Container renovation Part 2

Riku took out all the mounting rails from the walls and roof. And then we cleaned the inside of the container again. So this is the container waiting for some improvements:

 

And this is working in October, before the heater and lights:

 

As it turns out, the wallpaper glue requires +18 Celsius to dry, and it was about + 5 in November. But the heater borrowed from a friend worked great and with the powerful lights it was easily over + 20.

We chose a smoothly textured glass fiber wallpaper for the walls and roof. From mint green to white:

The gymnastics approach:

The artistic approach:

And now we're in 2015 with the whole container finally wallpapered! We've got the base paint purchased, so that'll be the next phase.

Stay tuned!

/ Tiina

Container renovation Part 1

Happy New Year everybody!

We've been trying to work on the truck through our precarious Finnish early winter (slowly though, with Christmas and everything). The temperature can go from -20 Celsius to 0 in a few hours. There's rain, there's snow, there's freezing and it's dark. But hey, the container doesn't have holes in it anymore, so there's nothing a heater and some construction lights can't fix!

Last time you saw the container it was in the middle of the measuring and planning process. Some things have happened since then.

We ordered 12 aluminium plates from a metal shop to cover all the holes in the container left by the heater and other appliances. Riku painted them in our garage and drilled all the holes for the screws. We also cut out right sized bits of polyurethane foam plate and foamed them to the aluminum.

Then we needed to lift the  driver's cabin to reach the back of the container. It turned out to be a bit more tricky than planned.

The locking mechanism of the shift stick extension was leaking hydraulic fluid, so it wouldn't open and the driver's cabin wouldn't rise. It took some time to fix it, but finally we did it!

After installing the aluminum + foam plates from the inside, we filled the sides of the holes with foam to minimize cold bridges which could prove problematic in the future.

After all this cutting, spraying and taping, we finally got to covering the holes with the aluminum. First we scraped all excess dried foam and then glued the plates on.

We also took out all the original plates and glued them to get rid of the screws that would show under the wallpaper.

Speaking of which, this was next:

To be continued in Part 2.

/ Tiina