Trailer Porn!

Fully exposed! Like you've never seen before! The following post contains graphic, even shocking images. You've been warned!

Deconstruction has been completed and the project has moved on to the construction phase. Due to a tendency to be thorough and an overwhelming amount of rot, the deconstruction phase led us to a point we had not anticipated going:



Yes, that's correct gentle readers, we took the whole thing apart and decided to start from scratch. When you have finished with your guffaws and "wtf's", please read on for the explanation as to why we were forced to start over completely. And no, it's not because I'm crazy.

If you will recall, this whole project began as a result of obvious water damage in the front driver's side corner of the trailer. As we removed paneling we noticed that not only was the wood rotted, but the frame was falling apart. Since I wanted my new home to be structurally sound, the decision was made to completely demolish the existing frame and start over. This demolition led us to the fact that all the floorboards were rotted out, and since it would be impossible to adhere brand new walls to rotted out floors, we bit the bullet, and ended up with the shiny piece of metal you saw above. An example of the state of the frame - the picture below is the most structurally sound portion of the entire trailer before demolition:



Unfortunately the roof also collapsed once we had removed the paneling from the entire passengers side, a lovely picture of which is below:



If anyone has ever wanted to know what a trailer's worth of trash looks like, here it is:



The advantage of having finished deconstruction is, of course, the fact that I get to construct! We bought the materials for and began working on the floor yesterday, and had we not run out of wood (we were short 6 lousy feet) we would have been done with the whole thing this morning. Thanks to the skills of my partner in crime, we even managed to recreate the angle in the frame to allow for the curve of the trailer. I've provided more pictures below. Hopefully the next time I post the floor will be finished and *gasp* there might even be a wall or two!