What do you do on New Year's Day? Jan 1st 2020

December 31st 2019 - off to B&Q for plywood

• new floor insulation (specialised stuff that won't go mouldy) - arrived on Dec 30th
• drawer runners that can cope with a heavy drawer extending by 700mm - due 7th Jan
• plywood for the flooring, upright panels etc to form the bed platform
• a mattress - delivered 6th Jan
• screws and stuff

I bought a load of insulation, a set of drawer runners on eBay,  and headed to B&Q for 18mm plywood which I hoped wouldn't be so high as to foul the seat runners. Then much thinking about how to cut the new floor out .... answer, use the old carpet as a template!

Jan 1st 2020
When everyone else was sleeping off the night before, I was up relatively sharp and getting busy

Big enough to be a camper? Two 8x4 sheets with plenty of room to spare!

Emptied and ready to strip the old stuff out

The carpet lifted out, the insulation turned out to be stuck to the carpet - cool
I also removed the 2 row seat to make cleaning and measuring easier. The seat needed to be modified as well

old carpet as a template - I cut it in half to make it easier to handle

outer shape formed

perfect but for a few floor fittings making it wobble

Cut outs for the shock absorber top mounts - I'd rather not have to totally dismantle when I need new shocks

Holes drilled so I can use the rear seat mounting fixings to hold it all down

All of this took about 5 hours at an easy pace and my luck held when I drilled the holes for the mounting bolts. I then realised they were an unusual thread and I had to order special M10x1.25 bolts at over £3.50 each!!

Enough for one day, my back was getting sore, and that's when mistakes happen. Knocking off time, more tomorrow