Bedroom Walls: Rebuilding The Bedroom

With the new front of bedroom studs cut from the other night, we worked on getting those studs ready to be installed and actually screwed to the RV.

Just like we stapled underbelly wrap to the sill plates, we did the same for the bedroom front wall studs. We need to "protect" the studs because they sit against metal.

The underbelly wrap is tightly wrapped and stapled to the stud.

Jerud measuring where the studs will sit against the sill plate.

We utilized the tailgate of the truck as a workspace.

Measuring where each individual vertical stud will be screwed to this piece.

Tybee and Tyki enjoying the sun as we work.

We decided that it would be a lot easier to screw all the vertical studs to the horizontal stud and then attach them to the RV rather than individually screwing each vertical stud to the rig first.

Screwing the new bedroom front wall studs to the RV.

The photo above shows what the new front of the trailer looks like. To determine what angle the new studs will sit on the sill plate, we installed the base of the bed back into the bedroom and clamped boards of wood to show where 6 extra inches end (we decided to extend the bedroom by 6 inches length-wise so we could fit a full length queen size bed).

The next thing we tackled was re-enforcing the bedroom side walls that we didn't totally ripped out, but had to cut the bottom sections out due to rot. Windows will eventually be reinstalled in those two walls and one of the walls may occasionally have a window A/C unit in it. So it's important they have sturdy studs.

Side bedroom walls cut at the bottom because of rot.

After re-enforcing the window walls we went back to finishing the front bedroom wall.

The studs on the driver side of the front bedroom is exactly 6 inches from the chassis.

But the passenger side (my side of the bed) is leaning further away from the chassis than the 6 inches it's supposed to.

The only reason I could come with for this error.

Jerud sets up a plumb bob to see where the roof stud extension needs to end to meet the front wall stud.

The front wall side stud is screwed in.

Then the roof extension stud is screwed in.

The two new studs meet and get attached.

We put a sample piece of luan in between the two studs so we knew how much to tighten them.

We added two additional vertical studs for extra support for the roof.

What the front looks like with the passenger side of the bedroom done.

Side view.

We did the same thing on the driver side of the bedroom.

Once the new side wall studs were completed, we focused on installing the roof studs. We needed to replace the three studs we had cut off the roof due to rot.

We installed the very front roof stud first and connected all the corners to it.

We used one of the existing roof studs to trace the next two studs.

While working on the roof studs, we realized it was necessary to tear down the side bedroom wall luan. Removing the existing luan would make it easier to install new luan and would make the walls look cleaner overall (the seams would match better).