My FEMA trailer thread

[The_Stuff]

dont feel so bad about your original floors! put the vent and drain in today and there was NO insulation in the floor!

[HomeGrown]

Originally Posted by The_Stuff

dont feel so bad about your original floors! put the vent and drain in today and there was NO insulation in the floor!

None? I may as well have had none. I really want to / need to do something with it. I'm going to check out the RV skirting link posted here. That would certainly help.

Here's my latest work... the electric heat conversion. Not what I had originally planned (was going to have one heater in the back and one up front) but I will see how it works out. Right now I only have 1 heater active and it does a great job of taking off the chill. I have the outlet hooked up to power on & off with the t-stat. Also put my original propane furnace back in place. The heat duct is still in place, but no holes in the floor. I may go ahead and put them in, in case the electric heaters don't do the job.

[The_Stuff]

lol that is so something i can see my father do!

for electric heat this year i am thinking of buying one of those furnace vent box things.



its quartz infared heater with forced air. should work the best I would think.

[HomeGrown]

Yeah, I like those kind of heaters! I wanted something like that, but didn't find one small enough to fit under the seat where the furnace is.

[TheFlagGang5]

Homegrown, I've been following your thread for awhile. I like seeing the creativity you've put forth. Looks like you've been really busy with your trailer and it looks great!

[HomeGrown]

Thank you so much Flag, it's been quite a lot of work and we're pretty happy with it so far. Not too much more major stuff to do, but plenty of smaller projects.

[HomeGrown]

This is so cool I almost wanted to start a new thread for it, but alas, it belongs in the FEMA trailer thread.

My buddy and co-worker was looking at some LED lights (for his Jeep) on ebay a few weeks ago, and found this stuff on a roll. It has adhesive back, and you can cut and solder new leads on it in sections as short as 3 lights (every 3 lights has a place where you can cut the strip, and has small soldering dots on the tape to solder wires to). The roll was about 16' and the length was absolutely perfect for placing them under my cabinets. It cost $13 for the roll, shipped from China (of course).

This stuff doesn't do flat corners very gracefully, and what I REALLY should have done was to cut the individual straight pieces to length (8 total) and solder jumpers to connect them back together. I was just too geeked when I got them and wanted to get them up asap. I can always go back and redo it I suppose, but that's WAY down on the priority list.

It's really not as glaringly bright as it may appear in the pics, and I was actually after a bit more than simply accent lighting, I wanted some useful work light, and got it. I stuck it so the LED's point downward (stuck on horizontally) where they cast the most light. If I put them under the front edge of the cabinet (vertically) it would probably have been perfect for accent lighting.

[The_Stuff]

ya i got a strip of those. was thinking put in a case and put in for over bathroom sink or shower area..