Ok, its been a while since my last update on our remodel so this is going to take some explaining.
(Warning, LONG READ)
As we get older I find it a pain in the rear to have to reach up to the ceiling to switch off and on light switches. Like the one in the hallway and living areas.
So [Tim Taylor Voice On]
I rewired them
[ / Tim Taylor Voice Off].
Finished off the last one yesterday. I actually stripped off the wall panel in the bathroom OFF and fished a pair of wires through the RV'S metal framework from the overhead light to a spot on the hallway wall, to mount a light switch on the wall to operate the hallway light outside the bathroom.
My Fleetwood has a full bathroom and a hall down the side to get to the bedroom. As in, you can close the bathroom door and someone else can still get to the bedroom without walking through the bathroom. The reason I liked my Coach so much. More like an apartment or house than a typical RV.
So now, No more reaching to the ceiling to turn the lights on. ( Why they built it like that makes no sense because the bedroom light switches are mounted on the wall.)
Earlier I rewired all the kitchen and living room overhead lights to master switches mounted on the side of the kitchen counter next to where the couch used to be. (Now electric movie theater seats.)
There's still one entry light just inside the coaches side door I can flip on as I go up the stairs to enter the coach. But this new way we can kill all the lights from the recliners and watch a movie on the big screen TV without getting up and switching each individual light off. Kinda like dimming the house lights in a movie theater.
I retained the switches on the individual lights on case I want to tune how many lights come on when I flip either of the 2 master lighting switches. Oh and all my lighting in the coach, basements included, are converted to LED's.
I even have floor lights on a pair of 3 way switches on either end of the Coach so I can have night lights for walking through it at night without stubbing my toe on something. Pretty cool to be able to kill all the interior lights and hit the small floor lights with the front switch next to the couch and be able to walk all the way to the bedroom and turn them off as I get in bed. Or visa versa.
This is one of the last things I wanted to do before I started redoing all the wallpaper. Other than putting makeup lighting down the sides of the bathroom mirror. And putting it's switch lower on the wall. But that I'll do before I mount the mirror back on the wall. (One of those little touches for my Princess!) The old mirrors lighting before was mounted above the mirror and the switch, that controlled the intensity was on top of the mirror. A stupid design that had to have been thought of by a 6 foot tall RV engineer. Melissa is barely 5 feet tall and has always hated that switch location. Now she can do her face makeup in proper variable lighting like in a real house bathroom.
Other than that, the walls are prepped and ready for new wall paper. It's all bought and ready to be put up.
Whew! I think I'm over doing my remodel, but what good does it do to do it half assed?
It only cost a little more to go first class, I just can't stay as long!
It's too messy to take pictures of, but I'll post some up after I get that wall panel put back up. Odd thing though. Much of the Coaches lighting circuits are behind that bathroom panel and tied together without any way to do any maintenance to those twist on wire nut connections. I literally had to tear out the wood trim work & cut the wallpaper and rip down that luan to access the wiring in that wall. (Another Stupid Design!)
I may just remount that wall with screws for maintenance access later. ( I'll mount the trim to the luan too and make it a lot more maintenance friendly.)
. Same issue after several tries 
. Rats, I kinda remember this is usually a circuit board failure but need read the blinking light for a fault code before proceeding.
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