There hasn’t been much physical progress with the van over the past week due to Ben and I being ill. We were at it for six days straight last week and I think it’s finally caught up with us. Last weekend we all did an excellent job fitting the fan and a window, this coming weekend we plan to get the roof rails and solar panels on board. Despite feeling pretty grim my research efforts were focused on finding an…
The work continued over the bank holiday weekend, with more progress! It was a brutal 7am start, Ben and I’s sixth straight day of working on the van. It’s unfortunate to have such a punishing schedule this week but in order to catch up we felt it necessary. At this moment in time we are a little behind where we’d hoped to be, mainly due to the rust issues and the insulation taking longer than expected. We hope with some…
A weekend of hard work and we’ve made some progress in the hefty things. It was time to tackle a scary task and cut a hole into the side of the van, here we go! Scenic Visions It started early on Saturday for us, we travelled about and hour to Ben’s parents house. Our windows had been delivered there and we’d all decided that it’d be nice to spend some time together and it would be better for us to…
Phew! What a day! We’ve been out working on the van again and made further progress with the insulation. We can finally see the finish line of this task! A Squeak of Celotex On Tuesday we managed to get the whole top section done on the remaining side so today we challenged ourselves to get the bottom finished, which would complete that side. We slightly exceeded these expectations by getting the bottom finished and one of the trickier panels for…
WOW! What a busy and productive week we’ve had, good progress at a steady pace! Like a Disco Ball We started the week by working on the ceiling, it was tough work for me, my shoulder does not like anything where the arm goes above the head and standing and holding pieces of insulation and slotting them in just right is a killer! Ben did an excellent and speedy job at cutting the panels whilst I set up the stick…
It has been a long week, boy are we tired! Today seemed to slip by in an instant. There were some problems completing our business obligations this morning as we had no internet, instead of messing around indoors for ages we headed out to the van as planned. A Jig with Ply We managed to finish off the last of the floor with the foil bubble wrap. It feels really good and I’m pleased we did it in the end….
It’s been another long day spent working on the van, we were out til late last night on a social visit so felt pretty weary this morning. We’ve found it’s more productive and much more peaceful to work during the week so we are trying to work on the van where possible and leave the weekend for recuperation and probably allocate some time to catch up on some business stuff and the housework. No Vapour Here… We’ve been umming and…
We had yesterday off from van work, not only did we have business stuff to catch up on after the weekend (Mondays are always our most hectic day), but we were in need of some rest after the hard graft. I can honestly say we’ve never hurt so much! The back and neck ache are intense and we are both feeling the worse for wear, there’s a lot of squatting down going on whilst we work on the floor and…
What an exceedingly long day…… We were up at 4am to watch the first F1 race of the 2019 season, which took place in Australia, hence the weird time. This finished around 7am and we decided to go with the momentum of the week and get up and head out to the van. The first goal was to get the battens from yesterday stuck down, which fitted seen as it was still rather early and we couldn’t use any of the…
We’ve had a busy and successful few days despite some delays that were out of our control and an attack from the rear door. Pesky Rust Since we’ve had the van back from welding and have been in and out a few times doing odd jobs, we’ve begun to notice some signs of the rust patches showing through on the epoxied floor. We are not sure if this is normal but all the same we find it concerning to say…