My Self-Build Campervan
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- I'd wanted to build a campervan for some time so I gave it a go. Can't say I saved a lot of money over buying a second-hand factory-built camper, but the DIY satisfaction? - priceless!
For two years later, and a few tweeks, see this video...
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Wow!. This must be the best of all the home-built van conversions that I have seen. Excellent work. Master craftsmanship!
Fabulous build. The family all watched that together with joy. You have skills..... and deep pockets!
Been watching a lot of these self built camper vans and I have to say this is one of the finest I've seen. Huge attention to detail and no wasted space. Turned out beautiful. Good job man!
Excellent craftsmanship. I think your spot on by leaving a sink out of the bathroom. It's just unnecessary plumbing. It's just a couple of steps to the sink in the kitchen.
I'm glad to see someone else making the shower with fiberglass. I made a 24" x 30" shower in one of my builds and fiberglassed the pan up about 12".
The next one will be a 24" x 24" shower.
Also I'm in agreement with you about the porta potty. It gives you a lot more options for dumping when a proper dump station is not available. I used a porta potty for 3 years with no problems
I also combined the kitchen and shower so that when the space was not being used as a shower (15 minutes a day), it doubled as extra counter space.
Amazing build!! I love the layout and the garage, you've motivated me to start to build mine. Thanks for sharing!!
Wow, wow wow, I absolutely love it. Talk about planning every inch of space and it doesn't look crowded. I would pat you on the back for an awesome job. Now go out and enjoy it. Safe travels!!
Super professional conversion, lots of skills and knowledge required and employed on this project, you should be running DIY courses for us lesser mortals! Hope you're having a great time.
one of the most well thought and impressive builds I've watched. Well done, bloody brilliant
I know I am late to the party, but I must say, AMAZING! My van is gutted and in need of a miracle! Great Job! dj 🐙
Very impressed, that's probably the first self build that if I wanted to buy one I would happily pay for ..... 👍👍👍👍👍
What an amazing conversion and a fantastic use of space. Very inspirational, thank you!
I'm not sure why I never thought of fibreglassing my own wet room but thanks for the inspiration and the money I'll save!
Very nice quality, clean build!
Nicely done. I am sure you have inspired others with their vans.
Beautiful job. Gorgeous detailing. Have fun!
Ditto: AWESOME. Very meticulous work. Wonderful to watch it coming together.
Incredible build. Thanks for sharing. The craftsmanship is terrific. Well done.
Stunning build. Everything a van should be. Thank you for sharing. :-) Wonderful music too.
This is the best video that I have ever seen!! Wow,,,great job!!
Superb job, congrats and well done, hope you thoroughly enjoy it.
Amazing build, thank you for sharing it.
Alas, just now sold. Already started building our new project - an overland camper based on a Fuso Canter 4x4!
Brilliant. The hatch to cab is excellent idea, freeing up so much space but still allowing emergency egress. Love this build!
Really nice camper, fantastic craftsmanship. I tip my cap to you sir
well thought out, excellent conversion .
this is one of the best conversion videos I've seen. thanks so much, you've given me a lot of inspiration :)
Excellent work!
Top job! Loads of hard work there.
Very high quality build! Excellent video, loved the scene from Scotland!
I have seen a lot of these now, and to you I say , well done
That's the best home build I've seen....
what a fab build in a small space,great work love it
Great build and look so professional, I'm building my own on the street and in the van, no driveway or garage, and on a down hill slope. Should I carry on, you bet.
That is amazing! Stunning.
Just came across this build. Fantastic job.
Fantastic vid and has definitely helped with the ongoing process of my build! And thanks for the added text...many notes taken :)
Great Job!
Amazing work!
its so beautiful and i love it...
Unusual and wise use of limited space.
Excellent job!
+ridingismusic The galley position is not the usual one for a panel van. But having decided that my next build will be a 4x4 flatdeck truck camper, I have realised the floorplan is the same as many side-door ones (bimobil et al) turned 180deg - my bed is where it would be over the cab of a pickup, I just have the advantage of the garage underneath.
