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Few pics. Floor now completed and ceiling with all the lights fitted. The floor was brilliant and easy to fit with sticky backed floor tiles a bit like Carnion floor tiles that I put down in my van but at a third of the cost, these cost £54 for the complete floor of a medium wheelbase Ducato...

Morning Phil, Yes your right of course but I have to take into account the purchase costs. Initially I proposed to my daughter that an exchange 6kg Calor would be fitted and then looked at the cost of even getting a secondhand cylinders's cost ( Have you looked recently ) it's horrendous, not...

Cieling and floor now in place, all lights now working and in their correct location, tomorrow I'll start on the furniture. Phil

Yes indeed Trev, initially I thought they were in Wales Bangor until I heard his accent and he told me they were in Bangor Northern Ireland. Have to say they gave me exceptionally good service. Phil

Continuing on, today the Gaslow 6kg bottle and filling kit arrived from Hamiltons in Northern Ireland, they were considerably cheaper than other suppliers and it was only a two day delivery. This meant that I could now fit the fill valve and the water fitting. The area that was available for...

Making slow but steady progress over the last two weeks, I've now as can be seen in the photos now placed the cieling up with all the associated wiring for the lights. The lights apart from the rear heki lights are not in their final place as I've just double taped them up conveniently so I can...

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