It's Here or Birth of a Phaeton - Part 11

On Thursday, September 12th, we completed the purchase of our new home.  What a relief.  Did we start moving in right away?  Nooo, we took off to Jasper, AL to visit our bank to get the certified check we needed to pay the tag transfer fees and new vehicle tax for South Dakota.  Only a 200 mile roundtrip commute from Sherman, MS.

It's got the same sticker as the one we followed through the plant.
I guess it must be ours then.

In position for final cleaning by the Sherman RV staff.

The motorhome had actually arrived late Monday afternoon and Sherman called us Tuesday AM.  We had Sherman do several add ons for us because we knew that Brannon Hutchinson at Custom RV was swamped with work and shorthanded.  The two photos above were taken Wednesday AM.  We found the ladder we had Tiffin delete.  They hadn't installed it but they put it in the storage bay.  Another spare ladder for Sherman's inventory, I guess.

After our Thursday walk through and test drive, we noted a few things, and wrote the big check.  The real work began Friday (the 13th if you are superstitious) with us transferring the interior contents from our 32CA over to the 36GH.

We were kind of parked nose to nose which made transfer easier.

We did the interior fairly quick as the 32 had less interior storage than the 36.  By Friday night, we were living in the 36 with everything moved on the "first floor".  Saturday was reserved for exterior storage as we finally had a break in the weather and the temperature and humidity dropped to something a lot more comfortable.

Saturday started off kind of poor.  I was taking Gabi out for her pre-breakfast walk and she came flying out the door, went behind me, and cut my legs out from under me.  Boom, down I went on the concrete apron and left a good size patch of skin from my knee on the concrete. Thanks, dog.

Guess what?  We had more exterior storage space in the 32 than the 36.  We ended up with four extra plastic tubs and some stuff to get rid of.  We also decided that we really didn't want the coffee table and donated that to the Sherman Staff as well.  The extra interior space we had was soon filled up with former basement stuff.  Now we were filled up.

Sunday afternoon, Sam is safely stored as well.

By staying at Sherman over the weekend, we had a chance to test out just about everything except the propane furnaces.  It was cool enough to run the heat pumps but not cool enough to fire up furnaces.  We had a couple of nagging electronics issues.  The new TV antenna (still a MiniState) uses a wireless remote which only worked from about 6" away.  The IR repeater (also a new, wireless design) above the front TV only worked some of the time. Other issues:  The solar shade by the dining room table had a scratch/tear in it, the shower drain was really slow, the refrigerator freezer handle had a dent in it, the front electrical bay door didn't fit well, paint marks on last two doors on driver's side, and the black tank didn't register on the SeaLevel gauge.

Resolutions:

• MiniState control unit was bad and replaced.
• IR repeater was bad and replaced
• Solar shade was replaced
• Shower drain slow - this appears to be a drain strainer design issue.  It's gotten a little better over time.
• Freezer handle replaced
• Door realigned
• Doors buffed out
• Black tank level - seems like 3 days of use didn't produce enough waste to register.  More #1 and #2 contributions are needed.

Pretty minor stuff and all fixed before we left for the CAT scales and Barnes Crossing were we are waiting for our paperwork (registration & title) to catch up to us.