Welcome

WELCOME

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.

Friday, 5 June 2020

Framing part 1

Today we started to frame what will be the walls/cupboards/cubby holes/undecided what's actually happening with the walls yet...

To make the frame of the walls, we've used 75x45mm timber to form the main supports for the wall/cupboard/bed structure. The timber is both screwed and glued to the body of the van using Sikaflex, , and secured to the ply with little brackets. So it's super secure.

The non-structural parts are made using 38x25mm timber, which again is glued and screwed.

This is the main structure of the wall/shelf/cupboards...