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hey everyone welcome to the live stream tonight uh we got an excited exciting live stream tonight because the Forum is
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alive we have a really good post um in the Forum uh if you don't know we put a
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forum on the website uh van Builder hq.com so if you go there
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um go to the top menu bar click Forum there is a forum to discuss van
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build ideas now if you want to access and ask questions on the
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Forum this is part of the new camper van conversion blueprint so this is my new
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DIY camper van conversion course so when you purchase the course you get access to this private online
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community which is the Forum now you can look at what questions have been
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answered um just going to the website in general but if you want to participate and be a part of the CT of the uh
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Forum um all you got to do is grab the camper van conversion blueprint click down here access for 50
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bucks and I'm going to quickly go over what is in this course if you guys don't know so this is a deep dive into how to
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build a DIY camper van so I go over a couple key parts of building a camper
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van one is just introducing you to the course uh we start off with choosing your van new or used two wheel drive
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four-wheel drive things to consider we go over design and layout uh
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considerations um flooring install and there's two install videos actually
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so there's one that we did on the YouTube and then I have a uh six part install series that we did on John and
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Susan's FS a little bit more in depth I upgraded kind of my processes and materials that I used or
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techniques and then we have installation and sound dampening next we have off-grid power
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system design so this is going over how to size your system properly talking about Concepts and stuff like that and
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then also going over um the uh the products and how a power
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system is kind of made like what all the parts do and how they function so you kind of learn about that then we get
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fresh and gray water systems and then we end it with exterior accessories and by
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the way the fresh and gray systems uh Gray Water Systems we talk about Plumbing too so like PEX a plumbing
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fittings uh under mount tanks um and then exterior access accessories is the fun part where we go
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over uh roof racks Tire carriers stuff like that so if you guys are interested
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you can pick it up fuer hq.com and all you got to do is click on course up at
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the top access and click I want this over
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here all right so let's get into the main part of the live stream today so we're going to be talking about a
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question that was posted to The Forum and and it's a great question because this exactly what I want to see
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kind of flowing in here um so the question is uh there's a new van Builder
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asking for some advice with uh more info to follow and what they're talking about is they're getting ready to do a camper
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van build um so I'll just go ahead and read off uh what they have here so the post
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is by uh tww Transit hey everybody I'm a new member still figuring out how to do certain things on this forum um yeah
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don't worry I will throughout the week update you on how to post and stuff like
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that uh and what I'm going to do with this video is reference it in this post
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um with all the answers to it um so he's waiting on uh or they're
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waiting on a new Ford Transit high top extended van to arrive uh they have a
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preliminary layout of the Interior that has been evolving for the past months um and they're going to upload a PDF after
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this form which is really cool I really encourage any type of photos or PDFs about van building on here to help it
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help everyone uh kind of get an idea of what you're building and then at the same time give you some opinions on you
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know what direction you might want to go or some options and that that's pretty much what I'm going to do today is I'm going to use this these two questions
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that he has I'm going to reference some videos that I've made that I think will help answer the
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question um so
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yeah a couple of different couple of features that are different from okay so the main two things I'm going to go over
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in this video are uh they want to have a lift style bed mounted just behind the driver passenger area uh neither I or my
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wife are very tall 56 52 and I think we can make the bed so that we can both stand under it when it's raised so I'll
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talk about bed options number two a shower pan will be installed on a slightly raised floor in
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the rear of the van with a gray water tank installed in the spare Tire area uh
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certain a curtain will hang from the ceiling to surround the shower area uh we do not want a dedicated
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shower and then at the bottom um as soon as I have the PDF uh of the layout ready
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I'll upload it so you guys have a better idea of what I would like to do and you can comment on things I would need to
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consider or warnings about what may be wrong with the layout or and what problems I may encounter so that's
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perfect this is exactly what the form designed for to answer those questions and
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um yeah so to start off besides downloading
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stuff uh yeah start off um just heads up I
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just got back from Overland Expo East uh it was very nice the weather was amazing
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uh I just went for one day to film kind of just do a little tour of the Vans
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uh got to see Glacier camping uh van customers there so they look like
