We hadn't planned to refit Florence when we started, it was something we wanted to do, one day when we could afford it. But Florence needed welding, it couldn't wait, she was rotting away and wouldn't last another season. Due to fire risk we had to remove the interior fittings, if you've ever tried to disassemble old Melamine furniture, you will know once it comes apart it is never going back together again. So we resigned ourselves to the fact, if we wanted Florence on the road for the Summer, we had no choice but to rebuild everything from scratch ourselves, the only problem, we really didn't have any spare money! We had to do this as cheap as possible, use all of our skills to source everything at the lowest possible price. What we did have was the original electrics and water tank, this obviously saved a lot of money and labour costs. Our daughter was due to go away on a school trip for a week on June 11th, that would be a rare opportunity to have a whole week away, by the time she came home from the welder, we had just 6 weeks left to get her completely finished in time for this deadline!