Well, good morning Adventurers.
That is right, today we are completing a huge project,
the final one to make Clementine officially road-ready.
The shower.
Now get out of here. The show ain't free,
That's right guys, we're back in the garage
because sadly, even though we went on a trip in our last video,
this RV not done.
All good things must come to an end.
Yes. If you caught that video, we did take our first trip,
we went to a campsite.
Mainly, our goal there was just to kind of try everything out, see how everything felt,
and mostly it was a wild success.
However, you'll notice we did not take a shower
and that's because the shower was far from done.
However, our goal today is to finish
for the most part this freaking shower,
so next time we take it out, we're showering in this thing, dang.
Yes, so this blue stuff is not...
artsy or paint or anything like that.
No. Well, we went through a bunch of different ideas of how to kind of seal these edges,
and we were going to use clear sealant but we now don't think that's going to look very good.
We were going to use trim, but then that's just a whole heap of work and probably not a great idea,
so we're using this brown sealant right here.
The key, though, is to make a very very straight line so it looks hopefully very professional,
and tape to the rescue for that,
because we cannot make a straight line with this thing to save our lives.
So, here's our strategy. We got a caulk that's got kind of some brown tint to it.
Ideally, we just want it to kind of mostly match the wood.
Most importantly, it's weatherproof.
It's mold-free, it stretches up to 800 percent.
Alright, so this should be the stuff for the job.
I just got to do it. I'm kind of nervous to do it because if it looks like crap.
We're kind of stuck with it.
Now we can always put trim up, right?
Yeah, I guess, but I don't want to have to do that.
Hopefully this ends up being a good idea.
Report back at the end of this video.
Alright, wish me luck y'all.
The time has come.
I've delayed long enough.
We are definitely making some key errors.
Number one,
this stuff skins over very quickly so i tried to do a bunch at first and then take the tape off,
but it started pulling the sealant off with it.
So you got to do a little bits at a time and then take the tape off. That's the key.
Now that we're like 75 done, we know that.
Yeah and we've messed up a bunch of our lines.
I think we're getting the hang of this. We got a pretty clean line down here on the shower pan,
which is arguably the most important spot,
because it's very obvious if you make a mistake.
Not too bad.
- Yeah. - I think that will do.
This is a very very messy job.
Yeah.
Zero out of ten, do not recommend doing this.
No. not fun.
Well, now that the shower is finally sealed,
we get to put some pretty stuff in here.
I made some custom trim to go around the outside of our shower.
We made it kind of dark kind of to match the rest of the RV,
cause we have these nice dark beams going through our ceiling
and in some other spots.
That's fine, I meant to do that.
- Oh, shoot. - Right into the corner. Yeah.
It did. Well, I messed up.
I dropped that and it went right into the sealant.
- Whoops. - Oh man.
So i know that you guys are probably not that impressed,
they're like "great, just put the freaking trim on", but...
i just have to complain for a little bit because y'all,
this was very complicated to do. I had to notch out the countertop here,
and then i had to notch out the shower down there,
which the pan is very strange.
Plus, all of these sizes are different,
so I had to, you know, cut this at one size,
cut this down there in another size.
It took me a long time to get it right.
And you did a great job, because it fits like a glove.
But it's been done for days and I've been wanting to install it,
and just see all my handy work come together and now I'm finally gonna do it!
And just like that, the shower is almost done.
Obviously we gotta put the faucet back on
and there's a little more trim we gotta do around the bottom of the bathroom,
but we are so close, so damn close.
I feel like for us is always like "and just like, that it's almost done".
It's almost done, and then six months later maybe it's really almost done,
and then it's done.
But it looks really nice. I mean, we had to do some pretty complicated corners here and stuff,
Allison did that.
And shaping around the shower pan down there.
I had to redo this like three different times.
Although I'm impressed that it only took me three times.
Glad to be done, y'all.
If I never have to say the word trim again, it'll be too soon.
Check it, you guys.
We made some custom gold trim
for our little kitchen fridge cabinet.
Our intention was to never have to trim this out.
We actually thought this was going to be a standalone piece and it was so beautiful,
but as you can see here, we made some mistakes.
Yeah, we made the countertop way too short,
but we had already finished it all off and we weren't about to recut it and redo it, so.
Yeah, we tried our best to make it work and we just could not get it,
so this is our fix.
We're going to put these really pretty
gold trim pieces here,
that match our...
Windows, so that's gonna cover up all of our mistakes and make it beautiful.
Yeah. So these two pieces go on the end like so,
and make these nice little gold end caps,
and then we just have a piece of pine that goes here.
This is actually the same as the trim that we have all throughout the kitchen.
I don't know, I think it looks kind of cool. It looks like a really custom piece.
Maybe it's a little awkward. I don't know, you guys tell us.
Oh, I'm sure you will.
And we really like the gold, you guys. I think I've decided gold might be my favorite color.
Is that weird? I'm fancy.
I love gold.
Alright, success so far.
We love these clamps, they're from Irwin
and they are so freaking versatile.
You can literally flip them around and push out like this.
You can almost always find a way to clamp pretty much anything.
We've got more finishing touches you guys.
We have this nice beautiful piece of oak tree that we stained and polied,
and look how well it matches the floor.
We've been puzzling over how to do this transition part for a long time,
because I actually have a conduit of wires that runs through here
and i didn't want that to be super obvious, but...
we basically just built up some wood here for this to fasten into,
and then the wires kind of fit snugly underneath that,
so i think it's going to work. Mostly, it looks a lot more finished than it did previously.
What you got cooking over here?
Y'al,l this is a project that...
I'm like one of the most...
A project I'm really excited about.
One of the most exciting projects.
