So, It's been a while. I've been busy, folks! After all the roof patching and tar work, I had to wait a minimum of 30 days before coating the roof. I had a hard time choosing a product because all white roof coatings are better than all silver roof coatings. In many cases, 30% more efficient at reflecting heat. But who wants a white roof on a silver trailer? I had to bend my logical mind and chose this silver coating. It was a messy job, and a real challenge to not drip this muck down the side of the trailer. 

Originally I had planned to cover the ceiling first, so I got busy making furring strips that you can see sandwiched around the roof rafters. After thinking a little further down the line, I decided that the odds of needing to access the underside of the roof are greater than needing to access the inside of the walls. So I started ripping 15/32 plywood into 6" strips for wallboard. We plan on whitewashing much of it. 

Naturally, as soon as I was getting something accomplished, my table saw motor went out. I took it to a  repair shop after my troubleshooting accomplished nothing.  It was totaled, so I bought a new motor that's worth 3x what I paid for my table saw on craigslist! I figured it was still better than buying another used saw that may have it's own problems. 

This is naturally the next post. I made a really dumb mistake. 

Fortunately, I had good gloves on and had just switched the motor off. So I stopped the blade's momentum with my finger while leaning over the table to pick something up. Don't do that.  Most table saw injuries don't end this well, so I am grateful that I still have a finger.  The injury does make simple work a lot harder though. 

I completed a wall just to be sure that this is how we want to proceed. We're liking it, so I took the time to sit down and re-align my priorities for the next few months. I find that I feel a lot better about progress when there is something to cross out as completed. 

These are the new goals and deadlines. Under this sheet of paper, there are several other deadlines that were not met! It keeps me pushing though…...