Living in a van – surviving winter

January 20, 2015 by Mike 69 Comments

It’s a bit more difficult to live in a van during the winter when it’s colder…

Alright, it’s not that bad, but it did snow the other day here in Athens

So here are 6 things to make winter more comfortable:

1. Van preparation

Keeping the van watertight is important. I went round the gutter of the roof and filled in any gaps and cracks that have emerged over time.

2. Drive as South as possible

There’s still the odd night here in Greece when the night-time temperature goes below the comfort level, but it’s generally just about OK. (see post – where to go for winter)

3. Staying warm in the van

Some things I do to keep warm in the van:

hot water bottle in sleeping bag – the best thing ever
gas heater (see on Amazon) – works great, but cant leave it on whilst sleeping
blanket over sleeping bag – makes a big difference
a rug for the floor – for bare feet

4. An adjustment of clothes

Before I set off in March 2014 I had no jacket, so I decided to ask nicely for one. I emailed Rab clothing (based in Sheffield, where I lived – they do outdoor gear) explaining what I was doing, and that I need a warm jacket. They gave me this really warm down jacket and wished me luck on my adventure. I was amazed. Very cool company, and the jacket has proven to be an essential bit of kit for vanlife. It’s ultra warm.

5. Good Food. Winter food.

It’s easy to get run down when it’s cold, but good food makes a big difference. I’m mostly cooking hot stew kind of things with plenty of garlic, turmeric and spices. (see carpark cooking stew post)

6. Finding good people, fire and music

There’s nothing like huddling round a fire, with people, music, cats, dogs and blankets. It’s so nice! (see Jedi Academy post)

What would be essential for you, living in a van? I think things like a hot water bottle makes a huge difference to happiness in the cold…

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Malgorzata

How cold does it get? In Holland it can get below -6 degrees, but it didn’t happen this winter though. Ever thought about building a little woodstove?
- Mark Andrews
  
  Here in west Cornwall – UK the temperature this winter is typically anywhere from about 0-10 degrees Celsius. You kind of get used to the cold after you’ve lived in a van for a few years like me. Even now at night, I’ll often go to sleep with a window open right beside my head on the pillow in the back of the van.
  
  Of course me being a clever dick, I do have a wood burner in the back corner which is absolutely lovely.
  - Malgorzata
    
    Planning on building a woodstove in our vw lt28 ’82 too, but we are still busy with breaking out the old interiour so this is something for the far future. No plans on living in it though I sure would want to, but that boyfriend doesn’t want to pfff :P)
Jacqueline Selby Brooks

Fleece blankets are extra warm, and do you have a space blanket for emergencies?
Laura

Another body always helps! And socks!
- Mark Andrews
  
  If you’re a lovely woman between the ages of 36-48 you’re always welcome to come live in my LDV Convoy van. Better yet, if you’ve got a good sized fishing boat and a reliable outboard motor you’re definitely in with a chance.
  
  Please send photos of boat and outboard motor.
  
  🙂
- Hans Van Camper
  
  In that sequence? 😉
martina

hey!! i really admire you!! are you currently in Athens?? I’m an Italian currently working here, I would love to meet you and ask you something about your wonderful experience! looking forward to hearing from you!
martina
- Mike @vandogtraveller.com
  
  Hey (think I replied on fb) 🙂
Mark Andrews

I’m a full time van dweller from west Cornwall in the UK (5 years now).

Like you I live in an LDV Convoy van often parked up on top of the cliffs overlooking the ocean. (Always good fun in the winter storms). Albeit my van is leaking a bit, like you along those ruddy gutters. It might be time to seal them again using Sikaflex 291i this time. Apply this and I guarantee the van will never leak again lol.

Your heating solution worries me. Gas? Get away with you lad, that’s no way to heat a van properly. Not only do gas heaters create condensation but they also knock out some pretty horrible fumes which isn’t good for your health in a small enclosed space.

If I were you, I would definitely fit a wood burner in your van, for example The Griffin from Dave at Glastonbury Burners. Google it. He sometimes puts these wood burners up on eBay where you would typically pay +/- £150. Whack in a 4″ flue and you’ll be as snug as a bug in a rug and no condensation to boot. You can thank me later for the suggestion.

