight 

Seeing the back come together really re-energized me

This is where we stopped for this day- it looks great!

Patrick worked all day on the sander making the old cabinet wood smooth while removing the old finish 

Patrick did a great job as shown here..

On Saturday January 29th I returned to continue on the rear.  The crew joined me and we managed to make further progress.....

Before...

Before lower....

WOW! Like new - Garrett cut off the old beat up bumper which helps the looks a lot

Another view

It feels so good to be done with dry rot repair!

Another view with some interior paneling installed

This is the location of the outside storage door

Here is what we started with in this corner

Another view of before...

The wood looks so warm.... The spots are from my camera, we decided that we are going to put a jack knife sofa here instead of the bunk beds. May add some cabinets too 

Garrett modified this cabinet to fit the new refrigerator

The skin fits perfectly - I'll be insulating when the weather allows