Gah, how did this get to be the last weekend in September???!!!
By yesterday morning, I’d barely made a dent in my destriping project, but it was time to button it down. There was no way I’d drive the rig the way it was! At this point, the goal was to make the rig look less embarrassing; restriping would have to wait for the spring.
Yesterday’s project, then, was do the back of the RV. I lost the morning because of fliers, so the back, which still had a huge sticker on it, was a feasible project. So, destripe (AUGH!), clean (easy), and Poli Glow (peasy).
Today’s project was to completely clean the already destriped passenger side and Poli Glow it, then spend a few hours working at the %*()#%* driver’s side stripes.
So, passenger side side looked like this at about 9AM today, not counting the stripes:
And by 1PM it looked like this:
You can see the discolouration in the picture if you really squint. The RV is a dull yellow while the area under the stripes is stark white. Here is a tip: DO NOT WAX YOUR WHITE RV. Wax turns fiberglass yellow!
The result is nothing short of a miracle. Yes, a stripeless RV looks a little odd, but even with the ghosting the rig looks better than it did with the chipped and cracked decals.
Poli Glow is an absolutely amazing product.
I still have two to three hours of destriping on the driver’s side, then about two hours of clean up and Poli Glowing. The weather will be good this week so I’m going to try to put in an hour per evening.
Not to toot my own horn, but I did all this progress with a stress fracture in the left foot, a broken toe on the right foot, and a large second degree burn on my left wrist. This past week has told me that I am either more of a klutz than I thought I was or that the universe is telling me to take it easy!
Once this exterior project is done, I will be able to focus on getting the apartment cleaned and the rig ready for pulling out. I am hoping to pull-out Sunday, so the one-week countdown is on. But there is no real rush to get out, so if it happens one evening next week, that’d be fine. The following weekend would be pushing it, though. I want Jody and Gary to get their yard back before the weather turns so that they can get their trailer in it. As I said to them, I’m a pretty good guest in that they haven’t needed to ask me to leave! 😀
Looks great! There is a huge discussion going on about Poliglow of RV.net and a couple of other forums. There is a hardwood floor product called Red Max #3 available in 128 oz bottles from Home Depot and Lowes that is said to be the same formula and does the same thing but for a fraction of the cost.
Everyone agrees that it needs about four coats of either product to get spectacular results but it is easy to apply once the surface is cleaned and prepared. BarKeepers Friend has been recommended as a cleaner used along with those “Erasers” you get in the cleaning isle. Simple Green used full strength has also been talked about.
I got the whole kit, including the rubbing compound for $60, including shipping, this winter when I was in the States. I wouldn’t use anything else because these products WORK. The amount of Magic Erasers to do this job would have been at least twice that amount of money!
I’ve heard about the flooring product, but read a review by someone who said that his rig eventually turned yellow.
I tried to pull up some of the stripes on my 5ver – they were already curled at the edges. Most of it wouldn’t budge, so I just left it alone. I thought I would like an RV completely bare with no graphics at all. I saw an older Class A at a sales lot a couple of months ago that was stark white, and I can’t say it looked right. You should take it easy though. It sounds like the universe really is trying to get your attention.
What?! All those injuries but no story behind them?
What story?! Stress fracture is just that: too much walking. Burn: I should not allowed to cook with cast iron. Toe: I should have worn shoes before hitting the edge of my ‘porch’.
OUCH! OUCH!! OW!!! 🙁
Not that bad, my goodness! I can still do what I need to do, it’s just operating the clutch on the car that’s a little difficult. 🙂