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they're having a great time um and then also uh met with some Builders um Roman
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for ventur Customs I got to meet him and see his new adventure van buildout which is really cool and uh so those two
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things will be in the video coming up here pretty shortly but this is this is awesome this
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is exactly what I want to talk about so let's a lift style bed mounted just
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behind the passenger area so the first thing that I think of when I think of a lift mounted bed is I've gone through so
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many different uh conversations about um in Thomas's van which is the
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Marine One build that I did it had we wanted to do a lift bed um with either
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pneumatics or some type of something like a
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like a standing desk type structure um
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and it got complicated in that van build because we had to uh we really didn't
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have the space for it to operate so I'm going to pull up
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the the pad here and we can actually kind of I'll draw out
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um I'll draw out what we are what the challenge was so anybody that's join in
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the chat we've got a question or a post from a user on the Forum and they're
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doing a van build we got two questions we're going to ask tonight one is talking about lift style mounted bed and
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then a shower pan in the
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floor so if I asse if I open up my little drawing notes Here
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and by the way when we were on the stream tonight if you guys have any questions um feel free to ask those
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questions while we're drawing and uh talking about vans so Thomas's van was
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a 148 Transit and this
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uh these guys are looking to for a extended van so a high top high top
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extended for Transit so in Thomas's
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van besides the wheel wells and uh by the way uh he had a wheelchair that that
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he was using within the van so we really focused on making a lot of room in order
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to maneuver through the van so we wanted to do a raising uh a
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bed that would raise and lower in the rear of the van but once we installed the over the wheel
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well water tank um relocated the AC which this question
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probably doesn't that probably has nothing to do with it um we did the
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power system and then we installed or
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reinstalled his wheelchair lift
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and I'll show you in Red so this was the area that we were trying to install this electrical
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bed and let's let me see if I can pull up an example of
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one I'm not saying this is not possible I'm just saying talking about the reasons we didn't go with a uh lifting
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bed um so Lippert makes the euroloft smart
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bed and um but you can purchase it through Wilderness
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bands and this is what the kit consist
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of and the reason that we did not go with this bed uh for Thomas was we we
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just the van we needed to make make sure um everything was very simple design so
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there was no possible failure so you know if he needed to get out of the bed in an emergency or uh you know lift the
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bed up um we were really relying on a motor to do
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that and uh so what we decided to go with is a Murphy bed but since I had
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this pulled up right now I'll stay on this topic of the lift beds um cuz I'm
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not for one or the other every Van's different and your application is going to be different as
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well so um but what I uh I think this is a great
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idea but you need to make sure that you think of the bed as the in this case as
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the first th part of your design and layout so I'm going to reference these
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little tabs in the course here um not as a sales thing just strictly to
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show you that if if you want to learn more in depth you can I can it's referenced in
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here so for example when I talk about um having a system like this be the focal
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point of your build is because these uh structural um wish I got a photo that
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doesn't move there you go you have these structure structural bars and cross
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these members that allow the bed to lift up and down and support the weight as well as the ones in the back
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and um that just needs to be in Taken consideration when before you get
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anything almost like you need to mock up the bed in there to make sure it's going to fit with your cabinets and walls um
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for example if the uh Forum of if tww
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Transit wanted to put this in their van we see that this is designed to be
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mounted at the back with this uh crossmember so on a Ford Transit this
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crossmember is very structural structural structural sound I can't talk tonight
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um because it is part of the van's chassis or unibody so it's a very strong
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member extremely difficult to drill through but the good news is it's a great support point so that's why they
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have these uh seat belt style supports mounted to the back of the van here
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uh and then this and this just kind of my guidance opinions but they want it just behind the driver
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passenger area this tells me that these rails would be closer to the almost
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right up against the driver and passenger um I'm excited to see what tww
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TR has as far as the PDF that shows their layout because maybe it'll give me a better idea um but I'm just kind of uh
