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I'm almost done. Final photos tomorrow after the last trim pieces are up and the caulk is applied. I put the lights in tonight. The night light is an LED trailer marker light. The red LED bulbs that came in the fixture were too bright, so I added a short section of red LED strip lights inside the fixture. The lens snaps on so tight that I didn't even secure the strip light in the fixture.
I'm almost done. Final photos tomorrow after the last trim pieces are up and the caulk is applied. I put the lights in tonight. The night light is an LED trailer marker light. The red LED bulbs that came in the fixture were too bright, so I added a short section of red LED strip lights inside the fixture. The lens snaps on so tight that I didn't even secure the strip light in the fixture.
Very nice !! Night light in the bathroom has been on my to-do list..... never get to it, yet
This project is complete, except for some retainers in the shower enclosure.
I went through three different types of trim before settling on the oak stop molding. It doesn't match the grain of the cabinets at all. But I needed something that was thick enough to cover up the gaps and strong enough to not fall apart when a staple was driven into it. The finish color is a close match. I used the same finish on some of the existing cabinet doors and it's close enough to not notice. In this picture you can see the new night light (red), new LED overhead light and the new register.
My lack of skill with trim is rivaled only by my poor skill with caulk. The white plastic molding you see on the left side of the picture had a good 1/2" gap on it. I used a heat gun to bend it closer to the wall (without melting the cheesy wall paper) and then used caulk to fill in the remaining gap. I broke one of the LED vanity bulbs. Geez, those things are expensive!
The sky light bottom cover still had the plastic protective wrap from the factory on it. I removed that and it looks like a brand new skylight. I didn't caulk around the skylight. I don't recall there being any caulk there when I took it down. The same panels used on the ceiling were also added above the shower enclosure, mainly because the wall paper was in such bad shape. It think it looks a lot better now and I have zero worry about water getting splashed above the shower enclosure. All joints were caulked to ensure that no humidity from the shower goes into the walls. The holes in the shower enclosure are - as near as I can tell - just automotive push retainer. The ones that were there were so brittle that the head shattered when I tried to remove it. Not one of the retainers came out whole.
The other side of the shower enclosure.
t doesn't take much to distract me. I worked on seven other minor RV projects during the remodel. Squirrel!!! The picture below is one of them. This is the "wall" in front of the tub. The wallpaper on the Luan was starting to come off so I replaced it with the Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic panel - the same panel that I used on the ceiling. The panel on the right is completely new and is designed to come off to provide access to the water lines and drain. While I had it open, I switched the hot and cold water lines to the shower/tub faucet. The factory had put them in backwards!
I still have to get busy with a rag and clean everything up. The toilet lid has adhesive on it. That's going to be a topic of conversation.
Loctite PL-8X is some seriously sticky stuff. It's very thick. When I stop squeezing the handle of the caulk gun, the adhesive stops flowing. I hope it holds long term as well as it holds short term. The top 6" of the shower enclosure was reglued with that adhesive. So far it's in better shape than when I started this project.
This project was a lot of work. More than I thought it would be, but most of my projects are like that. I can't leave something halfway done. I could have slapped new paneling over the existing ceiling and called it a day. But I took down the old ceiling and then fixed bad wood framing and added a lot of insulation. The cost wasn't too bad. I already had rigid foam insulation, adhesive, caulk and fasteners. The biggest costs were the sheet of 1/4" 4'x8' Luan, 4'x8' FRP panel, the FRP adhesive and all the FRP and wood trim.
I like the FRP panel. I'm considering lining part of my garage with it to cover up the lousy drywall that is there now.
The tops and bottoms of RV shower enclosures are left open for a reason as condensation will form behind the plastic enclosure and needs to run down or evaporate.
The tops and bottoms of RV shower enclosures are left open for a reason as condensation will form behind the plastic enclosure and needs to run down or evaporate.
The top was definitely NOT open. It was glued to the wall, all along the top couple of inches of the enclosure. The bottom is open and I'll keep it that way, but only because I'm out of glue.
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