Beautiful day today so no excuses for not getting on with it. Carrying on with the work from yesterday I have to keep working on the window frame to put the strength back into it. This has to be my main focus because if stormy weather arrives again then covering the front of the caravan with a tarpaulin would mean that it would take a hell of a bashing and the frame just is not up to that. The main problem is that the most complicated piece is a mess. Just a lump of soft rotten wood, barely in shape. I found two pieces of plywood that I was able to glue together to achieve the correct thickness. This picture shows the rotted wood I need as a template laying on the plywood board I made up.

I gently eased the three pieces of rotting wood apart, using a hacksaw blade to cut the screws that are holding it together. When I get them separated I can lay them on the plywood to draw around them. Then I cut them out with a Jigsaw.

Once I have them cut out I gave them a thorough lashing with Cuprinol wood preserver....just in case dampness gets back in. After that I cut out a piece of plywood to replace the missing area of floor. This piece of board I am going to stick on underneath the van. It is heavily saturated with wood preserver and will get a coat of tar or some such to guard against water spraying onto it. Once I fix it in place I can then start to rebuild the layers (polystyrene/plywood) which will make a new floor area.

I also cut two new pieces of timber that go down the left hand side of the window. This picture shows them all drying off in the sun at end of day.