Recent project - Our home

[alex_m]

Thought I'd share this as we are quite proud of it and hopefully it may interest some of you.

Fed up of paying £9000 a year on rent & bills that we would never see again for crappy 1 bed flats, we decided to buy a project live-in vehicle and make a home. This is the result and we haven't spent much more than a years rent in total inc the original purchase.

 

It's taken alot of hard work and i've missed several arb shows to get it done, well worth it though!

 

Here's some specs to please the geeks

Merc 814 with OM366 engine (same as alot of mog's)

32ft x 8ft (living area about 27ft long)

Calor Gas running the little electrolux fridge, Rangemaster cooker and Rinnai 58e on demand boiler.

240w of PV Monochrystaline solar panels feeding 2 x 225ah batteries, 240v inverter feeding several 3pin wall sockets throughout.

Villager woodburner with a windy smithy hat.

LED SMD lighting throughout, only uses about 2 amps when all of them are on. Around 0.3amps each.

Shower room with compost separating toilet.

Some nice bits of solid waney edge ash for the kitchen top, shelf and office/studio desk, made by Tim, my old housemate. Kitchen cupboard doors and frame are solid oak.

Think i've covered most of it...

 

It's not 100% complete yet, i'll put some pics up of the 'living room', bed area and shower room when finished.

 

You can read the blog documenting the build here

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[nathan marshall]

i love that alex it looks wicked

[Rich Rule]

looks Great mate. Nice one.

[David Humphries]

Liking this Alex, do you move it about much?

 

How's living in it in terms of the elements. Summer heat, wind, rain noise?

 

 

 

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[timtree81]

It's amazing inside , I love it 👍

[Tommy_B]

Class. Well done. More pics please!

[Stephen Blair]

Wow, fantastic!!!!!

[silky fox]

AMAZING!:thumbup:

[alex_m]

Thanks guys

 

Liking this Alex, do you move it about much?

 

How's living in it in terms of the elements. Summer heat, wind, rain noise?

 

 

We are living on a farm for a while, we'll take to festivals next summer and in the future Europe, but for most of the time it'll be static.

(i need to do my HGV licence first )

 

Luckily we have slept in campervans quite a bit, so used to the pitter patter of raindrops, i like the noise actually.

It's well insulated so keeps the heat out as well as in, so no bother there.

It's quite windy here and i've never noticed it inside the truck.

[NFG]

Hi

 

Well done, looks great really like the interior especially the furniture & plank door.

 

As for £9000 a year, thats shocking - you could live reasonably well on that over here if you grew some of your own & lived south of the Loire.

 

Good luck et Bon chance

 

N