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…
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…