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RI on this right now just to uh give some examples of what they
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might be thinking of and it's fun to do so these rails would be at the front um
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but as you can you kind of see that if you were using this system it starts to get kind of hairy so my recommendation
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is you stick with how these beds are put in to 99.9% of the van vehicles and that
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is mounted like this in the back typically that middle area between
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the driver and passenger is going to be for kitchen Galley additional seating fridge freezer uh additional storage
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that sort of thing so you can see um how this is working
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out um this particular bed now the seat belts do hold the
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weight so if you wanted to kind of have almost like a bunk bed and have this closer to the top that would work um but
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what I see most Builders do is build these cabinets out in the back which is typically water storage or an electrical
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system and allow the bed to just rest on it so it keeps the bed from swing
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because it's obviously held up by seat belt material essentially so it keeps it
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stationary solid um it just makes it more comfortable to sleep um unless you like a swinging bed
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but you know that's for you if you want to have like a little bunk bed up here but the nice part
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about um a bed like this is or what's attractive to PE mostly to people who
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want this is it goes all the way to the top and you don't have to build an additional Murphy bed structure out to
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encase the frame and the mattress itself so um I wonder if I go to
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I'm not sure if I have these pictures so I'm going to my website to
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see if I got these pictures in their
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projects okay so this is Thomas's van and I kind of emulated the way that
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these uh bamboo pieces are so the DIY version that I did
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was I went to Ikea and I bought the Ikea slats and then what I did with them
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is somehow I just happen to have it right here beside me but I took these slats and I cut off the uh The netting
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on each side and then I cut this to the length that I need and that way when I put it in between the 8020 you've got
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that Flex or like that spring spring like uh
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functionality um but Thomas is uh bed system was uh it's straightforward there's no
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there's no uh motor to fail or anything like that there's not even gas struts in here what I used is uh these spring
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hinges and if you go to the Forum you can actually go and I answered a
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question on that so if I go to
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uh are springloaded hinges affected for Murphy bed and a camper so I answered that down here gave you a link to the
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video where I talk about it and also gave you uh a part and model number if
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you guys want to find those Springs that I used so that in this forum post that's the exact Springs that I
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used um so I used five I used uh yeah five of these heavy duty fire door
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closers um and then I just maxed out the springs and it doesn't keep it from slamming
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down what it does is it just helps helps you guide it down with less weight um so that's what we did and then
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up top we used an 8020 lock and then a 8020 um kind of like supporting pen over
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here and that was designed so that it wouldn't rattle it's
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like a backup um and what Thomas needed to hear what standing is uh there's another view
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of the bed so another reason we couldn't put the structure oh yeah let me finish my
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thought so this is for something called a paragolfer so it's a motorized golf cart um or motorized wheelchair that's
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used for golfing and it goes right here so he was driving it in and out behind this with
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his big ramp and that's why I need the Murphy bed but you see the Murphy bed comes out about uh a foot
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foot so in the case of this that foot that comes out when you raise raise the
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bed all the way up you can use it like a counter space and the bed's out of the way so you don't lose the that kind of
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countertop space functionality um and then here this is
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with the bed down and but the reason we couldn't use those tracks for this is in the back do
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you see how the it has to be wide with the track and they have no upper storage there's no upper storage on the
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driver and there's no upper storage on the passenger so Thomas's we extended this storage on the
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passenger side over here so he could have storage because you know once we make room for the wheelchair the parag
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golfer um so you can move around there's not
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that much room to actually uh there's not that much room to uh
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build I mean have storage in the van so up here on the left what we did is
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extend the storage here and then over here where we couldn't do storage we still extended out so over here we have
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storage but with that bed system that lifts up and down um you know the question is where
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do you put it in a scenario like this where this is kind of your fixed dimensions
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um and then also we wanted this kitchen galy to be open so we want to have a nice open Flow feel through the uh the
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cabin so if he wants to hop into bed he can use the countertop to kind of pivot into bed if he wants to get into the
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driver's seat from his wheelchair he can pivot on the countertop so this countertop height and depth is actually
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critical to his functionality in the van so it looks nice but it's actually
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functional by being open on these corners and you can see here that when you lift the bed
