You can see here what I PRAY was the hardest piece to fit into place. It is the rear ceiling panel, which had to fit into channels on all four sides!!!! Heaven help me. Well, heaven helped, and so did two neighbors, several putty knives, one rubber mallet, buckets of perspiration (it was 102 degrees that day) and high fives like we'd just cured cancer when we finally got this sucker in place.
Obviously , you can also see that the two pieces of rear wall are also now in place. Although not nearly so hard as the ceiling, they weren't any fun. I'm sure that there is a correct way to do all of this and I am equally sure that I didn't do that. However.....I'm pleased with the results.
The next piece to do is the second of three ceiling pieces. It's hard to get a good photo without a telephoto lens, but the next piece starts in the channel at the far left and ends in the center of the piece of framing to the left of the ceiling fan. There are channels at the walls next to the cabinets and from wall to wall next to the far left section with pink insulation. I left the yellow awful insulation in the center because of the electrical cabling. I doubled the layers, but couldn't figure out how to use the solid stuff and still make sure that the cable wouldn't be squished.
It took me well over an hour (probably two) to cut this piece. there are a number of bits and pieces to this one and I wanted it all from one solid piece. I had it all marked out on the luan, then realized (thank goodness) that what I needed was a mirror image of what I had. Oy!!! Starting again.......again.... I finally got it all cut.
But I just couldn't get the thing in place with 1.5 hands (I'm somewhat constrained by a bum right shoulder at the moment). Frankly, I think it will require at least one more person and maybe even two. The piece has to be somewhat contorted to get into place, but I can manage with a little help. I got this far and just said to heck with it for today. No need to spend hours on this when there is so much else to do. From this angle you can see the channel against this one wall into which that narrow piece needs to fit. The silver strip is the long channel into which that long side needs to fit. We'll get there.
Drumroll please! And here is the starboard side panel nicely in place. Woo hoo!! Progress!! I first made a template out of a corrugated cardboard (moving boxes taped together), as there are so may odd angles and such. Then I applied the template to the luan. It worked well. Not perfect, but good.
Here is the port side wall that needs a panel next. I'll, of course, hope that the same template will work for over here, but I won't get my hopes up too high. At least I know how to do it now.
So tomorrow I'll get the port side wall panel in place, the ceiling piece that I couldn't manage on my own today and.....
The final ceiling piece.
The piece that will fit into the channel on the right of the fan to the framing to the left of the fan. What I learned too late is that I should NOT have put the fan in until this ceiling piece was in Although the knob that opens/closes the dome can be removed, none of the other switches can. I don't yet know how the heck I am going to slide the piece of luan into place given those obstacles, but that is a matter for another day.
Until then, happy campers.....
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