Catch ya later,

Mark
- яфя
  
  i’m not so sure smoke from wood burner produces less solids and gases than gas burner, but wouldn’t bet on it, just in doubt. wood burner is nice and oldskul, yes, but psychological comfort and scientific measurements are not same
  - Malgorzata
    
    If you build in a closed system woodburner you don’t have fumes. Build in a clean air pipe for fuelling the fire and a dirty air pipe for the fumes. First one on the side of in the floor, otherone out of the roof. Keep the door closed when using de woodstove.
    - Mark Andrews
      
      Aye there’s no contest. Gas fires are a massive no no inside a van. A wood burner beats them hands down not just because of the fumes issue but also with a wood burner, you’re keeping the air circulating properly which helps as you know to combat the damp problems inherent with living in a van in winter.
      - Martyn
        
        I fit wood burners for a living. My advice is always keep a window or vent open and also get a Co2 detector. Parts per million wood has 10x the amount of C02 because fundementally youre burning carbon. But i agree you cant beat a wood burner. Heres a tip for you Mark, cover a spud in olive oil and salt then wrap tin foil and chuck it in just before you stop refuelling the fire. A baked before a cold nights sleep is a must mate.
      - disqus_3BrONUAJno
        
        Propane burns cleanly with sufficient oxygen, producing carbon dioxide and water vaporing wood, neither of which is poisonous, like many things that are produced by burning wood. Beyond that, propane is much easier to find in a city than is dry wood.
  - Dan Crockett
    
    butane combustion: CH3-CH2-CH2-CH3 + O2 -> CO + CO2 + H2O
    
    Butane is a hydrocarbon, it only has three products when combusted, including a lot of water. The only thing for the hydrogen to change to is water. The carbon changes to carbon dioxide and (without enough oxygen to completely combust) carbon monoxide.
    
    Wood has a lot more compounds in it, resins and oils and carbohydrates and all sorts of things, metal traces etc. There are a lot more things for the hydrogen to bond and complex with. So the wood will not produce as much water per mass as the hydrocarbon will. Per thermal unit, I don’t know.
    
    Either way, pleeeentiful excess oxygen is needed to prevent problematically excessive incomplete combustion – product of which is the feared, poisonous carbon monoxide. The gas burning stove will take air out of the atmosphere in the van. A log burning stove (as far as I know), however, will have an air intake from outside.
    
    So wood burning stove is not just for teh 0ldskul! Happy campings!!
- Mike @vandogtraveller.com
  
  Those look real nice! I did consider a wood burner. If I was in England I’d have to get one for sure. This gas heater works well though. Never had condensation problems, although probably would in England. It’s just to warm things up quickly in the night and morning, and that’s only on cold nights in winter. I have a monoxide readout and alarm – it has never gone into alarm. The heater also has an oxygen depletion sensor and auto cutout. Also I wanted to be discrete so even if I had a wood burner, I’d still want this gas heater – it’s practical, efficient and no smoke. Many safe solutions, after that it’s preference I guess
  - mojo
    
    I’ve got a 72 VW Bay window van which I’m just about to embark on a 3 month trip round Europe in. Main reason I’ll be coming back is that it has no heater. Once I do get back I’m going to fit a Propex which is externally mounted underneath along with an under belly LPG tank to fuel it. That way it intakes and exhausts AND combusts outside the van. Then the hot air gets plumbed into the existing van’s heater tube into the cab and living area. I think the model is HS2211 or something like that.
    
    Should help with how poorly I’m insulated! Even in the summer it gets a bit chilly!
- Galarama Norah Maria
  
  Hiya, I’m thinking about a wood burner tho I’ve been put off by a few folk saying it’s madness (seems like the best idea to me), wondering if theres a solution where the stove can be moveable i.e not a permenant fixture so the flue would be covered over if the stove was out ….or something?
  Thank you
  gala
  P.s its a 3500 vauxhall camper…. small enough x
  - traveller4life
    
    I have a small van. Citroen Dispatch. My plan is very small burner clipped to floor (removable). A board that fits into front window rolled down with a chimney hat. And a removable stack pipe, with flexxi ends with clips. To stretch between.
    
    So when lit, and pulling air from under the floor, it is bulky and in the way, but with a chimney baffle, you can close outlet and seal it. Remove/ unclip stack pipe and close window. Now fire is a overnight storage heater, under the bed once ‘re folded out.
    
