New build questions

[Pudsey Bear]

Liz has just said she'd like to do another build I am less keen as it's beyond me now, so she thinks we can buy a 2015 ish low milage MWB Ducato and have someone build it for us, we don't want a rock n roll bed but two 6' singles in the back as we don't want to sleep across the van, we want a decent kitchen with a proper cooker and a sink, not a hob/sink arrangement, she wants a wardrobe, and we need good storage for the other stuff. A couple of 1300x600 Seitz windows maybe two on the back doors, a Heki, I'd like a bathroom more for resale value, but if no space then we can live without one.

Does anyone know of a place in Yorkshire that does bespoke, and maybe an idea of cost.

 

[Millie Master]

Why restrict yurself with an L2 when an L3 gives you so much more room to use most especially as you would like a shower/loo which with 2 x 6' beds, I don't believe you could fit that lot inside an L2.

Phil

 

[Pudsey Bear]

MWB to me is L3, I'd rather have L4 really same as the last one,

6 foot beds + shower works out to about 9 feet so doable it's the kitchen which kills it really only 4 feet total.

 

[Millie Master]

MWB to me is L3, I'd rather have L4 really same as the last one,

6 foot beds + shower works out to about 9 feet so doable it's the kitchen which kills it really only 4 feet total.

A SWB is an L1, a MWB is an L2, a LWB is an L3 and finally an XLWB is a L4............. always has been and always will be

 

[Pudsey Bear]

L3 then.

 

[JIXAMAN]

We have a small double in the Sprinter, longways, its 6x4 so works width wise with cupboard space to one side. Its bigger than you think when your on it.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Double no good for us as we both get up in the night.

It needs to be a Ducato etc.

 

[Squiffy]

Liz has just said she'd like to do another build I am less keen as it's beyond me now, so she thinks we can buy a 2015 ish low milage MWB Ducato and have someone build it for us, we don't want a rock n roll bed but two 6' singles in the back as we don't want to sleep across the van, we want a decent kitchen with a proper cooker and a sink, not a hob/sink arrangement, she wants a wardrobe, and we need good storage for the other stuff. A couple of 1300x600 Seitz windows maybe two on the back doors, a Heki, I'd like a bathroom more for resale value, but if no space then we can live without one.

Does anyone know of a place in Yorkshire that does bespoke, and maybe an idea of cost.

My choice would be the L4 as the one I have at this time, trouble being that they seem to be quite rare secondhand, even now though with an L4 the space although exceptable is tight when we pass between the kitchen and shower room but it does give us two long 6'6" day beds/seats on either side at the rear.
I sympathise with you over not wanting to do another build, after having Finnished my Sis in laws van last year and now building a 5x15M suspended deck in the back garden, I was only thinking a couple of days ago that I don't think I've got the energy to build another van as the physical labour just seems to knock me for six now. Phil.

 

[Millie Master]

Double no good for us as we both get up in the night.

It needs to be a Ducato etc.

Despite me being a Renault Master fan, I can and do fully understand the reasons behind selecting the Sevel vans as they are easiest of all the standard panel vans to convert, most especially their squareness and overall width which makes single beds so easy to include in the build.

If you can consider not having the beds directly opposite to each other (i.e. staggered) it leaves an enormous amount of options to have a far more creative and generally accommodating build.

 

[Millie Master]

I was only thinking a couple of days ago that I don't think I've got the energy to build another van as the physical labour just seems to knock me for six now. Phil.

That is exactly my problem these days Phil with the Bradycardia (at times I have a dangerously slow heart rate which results in equally dangerously low blood oxygen levels) resulting in me hardly having the energy to do anything physical !!

 

[Pudsey Bear]

The last one was L4, just wish I'd had the foresight to put longitudinal beds in then, my design would have been okay with it, hark at me "design" yeah right no drawings were harmed during the building stage, just problem solving.

I did find a L4 yesterday on eBay in good nick too well specced too and not silly money, but this van would have to be sold first to finance anything, a bit like the love it or list it TV program.

 

[Darcar]

it’s no small undertaking, starting a new build…. But so rewarding.

I waiting for a guy who builds bespoke vans to give me a quote on having a van built by him.
probably just out of curiosity, as I’m pretty sure I’m going to do it myself now, after
I had a look at one of his builds and wasn’t that impressed! There’s a few short cuts & untidy finishes, which I’m quite capable of doing myself..

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Annoyingly I have all the tools and the experience to build one, but not the fitness or the level space.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I think we've more or less given up on the idea for now, can't find a builder.

 

[Squiffy]

I think we've more or less given up on the idea for now, can't find a builder.

If I ever do another one Ken I would certainly just take my time on it, working under duress of finishing it as quickly as possible is very stressful. But the trouble with me is at the other end of the scale, if it took me too long I'd lose interest. . Phil

P.s. Though I do love to make a monumental cock up look like it was an inspired piece of masterful work.

 

[mark61]

Combining loo/shower area with ingress/egress point can save a lot of room and allows for a lot more options of layout especially on a L2.
Can understand why people don't like the idea, but everyones entitled to be potty.

Other downside is if you blocked of rear door, your stuck inside when loo/shower in use
Always cab doors though.

 

[trevskoda]

I think we've more or less given up on the idea for now, can't find a builder.

Have you tried Weetabix.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Two every morning Trev, milk no sugar with a big mug of mint tea.

 

[mark61]

Two every morning Trev, milk no sugar with a big mug of mint tea.

You need a bit of ginger with ya mint.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

You need a bit of ginger with ya mint.

Don't mind it in me curry but not sure about in me tea.