Spent some time over the weekend getting started with the disassembly process. Goal was to get the lower half of the two piece fiberglass bathroom out.
It's a two piece fiberglass affair in the rear of the trailer. There's a top "end cap" from the ceiling to the bottom of the window, and a lower half that has the sink in the left corner, shower in the middle and toilet on the right corner..Made good progress but not quite done yet.
Here's how the process went:
Started by removing the two closets that flanked either side of the bathroom. They were pretty easy to remove since we weren't trying to salvage anything other than the aluminum mounting channels. We didn't have to be too careful about the wood. A few rivets, a few more screws and we were able to pry the rest away.
Then we had to remove the rivets that hold the trim across the seam of the two fiberglass halves - and the trim around the window. Pretty simple with a 1/8" drill bit. I quickly found that the better quality drill bits are worth it as the "cheapos" went dull after a few rivets.
With closets gone we were able to access the hidden rivets under the sink.
That got the sink side free and we could move it, confirming that everything was apart on that side. Then we moved on to getting the screws along the front of the shower out. They go directly into the floors and were all rusted so we had to hit them with a sawzall to free it up. We also needed to unhook the drains. Easy under the sink - just cut those out. The shower was a bit tricky. We were able to free it up by taking a couple of open end wrenches and sticking one into the drain catching the crossing metal at the bottom - then using the other in the opposing claw as a "T" handle and unscrewed the drain plug.
That freed almost everything up except an area behind the toilet. The toilet flange goes into a black tank under the molded bathroom floor. The two appear to be joined with some type of adhesive since we were able to remove every visible screw, rivet and bolt. The flange and tank wiggle freely but something is still holding onto the lower molded bathroom. Best guess is that there are a couple of more rivets through the fiberglass into the sidewall that are hidden by the black water (toilet) tank that we can't remove.
We'll have to find what that is and deal with it next time since we're out of time for this weekend. Not bad progress for a couple of hours though.