    Lots of heat insulation required.
    Don’t be put off using burners.
Laura

Damn the luck…I’m 54, no boat, no outboard motor. But I have a hell of a personality ;o)
Giovanna Cardoso

living in a burning place really does do lol idea let me see … I’d be dancing using a lot of warm clothes lol I would be a penguin dancing in a van ^ – ^
lovelygrey

I’m now a full-time motorhome dweller and have my eleven year old living here half the time I have a job as an occupational therapist and am van dwelling in comfort on UK campsites with electric hook up. We use a little fan heater bought from Lidl and are actually warmer than when living in a house. Have lots of furry blankets to supplement duvet if needed though when heating is off at night.
- Hebelbiena
  
  Here in Holland you have to have a living adress for something called Basis Registration Persons. If you live in a van you actually don’t have such an adress so you have to write yourself in on an adress. Otherwise you eventually will not be an resident of the Netherlands and will lose your passport and other stuff. If you don’t have family or friends where you can write yourself in on (which is often, because the actual home owner possibly will lose some financial benefits because your income will be added on the income of the home owner) you have a problem, You have to get sneak or still rent a room or something. How is it in the UK?
  - lovelygrey
    
    Hi I’m in an interesting position living as I do in the UK. My postal address is the home of friends. I chose to ‘live’ with them as they are a couple. Once there are two adults in the same household then council tax to fund local services is at a maximum level for a property. However, I am living temporarily on a campsite where I register for medical care through a GP is in the vicinity, There is provision for ‘homeless’ people to access NHS services.I technically constitute one of these and sign on at a practice by using an address that they are loosely connected to.
    
    It is seen as subversive in the UK to live the way that I do. Yet I am a middle class parent with a professional career. This seems to me like a perfectly reasonable way of living yet I am denied legitimacy in what I do. For example cannot insure the content of my motorhome adequately against theft and I will have to move between sites that are only licensed for temporary use even though I cause no trouble and could potentially be an asset to a community if I choose to live there long term. I would be perfectly happy to pay council tax in my own right on a site where I am currently residing yet this is not allowed in law. There local council has provided a site for new travellers to live on but I see my own way of life, as effectively a forty something woman with pretty much a conventional lifestyle other than the fact that my home has four wheels, at odds with those that this arrangement caters for.
    - Hebelbiena
      
      sounds a bit the same as in the Netherlands. They want to make it difficult living on the road. :S
    - SpitfireMatt
      
      I wonder if it would be possible to approach a farmer and ask to rent or buy a small bit of land from them. Register your address as theres and contribute in paying there council tax.
      - Hebelbiena
        
        I think some farmers would be okay by that, but you would have to find such an openminded farmer first. Still,here in the Netherlands, it is not actually permitted, but if you don’t afform them about it no one will know. They will just think you’re renting a room or something
      - disqus_3BrONUAJno
        
        There is more than enough public land here in the states that finding a place with open minded law enforcement is more important. Living in a vehicle is not frowned on or illegal here.
    - NelRouge
      
      Hello! I’m a fellow Health Care Professional 🙂 and am interested in your posts as we are fed up of paying extortionate rent so are thinking about living full-time in our motor home whilst we save up a deposit for a boat to liveaboard. But am wondering how we are going to make it add up cost wise, as living full time on a camp site is going to work out nearly as expensive as renting a house! How do you find this? Cheers 🙂
      - lovelygrey
        
        Hi NelRouge My rent was £750. Campsite fees with hookup included for electric and storage for my furniture is about £475 a month. Aside from a bottle of gas every six weeks or so for cooking and hot water ‘that’s it. No rates, water rates, phone, contents insurance or utilities. My Internet connection is tethering to my phone which was included in my existing 3 package. I also save money as I’m not tempted to buy stuff as it takes up space. I’m loving this lifestyle that would be permanent if I didn’t have a child in tow who’s growing . up and will need a bit more privacy soon. See my lovely grey day blog for some more info. x
      - Mike @vandogtraveller.com
        
        Yeah it would be quite expensive. I’ve only ever stayed on one campsite in Slovakia when my friend came. The beauty of this whole thing is not paying rent/campsite costs. I just wildcamp and it’s way better than a fenced in campsite
      - disqus_3BrONUAJno
        
        Have you checked out the possibility of trading your motor home for a boat from someone wanting to go the other way, as well?
    - Marcia McGrail
      
