well the weather certainly is bloody cold at the moment, currently -9 so we have been putting an electric heater in the van 24 hours so its warm when we work in it but also overnight so all the glue and sealants have a chance to work and set properly.
last week dad fitted the henry ge water heater, i forgot to add pictures so here they are, he made a template marked it out then cut the hole with a jigsaw, had a discussion on the sbmcc forum about water heaters, i was going to get the malaga but it was £50 more expensive, so went for the henry on the plus side it is lighter and slightly smaller, this was fitted at the back of the van next to the shower, and managed to get it only for £309 including delivery.
Saturday was full on, last week my brother did his final exams at the end of his electricians apprentiship and is now a qualified electrician, so i managed to convince him to give up his saturday morning and install the mains hook up, consumer unit and sockets which he kindly did. it is still -9 degrees luckily plenty of tea and bacon sausage butties kept the troops going.
wiring a socket in for the water heater
the outside electric hookup, sits flush with the side of the van then pops out to plug in
rear of the ehu inside the van, the wire comes in and goes into the consumer unit
socket's installed by the seat/bed
we also finished the lino in the shower, i will get pictures added soon, we started to box in the water heater but decided to go get a water tank first to makesure we could fit it all in, i got a fiamma 40l but it was about half an inch to bit to slide in the gap, so i went back and got a 23l one which will slide in underneath the water heater. i decided on a seperate tank for the sink/cooker which is another 22l so in total we have 45 litres of water, with the weight evenly spread across the van.
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