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up uh this has to kind of be boxed in back here with walls um so that it can support these uh
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guide members I guess and I'm sure there's some flexibility on things you don't have to
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do but I can see here that um this is a structural mounting point this is
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structural so those panels look like they're important
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um yeah so this is kind of interesting to me um I don't know if this is tied
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into the roof it looks like it's just tied into the kitchen Galley itself although it's
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really nice laminated probably Baltic Birch nice high ply to give it strength
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so I don't know what they recommended Mountain location it is but uh on Thomas's van
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this is a good example because we had 8020 um and not only do we bolt it through the floor and the walls but we
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also tied it in at the ceiling level as well um to these cross the cross member
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so we have it tied in here and then back here in the back which you can't
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see okay that's all the photos I got so just you know think about where
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if you want to have something like this where you're going to uh
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how you're going to mount
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it and what the manufacturer recommends when you do it okay so there's an option so again
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you can reference the design and layout um we don't talk about this bed but um I
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actually may put this live stream in there as a supplement video since we're kind of diving into layout with
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this we go back here uh lift style bed mount driver passenger
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area um so next there's another option and
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that would be if I
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have all right I'm going to look up something on my phone uh let me know if you guys have um
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any questions while I'm looking this
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up what I'm doing is I'm trying to see if um if my iPhone uploaded the video
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that I took uh this weekend I can show you an example of
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this um Murphy bed that
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might be some good advice for you for
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okay it doesn't look like I uploaded it so maybe I'll have to do that really
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quick see if we just go online type in Murphy style van bed
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next we're going to get to the uh shower
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pan all right here we go so different styles of Murphy bed the
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one I wanted to show you was it's not like a double collapsing one
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um so it's one like this where the majority of the panel comes out on the
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driver side with the mattress and then you have a countertop that essentially
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runs the length of the van to help support it um I like this design
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because this design uh it looks nice but I think it's
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comp complicated with the byold um and then these design that are
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that are half and half I think you lose one side of uh storage and functionality as well as a countertop so if you make
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it like this style I like I like the bigger panel on one side it just it
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seems to add more um functionality to the passenger side
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of the van typically and if you guys can see that to this side
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all right next let's go into the second part of their question which was a shower pan on a slightly raised
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floor so what I'm going to do is let me hop
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into a video
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and we're going to go to the video where um I think I can grab it let's see if I
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can grab it
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here okay so in this video This Is The Ultimate Flooring ultimate can prand
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flooring guide it was one of our blog posts as well as a live stream video that I did
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and right here what we've done is we've raised the floor so we've got an inch of foam insulation and then we got a/ inch
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of plywood and then so we've lifted the floor up raised it and then this section
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right here is what we're going to use for the uh the shower pan so the shower
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pan that we're using in this particular video is the
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uh it's a Tetra van um so we're not using so they do make a
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couple options they have one that is this fold out
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design so the one that do fold out this one's Allin one um it just you need to
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have it mounted in a location where there's enough room to fold out obviously but at the same time there needs to be enough wall depth as you can
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see here so that it can house itself when it's closed up so I do like this one um
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but if you want to be more minimal you're going to go with this pan and this this pan is what I did in this van
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um okay so if we go to this part of the video um up this uh front part right
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here this is the driver's side over here on the left and passenger on the right and so this is the measured cutout for
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the shower
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pan so this pan over here this Tetra van pan this is actually going into this
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hole right here and it fits perfectly with the ability to allow a half an inch
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um space which we actually used 1 in thinsulate material
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uh one inch thinp material to cover this up
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um let's see where is that
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photo I have to find that photo for you guys but yeah we used uh 3M thinsulate
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as a base So what at first I sound it um and you can see here this little hole
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this little hole was my Center hole and I found that
