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Post by elewayne on Sept 6, 2015 20:53:52 GMT -8
Often it is hard to find the floor rot. These trailers aren't like a Shasta or some other less expensive trailer where you can easily see the water damage to the wall paneling and know the water would have traveled to the floor too. Air streams, Silver Streaks, and Streamlines all have a full belly pan so it's not easy to see anything from below either.They also have an aluminum skin on the inside of the framing for walls, which are painted. Mine had some rot under the booth when I removed it.(I haven't removed anything else yet) I've seen rebuilds where there was rot under the sink cabinet, the toilet, the vanity and under the refrigerator and hot water heater. All of this is usually near the edges of the wall where the shell is mounted. So all the cabinets have to be removed to pull up the flooring. all the finish flooring material has to be pulled to see the screws which hold the 5/8" plywood floor to the frame.It's a big job. Worth it? I think so, but I would feel pretty lucky if I get out of this thing under $7000 to redo the interior. I'm only a 19 foot long box too. Your add was interesting. I'm in Houston and every time I found a good likely trailer anywhere close it was way more than $1500. 800 miles or so up north of here they seem to be much cheaper to get into. I have no idea why. Of course it would cost me a couple thousand to travel that far to get one home.
Good luck with what ever you decide to do.
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Post by elewayne on Sept 26, 2015 20:40:49 GMT -8
As an update, I've just spent a full three weeks very deep cleaning the Streak. About half of that time went into cleaning up the massive amount of silicone the PO put around everything that penetrated the skin.What a miserable job. I have gone over the aluminum with a clear coat called Everbright. It has really improved the look of the 50 year old trailer, that and just getting rid of all the rusty bits, brackets and screws, all replaced with stainless. I have a project or two for the wife then I will strip out the whole interior and replace the floor, do a little rewiring, and build a whole new interior. sounds easy, right? I hope to camp late next summer.
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Post by elewayne on Jan 14, 2016 14:24:33 GMT -8
On January 11, 2016 I got back to work on the trailer having finished almost all of the house remodeling projects.I have added some house photos to the "house page" on my trailer site. I am in the process of removing the whole interior of the trailer for a total rebuild. I have the booths and the kitchen removed along with the bed area. I will remove the bathroom in a couple days.The floor has to come up because of rotted areas and I want to install a gray water tank ,which it never had. I want to redo the wiring then install new finished flooring, paint the walls and start rebuilding cabinets.I am planning on working pretty much full time on this and trying to finish it by fall, so I can make a vintage rally here in Texas.I will be posting new pictures as I do the work. I have some new pictures of the house remodel up now. The site is Silverlodger.com The bottom two buttons on the menu are for the Houston House and the Silverstreak.There is an easy way in near the top of this string.
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Post by kirkadie on Jan 14, 2016 19:22:35 GMT -8
Wayne,good to see you back and still have any energy after house redo. You all have been getting pretty wet of late so did you build a barn for the teardown?
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Post by vikx on Jan 14, 2016 20:37:49 GMT -8
Welcome back!
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Post by elewayne on Jan 14, 2016 22:33:04 GMT -8
I have a barn, but it is my wood shop so I had to rent a storage space to do some of the work on the trailer. I'll bring it back to my driveway soon so I can use the shop for building things.
My barn, which I built, house and drive are all on a 130 x 50 lot. Everything is a bit tight for trailer work but I'll manage. I wish I had a place out in the hill country, but I do live in about the coolest neighborhood in Houston. The Houston Heights. Just north of down town. Walking distance really.
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Post by elewayne on Feb 4, 2016 15:01:41 GMT -8
So January has passed and I have the whole interior removed, with the exception of the black tank which I am having trouble getting apart for removal. Also the Fiberglass shower stall will not go out the door. I thought SS prided itself in the fact that everything fit through the door. Supposedly a big plus over Airstream, along with better access to systems than Airstream.So, unless I decide to cut the top off and then rework the fiberglass and repaint, inside the trailer, when it's ready to go back in, I'll have to work around it while I take the whole floor out and replace it.IT may have to be cut.The thing is huge and will indeed be a large problem in the trailer. I'm starting to drill out rivets in the interior skin tomorrow. The skin has to be removed to get to the bolts going through the sill channel and the floor. All this so I can remove the floor from under the sill channel.
