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I agree with you oh learned one 100%. Generally speaking we will always ignore any eBay item where the seller has lower than 99% seller rating and this seller doesn't! Furthermore this seller isn't a specialist and appears to sell an exceptionally wide range of products!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Phil

I totally agree with you about thermal barriers Phil, IMHO a total waste of time most especially in my case when I was using closed cell spray foam. The conversion is coming on well, you will be allowing yourself a few days off over Christmas I presume? Phil

I used my smaller 25mm pads of approx. size of 50 x 40 cms. on all types of uneven ground throughout the UK and Europe, even using it as a kneeling pad and it was in almost as good a condition after 9 years of use as it was when I first started using it! As for the 1 mtr. x 50 cms. sheet I use...

It is truly amazing how strong the foil faced insulation boards are. Because of the dangers associated with lying on very cold, bone numbing concrete floors, I have been using a large section of this amazing and very lightweight material to insulate my bones from the cold when working on any of...

Knowing now what I didn't know when I did my build all those years ago and that is that with structural vibration, the effects of UV and the general ravages of the weather along with other such matters, whereas the flexible adhesive I had used had hardened and in places cracked, on removing tone...

Phil, haven't you missed one exceptionally important thing out of your description of the work schedule, or am I wrong? Surely after cutting the metal, surely the next vitally important job is to smooth the cut edges and then to thoroughly paint the edges? But otherwise, I love all of your...

Excellent advice about how to do this knee knocking job that catches so many people out.

I wish I was making another van Phil, you lucky so and so !

Thorough as usual Phil. Did you by any chance fully coat the tank with either an anti stone chip or similar coating before you first fitted the tank?

Wouldn't it be nice if the vast majority of DVLA plonkers went and jumped off a very high cliff !!!

Phil; I have always checked the brakes on all my vehicles at least on an annual basis and changed the pads, shoes and even discs when there is only approx. 25% of compound remaining. I also change the brake fluid at far more frequent intervals than the instructions in the workshop manuals...

Many of us have vehicles fitted with polycarbonate and not glass headlights, all of which will start to go somewhat milky with age and in the worst cases can result in exceptionally expensive MOT failures. For many years I have been a subscriber and avid reader of the excellent motoring...

So when should you go and weigh your van at a weighbridge? I only ask this question as only very recently when I advertised my van for sale on Quirky Campers, their site asked what the Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) was as well as the Unladen Weight. Now for me, I knew what the GVW was because it...

Believe me Chris, I have just experienced one of the worst nights attempted sleep I can recall !! The young woman who bought 'Millie' is honestly so scatter brained and so exceptionally excited about buying her that I know she didn't take in any of the exacting/unique points of this vans...

For any of you who are considering selling your van, I suggest you try the Quirky Campers website www.quirkycampers.com Quite unbelievable as it might appear, I only advertised 'Millie' on Friday and today her new owner drove proudly away! I had advertised her at the total amount it cost me to...

As some of you might know, I am in the process of trying to sell my 'Millie' and I have recently advertised her in "Quirky Campers". Due to my interest in what is for sale as well as the oft extortionate asking prices allied to the shocking builds of so many of these vans and I happened across...

Yes Chris, it has been a very hard decision for us to make, but as I have now been taken by ambulance to A&E on 7 occasions of which on 3 occasions I was kept in for a week or more because my ticker had been playing up. Very fortunately on each of these occasions we have been at home, but if we...

No doubt specially fitted out for all of your sea fishing kit? Good to see you back, but for me, we have decided to leave the campervan world and retire somewhat reluctantly to a life of the very occasional renting of holiday cottages that have been last minute cancelled and are now at...

The foam on my seats is 40mm thick, it is very dense and really quite firm to sit or lie on (which is what we like). As for the height of the seat, I went around the house and measured the floor to seat base distance of any and al the chairs that we are comfortable sitting on and used this as...

I did a massive amount of reading up on this very subject approx. 10 years ago and came to the conclusion that if I was converting a van with a rust resistant fully galvanised body shell which was in either new or good condition, then the insulation with the highest level of thermal insulation...