      Hi,
      I am thinking of doing the same myself – would love to chew the cud about your experiences..
    - paul clayton
      
      hi really enjoyed reading your comments ….do you keep a blog about your experiences? would love to know more as I am going to take the plunge and go full time in a van……….cheers paul 😉
  - Alan Ratcliff
    
    Hi Folks, Here in Australia we have no such problem of finding a place out in the bush to live in a van…I even have a place of about 3 acres that has a little cabin (just plug into the cabin from the van for power) and vegie garden…even if working in town/city then you can just drive out of the metro area and stay overnight just about anywhere…However that is not the reason that i am writing…Do you know why the Travellers/Gypsies get away with it?…because they claim COMMON LAW…eg, you need to understand that ALL words spoken in a court have a base word (Get hold of a Blacks Law dictionary and you will understand what i mean)…Eg…You CANNOT EVER be charged with Trespassing ( a Commerce Law)…why?…because to be convicted of that charge you need to be driving stock across some ones property…and if you plead guilty to that in court then you are very naive or your lawyer is a fool..getting the idea?…you will find plenty of signs in hardware stores to buy that say “No Trespassing” BUT you will NEVER find one that says “No Trespass”…which actually pertains to A PERSON being on private property…Hebelbiena, your Birth Certificate name is the person that your laws are pertaining to…register your name AS SPELT ON YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND ALSO IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS AS A TRUST UNDER UCC 1 (Universal Commerce Code (form) 1…YOU become the administrator of that Trust…then rent a post office box and THAT is where the Birth Certificate live….go on youtube and see Strawman or Sovereign Person
    cheers, hope it helps
- mark
  
  Hi lovelygrey
  How often do you have to move from campsite to campsite?
  Mark
Phil @Saltpigcanteen

Evening VanDog,

we traveled across Russia and Mongolia (not by van) with temps around -25 and found down jackets, the cheap Puffa ones from Costco, down sleeping bag, ex-military from Ebay, perfect.

I’d also get someone to post you out some thermal long johns, wool socks and a fur lined hat with the ear flaps…and mitts – they keep your hands warmer than gloves.

as for heating your van the gas would have been ok if your carbon monoxide sensor was working but the condensation issue means it’s not the best solution. I suppose a wood burner could have been a great add-on if you were still at the build stage but would be a bit difficult to fit now.

Battery powered fan heater? I’m sure Costco (ever faithful) or Lidl would stock them cheaply.

great blog btw, I’m missing our year out now and mentally planning the next one…in a van 🙂
- Mike @vandogtraveller.com
  
  Woah, sounds real good. Did you camp? How long did it take?
  
  The gas heater I have works quite well. I’ve never had a problem with condensation (probably would in England though) and I have a CO sensor/alarm with digital read out – all cool. Yeah wood burner would be nice but it’s just wasted space in the summer and a smokey chimney is not very discrete – I’d still want a gas heater tbh
  It’s getting warm not here in Greece, I’m sat with the van door open this morning in front of the sun 🙂
pavlosmac

Hey Vandog, If you are in Greece come take a look at the island of Evia, (big long one looks like a seahorse on the east coast above Athens
You can drive across on the suspension bridge. my house is up a small mountain in the village of Vasilika, you’d like it here and there’s plenty of like minded people on the island who would be more than happy to see you.
I’m a typical irish guy who gave it all up some years ago and have been living here ever since
Love what you are doing.
Pavlos
- Mike @vandogtraveller.com
  
  Nice thank you! Yeah I’m just near Marathonas now. Gonna sort the van out and then decide a direction. I should explore the Peloponnese, right? I’ve added on fb
amsterdammike

Great blog. When I had camper van, when had power I found cheapest most efficient and most warming heat in winter was an electric blanket! You can leave on lowest setting safely all night and will keep you really warm, and you, your bedding and your clothes dry. Stay warm.

