cutting (door) corners

so it has been an really annoying week, we got all the 12 volt electrics going through the zig and now the shower is all one thought we would start with getting that working, and straight off the bat the shurflo pump wasn't working, it wa pumping but no water was coming through, i put this up on the sbmcc forum and eventually got some good advice (thanks nobby) what we eventually did was take my whale pump and attatch it to the end of the shurflo hose in the water tank, we then ran both the pumps, the whale ran the water through the shurflo got all the air out and got it running! i got some trim for around the door from b&q its plastic in a u shape and its 12mil thick so fits around the 9mm wood, carpet and lino on the walls.

dad also did all the gas work and the gas drop out vents, these need to be in any cupboard or space there is a gas connection, so there is one under the sink with the gas bottles and the gas manifold, one in the bedbox where the heater is and one on the cupboard where the water heater is. the little grills used to cover the holes were from tool station and a steal at 25p each. dad also taught me a neat trick if you want to check if your newly installed gas connections are leaking, mix some fairy liquid with water and put some on the connections with a brush, if the fairy liquid bubbles up its leaking!

gas drop out vent inside the van

 gas drop out vent outside underneath the van

 the gas manifold

dad then spent the afternoon tidying up the wiring and electrics we bought so socket boxs from b&q and put plain flat fronts on them so we could put all the connections inside around 90p each box

i spent the afternoon making doors for the cupboards, i just made these out of mdf, we then gave them 3 coats of kitchen/bathroom paint from b&q (the missus chose purple its subtle and goes with the grey). firstly we had to make a template so they were all the same, for this we used the corners of an icecream tub, drew around then cut them out. the bigger doors over the front seats we have to measure and make out own template for the corners, once they were painted we put the handles on, and screwed on the hinges and catches for the bottom to keep them shut whilst driving.

the template for the corners

 cutting the corners

 the finished product

 the doors over the cab