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Just as quickie today, I had fitted a rearview/reverse camera built into the rear high stop light unit and a clipped on monitor to the rear view mirror ( Which I had to purchase separately). I'd picked up both the monitor and the camera power from a random electrical block hanging around by...

Morning Paul, I can't actually point you at a particular Motorhome but I do recommend that you look at the " Quirky motorhomes " site as there is regularly 7.5 ton vehicles partially or fully built for sale on there, and may have lift facilities included. It's worth keeping an eye on it. Phil.

Still at it slowly, just a couple of photos of the rear side windows with 4mm ply affixed almost ready for stretched carpet covering, spent a couple of hours yesterday separating all the coloured 12v wiring from their corrugated conduit, I believe as I mentioned before that there is more than...

For those that are about to embark on a van build, all I can really advise is to measure once measure twice measure three times. Test your results physically with what you are fitting, and if your happy with the result cut that panel out with confidence, but always in the back of your thoughts...

A few photos of the finished toilet door and the fridge vents. Phil

Today I cut the hardest hole in the side of a van that I've ever cut, the toilet door aperture. I spent a couple of hours contemplating wether to turn the shower tray round and have the door openings into the van as I've done on all Ducatos that I've built in the past, mainly because I wanted...

Today I put the bathroom heki in which is a forced fourway directional opening, for whichever way the wind is blowing. I also decided on where the fridge would go and installed the top vent, will have to wait for the bottom vent installation till my order from Magnum motorhomes arrives on...

A couple of weeks ago I fitted a new Chinese diesel heater to my Sons T5, it worked well for two days and then stopped with an error code of E06 which means a problem with the fan/motor, usually this means the fan is hitting the casing and causing the fan to jam but on inspection there was no...

Indeed Phil, I'm going to put up the Christmas lights for the back garden over the weekend (Front garden was done over a week ago). Tomorrow I'm hoping to install the bathroom heki, today I've been busy putting my motorbikes out under waterproof covers from my work shed so I've got space to...

Ok I've now put all the insulation into the roof. One thing I will say is don't be anal about getting the fit exact around skylights and windows, you don't want to spend hours cutting and fitting insulation to a fine tolerance as the amount of thermes you save is not worth the time taken and...

Still going at it will post some more pictures shortly, I've been held up with various things over the last two weeks. Christmas lights, changing over my Sons diesel heater from underneath on the chassis to under the drivers seat repairing the fan on a brand new Chinese diesel heater that he...

Ok back again, since my last post I have installed the eberspacher heater as it was getting a little parky over the last few days. It's rained heavily as well so this has proved the water tighness of the skylight and windows that have been fitted so far. As you may or may not notice the...

I'm working on a flat concrete drive at rear of my house, I used some 25mm yesterday and have to say it's brilliant as not only 25mm insulation against the concrete but you can also slide around on it as though your on wheels, really is a great idea. As for brittleness I'm not so sure on...

Brilliant idea Phil, I've got those jigsaw together foam rubber floor mats but thinking about it a large piece of 25mm insulation board would be an excellent idea which would actually be better than my mats. Phil

Morning all, Over the last few days I have started on the floor, my original intention was to have a complete floating floor i.e. 19mm original floor boards layed over 25mm insulation board, but I chickened out in the end and went with shorts blocks of batten sawn down to correct sized hieght...

Well done Kev, I think maybe it was a marketing decision on behalf of the commercial builders, of course when talking to the reps at shows they in the main are sales persons and are not involved in the actual build so would say it's not possible, as the time and extra cost would significantly...

And to continue:- The next job is to put a midi heki into the rear section of the roof, this one I bought from Magnum motorhomes and have to say the quality of it including Led lights incorporated is exceptionally good especially for the price. The booklet that comes with it gives the cutout...

Evening Phil, I did mention that in my post. "The next job is gluing the premade wood frame to the back of the cut out, once the glue has gone off at this stage most folk would paint the raw edges of the cut out steel but my view is that I put enough adhesive sealant on the window seat so that...

By the by when I first put a 1100X450 window into a Ducato sliding door 11years ago I was told by the commercial builders at varius shows that it couldn't be done as it was too big to fit into the space but I went ahead and did it, i noticed a few years later at shows that 1100X450 windows...

Once more into the breech dear friends, after a few days of doing odd jobs about the house and garden I'm back onto fitting these windows. After I had marked up and measured the cut outs and measured them again the horrifying business of actually removing great swarths of panel from the van...