Mike
- Mike @vandogtraveller.com
  
  Interesting. I kind of just dismissed any electrical ways of heating because I’d have thought it’d be too much power. Maybe I should check it out. Thanks
Howard -Born in Manchester, UK

Please! Please! Please! Check with the manufacturer of your heater to make sure it is safe to use “indoors”. I have heard of people dying because their heater uses up the oxygen in an enclosed space. Another possibility is that you drive over the Atlantic Ocean and visit us in Southern California – 50 (F) at night and 70 (F) in the day-in winter. Sunny 360 days a year.
- Mike @vandogtraveller.com
  
  Yeah it’s cool. Thanks though. It’s really not very dangerous – It has an oxygen depletion sensor and also auto cut out. I only use it for blasts of heat to warm things up quick, I never leave it on
Steve Brewin

Hello Mike, great blog and really interesting to see where you’ve been and heading to!
Have you tried the flowerpot heaters that are on youtube? There’s various points of views on these re safety issues and effectiveness, but I’ve tried them at home with a little success.
They do seem to warm up the airspace a little……
I imagine they’d be fine for a small space like a van, but not for leaving on overnight.
Check them out and make up your own mind, keep on trucking Mike and keep posting the blogs, they’re really interesting!!
Steve
- Mike @vandogtraveller.com
  
  Hey Steve, I did bring out one flower pot with me with the intention of getting hold of another somewhere. It ended up getting used for a plant, and then I forgot about it. I think it could work really well in here though. It’s getting warmer now in Greece. The plant gets to keep the pot for another year 🙂
DavidisDawei

Awesome job! Did you look into insulating the van before paneling?
Would radiant heat on the floor be a possibility using?
Powder Girl

Hi! I spent a whole winter ski bumming the USA & British Columbia & Alberta in my mini van! I took my Black Labrador, Alta with me. Wild & Free! It was awesome! I slept on a cot in my winter bag wearing fleece head to toe…I would start the van up before bed, crank the heat, shut off van & jump in my bag. I only got cold a couple times when the wind was ripping. I stuffed clothes in the cracks & was fine. The worst part was peeing in a coffee can during the night or a.m. Soooooo cold! Literally, froze my arse off. Skied it off too! hiked, met a gazillion cool peeps & made memories to tell the story righteously. Years later, I look back & realize more & more the positive impact it has had on my life. All I can say to you is keep on keeping on, ride the wave where it takes you! Pay attention to what your gut is telling you to do & you will travel your true intuitive path through life. If you ever make it to the states you gotta a wild camping spot here at our farm!
- Powder Girl
  
  I want to add that if I were to ever do it again, I may have put an extremely small pellet stove in van. They kick out warmth evenly & are not messy like wood burners. I worry about u using a gas heater, those fumes are killer bad!
Maggie Jones

I was told that a tea candle can warm a small area very nicely…you need a can to enclose it and a lid on top of it to help disperse the heat..
Eagle

Interesting.
Jyoti Kapoor

Lovely Blog and hats off to you for your lifestyle! I am a an Indian woman..needless to say very conventional.. so this kind of attitude and lifestyle amazes me … Much admiration from me ..I will keep reading this blog.
David MacLean

Or you could buy a webasto diesel heater you can get them 2nd hand cheap enough or go onto AliExpress and buy the full system new for 300 best thing you’ll buy for the van
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ezytrail

I learned that one of the things they enjoyed most was having what they called “personal people,” the camp’s adult volunteer “buddies.” A buddy is assigned to each child to ensure that all campers get one-on-one attention.
John Mc

I’ve just spend winter in the UK in my van. I had several plantpot heaters and have a 250 watt solar panel and a 135ah deep cycle battery that keeps it warm as it’s insulated. I do have to change the insulation from fiber to styrofoam though as I have a big damp problem with condensation. You just leave a gap between the metal and inner boards (as I discovered the hard way). I bought a 120v tube heater and set it on a time plug to kick on a 3am and makes the van nice and warm for when I got up. I’m in Europe for spring and may not need the heating now as it stays cool because of the insulation anyway. I shower with two spray bottles and baby wipes which seems to keep me cleaner than the average person. I even use them to wash my hair every day also. I find it’s better to put a layer of insulation under my mattress also as that seems to keep the heat in with my top quilt and blanket when needed. But always keeps me toasty warm even in my pj’s. I have a cheap ‘quick load’ gas stove for cooking which also gives of a lot of heat when turned on FOR A SHORT TIME with an oven stone on top which stays warm for a good while when hot. Hope that all helped and happy traveling in 2016.
Oliver Jones

You got a very strong determination both body and mind.I admire you for surviving in winter living in a van.
Dan Crockett

