After the window fitting..

Now the windows have been fitted its time to think about the inside and what I want where.. .. So armed with a tape measure and. Some duct tape I spent the afternoon in the van measuring what I would like in the van and how I had viewed it in my head to see if it would fit...

I will say the only thing at present that I had to change was the main bed from going lengthwise up the van to across... It was either that or I had to lose the single seat dining/sleeping area at the rear of the van... 

So now it is all marked up... Time to start making things... 

I did rope Justin (my son) into helping me lift a spare double kitchen base unit into the van  just to see what I needed to do to it for it to fit... Haven't told him yet he has to lift it back indoors so I can attack it with the saw... 

Yesterday evening I started to make the single bed bases for the rear of the van... I started on these just in case I made a mistake.. Or they didn't turn out as expected  as it would be cheaper and less time consuming to redo them. 

I will say they turned out pretty good for a first attempt... Even if I did forget on the first one that I had to allow for the wheel arches.. 

Photos to follow.. 

I have windows....

The van having its windows fitted...

Finding a new van..

Once the decision was made to sell the romahome I then had the fun/Argo of finding a replacement. After having a look around I decided on getting a fairly new panel van to do my own conversion. This ended up being a long wheel base. , hitop ford transit.. I chose this to maximise the internal space... And the transit for cheap repairs if I needed to although as it is a 2008 plate, hopefully there won't be any repairs needed for a while. 

As I had chose a panel van, the first job I needed to look at was. Getting some windows put in. After thinking about doing this myself I decided I'd rather pay the extra pennies and get them professionally fitted. 

After finding a company to fit them, I had to get the van prepped ready for installation day. This involved removing the bulkhead (which I then offered up for collection on the transit forum)  and taking off the ply lining which has been kept for use on the fit out.

The window fitting day arrived and after an early start and a few hours shopping in a different town I got picked up by the fitter to be taken back to my very light van... 

The new van as it started...

How I got here...

Firstly.. Hi to everyone visiting... Thought it would be easier to create a blog rather then keep duplicating posts on individual forums.
For those that don't know.. I have for the last few years owned a demountable romahome. This initially started on a 1985 545cc Honda acty  mini truck.
After a few problems with that I had the engine reconditioned to find out a few months later the chassis was rotten.... so the search was on for a new base vehicle... This turned out to be a 2004 plate daihatsu hijet... 1.3 , but again I started having issues... So made the hard decision for me to sell it and look for something else.

That something else has turned out to be a 2.4 diesel lwb, hitop transit. As I chat on various forums I decided today to create this blog off the conversion process I will be undertaking...

But before that, here are a few pictures of the old romahome, and the pod refurbishment I completed last year...
How it started when I first bought it..

Then are the refurbishment and base truck change ...