Surgery on the Trailer

Early Wednesday morning Larry ran the living room slide in to make sure the new rubber seal that he replaced would do what it's suppose to do. Well everything sealed up and looked good so he ran the slide back out. The only problem was the limit switch that stops the slide failed to shut off and do you know what happens when one part of a wall pushes on another part, yup it pushes the other wall out away from the trailer. Luckily Larry was right there and shut it off before it did any damage. Now there's a good- a bad -and a ugly about all this. The bad, - dry rot found - the good, we found it before it got any worse- the ugly, having to pull all the dry rot out and replace the sill plate.

So emergency surgery was scheduled and all required instruments were gathered from the tool box. Remember me writing a blog on how men are like magnets when the hood of a vehicle goes up. Well let me tell you, nothing brings these guys out faster than the sound of a skill saw going down the side of a fiberglass trailer.

Now keep in mind while all this is happening I am up at the clubhouse helping prep the food for our St Patrick's dinner that night and women were coming in asking me why all the guys were at our place. After the 2nd or 3rd person mentioned this I decided I better go see what's happening. By the time I got home the group had dispense and the only ones left were the surgeon and his surgical staff.

Here's Doctor Larry, and his surgery team of Gary, David and Grant discussing the best procedure to use.

The first section of the surgery is completed and the dry rot is exposed.

One last look before the team calls it a day and the patient was resting comfortably.

The next day Larry and Grant made a early trip to Home Depot to get the necessary wood etc to complete the job. Thanks to all the guys they were able to get the dry rot out and put the new treated wood in. Larry finished up the day by putting the foam installation in. Today he did the final prep work of scraping the excess installation off and cleaning up the fender that will go back on. Plus he put a epoxy sealer on the wood so hopefully we don't have that problem again.

We can declare surgery was a success. Now the only thing left is replacing the fender skirt. Larry went down and talked with Mark Bruss this afternoon to get his input on what kind of filler to use to patch the cut when he puts the fender skirt back on. That was ordered and won't be here until next week so things are at a stand still.

I guess that part will have to be another blog. As many people have mentioned to me the last couple of days (can you tell not much excitement goes on around here) I'm really lucky that Larry is always able to take care of these kinds of things. Most would have had to hire it done, at a whole lot of peso's . I always agree whole heartily.

That's it for tonight. Welcome Saskatchewan Canada, Seal Beach CA, and Lewisville TX. Till next time.......................... to a certain person, we will be subtracting the repair cost to your finders fee.