Mastodawn

The bedroom is long finished and summer is fast approaching so spring is the time to DIY the campervan.

Early last summer the guy booked to do the professional job of that gave himself a nervous system crisis by only drinking distilled water in a misguided heath-kick. On the week he was booked to do it for me.

So that failed. He left me with a boot-kit, which barely served the purpose and then before I could fix it much I fractured my wrist. Great.

Nothing in the way now so it's the DIY Microcamper Easter Special!

Over the last few days I have cut the boot-kit to enable it to open one leg at a time. Single bed or double bed. Painted it, coated the exposed surface with a vinyl blue wood-effect wallpaper.

Added a door into the back/inside to allow access from inside the van.

Seems pretty nice inside my flat here, but will of course be much more cramped and much lower roof when it's inside the van.

#diy #vanLife #microcamper

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Adam Dalliance 2d ago

The van's metalwork is exposed in the back and it is far from actually cosy in there so the job today has been to cover the entire insides in a foam insulation.

Seems to have gone okay. I certainly have lots of spare left over, only used about half.

Even had time to start on the covering of the wood and insulation with the vinyl blue wood-effect wallpaper.

Hopefully more of that wallpapering can be done tomorrow though I fear I will run out because I seem to have ordered three mini-rolls of extra rather than three large rolls like I wanted. 🤞 Probably end up having to leave some till next weekend when I run out.

The Carpet has arrived the wrong color too. Boo. Wonder if I'll just accept the black or try and handle the returns process to get the red I wanted.

#diy #vanLife #microCamper

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Adam Dalliance

My cuticles do not stand for even one days manual labour 😭 Where have they gone? 😢

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Adam Dalliance 1d ago

Yep, as expected, out of wallpaper before even attempted the doors at all. Gonna be next weekend before I can do much more really.

It is.... Not great. Wallpapering curved surfaces is tricky and I have no idea what I'm doing.

Might re-try some large chunks of what is done once there's spare to re-try with.

Will need cualk on all the joins which will be as time-consuming as the self-adhesive wallpaper in the first place.

Most of the remaining things could use the walls being finished first ideally. Maybe I could do the carpet tomorrow. If I accept the black instead of the red.

Might be better to have things dark in there so you can't see so well how terrible much of the wallpaper is.

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Adam Dalliance 6h ago

Took the floor trap door back to the flat last night and added the ring-pull and carpeted it.

Cleaned up and badly caulked the joins in the back third in the hope of keeping the wallpaper from peeling.

With the back third done, I could install the newly rejuvenated boot kit.

That gives us the butane cooking ring out back under the door, the space for the tiny mini fridge and the couch-shape when its folded up, just about allowing access to that trap door to the area below that used to be the wheelchair ramp.

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Adam Dalliance 6h ago

Added carpet tiles to the front two thirds around the trap door. These crates are great. Stackable and collapseable and fit in the gap between the front seats and in the spaces under the folded-out beds and have a wooden table surface on top.

Fetched all the cushions in, the sofa would be comfortable to anyone 10cm shorter than me, but I gotta hunch. Can't afford a pop-top.

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Adam Dalliance 6h ago

But we do get the configuration it'd mostly be in during a camp. Single bed out, sink and fridge available, batteries under the bed.

Note the infinity mirror in front of the mini-fridge. Pretty.

And if the bed feels too cramped, the fridge and sink can go under the other side.

Nice. It's useable now. More to be done. That wallpaper is pretty terrible in places and the doors all still need doing. Going to need to apply glue to things as they fall apart. Needs curtains. Has some tiny little battery LED lights, but I'm thinking a strip all around the roof really on top of that. Lots of 3M Dual Lock strips everywhere to enable things to be locked down and avoid sliding around so much.

Done as much as can be done until more wallpaper arrives at least.

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𝚂𝚙𝚢𝚝𝚏𝚢𝚛𝚎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿1h ago

@pre that's looking cool
Much better than the job they did on the one I bought fourth hand lol

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Adam Dalliance 1h ago

@spytfyre Thanks. Hopefully will look cooler when I have more wallpaper to play with and can do the doors and re-experiment with some of the more shoddy attempts at papering over curvy surfaces.

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𝚂𝚙𝚢𝚝𝚏𝚢𝚛𝚎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿51m ago

@pre
I didn't notice wallpaper
I'm looking at the space and flat surfaces for practical use
Think paper will get soggy if you don't have a powerful dehumidifier
Recommend the meaco 10L one add the 20 would be too big for my passenger foot well
Also means you can drive away in a hurry without having to mop the windscreen as I did the night my father in-law passed away 😭

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Adam Dalliance 49m ago

@spytfyre Wallpaper isn't paper. It's a vinyl thing. Got a ventilation fan that fits on the windows but a dehumidifier seems unlikely. I'll have to try not to breathe too much.