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Our maiden voyage
We bought the van almost exactly one month ago, and since then we’ve spent almost every spare moment working on it. It’s been enjoyable, but we didn’t spend all that money just so we’d have one more DIY project to work on. So with some minimum viable furniture fitted, today we set out on a…
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2017-06-01: Minimum viable build
It’s half term week and we’re supposed to be on holiday. We haven’t made it out yet, in part because we wanted to get some basic jobs done on the van before taking it out on its maiden voyage: a floor, a window, and a few bits of basic furniture. With the window in yesterday,…
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2017-05-31: Side window install
After a few evenings of what seems like little progress, it was good today to tackle one of the hero jobs, installing a window. I’ve watched more videos on window installs than I can remember, but the most useful is probably this one: I won’t recap what you can see better on YouTube, but it’s…
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2017-05-30: Admin, insulation, conduit
Today has not been the most fulfilling of days. I spent half the morning on the phone trying to sort out spare keys and the correct trim for the new window we bought. Amy was swapping materials at Screwfix. Then we tried to figure out where to route the conduit to allow for wiring up…
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2017-05-29: Insulation and conduit
With the floor in, Amy applied some preventative rust treatment to the new holes we just made in the van floor (screwing the plywood floor down), and I started on the wall insulation panels. We don’t yet have a solid plan for our electrical routing, so we fitted some conduit (“convoluted sleeve”) into some of…
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2017-05-28: Laying floor, fixing rust
Yep, more of the same this weekend. We had hoped to fit the new window on Saturday but we have the wrong knock-on trim, so after much rushing around car parts dealers, and phoning suppliers, we gave up on that task, and switched to some jobs we’re already working good news is, we managed to…
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Celotex 50mm solid insulation board
50mm, 8 x 4 polyisocyanurate insulation boards for filling the cavities in the walls and roof. This thickness (about 2″) is quite rigid, so difficult to conform to the curved walls of the van. A thinner board might be easier to install. 5 sheets for £120 from Wickes
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Soudal Adhesive Foam
We’re going to try using this as an alternative to the other expanding foams to hold the solid insulation boards in place. £9 from Screwfix
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No Nonsense Expanding Foam
Basic insulation foam for filling in the gaps around the solid insulation panels in the walls. £5.20 from Screwfix
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Soudal Genius Insulation Foam
This does the same job as the No-Nonsense insulation foam, but comes in a more user-friendly dispenser. £7 from Screwfix
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