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Since last summer (couldn't work on it during the winter) I have been tearing out the mostly finished conversion that I bought.  It all looked good except for all the baby blue.  It didn't have a generator, battery bank, and very little electric.  It was all 'built out' though and the plumbing was all in.  Like I said looked really good.  So in looking at the wiring that WAS there I found too many things that I considered wrong and not the way I wanted to leave it... then there was the insulation aspect... the bus is WAY too difficult to cool.  Something kept eating at me about it all and said tear it out.  Then I read all the posts in my nightly bus board searches about rusting in the walls ,etc.  SO, I decided the best thing was to tear it all out and see what was under and behind.  Wanted to get rid of the wiring and insulate anyway.  Today I found out what was under and behind.  Wet, rotted plywood.  Under the pretty pergo floor in the bedroom was really bad wood... actually really wet in places.  Floor looked great on top, but not worth a nickle below.  Just helps me further justify in removing my windows and reskinning the bus.  I plan on removing the metal interior wall below the window in this area and check for rust in there too.  One small area of the original bus floor was rotted right at the back, but the rest of it seemes ok.

For any new guys that would be interested, I started a blog (got the idea from Sean's blog which I read daily)... www.sweeteveningbreeze.blogspot.com (http://www.sweeteveningbreeze.blogspot.com)

I am trying to take pictures of everything I do.  So just because it looks pretty, doesn't mean it's worth much.