Despite how this van looks, we're not too far from finishing.
So we have taken five days of work to try spend as much time as we can
And I don't know I don't want to say we are going to finish it cause I don't think we are.
We'll get most of the way there.
So let's see the difference between now and in five days!
My first task for today is to paint the inside of our "engine room".
Which is really just our bed.
I just realised we haven't actually showed you how we made this bed.
But we have an entire blog all on it's own just for this.
Today I'm going to paint the inside shiny bright white because that is where all the electronics are going.
And we want to really easily see where everything is lined up.
Also so when it is being expected that they can see it nice and shiny,
Alright, made some progress on the kitchen frame.

I've got the actual frame itself done.
I've got somewhere to put the sink. Somewhere to put the fridge.
And a little enclosure for the induction hob.
I just got the base frame of the kitchen done and I've put the support for the kitchen sink in.
So it will be an undercounted sink, just to save some counter space
So, the sink itself will rest on this and this and it's well screwed in.
We left a very small gap here for the thickness of the sink frame itself so it rest flush with these.
Then the counter top will go on top of the whole lot!.
So the reason I built this enclosure around the hob is because there is a fan on the bottom of this.
And changes are the top drawer is going to become a cutlery drawer.
What I've noticed happens at home is sometimes when you slide the drawer in cutlery tends to bend upwards.
It's not a problem at home because there is not an induction hob on top of it.
But we do not want a fork or something to go into that fan and I still want it to have some breathing room here.
So I built this little box to protect it so if anything goes here it will hit the wood and not go into our hob.
There is very little clearance there, for air at the moment. But this thing will be mounted on top of a countertop.
So about that height probably
So there will be a good bit more clearance and plenty of air flow.
This hob is actually quite noisy as well because of that van.
So having it enclosed in a box like this well help with that too.
There is a gap at the very back here for air flow and for the power cable to drop down to.
So I am quite happy with how that has turned out!
So while the inside of the bed dries because it is definitely going to need a second coat.
I am going to start to work on this over head space.
What we are going to do to this space is insulated the roof,
underneath this shelf and then carpet the entire thing.
The thing I am scared to do the most is cut back this headliner a bit.
It sticks out quite a bit so when we try to walk in and out of the cab
I keep skulling my head off this!
So I want to cut this back.
Oh sorry the other thing I am most scared about is putting spray foam under here.
Let's see how that goes!
Ok let's see how this goes!
Andrew warned me I could get it everywhere!
So I tried to cover the seats in black bags
And I've put some bits of tin foil, or insulate in places.
So ehh, let's see how it goes I guesss.
I don't know if it's growing!
It's ok!
It's ok!
If I just keep saying it's ok every two seconds it will ok right?
Ok. A third of it I am happy with
the other two thirds is like what went wrong there..
Let me show you
Great job right? Right?
Don't look here!!
Lovely lovely lovely
ahhhh
Like it got stuck and it just wouldn't come out beautifully
The next thing I got to do this make some drawers
It's going to be four.
So one kinda matching the level of the drawer under the fridge.
Then three more on top.
This thing will be covered over. So the top will be quite a shallow door with a big door front on it.
So you won't be able to see this and it will look like four evenly sized drawers from the front.
Going to try make use of that space at the back.
So it will be kinda a weird shape drawer to start of with.
It should be achievable.
Let's see how it goes.
Time to work
I think it might be obvious where I did this paint work..
Pretty happy with how it turned out though!
This is the first coat.
It's going to dry and look a little bit liner because of the wood underneath it.
The inside will be painted by a paint brush because you be there all year trying to get that with a spray gun.
Happy with the outside, that's the important bit.
This bit is not going to be visible it's why I did it first, to experiment on.
Ohh I like the whole everything up here.
Thank you.
So I was going to cut this off, but then after I did the straight line I could break this stuff off.
So what I am going to do this, put a lawyer of that stuff so if we hit our head it's not going to be sore.
Push this up, beautiful line.
Then the new carpet I'm going to bring down to hear because over here there is going to be a big cut, so to hide it.
Pretty dam happy with it.
Can you even hear me?
I finally finished the overhead!
Three or maybe four coats of paint later.
And some sand paper.
I think the kitchen cabinet is ready.
Just waiting for the final coat of paint to dry now.
Then we will be able to install it.
So it's had a few coats and then for the last coat it was sanded down and resprayed.
So the back of it is not perfect but again its pointed the wall so I'm not worried.
But the sides should be pretty good once they are dry.
And then the front is pretty bare.
The pieces for the drawers are also drying.
They might need another coat.
They definitely need another coat on the opposite side.
Then ill be able to put them together.
Hopefully we are moving the kitchen into the van today.
Which needs I need to finish off this pillar.
It needs a bit of love.
It's kinda in bits.
There is dent marks and scraps all over it.
holes..
So I am going to sand it down, clean it, prime it,
And then put our auto carpet up on it to give it a nice clean look.
I decided to make a start on the over head cabinets
So I just cut out a single support beam.
And, now I am just about to start to cut the main sheet of timber for it.
Above the door trim, we have this cable that runs to the break lights.
When they were putting this van together.
I feel like they were lazy and didn't run it in this beam.
Which you can see is load of access points for and I think they should have done..
There is no easy way in to modify this to run it ourselves.
I need to figure a way to stick it up here so I can carpet around it.
It's going to look so bad.
Friday morning and I'm grumpy.
OK an hour later, and a muffin and coffee in hand.
I'm less grumpy now and I think I've sorted it.
I've masked the tape (cable) to the walls, so it can't move.
And I'm going to try my best to carpet over it and see how it looks.
The worst bits are probably going to be behind cabinets in anyway.
So let's see how it goes.
I'm not getting up mmmehh
I'll get up in a minute.
Sorry at this point the camera seems to have ascended to another plane of existence.
All the rest of the footage here is just white.
Well that was a hard week.
As always with the van build everything takes two or three times longer than you thought it would.
I thought I had factored that in there but it seems I didm't
We are both a little bit sad that we didn't get more done.
But if you take it into account if we had of done this over weeks, it would have taken us a month to do.
So it was well worth it.
It's nice to see some of the finishing touches going in,
Like the carpet on the over head and the kitchen.
The kitchen looks fantastic and I can't wait to see the doors on it.
Well that's all for now.
We just thought it be fun to show people how much work you get done in a week.
Thanks for watching, bye!
I don't want the audio to be destroyed by a Nissan what ever that is..
Noooo
It does not fit.
Edit this bit out.
Actually scared to do this, I don't know why.
"Saw sound" thanks Andrew
If you have ever watched Dexter the show,
I'm in my own kill room!