These are the original faux leather pieces
that were in the front cab.
I guess they just kept you from bonking your head on stuff and covered up some unsightly places,
but we've had these out for a year and a half and we...
I didn't think they were gonna fit back in,
and we fit them today and they do,
but they've been sitting in the corner of the garage for a year and a half and they are nasty.
We did have to modify it a bit. We needed more of a notch out here,
so we just...
took the old staples out, cut this back and put some new ones in.
That was super easy.
Yeah, but they're so fun and I'm so glad that we have...
someting from original RV back in there.
We've been staring at this nasty exposed wood for a long long time,
but the time has come finally to cover this monstrosity up.
No longer.
So this basically fits in here, just like so.
It covers all this nasty stuff up.
- Yeah. - Perfect.
These are the final pieces of the puzzle.
These are actually leftover from this old overhead cab.
These pieces used to sit here and here,
but we are going to repurpose them.
So, previously there was a big cut out here, so there was nothing in this area.
You kind of filled it with a little piece of the bed.
But now you can see we have a big hunk of wood here that needs to be covered up.
So our plan...
was to put these right here.
Like squanch them in there.
Unfortunately, these were a little bit too long, so we had to modify these.
This is our first time doing any form of upholstery,
but it was surprisingly easy.
All we had to do was take the staples out,
then we peeled some of this leather back,
then we cut the wood down to the size we needed to,
bent it back over and re-stapled it.
And we actually misplaced the original hardware, so we made these little fancy gold
little washers and screws that we painted our signature gold.
It's gonna look pretty good, I think. Time to install.
Boy, is it gonna be awesome, cause I'm so ready to cover all this nasty crap.
Whoopsie... that's alright, it's fine.
Y'all, our shower is done,
it is watertight and ready to be showered in.
Well said.
Yes, so we sealed everything in there and we even reinstalled our shower head,
but now we have to test that to make sure that we reinstalled it correctly
and it's not going to leak on us.
So, we came over to my parents' house to use the host.
We can fill up all of our tanks and do that,
and it's going to go just as well as the bathroom sink did. No leaks, right?
Who's ready for the first shower ever
in old Clementine?
You are!
I know why I'm always so nervous that something's gonna go wrong.
Theoretically, before we put this fixture on, we tested all this plumbing back here
and water was flowing with no leaks or anything like that.
so the real potential issue is just this joint here,
but I sealed that up pretty good
and the worst thing can happen is it's just gonna leak a little here. So,
you know. it can't be that bad.
So the valves are officially open, so we have water flowing to here.
I don't know which one of these is on, this is like a dual purpose shower head thing.
Let's try it.
Why is this so scary?
Oh shoot, did they come out right there?
The water came out down here.
That's not ideal.
What is this? This is like, the thing itself is messed up.
It kind of works.
There's a leak right here though, that kind of sucks.
- No! - What's that about?
We've never actually used the shower head, so my assessment is that it's broken,
because it's leaking right down here, and this is just like the seal internally in the shower head.
Water's flowing, check that out.
Theoretically, you could take a shower in here, though.
You just have a little leak down there which kind of sucks, but hey, it works.
It works!
We got the rain shower kind of working.
I think it's losing too much pressure down here,
so it's not one to come out of there.
Okay so the rain shower might not really work too well.
It's happening, we're putting up the curtain.
Sadly, our actual curtain rod that we want is not in yet,
so we're just borrowing this one for a second.
But this is our final shower curtain.
- It is, I'm so excited. - It looks pretty cool.
This was like one of the first things I purchased.
I was looking around on West Elm site,
and I came across this beauty,
and they had it in a wooden shower and I was like
"it's perfect!",
and it is, it's so perfect!
You know what that means.
Oh it's shower time, baby.
Shower time sexy music.
What, my feet get cold.
But now i get to warm up
in our brand new hot shower.
That was her big idea to do a bunch of socks in that scene.
Eric really disliked it,
but you'll have to let me know. Did you think it was funny?
Because i thought it was hilarious.
Alright, the moment of truth.
A human being is going to shower in here.
It feels so wrong, I feel like I shouldn't be in here doing this.
We still don't have our towel rack up either, so...
let's get this over here.
Gosh, I feel like I'm in a a saun or a ski lodge or something.
This is so wild.
Look while i'm showering
in my own shower that I built.
Nice job.
Almost forgot, gotta have the exhaust fan on.
That's the key.
Oops, I did it again to your heart, got lost
in this game, oh baby.
Alright, you're done.
Huge success, shower works.
- Yeah, first shower. - It worked.
We've done our first everything in here, I think.
And it all works.
So, we don't want to give away too much, but the holidays are coming,
and you all know we love some Christmas markets
and those have not been running the past couple years, so...
I think we're gonna have to head to Europe and see those.
But before we do that, obviously we gotta take some trips
in old Clementine now that she's ready for the round.
So that's kind of our next plan.
Just to do some trips around the area.
We have some really interesting stays we're wanting to do.
Then we'll pop over to Europe.
Stay tuned to figure out where we're gonna go.
And then we'll be back and living in Clementine on the road indefinitely.
Yeah, I think you know, we're gonna stop and do little projects here and there,
because there are some final touches we want to do, we really want to customize where all the plates go,
all the silverware, all the little accoutrements.
We want like a set spot, so that we're not battening everything down every time we hit the road.
That stuff's gonna take a long time, so it's gonna be an ongoing thing.
It'll be fun to kind of put it all together yeah while traveling.
We're sick of staying put and working in a garage,
so we might all do that on the road,
while we're traveling,
because she's ready now.
Oh my God, she's officially ready!
I can't believe it!
Freaking out. Goodbye, Adventurers.
We'll see you on the road.