More electrical outlets at the back, street-side:
That's a stainless-steel bowl from Ikea used as a protective cover for the back of the electrical inlet down there. Most likely that whole area will be inside a cabinet or under a desk anyway. There's an access hatch down there and I may build a box around it so that I can have an externally-accessible space separated from the interior.
Furnace-hole patches:
You can see they are blending in well with the filthy floor everywhere else there... still need filling & sanding too, and a couple of screws were so stripped I couldn't get them out, so they need to get cut off on the other side. But the patches are solid.
This weekend the rest of the belly skin comes out, final decisions about tank size get made and crossmembers removed as appropriate; electrical cables get re-routed, and the rest of the gas piping comes off. Hopefully I should be able to put the new refrigerator vent cover on too, replace the repainted cooker vent cover, and perhaps clean up more of the damage from where the awning rails were.
Once measured, I can order the tanks so that should be done by the end of February.
I ordered a Precision Temp RV500, flush mount, so when that arrives I have some work to do to fit it in the space at the back where the old water heater was, then reinsulate the wall and replace the inside panel.
I got some 12V compact-fluorescent bulbs - results are mixed. One 23W bulb works fine; one 13W bulb works fine; the other two make an extremely loud buzz and one of them even though marked as 4000K is obviously a warm-white bulb. Although actually I may prefer the warm-white bulb anyway, so maybe I have to just return all of them. But they are pretty small - the 13W bulb is very small - and fit easily in household light fixtures.
It's still really cold here, so I think painting is going to wait for warmer weather. Hopefully I can keep busy with plumbing & electrical until then.
I have another project which is building boxes to cover the wheel wells. Originally they had flexible plastic covers with fiberglass insulation underneath:
but they were broken and not too solid either. They were also attached to the inside skin. So what I want to do is build square boxes probably out of OSB & 1x2s to cover them. Underneath I'll insulate the galvanized metal with FBF. I'll probably glue 1x2s to the wheel well directly rather than attach to the skin - while the galvanized metal isn't all that thick, it's less brittle than the aluminium skin is after 40 years. And I'll use glue because I don't want to penetrate the wheel well. Around the outside the box can be screwed to the floor.
The idea is that they'll then be solid enough to attach cabinets to, rather than having to rely entirely on connecting to the wall over the wheel wells, and for example a battery could sit on one of them (at the ends) and be fully supported. Or under the cooktop, I could use one to support a drawer-dishwasher.
This'll be heavier than the original and lose a little space because they're square and the wood will be thicker than plastic, but I think the solidity makes up for it.