Woohoo! Happy to be back with a ‘good news’ housebus update. Thanks to a couple very welcome gift cards this holiday season, I was able to run out to the store today to pick up some more enamel paint and[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, it’s been a busy month of tiny steps here on the Housebus project. After making some good progress getting the floor ready for installing a subfloor, I realized that I still had too many windows with untreated leaks. I’d[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, as I mentioned in my last post about the housebus windows, my next step was going to be to pull out the window I’d already re-sealed with butyl tape, and to re-do it with more attention paid to any[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Got up this morning just in time to see the snow beginning to come down. Always my favorite day of the year. Today’s basic plan is to continue tackling the wiring in the housebus. I managed to label and bundle[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, so the job I did sealing that first window last week isn’t holding up. I’ve noticed water continuing to leak through even with the butyl tape and weatherstripping in place. And today I noticed a number of other windows[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ah, what better way to spend a holiday than trying to figure out what’s chewing through my remaining hard drive space? Bad news: I noticed this last night, my HD space just constantly getting smaller and smaller, a GB every[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s plan is to get out to the housebus and start the long process of sealing up all the windows. I’ve known since I first picked up the bus that it had moisture problems – the musty smell was unmistakable,[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s housebus score: A decent, newish window AC unit, three milk crates, and almost a dozen 8-oz mason jars! The window AC is a Frigidaire, and looks to be in really good shape! Aesthetically, at least. I still need to[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey gang! I’ve been chipping away at the bus the last couple weeks, knocking off small projects here and there. Today’s unlocked achievement was the surprisingly-easy install of a tow-hitch receiver, something I’ll need when I hit the road to[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a nice, gray, blustery day out there in Portland this morning. I’m still planning to get out and glue down the pennies to the floor, and also to start working on attaching the tow-hitch receiver to the rear chassis.[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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