Big Old Bus RV Conversion

This weekend its cold and rainy, so instead of working on the windows, I decided to work on the door and added a lock using some scavenged garage door parts donated by my cousin who owns a garage door repair service. I just kinda made the handle and lock work with the box of junk parts, kinda a weird job considerng one door swings out and the other inwards and the large gap between the two. I also redid where the door attaches to the frame because the screws were all rusted out and the hinge was loose and attached some weather striping to help with the seal along the edges and a floor piece along the middle of the door for a seal. I still need to go buy a different type of bolt and maybe the locking mechanism, you can see where they are not a very good fit and one is not same type of bolt. Also the pad lock is going to be removed and rest of center seal added.

I have been useing a propane heater that uses the green Coleman canisters with an adapter that lets me hookup a 5 gallon tank with a hose instead of the little tanks into the base of the heater. The problem with this is the heater is designed to sit on the Coleman tank that I replaced with a hose and is now unable to stand on its own plus the heater turns off when unlevel. I have been kinda hanging it up and propping it on top of various things most unsafely,very very frustrating when your cold! So I decided to take an old telescope tripod and attache the heater to the top for a base. Here's the result!

Bought a new window unit to cool the oven/bus had to remove entire window to install. I also added a 2x2 across the top of the ac for support as there is no window to pull down and seal it. I used parts of the window i took out to make the upper window. Looks ok for now but could use some fine tuning later. I have to get this thing going its getting hot in there!

Got water heater, hooked to extension cord and on top of my mini-fridge in this pic.

(Update 2-16-2015)

This weekend I moved the water heater to a more secure location on top of the wheel well, while it seems like that may not be a stable location, I attached a pallet to the top of curved well with some wood to metal screws and now I have great flat spot for the heater! Although it sits a little higher than I'd like, I intend to eventually build a cabinet or sink around it that should lower about 3 or 4 inches by removing the pallet a when I add a more secure frame and mount.

The back windows are busted out and I really don't want to special order these $$. So I bought the smallest ones they had at Lowes $40 each is my kinda price! Installing them on a curved bus is a bit tricky though, I used 1x2s to bridge the gap between window and curved metal. I still need to add the curved side support frame. I am going to make a small template and use 4x1 or 6x1 along the curve and a 2x4 going vertically on the side, then fill gaps with foam and trim it out. I also intend to build a shelf directly under the window so you will not see the metal bracket sticking out in the picture.