Post 1 About Us

Hi we are Marc and Sam this is about our travels in our Motorhome
We purchased this van in November 2013 and this first post will be about some of the works we have done to it albeit on going
We purchased this van in particular as it had a fixed rear bedroom and plenty of garage space which our previous van hadn't, we also got fed up of making the bed up daily to use the table etc so this van ticked the boxes in that respect. The van was in storage over the winter months at a place in Wisborough Green and we visited a few times to put stuff from our old van into it and to disconnect the batteries

 

So we fast forward to March 2014



 

There were quite a lot of jobs I needed to do firstly was to put extra sockets in

Before

 



After

I also put another double socket under the dinette chair this we can use for the

kettle / toaster and Laptop etc when the hob / sink is in use

My second and most important job was to find a way of allowing Max our Jack Russell access  to the bedroom as there is a significant drop to the floor from the fixed bed and Max being his mummy's boy has always since a pup slept on the end of our bed guarding or that's what he calls it ?

I had searched the internet for a ramp type thing, but nothing seemed to be the length we required ! Then one evening I had one of my many eureka moments and came up with a plan to utilise the ladder supplied with the van to access the double bed over the cab area,

My first effort was to cut hardboard tie wrapped to the frame, but he was very reluctant to come down as his paws slid on the hardboard, then I acquired some off cut carpet and glued that to it and voilà  Max was up and down no problem  

 

Problem Solved

Post 2 Work Continued

The next major job was to Install refillable LPG bottles.
After searching the net and motorhome forums I decided to go with Gas It
The install was not to hard although cutting a hole in the side of the van filled me with trepidation and I made quadruple sure of the size of the hole I was about to cut

           I also Installed an auto changeover suggested on a motorhome forum

All in all it took about a hour and a half including a few tinny breaks

When I filled up it cost £17.50 to fill the two 6kg bottles

Whereas the original 6kg bottle was £20 to fill so the savings over the long term and not having to buy different bottles etc while abroad will cover the initial costs of the sytem