25th August 2007

spent a day starting to strip of the vinyl roof so I could assess the damage to to front cabin, but was hoping that at worse it would only be the window frames at the front that would need to be replaced.

The more I stripped off the more it became apparent that the whole of the front was going to have to go.

The main problem I had was striping the vinyl off as it had been overpainted at somestage with roofing paint. I tried a paint scraper, but that didn't work so I ended up using a blow torch to heat it, then using the striper to remove it.

If you are going to try this then my advice is to wear gloves as I managed to burn my hand a couple of times.