Mate please get a carbon monoxide detector, sounds like you’ve had a few brushes with the grim reaper.
- disqus_3BrONUAJno
  
  Carbon monoxide is never produced until oxygen is restricted from a open flame, and my decades of experience with propane has shown me incontrovertible evidence that the biological need of the human body is minor compared to an open propane flame. You need to stop believing everything that the fire alarm manufacturers say in their ads. Until you have over three decades of actual experience, you won’t understand and know what is instinctive to me.
  - Dan Crockett
    
    Small amounts of CO are always produced unless the reaction proceeds in impossibly perfect conditions, infinite pressure and temperature. I’m studying chemical engineering myself. I feel you are mistaking your not recognising the flu like symptoms of minor CO poisoning due to the fact you are half asleep. If oxygen is lacking enough that the flame goes out, it is a fact that significant CO will have been produced. Don’t mistake luck for skill, or being oblivious to fact for intuition. Sorry if you find safety demasculating in any way but thousands die from CO poisoning and you are well up there in the queue.
    - Dan Crockett
      
      Ps lethal carbon monoxide is at four hundred parts per million
      - Dan Crockett
        
        I think your life has probably been saved by the fact that your van was warm enough to give the oxygens sufficient kinetic energy. Ie if this had happened on a colder night you could have died, or a less windy night with less draft. There’s a lot of factors you and I do not fully understand. But we do know you have been lucky so far and a CO detector is free from a fire station.
    - disqus_3BrONUAJno
      
      Carbon monoxide poisoning is based as much on the defective operation of hemoglobin in a metabolically damaged body as it is on carbon monoxide being present in small amounts. I haven’t had flu-like symptoms in longer than I can remember and I’m coming out of a major indoor heating period, so since I haven’t had a flame out in even longer, I feel quite confident that your model isn’t mine.
      - Dan Crockett
        
        SO you have a high carbon monoxide tolerance for whatever reason you claim. Often more than one person dies at a time from CO poisoning, what are the chances that 4 people in a house are CO-hypersensitive? That’s got a much bigger volume than a van. Even if your claims of perfect haemoglobin in to your 50s is true, people who read your dangerous anecdote and choose to copy won’t be blessed with your gifts and talents.
        
        But clearly it is because the CO levels haven’t been high enough, your van has drafts, you said yourself that you haven’t plugged them. If you put your hand over a cup candle you feel suction right? The negative pressure is sucking more air in to the van. You should stop misleading people that they’re fine to go to sleep in an enclosed space with a gas heater on, due to the fact that ‘the heater needs more oxygen than I do, and the odorant will wake you up’. You’re being irresponsible and endangering people, peacocking with heroic anecdotes. I’m sure you don’t wear a seatbelt either cos you’re ‘good at driving – its been 30 years’. Sounds like you should grow up and think of the bigger picture.
      - disqus_3BrONUAJno
        
        Your credibility would be greater if your database weren’t faulty and your reading comprehension in the basement.
        I am 61 years old. There is a 2 foot by 2 foot hatch in the top of the van, just off to one side from the stove. It can be adjusted from a crack to wide open. Even with the stove on full, a crack is more than enough to supply oxygen to both me and the stove without providing a deficiency of oxygen to either.
        It is not incumbent on me to withhold information from anyone too ignorant to take appropriate cautions.
        I’m been driving since I was 15 and 3/4 years old. I’ll let you do the math. I have always worn my seat belt and I haven’t been involved in an accident or gotten a moving violation in over 40 years, the last 25 in use of a Commercial Drivers License, driving things over 100 feet long and weighing over 120,000 pounds.
        I never said anything about odorant, so your hallucinations are spreading.
Rob Smith

I see a lot of comments about gas heating being a very bad idea . Absolute rubbish . Gas heating has been in use in motor homes and camper vans and caravans for donkeys years . All that’s needed is some common sense . Have a window partly open . Use a carbon monoxide tester . No problem. I have used them for years with absolutely no issues .
Benni

Good ideas. But ‘huddling up with people, cats or dogs’… ew no thanks. Thats the whole point of living in a van
Julie Arthur

I have lived in my van for the last 16 months I recommend the annevey stove small log burner fitted in van you can cook on too my van went from -6 to 40 degrees last winter!
Aviendha

The dude who invented the hot water bottle is an absolute legend! Mine has seen me through some mighty cold times in Britain.