+lc10w Will wait, of course to see.
Thumb up!
Wow, best transformation on youtube!
One word. AWESOME
Fantastic build! Quality is superb, well done! You have some great ideas there. I want to build one now...
your unbelievable. ..really nice van,specifically the bathroom
The work quality and layout is much better then American well known rv manufacturers, congratulation, if I would happen to live in Scotland I would definatly invest money to be able to build campervans etc with you ...congratulations again..
Great Job 👍🏻
I love it....!! I was struggling how to do the toilet/shower thing but this has given me loads of brill ideas and I'm sure my husband will appreciate the technical help ;)
Very classy, I'm impressed.
A most beautiful build...............! We toured Scotland about 10 years ago, loved it! We're currently building a Sprinter Van..........Not near as custom as your van though! Safe Travels from the U.S.
very nice build!
cool van great job.
I'm not asking how much the build was as you probably don't want reminding, but the attention to detail, the workmanship and quality parts fitted are top notch. Well done for seeing it through to the end many fail including me.
+VanBooter I can tell you it cost more than I said to the missus it would cost when I was selling her the idea!...and how long it would take!
beautiful job !!!!! extremely in ore your workmanship .
Very nice, thanks for taking the time to put that together!
I was really hoping for a demonstration of your dive-thru-window...perhaps in a follow up? :)
i like it specialty the music make this video relaxing good work .its beautiful van injoy life .
Wow that is nice!
It looks a real professional job, i'm building my own, but when I look at the job you've done it makes mine look as though I've just thrrown everything in the back and let it lie
Your van is a credit to you, one of best you tube build video's i have seen. Mike C County Durham
Beautiful. You did an awesome job! Really well done. I'm just trying to figure out why you put the steering wheel on the wrong side. ;)
wow! Great work, nice video.
Really good job this.
Great! Well done.
well done,top job all round.
enjoy,you deserve it.
best regards from not so sunny Wellingborough.
:-)
brilliant
Superb
Dude nice job i wish I should have one of those
Nice layout,excellent job.i will add though,dark grey gets very depressing very quickly,but that's easily changed. My next build will be full of colour!
excellent build, i see a niggle from someone in comments but its your build and very well sorted. and top notch products so wasnt cheap !! cheers
Sehr gute Arbeit!
exceptional
Beautiful. Another +1 for Kiwis ;)
There's nothing a Kiwi can't make with No.8 fencing wire and inja, enginu... cunning!
Engineer? Fab! 🤗🌸💕🌸
Great!!!!
It's amazing
don't know why you have got any thumbs down on this build, has to be one of the best i have seen. well done that's something you can be proud off, may see you on the road in my LWB 👍
great job, where did you get that tank you used for fuelling the webasto heater? It's the ideal shape. I'm installing a diesel heater myself soon and was going to have someone do it for me connecting it to the vans diesel, but thinking about it now with a secondary tank like this I could install it myself and save money by filling it with red diesel.
+Gary McCaffrey £29 on e-bay
Camper sweet camper :)
Would be interesting to observe your ideas using tiny space in cargo vans like Fiat or RAM Promaster City, if you ever thought about... :-) Share, please.
Never saw such creative approach! Still amazed! :-)
Nice! Not your first rodeo. Tiki 🚎💨💨💨
excellent job. id love to see how you did the fiberglass. that a tough thing to do?
+Bruce B Easy to do, I just watched a whole bunch of youtube clips. Just have everything set out and have a plan, coz once it's mixed you gotta move fast!
I would have put money on the fact that that was you playing the geeetar at the end :)
Anyway, WOW! What an amazing quality build. Since deciding a couple of weeks ago that I would like to build a similar motorhome, I've binge watch quite a number of conversion videos. Yours HAS to be one of the best (even though I'm not keen on slideshows - takes time to read AND understand the pics) conversions out there, and so much crammed into a small space too. Well done. It is a credit to you.
