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4/02/2011

A trashed houseboat

Crowbars and clawhammers are my tools of choice. There's such a large margin of error when you're told "Tear out all the screws so we can get the plywood out."

This is a 1978 Boatel houseboat--the underside of the plywood floor has no protection from the water between the pontoons. I'm surprised that it's lasted this long without someone falling through into the lake...


So, new 2x4 frame, new plywood floor, new walls, jack the ceiling back up to it's correct height (the 2x4's the walls were on had rotted so much in most places that they were more like 2x2's...

My Uncle is still trying to convince everyone else to just scrap it and buy a new boat.

2 comments:

Spikessib said...

Jeez, it looks like my kitchen. Except for the paneling. I got rid of that when I first bought the house ;)

bluesun said...

I hope you didn't also have the paisley linoleum. That was almost uglier than what it looks like now.