After a quick trip to the hardware store to stock up on more grinding blades, Zach and I continued with some serious demolition. Some preliminary power washing, more sticker scraping, and then we ripped out all of the seats. We were able to undo the bolts holding the seats to the wall with a wrench and ratchet, so we only had to grind off the heads of the four bolts securing the seats to the floor. Hurray, only 40 bolts to grind instead of 60!
Several hours and lots of lower back pain later, we had removed all of the seats, which are currently piled in the driveway and up for grabs, but just the seat parts, the legs will be converted into our roof rack. We are definitely sad to see the seats go--sorry friends, all joy rides in the bus are now byoc (bring your own chair)--but the amount of space we have is fantastic and now we can begin ripping out the floor, hooking up the vegetable oil kit, insulating, and making plans for where to place all of our furniture and appliances.
Hmm, apparently we don't quite understand how to use my camera, so all of the videos we took of demolition are on their sides, but that might actually add to the entertainment. We worked out a technique for ripping out the seats that made the whole process a bit faster, and Zach taught me how to grind down the bolts successfully (Zach looks really cool in safety goggles, I look like a large beetle...) so we could take turns and save each other a little bit of back pain....oh the lower back pain. But it's completely worth it.
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