spambucket wrote: February 12th, 2022, 4:59 pm
I just noticed similar snap buttons were installed on the windows. I would love to imitate that too, though I find myself quickly having the same fears and questions of "how the heck do I mount the new hardware without breaking my shell?"
Maybe I missed it but I don't see what year or model your Chinook is. That makes a diffference.
My 1999 Concourse has large areas of 1" plywood that go all around the windows (behind the walls), so any snaps I'd mount there would go into that if close to the top of the window (obvsly don't use super long screws).
Personally, I like zingability on the side curtains, so I have curtain rods on the side windows, and then the curtains use rings for a narrow stack (so they don't block the windows when open). I mounted them to the underside of the overhead cabinets.
Here is a what's-inside-the-walls diagram for Concourse in a 1999 drawing. Sometime around 2001 or 2002(?) I think they went to a foam composite in the wall which may replace some or all of the plywood (not sure as they must still have needed some non-compressible structure in some places). I think the older Premier was more "stick built" behind the wallboard so this diagram would not apply.
I think if you click or maybe double click this should get larger. The wide-spread diagonal lines are plywood - two 1/2" layers back to back. Of course don't take this as gospel but wherever I have gone "behind the walls" mine matches this almost exactly.
What do you think about the panel on the side where the window is? A picture above showed some snap-buttons installed for window curtains. I imagine there isn't any wiring back there, so they probably just mounted the snaps straight in to the panel...
spambucket wrote: February 15th, 2022, 10:11 pm
Great picture!
What do you think about the panel on the side where the window is? A picture above showed some snap-buttons installed for window curtains. I imagine there isn't any wiring back there, so they probably just mounted the snaps straight in to the panel...
I still don't think I know what year or model Chinook you have. But anyway, I have a 1999 Concourse which is the same year that wall drawing is for.
The wiring chase is about 6" above the window. If you look inside the upper cabinets, you can see how most of the cabinet is full height, but there is a short section outboard under the swoop of the roof. That's covered by a carpeted board that's about 5" tall, and the main wiring is behind that, against the outer shell. I posted a guide to removing that piece some years ago, which shows more detail.
Edited to add: Starts in second post of this thread. There are photos showing how things look which should make this clear.
In other words, as long as you stay below the upper cabinets (and presuming your Chinook is a 21-footer of the general era), you should be fine (there is some wiring that comes down a bit more behind the stove, but we're talking over the side windows in a Concourse here, or at least I am).
That diagonal line area on the drawing is 1" of plywood, then the walls themselves are around 1/8" luaun ply.
