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Diary Of A Camper Conversion

Finally! Two things happened.

It rained. The plants have been gasping for weeks now.

And with the wall carpeted, the kitchen drawer unit and the sink unit can be installed. These panels have been hanging out in my garage for about a month waiting to get to this point. But now they are in and this marks the end of another milestone. The cabinetry structure is complete.

Diary Of A Camper Conversion

This update covers a couple of afternoon’s of carpeting. Not too much to say about it other than spray glue stinks. I can see how easy it is to get an accidental high working with this stuff. 

Diary Of A Camper Conversion

It’s not a normal thing to do in a house, but stretch carpet is all the rage in the campervanning world. And I can see why…

With all the panelling done I can now start carpeting… 

Except I don’t have any glue left. I’m waiting on an eBay delivery so we will have to get on with something else till it arrives.

Diary Of A Camper Conversion

Somewhere in my history I picked up some sprung loaded cabinet hinges so today I tried to fix them to the over cab locker door. With the thickening panels glue having dried overnight I marked them up and screwed the hinges into place before using some quick clamps to hold the whole thing up while I attach them to the van. 

Diary Of A Camper Conversion

Today was a fiddly day. I’ve got to get the last couple of wall panels on so that I can start carpeting. 

Diary Of A Camper Conversion

Well I didn’t fully think through what I was doing, and now I have a difficult challenge. In my haste to get things ready enough for camping I pressed ahead and built the fridge cabinet before getting the windows fitted. Because the windows weren’t fitted, this meant I couldn’t finish the insulation and wall paneling. And so now I have to try and fit the wall paneling on the sliding door with only a fist width space.

Diary Of A Camper Conversion

“they’ll let any old riff raff in here these days…” someone overly casually called across the carpark. Jord rounded the corner of a pallet of wood at the merchants. What are the chances!

I’d just dropped a few bits off at a powder coaters in Stoke and then popped across to Newcastle to pick up (hopefully) the last few sheets of ply. I only come to Howarths Timber because Jord recommended it. We had a bit of a catch up and I showed him progress on the van. He only saw it as an insulated shell and now it’s got cabinets and a bed!

Diary Of A Camper Conversion

Finally I can finish off the insulation and seal up the last of the vapour barrier. I’ve been waiting till the windows are installed so these bits can be finished off.