caravan repairs.

Now you know when then say  "if it seems too good to be true it usually is"?? well it's true.
I bought a caravan about a month ago it had everything with it, awning, porta potti, etc.

 
Well i also came with the dreaded DAMP!!!! AAAHHHHH!!! no not the damp!!!
Well it was more of a leak really, anyway suffice to say we couldn't use it as it was and i was not about to scrap it.
I decided to take the boards off of the offending area to have a look, the theory being "it's only a bit of damp and i can replace the board when i have sorted the leak.
OH MY GOD! the entire rear of the right hand wall and half of the rear wall was completely shot and i mean fall apart in your hands stuff.
So i decided it all had to come out, over the course of a few evenings and weekends it was all stripped out and the offending puncture wound located and repaired.
Next it was off  to the local DIY store to source some wood and sticky stuff and £70 later i was ready to start the rebuild.
I had marked out the outlines of the original wood so i set about cutting and fitting the replacements.

this is about half way through the frame work, you can see the marks on the tin where the wood still needed to be fitted.

Now its amazing the things you find out when you go headlong into a repair project like this, for instance, how many of you knew that a caravan is built from the inside out?.
Well i didn't until i was stripping this thing down and found that all the screws holding the thing together where put in from the outside,( the tin was fitted last).
So that was a joy trying to remove rusted screws from the wrong end.
anyway i managed to get it done and it was no mean feat i can tell you, i certainly wouldn't want to do another one in a hurry, but i did enjoy it in a "learning new stuff" kind of way. LOL

Just needs some textured paper and some paint and she is good to go.
Well that part is anyway.
I'm sure there is more but thats another entry.
I look forward to your comments.
Leigh