The Cat Flap

With the rear beds made, it was time to close off the beds from the the back door and also the top bunk from the storage space accessed through the upper rear door. The upper bunk just needed a bulkhead adding which was simply done by an MDF panel covered in carpet. The lower bunks needed a door that could be folded up out of the way for transport and we also had an idea that it could double up as a roof for the tool kit during the inevitable RGB race meeting rain if it folded outside the bus. And so the catflap was born. Simply a piece of 1/8" ply with an edging strip:-

 Covered on one side in 2 layers of 300gsm GRP to stiffen it up and make it water proof:-

Sprayed black and the opposite side (internal) covered in carpet, various bathroom door latches to hold it in its 3 different positions and 2 rather funky hinges made from 4 gate post hinges that positions the pivot point to allow the desired degrees of rotation.

Then mounted to the underside of the upper bunk. The rather blurry picture below shows the upper bulkhead fitted and the Cat flap in the "sleeping mode!

This picture shows the cat flap in the "keep the bloody rain off the tools mode". 2 bathroom door latches go into the back doors to hold it up, plus 2 sandwich type ears that stop the doors from opening up and the roof dropping. Its hard to explain, but once its all latched in its very very secure and even an Anglesey style storm shouldn't bother it.