Share Twitter Pinterest SUBSCRIBE HP No spam. Ever. Unsubscribe easily any time I’ve spent the last couple of weeks just trying to get things to work and doing all the really small annoying jobs that are so easy to get caught up with (and make you go crazy). With this in mind I thought it […]
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gas for cooking and heating
Share Twitter Pinterest SUBSCRIBE HP No spam. Ever. Unsubscribe easily any time Gas is going to be my main energy source for cooking and heating. I thought this would be the simple case of throwing in a couple of 6KG Calor gas bottle and connecting the hose. I was wrong. The world of gas fittings, […]
Putting a hammock in my camper van
Share Twitter Pinterest SUBSCRIBE HP No spam. Ever. Unsubscribe easily any time Here it is, Hammock in a van… UPDATE: You can see the completed van here How to install a hammock in your van or campervan I told Matt my plan for mounting the hammock and he suggested using ‘toggles’ which I’d never heard […]
A gas powered instant water heat–experimenting with jet sizes
Share Twitter Pinterest SUBSCRIBE HP No spam. Ever. Unsubscribe easily any time In this post I got over how I fixed this boiler up to work in my van. The gas wasn’t burning properly and was quite unsafe. This is to heat the water for the shower–see shower post I knew nothing about water heaters […]
A shower in my van
Share Twitter Pinterest SUBSCRIBE HP No spam. Ever. Unsubscribe easily any time In my van the hot water feed comes in through the wall of the bathroom (see post), through a tap and into the shower head. The water feed to the shower comes straight from the output of the instant water heater. No mixer […]
12V electrics and wiring for my campervan conversion
Share Twitter Pinterest SUBSCRIBE HP No spam. Ever. Unsubscribe easily any time Yet another major part of the build that can probably be as simple or as complicated as one likes. I think I went for somewhere in between. For solar panel installation please see installing the solar panels Update: In my book I go through […]
12V LED lighting
Share Twitter Pinterest SUBSCRIBE HP No spam. Ever. Unsubscribe easily any time I fitted two LED down-lights but then decided I needed something brighter for working, reading, whatever so I used a £8 Ikea lamp (in picture above) and attached it to the chest of draws – its really useful. The two LED down-lights take […]
Van solar panel installation and wiring
Share Twitter Pinterest SUBSCRIBE HP No spam. Ever. Unsubscribe easily any time I was lucky to inherit two 100w solar panels with the van – they just need to be wired in. I used an external waterproof junction box mounted on the roof of the to take the panel cables into the van via compression […]
Installing the sound system
Share Twitter Pinterest SUBSCRIBE HP No spam. Ever. Unsubscribe easily any time Wherever I live I need to be able to reproduce sound to an OK standard. For the last 8 years I’ve used my Alesis speakers. I’ve discovered and shared nearly all of my mammoth music collection on these speakers. All those last minute bedroom […]
micro-home on wheels …project update
Share Twitter Pinterest SUBSCRIBE HP No spam. Ever. Unsubscribe easily any time According to my google calendar, I was meant to leave the country 20 days ago. I really don’t know how I thought I could fully convert a van into a home in just a month but then optimism is probably the key ingredient […]
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