Sir, the knowledge that you share and the beautiful way that you share it makes you sexy as hell!

Good to know!

Nice

Production quality excellent !

Glad I discovered your channel. You are the shxxt.

You are such a good guy Chuck and incredibly talented! I'm 4 years into owning my bus and only stumbled on your videos a couple years ago. Even went to your Bus Fair building classes in Oakridge 2024. I would imagine no matter what what you do its going to be gold...

Have you ever used steel framing studs for a build? I would think that the overall weight would be less without sacrificing strength. What are your thoughts on that?

Nomadic Fanatic sent me over...All l can say is I Love you....your awsome and you have my dream bus this short bus...Thank you from the bottom of my heart letting me know what to buy....my husband is 6,3.....???? Will that work ???

Reminiscing and techy stuff--I have no clue what the interior really looks like. I think it was beautiful--the golden yellow color was very pretty. Unlike the commenter ⬇ I love wood and it seems very alive to me. Just would have loved to see rooms, complete cupboards, showers and bathrooms, etc. The outside is stunning.

If we were all sat there you'd need a lot bigger bus lol

Too bad you had to close the shop I really enjoyed watching your videos. You are a class act when it comes to building the buses and your videos far exceed others. You provide so much detail it is great.

I think you need to write a book on bus conversion, Sell it on Amazon books

So with al the detailed info presented and thank you..but its alot....so basically are u suggesting the spray foam all around the van except the flooring which will have the the SPX foam?? can i put radiant heating pads on top of the spx foam? how will that do?

80k in this bus?

how about the 7.3 international turbo diesel?

I have an Ambulance at which I have been trying to figure out what to do for insulation... Nice vid... I'm gonna go a different route.... I will Drink the moisture on my walls 🤨 I have or will be getting a 3 in 1 Atmospheric Water Dispenser!! As it suppose to make 19 liters available a day... So having a mini humidifier would imo reduce moisture that might build up inside your rig...

I good Mississippi road and this drywall I think would be a big fail.

Your foam looks off ratio in some spots, you did give great advice to hire a professional. Those kits are ok for small repairs. Tyvek tape is great to cover the faces of the wood. Wear heavy gloves with the horse comb, and push on the rings with your other hand. They also make a CI cutter, expensive, but it you don’t this a lot, well worth it.

So. What is the second best wall insulation alternative ? Lol. ...are there Insulating boards of these foam material? Thanks !

wow, im glad I seen this video

Victron Inverters are rated in VA...NOT WATTS. There's a big difference

Should purge lines with argon etc then pressure test to 400psi. Then vacuum lines using a Micron gauge...most don't do any of that. So it should vacuum for a few hours at least. Ideally leave till the next day. That will ensure there's nothing in the line and gives you long term health of the system.

I started using an eccentric flare tool. It flares at a slight angle as it roles around. Seems to get more consistent results without cracking or deforming the flare.

Your way of framing is too complicated in my view. But as I would say, to each his own.

most vans insulation is only marginal . and aluminum like step vans are cold in winter hot in summer but there was a van Boyertown was 2 sheets of multalloy and insulation was better but nothing like a foam sandwich wall spray foam bus is different

To each his own.

what about wiring?

Chuck..I have little headroom in my 5 window bluebird, Question..what about insulation Under the bus? Or will all types create rust? Thanks bro for sharing your knowledge 💪👍

Great video. I was amazed reading through the comments seeing people upset that you're explaining and teaching. Upon clicking on the video you see it's 39 minutes long. If you take shortcuts while building, you end up with a lesser quality result. If you do not take the time to educate yourself on what you're doing and why you're doing it, you're wasting an opportunity to gain a new skill or set of skills. Oh well. To each their own. I enjoy learning.

Chuck hi, love your channel. I purchased a new empty Ford Transit van and I am stating the RV conversion build. At your behest I purchased 2" XBS foam insulation and putting over that 3/4" Advantek OSB wood. The question......would you be confident of putting these 2 layers directly over the "ribbed" van floor (allowing for air flow under the 2" XBS insulation? OR fill between the ribs making the floor flat and give the XBS foam 100% support? Thank you in advance.

Good for a laugh but too fantastical to watch in its entirety

I really hope she took them to court and won cause that's definitely a backyard DIY, I feel bad for her

That's some good foam I'm going to do my floor your way

No good deal on a rusty bus 🤣from the Midwest I agree

What about stick on flexible panels?

What happened to THIS bus and your collection of other buses when you dissolved your business?

Bought my 1979 Ward in 1987 for $450 at a school board auction and this 18 year old at the time discovered real fast that he did not know squat about a school bus. My first mistake was buying a gasoline powered bus. That 427 ( 4 speed manual trans) drank gas like it had a hole in the 40 gal tank and at the extreme best got only 4mpg. Then it had more holes than floor under the plywood floor. After one thing after the other, I did finally get it converted, but only drove it a year or so and finally sold it because it drank too much gas.

Hey Chuck! Would you happen to know if a roof raise would make it harder to get insured? Thanks!

Great job and video,greatly and directly informative,thank you!😊

This explains really well. This also mostly applies to insulating a small garage.

In your builds, have you installed a generator and if so, what did you use?

Great video. I'm a physicist, and I think your explanations are great. I'm curious to know why you only mention using block foam for the floors, and not for the walls. It seems like vertical wall sections could be covered morer quickly with block foam, and then the cracks filled in with spray foam, obviously covering & sealing any exposed metal ribs like you said. At around 35:00 you briefly mention insulating walls with rigid foam board and then going back in with "great stuff" - I'm guessing that's a type of spray foam? Is this what you're talking about? Is there any disadvantage of doing it this way (block + foam) vs using 100% spray foam on the walls and ceilings?

Beautiful layout and color scheme! Great attention to details with added features. Love the drying rack and the multi-use dining table ! And the tub 🎉

Hi Chuck, why do you prefer diesel over gas fueled buses?

I have a question some of us are born with both DNA male and female gender is it going to take that right to choose what gender that we want to be when we are adults I can see stopping the kids from changing until they're adult but after they turn an adult it's up to them if you tried to control us after an adult then you become a dictator and take away our rights and our freedoms of being in American that's a very thin line that he is treading right now as adult you have your civil rights and you have the right to to be who you want to be and to tell another person how they should be or how they should dress or how they should worship and control them that is dictatorship and communism my dad gave and shed his blood for this country and so has all my family I will stand for America and I will stand for our civil rights as American no man or woman's ever going to tell me how to believe or who I should be that is not their right

A Reviewer on BBB Reviews says that Epic Skoolies filed for bankruptcy and guy is on the run. Don't know if that's true, but it makes sense.

I'm about to get into building a skoolie what would the average price be to finish something like this? I really want to know what I'm looking at

We think we just found what we want it is a older bus they have put money into it including the raised roof which is not finished but is done right and it has a good motor in it which is 12 valve Cummins 5.9 newer Allison tranny and the price is reasonable in our budget I like your advice I pay attention to it fortunately for us I can work on the Diesels if I need to or anything else on that bus which helps a lot I always suggest to people to get AAA RV Insurance especially if you have to have a toll I see so many wanting to get into the bus life like you said it is very spendy unless you know how to do your own work and yes tires are spendy I stay here we are making sure that my front tires are in good shape because that is the disaster if they blow keep up the awesome videos thank you

love your videos, always great information but this one is quite condescending