Busy Week

    This was funny – the Ford dealer delivered the truck with 1/4 tank of gas. Ken used most of it up test driving the motorhome and never put any more fuel in it. On the day we picked it up from Ken’s shop ,we had to drive a few miles to the gas station. We just made it- flat on empty as we stopped at the pump!

We’ve been running around town getting the process started on everything that still needs to be finished – graphics designed and made , cushions measured to be sewn , new water tank ordered ( Ken installed one that is much too small) and bits and pieces bought to finish the inside.  I’ll post some more pictures as we get things finished but for now -

MERRY  CHRISTMAS !!!!

New Motorhome Delivered!

All settled and paid for. Ken agreed to honor our original contract. It’ll cost us a few thousand extra because of the lawyer’s fees and we’ll be fixing some of the poor finish work but at least we finally have it. A few more weeks of work , some graphics applied and we should be ready to go and find some warm weather!
  Pictures of the sloppy work:


I’ll post more later as we add the finishing touches.

The Good , The Bad and The Ugly

First the Good. Here’s our motorhome. It’s almost finished. It’s drivable. All of the systems work. It looks pretty good.

Then the Bad. Ken has decided that we owe him almost $8,000 more and he is holding the motorhome hostage. This is completely outside of our original contract.  Some of the charges are for parts that are essential to the proper construction of the motorhome plus we never agreed to any additional charges as the build was progressing.
And the Ugly. Ken is angry and is retaliating in more ways than one. In an effort to get the motorhome finished as quickly and cheaply as possible , he has been cutting corners everywhere that he can. This is the completed interior.It looks nice in photographs.

However when you start looking closer you’ll see things like this. This is the dinette seat with material wrapped around a piece of foam and stapled to plywood instead of a real cushion. The cord snaking up the wall is connected to  a power strip which was supposed to be hard wired with the wires running inside the wall.

So that’s where we are now. We are not paying any additional charges but we’ve decided to stop trying to get him to fix any mistakes. We’ll just deal with those after we get possession of the motorhome. Since he refuses to honor our original contract ,we’re going to have to take him to court. Updates soon!