DVLA approval

Great news

Our application to the DVLA to update the van to a ‘motor caravan’ was approved 🚐The application involved writing a covering letter and sending receiptsRead More

Truma control

Monitors and gauges

For each of our van monitors/gauges we’ve made bespoke surrounds out of our left over 15mm ply.Each one has either 2 or 3 layers ofRead More

Building the wardrobe

Storage going in

As you saw in an earlier post the bed frame has gone in so our wardrobe can go in above it.We’ve built the frame ofRead More

The doors of the van

The doors of the van needed to have some covering, but they couldn’t have walls like the rest of the van – we needed toRead More

Drip, drip, drip

When you’re new to owning a van, you realise on a rainy day that the area by your sliding door becomes very wet every timeRead More

We can fit some walls

The floor’s in, the ceiling’s in, so we can fit some walls in.Because we don’t like to make life easy, we decided to put theRead More

We have power 🌞

Well, not until they’re connected, but the solar panels are part of the ship, part of the crew.We drilled holes through the frame edges toRead More

When things go wrong

I know, I know – haven’t we drilled enough holes in the van?! Well, no.And this next one was going to be an easy taskRead More

Moving on to the ceiling

With the floor installed, we could move on to the ceiling.We’ve gone with very thin ply (3mm) so that it doesn’t weigh a lot andRead More