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Slo Flyers International Air Field Pilots Lounge As all of you are aware, our Pilots Lounge, AKA The Trailer, looks bad. We have been discussing cleaning and painting it for well over a year now. After some more detailed looks, it was determined that we may have some rot damage in addition to the shabby looks. In the March-April time frame we contacted a local trailer repairman and he gave us an eye opening bid for pulling the aluminum siding off and replacing the windows and siding. We hired him and the work started on June 17.
As soon as the covering started coming off, our rot fears were confirmed. We found rot on all four sides of the trailer, both top and bottom. Some of the rot was extensive enough that you could pull pieces off by hand with little effort as shown below
This is near the wall between the meeting room and the storage room.. The flooring will also need replacing along the edge. It looks like a one foot strip will need replacing. By the end of the day, the entire siding was removed as well as the air conditioner unit.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
It is obvious that other conversions and repair have taken place. It looks as if a door went into our storage side and was blocked off. The studding around our door also looks new. The morning of June 18th gave us a surprise. The wind had come up overnight and blew the roofing mostly off the trailer. Our contractor removed it the rest of the way and took advantage of the situation to scrape all the seams and inspect it for damage. We lucked out in that there were no rips from the blow off.
While there was extensive rot, it is repairable. The damage is confined to the outer walls. The floor joist and rafters look good for the most part. We decided that as long as there were some studs that required replacing, and there were a number of areas where the paneling was rotted, we would have the paneling removed to make the wall repairs easier and to save us the trouble of hauling it to the dump later. I left the field about noon on Tue the 18th and Gene came back later in the afternoon and most of the paneling was removed. I didn't make it to the field yesterday or today, but will go out Saturday morning for some flying I hope and to get some more progress photos. I'll add to this page afterwards. Don Rogers 6/20/08 When I got out to the field Sunday, 6/22, this is what saw. What a change. When I got back out to the field this morning, Gene had a CD full of photos bridging some of the gap to my photos on Sunday. Here is the update as of 6/23/08
As I mentioned, the tin roof blew off Tue night. This is a birds eye view of the roof as it now stands. As you can see, there was some patch work done prior and the needs to be some of the plywood replaced also. I'm not sure how Gene got this high.
The guys taking a break in the 110 degree weather on Wed. Still in tear down mode.
A lot of the tear down is complete. They left the back room still paneled to provide some stiffness to the wobbly frame work.
At this point, they are adding additional jack under the trailer and leveling the bed.
Notice that they didn't need a crow bar to tear out the stud. At this point, Gene called it a day, and we will skip forward to Sundays find
Ahh, the smell of new wood. The leveling is complete. They have replaces wood and flooring plywood from the door back to nearly the back room. As you can see in the lower left part, there is still rot to be repaired there.
This is how it looks after the repairs and new wall section are in place. I'm peeking in the door opening here.
Peeking (?) in from the other side of the trailer. Notice the new window. We are replacing all of the windows with Vinyl clad ones.
Still more to do. This is across the trailer from the new window. Note the new jack at the bottom of the photo. I'll get out again Wed morning and report on the progress up to then. Don 6/23/08 I hadn't been out to the field but once since the last update. The repair framing is just about complete. Roof repairs are still to be completed.
These last shots were taken on the 7/28. I didn't get back out there until this morning what a difference.
Wow, Exterior paneling is in place on two sides, well actually all four. The new windows are in As you can see, there is still roof work to be completed. We are at the point we need to schedule a painting party. The window trim, corner caps, upper and lower trim still need to be completed. Along with the skirting.
The paneling inside was about the same as the exterior. There was rot on all sides. That, along with the previous remodels and repairs left the paneling useless. So we get to start over there also. We need to put in some basic wiring, then we can finish the inside, paneling, flooring, and window and door trim inside. Yesterday, Dave and crew cut the overhang off the roof and then completed flashing the roof edge. Not much to see in a photo, so I didn't take any. Today though, was the topping off. The sheet metal roofing was put back on. Remember, it blew off after the first days work, skinning the trailer down to see what we had. They stretched it out on the grass behind the trailer and scrapped all the seams and then yesterday, they power washed it in prep for today. Part of this mornings activities was trying to flatten out any bump and dents in the roofing. Lots of Tap Tap taps all morning. The then flipped it over and worked on the bottom straightening it out. I didn't get my camera out in time, but the roof is about 8 to 10 sub panels joined together. When they got it upside down, there was red, blue, green, silver, orange, yellow, about six different color panels in all. By the time I got my camera out, they had it flipped back over and was cutting it to the new length.
I looked up later to see they had rolled it up and had it on top of the trailer.
Remember that the roofing blew off before. Today's winds were gentle, around 5 to 6 for the most part, but Dave and crew was taking no chances. The 2x4 was part of their plan to prevent a repeat performance.
More 2x4's as they roll it out
Add some ladders on top of the 2x4's for extra weight
Ready for the last flip
In place now. If covering wings were so easy, or at least as easy as they made it look. I'm not sure if I'll get out to the field tomorrow, Thursday or not. I will make it Friday for sure and Saturday for our meeting. More to follow When I got out to the trailer today, the roof was completed and the weather striping was completed as well as the seal coat on the roof. Dave was now installing the skirting around the trailer. The skirting is easily removable if we need or decide to move the trailer at a later date. We just unscrew the panels and then remove the 2x2 frame work which is just tacked in place with finish nails.
The skirting was installed after these photos and is of the same T1-11 paneling as the trailer. More to follow Well the trailer is now sheeted in and has a coat of paint on it. On Tue and Wed, July 15 and 16, Andy Brennan went out and masked off all of the windows in preparation for painting. Last Thursday and Friday, July 17 and18, my self, Don Rogers and Andy Brennan primed the new wood. We ran out of our first 5 gallons an had to call it a day on Thursday. We hand rolled the primer and it was a lot like trying to paint a sponge. We did manage to get a good base coat on though after 8 1/2 gallons of primer. On Saturday, July 19, Gene Kener and Tony Gallo as well a Andy Brennan were out worked on some prep work inside and Gene sprayed the final coat. I didn't get back to the field until today so about all I can show is the completed work.
Make sure you get to the club meeting on Aug 9th. There will be a discussion on how to finish the work that still needs to be done. Don A minor update as of today, 7-27-08 Dave came out to the field today and replaced the door on the trailer.
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