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Welcome to the blog for our campervan build

This project began in May 2020 during the 'lockdown' in the UK due to COVID-19. We were supposed to be touring Europe in our existing camper conversion 'Movano The Van Hoe' but this obviously wasn't going to be possible... So after finishing a pretty ambitious Hot Tub Trailer build (see the blog here) we decided we needed another project to keep us occupied during however many weeks left of lockdown.

We put Movano The Van Hoe up for sale and bought a Renault Master which we will convert over the coming weeks/months.

We are fortunate in that Elliot has a fully equipped workshop with tools and space to work, and we're also fortunate in that this is Elliot's second camper conversion, so we're not totally winging it!

This is a blog of the full build and I make no apologies that it is very photo heavy. The primary purpose of the blog is to document this build both for our own records, and for anyone else who's interested.

We plan on touring around Scotland with our Trailer Hot Tub when travel restrictions are relaxed enough to allow this.

Disclaimer: This is NOT meant as a tutorial. Do not try this at home. Always seek professional expert advice.

Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Nonsense

We've pretty much finished insulating the van now. A small note about spray expanding foam... Now we've been using the Soudall expanding foam. However Screwfix do their own, slightly cheaper expanding foam, from the 'No Nonsense' range, so we thought we'd use that for filling the rib channels. Let me tell you, that shit is FULL OF NONSENSE. It expands so much and gets up to no good and needs close adult supervision!! The Soudall stuff sets quickly like a perfectly toasted marshmallow, but the No Nonsense stuff expands and expands and is soggy and wet and a big mess.

   


We actually needed to form a makeshift 'bib' from plastic bags to contain the nonsense while it dried... 



Once it was finally dry and had finished it's expandy-party, the excessive excess was cut off using a bread knife



Now that the insulation is in place, we can screw on the ply we created earlier. This is both glued using Soudall adhesive foam, and screwed directly to the body of the van using self-drilling screws. 




We leave ourselves little notes for things we've realised we've not done, or things we need to remember to do in the future... 



We've also sort-of planned where all our 'controls' will be placed...





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