I thought, after a hard morning's labour, I would fill you in as to my progress today. It has been, well, frustrating. It started off really well, with a tour of Burton Industrial Park to find Screwfix, Wickes and B and Q, to source some wood filler for me and a massive tarporlin for my friend Freddo, who decided the lovely weather was a calling for a giant makeshift water-slide.
We returned, laden with the requested items, plus a MacDonalds snack wrap each, and set to work. First we scraped off the middle beam of the wood frame, thinking it would be the easiest. Then we flicked out all the little flaky bits of wood filler, and revealed the problem... A massive amount of rot...
We scraped out so much rotten wood and rubber, that my drive is now a sea of it. The issue that we have is that we have to now put the metal beading that holds in the windows back in place. The next issue.
Sealant doesn't work, wood filler doesn't work, glue gun doesn't work, not even supper glue works. If I wasn't so skint I would be buying a whole new bit of wood, along with a couple of strips of the metal beading so that it would all fit nicely together.
The trouble with fixing something is that if you don't know how it works, you can't really fix it. This is something that me and freddo found out. Not only this, but neither of us knew how to do anything.
To give us one piece of credit for ingenuity, and persavereance would be a kind thing to do. 2 18 year olds, of the hottest day of the year, stood on my drive holding a piece of metal next to a piece of wood, hoping that it would just kind of fuse together maybe...
I am starting to think the project of building a carvan before the end of the summer may be a step to far in my DIY skills.
Not to worry, dad is on his way home. Dad's fix everything!
Thanks for reading.
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