Wiring, painting complete

All of the wiring is now fixed. The short in the trailer lights turned out to be from a missing running light, someone just shoved the wire back into the hole and caulked over it. The wire ended up touching metal and was shorting the lights. I have bought all new running and clearance lights and should be installing them today.

There were a few things wrong with the inside lighting as well, some of the overhead lights were wired wrong and was causing some crazy issues like one light not working unless another one was turned on and when they did come on they were very dim.

Here is a shot of the completed wiring, I drilled small holes in the cross-braces and tied the wiring to it with 18 gauge wire (I couldn't find my zip-ties!):


With the wiring fixed I ran new wiring for the spotlights then cut holes in the ceiling panel with a 2 1/2 inch hole saw bit. Then we reinstalled the panel, we used R-13 insulation above it.

Here is a shot of the panel and the spotlights:

As you can see we reinstalled the original fixtures also. This is temporary as we are ordering new brushed nickel ones.

Then we installed the mini blinds I mentioned in my last post. the blinds are brushed aluminum ones exactly like the ones that come in new Airstreams. We actually found them at Ikea while we were getting the butcherblock countertop. They were only $15 each!


We also finished painting. We ran a chocolate brown stripe down the camper below the window and used the same color on the cabinet faces.

Today we're hoping to finish the countertops and get the sink installed.