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remember wherever you place this shower pan you have to think about the underside of the uh van you have to
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think about uh the cross members the drive shaft uh how you're going to drain the
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water once everything's said and done um how's it going to flow into the tanks how can you service it how can you fix
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it if uh you know you hit something or mess something up um that is what you
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got to worry about so that hole was everything was kind of wrapped around
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that one hole not only that but on the left side here I had to make sure that
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the kitchen Galley from Flatline vanco fit without going over and right here was my uh part where Ford Transit have
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these little bump outs for support on the chassis they're really annoying because either have
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to cut and grind Away part of your cabinet to go over them so they're not
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in the way or you just kind of deal with it and have them a little offset from
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the wall which actually can be a bonus because the wall does curve in and that offset allows you to run wires and
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cables so it's kind of a double-edged sword which way you handle it but you
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got the left side I mean the driver side over here and then the passenger side so this pan had to be dead center now but
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the great part is is it worked out perfect so if we go back to um go to my
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website Odyssey custom vans click on Glacier and let's go
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inside let's get to the floor I don't know why I didn't put that
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photo in here
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um see if I can find that photo give me two seconds
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here this was
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I'm looking in here give me one second it's a great time to ask questions if you guys got some questions while I'm
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snooping around here trying to find this photo that I I
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did okay it's not that
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oh yeah hold on I don't know why I'm not going to the Tour event video
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here we go okay give me one second I'll be right
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here okay now you can find out why the the cabinets played a role into
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this video so keep watching okay so here is the Tetra van
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uh now I made it look more fancy because what I did is when I laid the floor down and I did my cutout I very carefully cut
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out the lawn sill floor so this lawn sill floor if you can see it's a it's
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it's the same piece of floor that was cut out I just really carefully glued it to the uh the floor piece so it would
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look seamless
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and so now you can see how close the kitchen gys came to that edge um I like
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that it came close because it looks really tight um it's a really nice tight
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fit um and the cool thing if you guys are wondering this is an adventure wagon
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interior system so these two Flatline van kitchen galys are actually physically bolted to the L track that is riveted to
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the the chassis of the van so it's very super strong um which does allow it to be
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removed technically if you really need to get to
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something so we'll just let this video finish up so you guys can see it just pops right back in and what they're
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doing is they're using the sink uh as the shower input
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okay so that is that um see if there's anything else on
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the question here yeah I see people coming and going
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in out of the stream if you have a question feel free to ask it in the chat
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um gives us something to uh talk about kind I extend the live stream for the
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night so shower pan and when they're saying slightly raised floor that's really cool because
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if you do the insulation method that I describe um on the live stream but also
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in the course uh you're you're already going to have enough raise so that if
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you wanted uh to use this um tetran floor pan you could definitely do
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that so none of these websites are sponsored just they just have really
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good information so I'm trying to show you how this works
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um I thought they had one show the side let's see here there you go so you see right here
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we've got we've got one inch over here on the left we got one inch and it tapers to
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one 1.31 so almost you know close to an inch
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and a half so what what I did was I put one in insulation so I got my the one inch
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right here consists of the half an inch plywood and the 1in insulation so from
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this arrow down is going to be an inch and a half so that
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um as this tapers down obviously that's the drain but you can see how this is made for pretty much an inch and a half
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thick floor one inch of uh the poly ISO
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or uh XPS foam as well as um half inch
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plywood and so that is the the Tetra van
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floor and if you're curious I did get it from no supply company that's where I bought
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it um let's see what
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else so current hang from the ceiling um they don't want a dedicated
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shower area and I I like not having a dedicated shower area you you'll be surprised at when you get on the road
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and start to travel at how many facilities are either at truck shut stops or uh KOA Campgrounds
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um I mean KOA has some excellent showers I'm always impressed by the cleanliness
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and just the availability of their showers um when I travel I'll always do a uh I'll just do almost like
