Tag: experiment
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One week in the Brecon Beacons
We’re almost 6 months into our conversion, and the van is still looking very van-like. However, we have some basic utilities in, and it seems like a good time to test them out. So we’ve headed to Wales, to the Brecon Beacons, looror a week-long holiday and alpha-test. A quick recap – what’s in: Plywood…
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Testing the sound deadening mats
We installed some Silent Coat sound deadening mats on the van over the weekend. We weren’t really sure how effective they’d be at reducing road noise, body noise, or at stopping outside sounds from coming in and vice versa. So we tried a semi-scientific test, to at least get a sense of how they behave while…
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A one-week trial of vanlife. The good, the bad and the ugly.
This Easter, Amy and I hired a camper van to get a taste of vanlife. We recorded our throughts about what worked and what didn’t, and I’m sharing them here. I should stress that this focuses on the bad and the ugly (we were trying to learn lessons), but the trip was good.
Andrew Sleigh 