Interior progress pictures!

grantgoold · April 11, 2010, 04:21:14 PM

Made some good progress during the last few weeks. Here is one of the interior pictures. Maple panel with cherry stain and 3 coats of clear satin.

Dreamscape · April 11, 2010, 05:06:33 PM

Looks Great!. Doesn't it feel good when you get to start making things purdy?

belfert · April 11, 2010, 05:23:25 PM

Can I hire some of you guys to finish my interior?

jackhartjr · April 11, 2010, 05:43:28 PM

WOW! Beautiful work Buddy!
Jack

johns4104s · April 11, 2010, 05:48:02 PM

Looks good, great job.

John

jmblake · April 11, 2010, 05:54:42 PM

Looks great, All that wood make's it feel warm, not like some of the laminate S&S you see, We did ours in oak and just love it. Feels good to get to that point where you can see finished product. Keep up the good work. Jason

bryanhes · April 11, 2010, 08:30:44 PM

How thick are your walls?

Bryan

grantgoold · April 11, 2010, 08:42:35 PM

The walls are 3.5 inches thick per side. I found an industrial rigid insulation used for large walk in freezers. The closed cell was sealed to 5/8 plywood. I then covered that with a moister barrier and then the 1/8 inch paneling. The coach is very dry and very quite. We have been able to both heat and cool the bus with very little effort.

Grant

bryanhes · April 11, 2010, 08:50:41 PM

I was curious. From the picture at the windows they look 8" thick, lol. Looks good.

Bryan

Jeremy · April 12, 2010, 01:17:02 AM

I'm intrigued as to why you used Maple and then stained it a Cherry colour - why not use Cherry to start with? Maple (here at least) is only fractionally cheaper than Cherry - but perhaps you couldn't buy Cherry locally?

My own bus will be done entirely in Cherry so I'm interested to know if you deliberately didn't use it for a particular reason.

As Bryan says, the walls look much more than 3.5in thick in the photo - must be an illusion

Jeremy

Chopper Scott · April 12, 2010, 05:30:12 AM

Looks great! Can't wait to see it when it's done.

grantgoold · April 12, 2010, 06:09:48 AM

Wanted cherry to begin with but found stain grade maple panelling for $2.00 per sheet! Decided that I could do the work and save nearly $2200.00

That is the only reason!

Same with ceiling tiles. Found those on CR for $1.75 per sheet and saved about $800.00. Sure I had to spray polyurethane on both sides. Something that ended up begin pretty simple to do.

Thanks for the cudos!

busshawg · April 12, 2010, 09:37:35 AM

very impressive!