Following on from our last post. April seems to have rolled by, albeit rather slowly. As the world attempts to pick up the pieces from the virus and with travel uncertainty still and issue, we are still in good spirits to finish the van. We are looking forward to having a week away in the van in the UK, in order to test things out before venturing further afield. There is a very nice scenic drive called the NC500 in…
Hi everyone, I hope you are all keeping well, just a quick update from us. I have a bunch of posts to upload documenting progress on the van hopefully these will go live shortly. I’ve been busy in the background preparing some new sections for the site that will become available later, in particular a hugely detailed section explaining and documenting our exciting electrical system complete with two Tesla batteries is to come. As for now, I know there have…
Having had luck on our side and the water tanks arriving within the week, we decided to get on and tackle the installation. Little did we know that this weekend would be talked about for months to come… Setting Up Before the installation could begin we felt that we needed to make a few adjustments to the grey water tank. We’d noticed when looking at the kit that there were some drawbacks that would be relatively simple to improve upon….
Fully recovered from the last session of van work, we were ready to kick off with another lingering task: Security. With Gandalf filling out with various bits of equipment it was defiantly time to protect all the work that’s gone into it so far. After having had a good research around we finally settle on some locks for the doors, let’s find out how we did. Security Security has always been on our mind when it comes to the van,…
With a couple of really successful weekends of work and Christmas behind us we hoped to follow up with another bumper weekend. We came ready with an ambitious plan to install both the Truma heater and the Smart plugs for the Shore Power. Did we succeed? Read on to find out! Truma Heater It was quite a drizzly weekend the three of us were all wrapped up and ready for work. Heading out to make a start on the long…
Having been lucky enough to be offered a couple of days of help on the van from John (Ben’s dad). We jumped at the opportunity to try to get some of the ever growing list of tasks ticked off the list before Christmas. It’s really helpful when others are interested in the project and keen to get involved. It’s such a long journey to the finish line you sometimes feel you need some fresh outside positivity to help you along…
After a very good evening out celebrating another September birthday with my family we groggily rose for our super early start. We were due to be on the road at 8.30am. Wearily we headed out to the car and off we went. Today our 7 hour round trip journey will take us from Canterbury right down to Christchurch in Bournemouth and back again. Adventures to the Coast What may we be up too today I hear you ask? Well, today…
After working hard on the struts and having the majority of the furniture framing done we took some time to catch up on some design aspects of the build. I personally had been looking forward to figuring out the final look of the kitchen. Decisions, Decisions! It can be hard to know quite where to start with a kitchen in a camper van, and in general there are a few things to figure out before pressing on: How many people…
It’s been a long week waiting for our struts to arrive so we can start the furniture build! Let’s Get Slotting An extremely large parcel arrived first thing, it’s our first batch and contains all the struts we’d need to get the kitchen unit and shower units built. We were both super excited and rushed outside to make a start. The parcel had been packed extremely well and it took some doing with scissors to get into as the struts…
Efforts this week have been ploughed into research. We await the arrival of the struts so that the furniture build can commence! With little physical work to get our teeth into this week and in a bid to keep things moving along, Ben and I concentrated on researching some of the other elements of the build. We are excited about the impending delivery of the struts, but as always there is much to do. We decided to divide and conquer…