Regards Mark in the UK
p.s. Having read a bit about how the ...'facilities' are abroad, would I be correct in thinking that you've designed your motorhome primarily for European use? I had considered the 'cassette' toilet vs driving over a waste disposal point issue.
Only reasons I went for the porta-potti rather than say a Thetford C200/400 cassette toilet is because of (a) it's simplicity, (b) I had only one place I could put the shower drain due to sink and chassis locations, and (c) I felt I had cut enough holes in the van. However, the porta-potti is a little awkward to get in and out of the enclosure given it's full of water/waste - not good if you've a bad back. Very few panel van conversions have a proper black tank and US style dumping. In the UK there is very few dump points outside of campsites, unlike the rest of Western Europe, so it has to be a case of disceetly tipping your portapotti/cassette waste down public restroom toilets, or if only away in the camper for a few days, bringing your waste home and pouring down your house loo - not ideal. NZ is also well set-up with just about every town having a public dump point to discourage people dumping in nature areas etc - I really thought Scotland councils would have been more pro-active in this matter, given the huge number of visitors in campers, many wild/freedom camping.
As an aside, something I saw the other weekend at the Overland Show was a pro-built Sprinter that had fibreglass pods on the sides where the aft side window apertures are, to allow extra inches when building the bed as an east-west - wish I had spotted that three years earlier.
Wow, very impressive job you have presented here. I was your 40.000th guest here :-)
hi, great build you have done there, looks the nuts, im looking at doing a build soon, im just wondering how you get on with the t7 heater unit and do you think it would be warm enough still in the winter months?
The heater is surprisingly warm for what is essentially a 10cm square car radiator and the van is a small space. However, the fan and ducting is noisy, and the Webasto makes noise as well. I wonder if next time I would plumb in a type-11 300x400 central heating radiator instead. I would also rubber mount the Webasto - I have it attached to the chassis, which transmits some sound and vibration.
with my build i intend on living in it, i was looking at the webasto and eberspacher night heaters which sound very noisy, but i think if mounted correctly within a well ventilated and sound proof compartment it could be reduced dramatically, but i do intend on thinking through the insulation side dramatically, in theory getting the temp way up high and hopefully maintaining a slow cool over the night
Beautiful workmanship. I couldn't do that, would probably stress out and have a heart attack. Could not see clearly how you laid out the kitchen, looked like it was up against the driving area, which gave me the impression you had no access to and from living area to driving area - I must have been mistaken. It is one of a kind. I personally like the small windows. In my smallish trailer home I tend to keep most curtains drawn because when I'm indoors I like to feel like I'm indoors, it's quite a most comfortable and secure feeling, and I got that immediately looking at your windows, they are perfect; and with cameras today easily installed, you have less glass display which is fine with me.
That's my critique/opinion, wish I could do this, but you must know the materials available also, which I am in the dark about. Are there Camper van build/parts stores, etc.? Love your work, and your van. Congrats! ciao.
+trumpsahead Believe me, I had stress! Yes, galley is up against the driving area but there is a 'window' through that I can dive through in an emergency, rather than go out the side door if it's not safe to do so. Another good thing with the small tinted windows is that opportunist thieves need to be 7-foot tall to see what's on offer inside.
Great van build but for me you've used a lot skill and technology building a top camper, then left out the hand basin in the shower room and I think a fixed cassette toilet would be more fitting than a tied down porta loo after all that work. Looks like an afterthought!
Edward, that's where you're a tad wrong - a lot of thought went into it. Camper bathrooms are already small as it is, adding a basin just gives something else to take up space and bang into when in there, and successfully hiding/servicing the plumbing is another problem. The galley sink is just outside the door, and as long as good hygiene habits are observed it's not a problem. As for the porta-potti, my folks have a fixed toilet and have had several issues with it, also I didn't want to cut anymore holes in the van (one of the many reasons why I went for a compressor fridge rather than the usual absorption variety. This van was a two year build - plenty of time to think things through.
