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)
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
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!
I tend to be a bit too optimistic (if that’s really a thing) when it comes to my project plans and timelines. Supposedly, the most difficult or, more accurately, hated task of a bus conversion is the seat removal process. Each bus has at least five or six rows of seats and the large, longer … More Seat Removal and Other Horribly Difficult Tasks
The Adventures of BusBus 