Walls, wires, and water, too.

More good progress today on the walls, wiring, and water. We also had a couple problems that wasted a bunch of time to fix. Far more progress than frustration, though.

The second piece of driver’s side wall went in today. As we were doing it we also installed two 12v sockets that are now fully wired, one near the rear door and one near the head of the bed. I also wired the fan, which I had overlooked in much of my other wiring.

You can see one of the sockets here; the overhead lights are the white wire coming down from the top; the fan is the twisted red/yellow wires; the heater rheostat is the black wire coming up from the floor; the refrigerator is the red/black wire; the microwave is the big white wire coming up from the floor; and the power for the lights is the other white wire coming up from the floor!

With all of the wires run, I spent a little time cleaning up the mess so they all run cleanly together.

The black conduit runs all the way to the back so in theory I could run one more circuit to the back.

While I was working on the wiring Sara was prepping our water tank with a little foam padding for where the straps will hold it.

We had some extra parts for the 80/20 aluminum bars from our solar build so we attached 2x2s to the bars and used lag screws to hold them into the 2×4 frame. It seems very solid, but 200 lbs. of water is a lot of weight so we may try to do even more bracing at some point.

The tank is now essentially installed. We changed our mind on one small piece so we had to paint it tonight and we can finish in two minutes in the morning. With the tank installed we ran our water hose forward under the toilet cabinet. I’m afraid I wasn’t very good with pictures again, but we secured the line with some plastic brackets and routed it down the wheel well and through the edge of the toilet cabinet where it runs forward to what will be our galley.

Water tubing running under the toilet cabinet.
Installed toilet cabinet. The composting toilet bolts into the bottom with the brackets in the floor. The large tube is an air vent that runs into the pvc coupler I put in the floor a couple days ago.. The small black wire runs a fan that continuously blows a small amount of air out of the tank.

For those keeping track (I know I am), it was two more trips to Ace, one to another hardware store, and one to O’Reilly Auto Parts.

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