Phew, what a day! We were both up bright and earlier and got out to the van to clean the walls on the inside as it had got a bit dusty from rust removal. This was a three stage process, as we also needed to paint over some rusting scratches on the walls. I am rather weary and worn out from today as I had been busy overnight thinking about van and business stuff. Rust Treatment Step 1: The first…
Two weeks in review as we confirmed and sent Gandalf for some patching up. A Trip to Lewes Having discussed a suitable time for us to bring to van back to Lewes, we had a week to think over the quote for the spraying of the underside of the van. All the other places that were able to do the van were over four hours away. Deciding it was perhaps easier, quicker to get both done at the same time….
It’s been a busy few weeks with Christmas, we’ve enjoyed the time with our families and discussed our plans at length with them as we prepare to navigate the next steps of the build. A Dusty Affair As I mentioned in the previous post, After taking down the ply we noticed some quite bad rusting to the lower part of the van walls. It only got worse once we finally managed to remove the floor, unfortunately we have quite a…
December is a busy month for us and we’ve coped well adding van work onto our daily tasks. Let’s get started and we wish you all a happy holiday! Iron Oxide, Frankincense and Myrrh It’s quite exciting seeing the Gandalf the van parked up outside when you get up in the mornings and we are eager to get going. After acquiring Gandalf I’d set about mocking up a layout idea in a program called Sketchup, so we felt confident about…
It was a momentous day! We woke with a mixture or nervousness and excitement as we headed to the train station. We had a long four hour journey to Yorkshire ahead of us and then the same for the drive home. There and Back Again We had spoken to the owner of the garage a couple of times on the phone and had told him what we planned to do with the van, he was converting a bomb disposal vehicle…
At long last! Finally some purchasing! You’ll be relieved to know we finally own a van! *does a little dance* It Started With Two… Let’s go back to the past week… We took a couple of days off the van hunting and did some fun things, like going to the cinema and chilling out at home. This month is quite hefty in the run up to Christmas for our business. After all the recent let-downs we wanted to have some…
We’ve had a long old month of continuous research and van hunting, whilst doing our utmost to remain hopeful despite our previous experience! We guessed after that, it may be a slightly longer road to getting a van. We had another couple of close calls, the world of van hunting has been quite surprising and eye opening, it certainly doesn’t seem as tame as car hunting. Close but No Cigar… We thought we’d made a breakthrough in the search and found…
This morning we were feeling pretty pumped about the idea of getting a van, we were happy with our research and ready to hit the ground running. A Revealing Day Expecting this to be an exciting part of the process we decided to take a day trip around local van dealers to have a look at what was on offer. We also hoped that Ben would get a sneaky chance to sit in some of them as due to him…
I think we are quite ready for another adventure, so without further ado we welcome you to what will be our second travel blog! Our previous travel blog went down a treat, this time we thought we’d share our latest project by documenting our campervan conversion along with our travels thereafter. We have also set up some general guides on various conversion topics and a soon to come tech guide explaining how we built a low powered gaming PC, along with a comprehensive guide detailing our electrics and our…
Join us as we plan out our latest crazy idea… A Bright Idea We learnt a lot from our last trip and with that experience behind us, we can safely say what worked and what didn’t work for us. We want to put our experience to use in formulating our ideas with this coming burst of freedom. The good Freedom The truck The culture Besides the generally amazing experience and the spectacular amount of freedom we had, without doubt one…