It’s not often that I can start and finish a project in less than a day. Even if I do, having enough willpower and motivation to write a blog post never seems to happen. I decided, BusBus is coming along just fine and my body needs a break. I love working on the bus, but the physical and mental … More Rest Days and Low-budget Fun
The floor? Wait, did you think we just swept this matter under the rug? Well, we didn’t. Or at least we didn’t have a rug large enough to cover the space. 😉 Why did we cut out the floor? The short answer is rust. Lots of rust. It ate through the thick sheet metal making … More A Preview of the New Floor
Just a precursor: this post and post series will be long and detailed. You’ve been warned! 😉 It is, happily, the day I walk you, dear reader, through the arduous, yet rewarding process of window-making. This post will cover the reasons for building custom windows, the design, the materials, and the process of actually building the … More BusBus Window-making (Part 1: Reasons/Design/Tools)
Snow is falling and work on the bus has stagnated for the moment. So why not share some of our travel stories from 2015? One of the many reasons we want to live in BusBus is to travel. That’s probably no surprise, to any of you, I’m sure. It seems to be the common denominator for us … More BusBus Fodder: Road Machine Trips of 2015
This will be a short “FYI” post. It may be helpful to someone starting their build and deciding how to secure their tools and materials. Rarely do leave anything of value on the bus; power tools, materials, and supplies are stored in our one-bedroom apartment. There are a couple of items we’ve stored at the bus for … More Dial L for Larceny
The roof raise is finished! Though this article has been a long time coming since the roof raise was completed in mid-December…Read on to learn more about the step-by-step process! … More Rizzled fo’ Shizzled: Behind the Scenes of an 18″ Roof Raise
Something like 2 months ago I made my last blog post on BusBus. The blog posts have not been coming as regularly as I’d planned, but they will be coming more regularly now. We’ve made quite a bit of progress on the floorplans, floor repair, roof raise, and more! We are at such an exciting point in … More Plans, Changes, and Long-overdue Updates
Floor plans, in my experience so far, are not created in one attempt. It’s more of an evolution and the accumulative iterations become a final floor plan. I’ll let you know once we have a final floor plan! I had planned to try to use an existing floor plan and then modify it to my … More BusBus Floor Plans (Versions 1 – 3.2)
The seats are out. The floor is up. I do feel like listening to Lionel Richie and “dancing on the ceiling.” After all, there’s only the ceiling and walls to deal with before the bus is gutted! In theory, it sounded simple enough to me. It was just a matter of unscrewing the 1500+ screws with the power … More Oh, What a Feeling… We’re Tearing Down the Ceiling
It’s been a while since my last update. There are plenty of pictures to be posted of our progress on BusBus! My last post was about removing the seats and we will start back up here, with the floor removal. After the seats were scrapped, we were left with four layers of flooring. The first is … More Linoleum, Plywood, and Sheet Metal, Oh My!
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