A little something every day

Jim and I are both working a 40 hour work week. Two days a week we both get home at the same time. The other three days I am home around 1:30 - 2:00 in the afternoon and he follows around 4:30pm. We both have the weekends off. I think it's important to point this out early on, as it becomes hard to make a lot of progress throughout the week. Hopefully we can continue to work as much as possible on the weekends and feel like we are making a dent in things. Right now we have managed to get at least a little something done every day, even if it's going to Home Depot to pick up some "goo" remover to take off the sticky mess left behind by all those tacky school bus stickers - which is what we did yesterday.

Since my last post, we have managed a few little things. Here's the short list:



We went ahead and pulled up the rubber flooring on the steps. We were pleasantly surprised to find that it all looks good, with the small exception of a tiny rusted through hole in the very right hand corner of the lower step (not visible in this photo). It's easily fixed, though, so no worries.


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Jim spent a whole day last weekend with the grinder and the bus floor, steadily working away at the larger rust areas that were a bit pitted and deeper than just a mere surface rust. Jim then applied some rust inhibitor with a roller, which did an excellent job once it set overnight and was pressure washed out. I was amazed at the amount of rust that was just ---- GONE!

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Once it was completely dry (another 24 hours), Jim rolled it with some primer. We actually had two different brands and the color varied just slightly. So when looking at the floor afterwards, it appeared to still be wet in areas due to the color variance. Seeing as how this will soon be covered with a subfloor, it is of no concern. Naturally.

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I didn't take photos, but we also removed all the stickers on the inside of the bus and scuffed up the paint on the ceiling in preparation for painting. It took both me and Jim (with a little help from the kids) a couple of really hard scrubbing hours to complete. My shoulders and hands are still sore/aching.

In the next couple of days we plan to cover/tape up the windows on the inside and put a layer of primer on the ceiling. (The plans have changed for this, of course, and I'll discuss it once we get to it.) The ceramic additive we ordered should be delivered today or tomorrow, allowing us to possibly get the ceiling painted by this weekend.

That's where we are and where the next phase is headed. There's a little movement each day and with each day we get closer and closer to having her ready to hit the road.

Stay tuned ...