Removing Floor

01-05-10

Took bus to Lake Houston to drop off seats at other bus, trip was about 100 miles there and back. Batteries were dead in camera so the only pics were of me and wife starting our trip.

Bus ran great and we really enjoyed the trip. Got seats out and only had time to return bus to storage.

01-06-10

Started taking out the floor today. Man it takes longer than I had thought. I thought I would be putting plywood down today.

There is no plywood under the rubber flooring. I guess because it is a Texas bus they did not need the insulation.

I started by taking up the trip around the wheel wells. Could get some of the screws up, but a lot of them had to be cut.

This pic is of me the day before after all the seats were out.

I'm taking the hose cover off the heaters. My plan is to keep the heaters so it will help keep the bus warm when traveling. I plan on putting them back once the plywood is down. I'm keeping all the screws in zip lock bags.

 

We then took up the strips of aluminum and the rubber from the center walk way. We are going to keep that and see if we can reuse it somehow. We then started at the back and used a shovel to help get up the rubber. Like I said earlier, no plywood on the floor.

 

Looks like some rust hu. Really there is no rust there. The rust is from the metal strip that was inside the rubber trim that I took off before the rubber flooring. The flooring all over was in good shape. A few areas of surface rust but that was about it. I did learn that I have a leak from the heaters. I need to find out where and fix it.

Rust again from the strip in the trim.

This is the hose going from the back to just before the side door. I am surprised to see no hose protection on these hoses. I'll be putting something on them.

That's really all I was able to do. tired and worn out. I thought I would have gotten a lot more done. We pulled up the flooring up to the front two seats that I had left in for passengers. Next time We are going to remove the seats and pull up the rest of the flooring. Then clean and treat any rust, and paint and prepare to lay insulation then plywood.   

Until next time...