Thank you 🙏

Glad you enjoyed the videos. Switzerland is amazing. So yeah Lauterbrunnen staying at Camping Jungfrau and Zug which was at a campsite that is now closed. The cable car was Lauterbrunnen. There are two cable cars that get you to Murren, a cog railway up to Wengen and normal train to Interlaken all of which I recommend.

@@OurVanPlan many thanks

Glad you found the video helpful. The aluminium extrusion is from RS Components. Each half is basically the same size as the aluminium sits right next to each other when closed. I did build an extension piece at the back that goes into the doorway to give more width. The mattress isn’t equal. The one nearest the back is a bit wider (maybe 10cm) including the additional bit I mentioned. When they stack the front one that goes on top sits a bit back vs the back one that stays put, if that makes sense. The challenge is with the cutouts as that restricts how wide each part can be.

Thanks for the message, glad you’re finding them helpful. The floor insulation is fine. Hard to tell if the dodo liner added much but I’d probably use it again. Floor is always warm though.

Yeah because the van wall curves in only slightly and we wanted level top/bottom of the cutouts and then the sides flat to the rest of the ply. Bit of a pain but worth doing.

Yeah we used poplar ply from Sydenhams which is definitely lighter and nicer finish

Thanks so much

No but we do have an Anker projector that projects onto a screen on the sliding door.

Yeah we did

Is there a video of how you managed to get them removed? 😀

Thank you, glad you found it interesting 👍

Thanks. It’s from RS Components.

Cheers

Thank you. It’s handy stopover and great to wake up in Cornwall.

Thank you. I’m 6ft and can stand up fully with a bit of clearance. Could definitely have made it taller with a thinner ceiling etc.

Thanks and glad you found the videos helpful. Yeah we got it from Amazon and it came with a plug. It’s not great as the thread size doesn’t match any of the UK plumbing! So going to try a B&Q plug hole but not sure it’ll fit perfectly.

They’re 40mm aluminium extrusion and I got them from RS Components.

@@OurVanPlan thank you kindly. They look more solid then the aluminium struts people use from ikea. Especially when designing a sliding bed style.

Thanks glad you found it helpful. I’m not sure how what you’re describing would work because at night you’d need to slide the bed back so you couldn’t use the additional garage space. That’s if I’ve understood it right!

@@OurVanPlan Sorry not sure i was clear. I think I actually sort of figured out the answer realising that obviously for you guys when you travel, you would always have it as a double so that's what you mean by having it back at night. However the difference is I'll be solo travelling mostly and if I had both slat sections as slideable, I could position it as a single further forward if I needed a bigger/taller garage space.

Thanks for the lovely comment. Glad our build has inspired you. Yeah our van fits in most spaces eg supermarket. Bit of an overhang but never has a problem. It’s 5.4m long and is an L2. Most conversations are the L3 which is 6m long. Not sure they do the L1 with a high roof though? I think it would have been really difficult to do it without a driveway and garage. I know people have done it in your situation but the sheer amount of stuff needed, tools, the ability to cut huge sheets somewhere outside that’s flat next to the van. I think it’d be a challenge. Maybe there’s somewhere you could rent some space to do it or something like that? Also depends on the build you want to do as I’m sure it can be done in a simpler way than we did. Good luck with it though, it’s a great experience.

Haha I don’t remember that! Ah sorry to hear that but glad you’re on the road again and the travel videos are useful 👍

Thank you. Glad it’s helpful. I did add them as additional strength but I reckon they’re not technically needed. More peace of mind.

I think 18mm on the drawer fronts and cupboard. 12mm for the cabinet itself. Hinges just standard adjustable ones from screwfix.

Thank you. Glad we could serve as some inspiration.

Thanks for the message. I can’t recall the full width metal to metal, maybe 2m, but with the walls in place our bed is 1.9m long. I’m 180cm tall and can lay straight across widthways.

I dont have the height to hand but I can sit up in bed no problem.

Thank you glad you like it and found it helpful. It was quite complicated to think about but it worked out really well.

Thank you. To be honest we don’t use the water heater that much. But based on the heating I doubt it’ll use that much gas. A full tank seems to last forever.

Thank you. The slats are pine (spare from our ceiling) and they’re 18mm x 75mm. I reckon we would have been ok with 12mm thickness.

From RS components

Thank you. Sadly I’m not that organised 😂

Thank you. Yeah so pleased with the end result. Glad you like it ☺️

It does get hot when it gets to around 30 degrees. At night the fan can cool it down nicely but I’d expect you’d need air con in cali!

I’m not sure to be honest. My van go through ok which is an H2 fiat ducato. I’m sure you’d make it but it was tight in my 5.4m van so could be challenging. Some tight corners lower down.

Ah thanks I’ll add it in. Glad you found the videos helpful. An L3 will be amazing. Enjoy your build and the travels when you get to it.

You won’t regret it. Building it first was challenging with the install but looks better I think. I’d definitely go with 12mm and you could also hollow it out behind using a router. The ply I painted black was pretty thin tbh but I did consider that black plastic sheeting you can buy from Wickes (not sure what it’s for maybe roofing) but because it’s so thin you’d have to put that up first then the slats.

Haha yeah looks worse on camera!

Thank you. I battened the van walls and then screwed the frame assembly to those through the ply wall pieces of the frame assembly.

Thanks. It’s a full length double mattress so 190cm. I’m 180cm and plenty of space.

Thank you, means a lot

Thank you

Brilliant. It was one of the first things we did and such a sense of achievement early on!

Yeah think so. Not sure what it’s like.

Thank you. Glad you like the build. Our fridge is 12v. It’s probably nearer 4 days with fan going, fridge on level 3 of 4, bit of inverter to charge laptops, usb phone charging and heating on and off. Don’t forget things like the fridge only draw current for a proportion of every hour they’re on. So if it draws 6A it’s probably nearer 2AH worth of draw.

We got it from eBay but I’d seen it in a shop locally called Flooring Superstore. It’s not on eBay based on what I bought but the name/code is Prism 049L so you might be able to google that and find it.

@@OurVanPlan thanks very much will have a look now and have to say your build vlogs are great and so informative we're learning a lot from them and how to implement what you have done into our boxer conversion....👍🏻

Ah thank you, means a lot. Glad you found the video useful. Tried to show all the decisions/challenges and how to overcome. Looking back the Ducato is definitely the more straight forward of all the panel vans to do. Tho it didn’t feel like it at the time 😂

Thanks. Yeah you probably could if you were creative. It might be tight because exhaust goes that side. We couldn’t do the second one because of our gas tank annoyingly

I think I got the tanks from eBay somewhere.