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Read through this forum and learn from our mistakes! Also, fiberglass has a learning curve, it will be easier! When in doubt and you can’t find anything here, call CLC , great customer service. Enjoy building it, it’s a lot of fun and be prepared to get stopped often to answer questions when you take it out!
We have talked about doing our first one, and then once we have better skills, selling our first one and using the money to buy another one to really make perfectly with what we have learned. There is a learning curve in epoxy and fiberglass. I’m very glad our first fiberglass seams will be covered or I would never stop fretting over them lying in the the TD.
Something I noticed when we went camping for the first time, we put our stove on a tile, just to be safe and something we did not anticipate is that it kept sliding while cooking. We are going to implement the solution that CLC used fileting pieces of wood around our stove to make it so it can’t slide while cooking. Also, hooks, hooks for a towel, a paper towel holder, lights up above and lights in the recessed areas. I’m so glad we took it camping before we made our gallery insert permanent
Faithie, I think we are going to go the same route:) We have the same interlocking flooring material on the floor of our camper and will cut that to match the transom and quarter panels.
We did a tack job with the 3m 77 spray to get through this weekend (we don’t have electrical but had a planned camping trip). After noticing how chilly it was down there, we also were wondering why it doesn’t cover the transom or quarter panels, seems a bit strange. Also for people needing it “now” and not being able to do the full spray, 10 spot tack welds per foam piece seemed to hold it and we did have duct tape just in case it fell on our heads! I also let it dry probably 1-2 minutes due to the fact we wanted it to come off easily. Now we take it all down, adjust everything and put it back up with the spray as we will want to do future upgrades most likely.
We did put down foam tiles to help insulate the floor, they are about $10 from costco and cut fairly easily, they puzzle piece together. We also are seeing after spending the night in 50 degree temps that we are going to need to put insulation or foam on the transom which the headliner kit DOES NOT supply (not quite sure why!). Otherwise we noticed that the teardrop insulated really well, even with the mushroom vents open at night and we weren’t too cold. We also have looked into a heated mattress pad, obviously when we put the electric in, to extend the camping season a bit!
CLC doesn’t carry the pads and it looks like our advance auto parts has them AND is much closer than HD! We did end up getting the stop loss kit, mainly because we had a coupon on top of our 2 cans of varnish. Varnishing starts tomorrow morning so we will let everyone know how the stop loss kit works out. Thank you for all of the advice, I have been watching varnishing videos in my spare time lol!
Just want to make sure, are these the green scotch pads? I’m assuming they aren’t the blue anti scratch ones as the point of using them is to give them some teeth!
That is very helpful as we were just going to use foam brushes! We have already painted the bottom and found with the garage door closed and door leading to the townhouse closed, the VOC’s were too much, but with the garage door cracked open to allow a box fan to expel air, it was much much more manageable, meaning we didn’t smell it with charcoal respirators on. I think we have decided on waiting until the temp hit 75 later this week and avoid the days of 85+temps. As much as we want to get it done, there is just more of a chance for things to go wrong. We are going to dry fit the liner and clean like crazy. I think someone mentioned, in the Southern Maryland TD build that they took things out of the garage to eliminate dust. We will also leave the door open the night before we do it to keep the garage cool. Thank you for the tips faithie999!
Also look at the cabin storage thread a little bit down, seriously, I would pay money for that insert in the cabin! I like the cabin one mainly for the idea that we can do it at a later date when maybe our carpentry skills will be slightly higher than they are now:)
I got an email back, saying they should be shipping with lock nuts instead of just regular nuts and ours must just be one without them. Considering this is like a $10 fix, I’m not sure why all kits didn’t include extras, would have made me a repeat customer.
Thank you for this heads up, we got our Trailex trailer today and sure enough, ordinary nuts. Trip to the store and $10 later, we installed nylocks. I think this is serious enough that I’m going to write trailex an email, what about the people that don’t read this post???
Buy pinking shears, they are worth it to cut the fiberglass, also if your wife/partner/gf/neighbor/partner sews, it’s worth having them cut the glass to cut down on runs and crawling. Just as working with frosting, sometimes a smaller bag is better in order to get the size of fillet you want, we used both gallon size (larger fillets) and quart sized(small fillets and patch work) freezer bags. The quart sized bags fit awesome in the extra large cups from Subway (normally their movie promo cups). If we were to do another teardrop, we would probably buy a frosting spatula to help with the fillets.