I also removed a vent that went to the old wall heater that was missing when I bought the trailer. I will buy another type of heater and install in under the oven. The vent went through the ceiling and the roof and was capped off by a very ugly rusty steel cap. The pipe was hanging down in the trailer about 24 inches and I have bumped my head on it a number of times. So it had to go today.So I meet my old friend, the PO, again, we'll call him "Mr Silicon" for his liberal use of the evil substance.Now of course I have a big gaping hole to repair, in the roof, before it rains.
During February I hope to get the wall skins off and remove and replace the floor. Means I have to get work done out here every day.I'll put up a few pictures on my site. A link is above in this thread.For now wayne
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Post by kirkadie on Feb 4, 2016 19:24:21 GMT -8
You're going to have some great weather for getting-to-it. Gotta love Houston's winters.
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Post by elewayne on Feb 4, 2016 21:36:12 GMT -8
Hopefully.
It's been in the seventy's, some days in the high seventy's, even, for about a week. but this morning was in the mid thirty's. I stayed in for a while and watched the latest episode of Flyte Camp, which I fell asleep trying to watch last night. I was pretending I had a whole crew to help with the tear out. but yes winter is pretty nice here. It's been so warm the trees are confused and flowering trees are starting to bloom on the boulevard. We could get a freeze, oh, clear up till March, though some years we never get one at all, here in down town Houston, anyway.
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Post by elewayne on Mar 4, 2016 22:24:30 GMT -8
I reworked my site a little and put up a couple recent pictures.Link to get in is on page 1 of this thread. I'm making some progress, all be it slow. but still progress.
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Post by elewayne on Sept 6, 2016 12:50:20 GMT -8
It's now Sept 6 2016 and I have the whole floor replaced. New insulation under the floor and the belly pan all screwed back to the frame. I installed a gray water tank and drain too. all of the aluminum is now removed from the interior walls and the old stinky insulation removed. I am in the process of rewiring all of the 12 volt circuits. Pretty slow right now because I am building 4 pieces of furniture for a hotel My son is working on, including the reception desk. I'll finish all of that in October and we then leave for Japan on the 22 of Oct. The hotel job will fund the rest of the trailer work. November I'll re hang insulation and the interior aluminum, getting ready to paint the walls. Then on to cabinet work.
If one googles Silver Streak index my site and pictures are near the top of the page "Silver Streak index"
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Post by elewayne on Feb 14, 2017 10:16:35 GMT -8
Trailer went into storage at the end Of Oct. Now middle of Feb and I just got the trailer back to the house/shop to start work again. Almost done with the wiring. Will start insulating next week then start sanding and cleaning up all of the interior aluminum to rehang. I have set the next 7 mouths aside to get an interior back in the trailer so we can start camping next fall. Probably ambitious, I know.
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Post by elewayne on Apr 10, 2017 13:40:49 GMT -8
I've had the trailer since July 4th 2015. It's all cleaned up on the outside, some repairs made and a coating on the anodized aluminum skin. Belly pan re-screwed to the frame. New gray water tank installed. New sub floor put down. Wiring replaced and new insulation installed, (and I've had it in storage for three months while I did other things). I'm starting to rehang the aluminum skins on the inside walls now. Really hoping to get it ready to camp by this fall.
Photos at http://WWW.Silverlodger.com
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Post by livingstonatlarge on Apr 14, 2017 15:34:09 GMT -8
That's a cool looking trailer. It will be quite the stunner when you get done with it.
A fun follow.
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Post by elewayne on Apr 14, 2017 15:37:15 GMT -8
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