Firstly, apologies for the long overdue update, we’ve still been busy working out on the van four days a week. I had been saving the blog updates and planned to publish them in sections that cover the particular task that we’d been working on. However, it has taken us longer than expected on the bulkhead! So with reports of family missing the blog I shall go back to more regular updates! Planning After finishing the walls we’ve almost completed a…
Happy Friday! We’ve had a great week, progress is on schedule and we’re super pleased. Fun hats and twister What a scorcher of a week it’s been! Working in the hot weather brings a whole new set of issues, we’ve finally been able to put the thermals away and have reached for some really funny looking sun hats! It does get quite uncomfortable at times working in the heat, but we’ve been staying well hydrated and cracking on none the…
It’s been a week since our last update but we are still around and working on the van! I admit we’ve been quite tired lately and needed some time to relax, in addition to looking into other aspects of the build that have yet to come. The Barrier After superb progress last weekend, we decided to take a few days off at the beginning of this week. The solar panel weekend was a great success but we had lots of…
It’s been a long week of manic research and mental preparation, with thanks to John, we’ve managed to make a great step forward this weekend. Brackets After having spent the week doing mad research into brackets, I still hadn’t managed to find anything I liked or that I thought would be good enough to hold the solar panels onto the rails. Upon our arrival at Ben’s parents’ house we’d found out that John had ordered some brackets that might just…
It’s been a busy end to the week with more progress over Friday & Saturday. We’ve managed to fix some older issues and make progress on the window side of things. We’ve sprung a leak! We didn’t managed to get out to the van for most of this week, as we’ve still been recovering and I have spent a lot of time online trying to find a suitable solution to the lingering problem we have connecting the solar panels to…
Still not feeling at our best we prepared for the weekend work on the van with more help from family. Keeping the Faith Friday started with a four hour round trip to collect our solar panels from Lewes, it was a bit of a struggle given how grim we both felt, the trip and lifting of the panels, 60kg in total wiped us both out for the day. We were pleased to get home and relax for the evening. Never…
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…
Still exhausted after the weekend we’ve continued to soldier on this week, not taking our usual break on Wednesdays. I suspect we’ll really feel it this weekend but hopefully with the bank holiday we can spend some time indoors relaxing. Next stages It’s been a busy few days, we’ve finished insulating the rear doors and have been thinking ahead to the next steps of the build. There is always so much to coordinate, research and buy. I am looking stuff…