Well enjoy it. But for me I like to shave at a bathroom not a kitchen sink and your folks having an issue with a fixed loo, doesn't mean you'll have an issue with yours. There are millions out there which are issue less. I still think the porta potti degrades the quality of the build.
Couldn't get your video out of my mind so viewed again. You're one talented human, and have good taste in spades.
A thought comes to mind, something about how we use water in a camper: Why is clean water used to flush toilets? I may build a compost toilet in van I hope to buy, but with flush toilets why not set up to draw water from grey water tank as it would mean emptying grey water tank less often and carrying less weight. Is this practical? I realize sink-used water can smell horrendous if left standing in a bucket, but I thought flush toilets do not have standing water in them above ground which would make this idea practical, no? Just a thought, ciao. ps: I love the recessed look on that window - was that practical, I mean is it drafty or a chilly spot? Lol.
+trumpsahead To recycle the grey water, a fixed marine toilet would be the way to go, drawn through a filter. However, camper toilets (fixed or porta-potti) are more economical than domestic toilets because you can control how much flush is required to do the business.
The window recess is due to the thickness of the wall/insulation, dictated by the steel ribs. Acrylic double-glazed windows would be warmer but were more than twice the price - perhaps on the next van!
Beautiful build now do me one
I don't see any one building RV's in USA I have looked and failed seems all the brains are in Europe. You have done a very professional job , is it possible to get a blueprint, so I can copy it here in the US. ( New jersey)
Wow, Very Well Done!
Best layout and craftmanship l have seen. l wonder how do you stop the bed from sliding out? Did l miss that? English is not my first language so l dont know how you call that clever system
Does the couch sleep one as well? Child maybe?
Enjoy your travels together...
The bed extension has enough friction that it doesn't slide out on it's own accord. I could have made the dining table drop down between the seats to make a third berth, but it means the table would be a smaller surface area - as it is now, there is a good knee overlap and don't need to stretch for our plates, the table is 600x600.
Fantastic when can i borrow it and will my KLX250 hook on the back ;-}
Very nice build :) Did the insulation work well in both hot and cold conditions?
Insulation seems to be doing the job, warm in winter and cool-ish in summer, though to be fair it doesn't too hot in the summer in Scotland!
That kicks ass......are u living in it or just for the weekends and holidays. Eg
No, it's just for weekends and holidays. With this layout, a LWB LT35/Sprinter would be better as the bed could be a permanent double instead of sliding over part of the dinette like mine does, if one was to live in it long term. With a LWB, if the dinette and garage kept the same dimensions, there would be a serious amount of storage for long term travelling in-between.
lc10w In America, they have come down on the Van life, cannot be over a certain size, Length, width and height. So boondocking becomes illegal in some places. I spend most of my time in China with our business, we hope to be home in the spring and line up a sailboat for rehabbing, you have def done an amazing job on this rig....
I'm a hobbyist motorcycle builder and stumbled on your vid, I must say very professional but that must have come with a heafty price tag?
I've (re)built a few bikes myself, should put a wee vid together of them. Yes, the cost did spiral well beyond what I said to the missus it would cost. I toted up the big bits, fridge, hob et al, but it's the screws, fittings, hose, wire etc that really adds up before you know it. She kept a ledger of the outgoings - I'm on a very short leash now! Underestimated how long it would take too - she reckons that's two years of her life she won't get back. But we are getting good use out of it and having nice trips away together.
Why does this all sound very very familiar - thinking of six wheeled amphibians, Jeeps etc??!!
lovely workmanship, but i would have put at least i decent sized window in, but hey its your van!
do you regret using such an old base vehicle though?
I regret using a panel van full stop! Curved walls, limited width, monocoque-ish chassis rails - all led to compromise. My next one will be a box on a cab-chassis 4x4 something - will look like a demountable but permanently fixed. As for the small windows, I wanted a certain amount of stealth when wild camping. We're out and about during the day and by the time we are snug in the back it's getting dark and you can't see much outside anyway.
Minted
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To small windows imo but nice.
joistein naww.. stealthy.. and can always keep the doors open eyh ;)
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