KLT crates (aka Euroboxes) for interior storage?

[HarryInHudds]

Anyone else gone for a functional approach to storage and use KLT crates? Especially in the living area of a compact camper?
In our T5 one really useable mod was to cut the front out of the side furniture unit, to be big enough to fit KLT crates as drawers. Having access to all the kitchen tubs simultaneously, and not having to manoeuvre everything through a “porthole door” is great. Nearly all the interior surface is now accessible!

See https://www.pinterest.co.uk/harryks...r-own-old-t5-not-worth-spending-a-fortune-on/
The KLT’s make Really Usefully Boxes seem a bit toytown, as well as being great for stacking when packing up in the house ready to go.
I also converted the “wardrobe” with sliding doors so similar boxes are used for clothes, and put a big one under the bed for shoes, next to the potty.

Our van is 15 years old, with chipboard furniture, so I didn’t feel like I’d got a lot to lose. We like it as campervan, and don’t want a hotel-suite style motorhome. On that basis, the mod was well worth it.
A 2020 covid-era update had us using the large box as a shower tray, with curtains, and recycling the water, to get a long, hot, shower inside a tin-top VW. (Some folks will be aghast on hygiene issues, that’s a separate discussion). But it allowed continued touring when facing shut campsites, and has 100% WAF.

 

[trevskoda]

Only thing i would be worried about is the loose stuff on top of the unit in the advent of an accident, dont fancy getting splattered with tomato sauce, just think what the paramedics would think when they arrived.

 

[SquirrellCook]

We used to use the translucent containers, but got fed up with them breaking all the time.
Despite the expense, moving over to industrial containers was a good move.
Ours are stacked under the seats at the back and if you want to carry a lot of stuff can be stacked through the seat bases.
We rely on them locking top to bottom to stop them moving. As Trev points out we have to lash them when they extend out of the seats.

 

[SquirrellCook]

Just went hunting for your crates, Euro boxes. Must similar to what I use now.

 

[Millie Master]

Only thing i would be worried about is the loose stuff on top of the unit in the advent of an accident, dont fancy getting splattered with tomato sauce, just think what the paramedics would think when they arrived.

Your so right Trev, it is oh so very important to have every single item secured when out on the road.
As an aside when I was a sprightly and wild 17 year old I was on a camping holiday down in the Sennen with 2 frinds in a mini van. On the way back from our lunch time pub, Steve the driver decided he would try to make longer skid marks on the road than he had done the night before and very soon found the point of no return and smashed, almost head on into one of those nice friendly solid stone and earth banks. Quite amazingly the only injuries that any of us had was that the backs of all of our heads had been badly bruised by the flying tins of baked beans and soup!

Phil

 

[HarryInHudds]

fyi, KLT I think is a German abbreviation, the car industry run on these things. The downside is they only come in set plan sizes, being splits of a 1200x800mm Europallet, thus 600x400, 400x300 are what I have, at various heights.
Old ones often find their way into garages via OEM spares channels, but being for our hols, I bought new. The best (cheapest) source I found was https://www.solentplastics.co.uk/st.../surplus-stock-special-offer-euro-containers/ ; where they often have seconds, with misprinted logos, or smeared colours from changing the moulder over.

Yes, I know about the "loose" stuff on the side. I feel that if I have a head-on crash, or turn it over, some flying plastic plates or sauce bottles will be the least of my problems. Big knives don't generally stay there in transit!