Think you'll find we have a cause. #STACKHARDER
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#MegaVan update: 23
We have something resembleing a Kitchen! (aka Galley)
After warning neighbours that I'd be cutting outside and after another quick measure, more like 3 and 30 minutes of anxious pacing.
I finally drilled corner points and joined cuts to make the sinkhole!
(apparently I say 'Sinkhole' in a rude way, if anyone can explain to me how else I can say it, more than welcome to learn... 🤔 Sink'ole,
Sink Whole, Sink-Hellooole !)
The worktop is lighter as I'd cut the excess for the vanity unit off. So easily placed it in its final resting place and as we were having guests round quickly popped the doors on! (plastic wrapped still) but looking good!
We're looking for something like that for our #MegaVan!
Was thinking of the single upright unit that would neatly fit in the shower when not used, but that would mean having to put an extension or power into a wet area. 🤔
#MegaVan update: 23
Kitchen! (aka Galley)
Taking shape by assembling, fitting and bolting units together. The worktop is in place and a test cut was made. The excess happens to fit the bathroom vanity unit so there's a stroke of luck!
The worktop is a compact paper & resin12mm laminate and measuring 2.4m long!
Not too heavy but very clean and stylish which is very pleasurable to the Misses apparently.
I've never fitted a kitchen before and it's a very steep learning curve. Working out the cutting and edges is fun, not! 😭
Marked out the sink hole and will attempt it tomorrow as I don't want to rush it and will probably measure it all again for the uptinth time before putting anything sharp against it! 😬
Once the sink is in I can focus on the Tap and waste connections.
It's all go here!
#MegaVan update: 22
Well that didn't work out...
I'd loaded the #MegaVan with ample weight to simulate it finished and took it to a weighstation.
My God, she's heavy! 😳
Taking into account there's still a few things to go in her (oo er madam) till she's finished, she hefty, very nearly at safe limits tbh. Hence the decision NOT to fit the taillift... Sad I know, but as Duncan, our commercial fitter said "She'll handle like a bathtub on ice if you do!"
I've always known she's got a big ass and likes to swing it on corners but I don't want anything to exasperated it!
I've caused enough damage already. Let's not mention #FirstGateGate. (more on that another time... )
Any hoo - Came back a little bit deflated but the guys sure know how to look after me & the #MegaVan. They'd serviced it and gave her a thorough examination and fixed a few niggles for good measure so not a completely wasted journey.
So back to the grindstone, focus on under kitchen plumbing and getting units in.
Yeah right!
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We've a local fox who talks to Magpies!
#MegaVan update: 21
Quick reminder there will only ever be #21million #btc! There's a difference between scarce and finite.
Yesterday we got up very early and travelled to our commercial outfitters in Cornwall, ready from the taillift (Wife's Gin Terrace!) to be fitted.
There's lots of controversy about adding more weight and complexity to the #MegaVan but we envisage have it on it own land at some point and having a raised outside platform will definitely be an add bonus to watch sunsets etc.
So we're back in Cornwall once again and over the next few days I'm planning on doing some difficult jobs on the #MegaVan like fitting the clean & waste tanks.
On a different note. I hadn't driven the #MegaVan for over a month and my god, I felt it in the calves and they were cramping badly. Note: Use the whole leg on the peddles not just the ball of the foot! 👍
The #MegaVan is coming on well. Not only do we have 1 working secret trolly drawer but the Woowoo loo was delivered today.
It will be a few days until I get the holes and pipes connected. (Black waste tank still to be underslung)
Kitchen on order and vanity unit & bowl arriving Thursday.
Today I lifted the galley floor connecting hot, cold & waste pipes into final positions.
All very exciting.
Renogy still haven't refunded my money on their completely failed order but I have found a good supplier of Victron equipment to build my solution going forward. 🤑
My #MegaVan needs walls, flooring, kitchen, bathroom, shower, running water, pv & electrics...
The list goes on.
We literally are just camping in the back of a lorry!
But loving every minute!