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a sometimes you can do a tent site for your Campground um You can call in I don't
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know if this is like a little hack but you can call ahead if you're arriving late and just say hey I'm just coming in for the night I don't need power hookup
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or anything like that um and they'll say oh you know you guys you
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can just drop back into a tent site um if you're just going to go ahead and leave in the morning that's worked for me probably two or three times so I
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don't know if I was lucky but uh it tended to work pretty good
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um so yeah looking forward to tww transit's uh post the PDF of the layout
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I'd love to kind use that as a little case study and uh as well as people that
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um now once again if you've enrolled into the course camper band conversion
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blueprint it's on sale right now um so if you purchase the course you'll have
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access to uh participate in the Forum which is asking me questions through the
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for and I'll answer them um but if you uh if you're not purchasing the course
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you'll be able to view the questions answers you just won't be able to participate in the asking of questions
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so that's the benefit one of the benefits of the course um the other benefit of the course is just a bunch of
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information in here so I go through I have a lecture the lectures are something you can't find anywhere on the
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Internet it's not on the uh u v hq's YouTube or anything like
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that these are oneoff lectures that I go into deep Dives of all of these different systems in the van um one of
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the bonus videos that you guys have not seen is inspecting a used before buying
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so John and Susan were were looking for uh a van and they were thinking that hey
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you know why don't we just get a used van that's halfway to what we want and then we'll let Nick fully customize it
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the way we want do our changes to it and I told them I said hey you know sounds like a great idea let me look at
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the van because I just want to I want to see what we're getting into I don't want you guys to buy a van that you're going to have for a long time and it have
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problems uh you know stuff like that so this van has some issues but if you want
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to figure out what it is uh and what to watch out for this van is a exclusive video I mean
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this video is an exclusive video to the course so yeah check it out
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um yeah this is awesome I'm looking forward to T to be I cannot talk tonight
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tww transits uh PDF with the the layout which will be
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really cool we're looking forward to that um speaking of campgrounds let's talk talk about KOA really quick um I'm
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pretty I'm very happy with KOA Campgrounds
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um let's see so if you go to kway campgrounds uh I'm going to type in uh
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this place called Deadwood South Dakota I went to a stures motorcycle rally this
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year and uh there's two koas that I'm going to
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show you so this is the one at Sturges
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um trying to see if they have any better photos
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yeah uh so like look at this look at that view uh the view is incredible
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there so Deadwood South Dakota it's next to Mount Rushmore for sightseeing but
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they have a beautiful Campground um you know this is where you back in for the
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night you wake up in the morning there's this amazing uh mountain behind you they've got all kinds of different tent
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spots you go downtown to Deadwood um it's like an old western it's just a
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really cool place to to visit but you can see these campsites are really nice um I was hoping they had a
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photo of the amenities
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um like the showers that's what I was trying to show you a photo of
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anyway the showers at this location they had uh it was like a log cabin type
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shower uh stall they had mosaic tile of um like Mount Rushmore and like a
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bunch of other things it this is really nice I think I should have took more photos of it anyway the other one I
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wanted to show you was maybe they have something on here this is
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uh so this is KOA Badlands um White River
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KOA yeah I probably need to probably need to take more photos when I'm there they're a little bit better than these
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photos but you can see some of these cabins and amenities are just super nice
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uh the campground was just super really really
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clean anyway my point is I used to never think about going to a KOA and now I
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mean I pretty much only stay at kway when I'm traveling with my van on the road
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um they're easy to get into I'm always a late arrival I'll always arrive like
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really late probably like 10:00 or 9:00 something like that take a shower next morning just hit
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the road um and they have they have a check-in to where all you got to do is
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just you can check in online go to the door after hours pick up your envelope find your spot on the map drive there
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you know you don't have to meet anybody or talk to anybody it's just a really nice and easy
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experience all right we got off topic a little bit cuz we need some questions in the chat and um I'm going to be on here
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for just a couple more minutes but if we don't have any questions I'm going to call it early for the live stream
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tonight so guys got about a minute or two to get some questions
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in uh really excited about the Forum I think that's going to be
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awesome and uh yeah so tonight did a little bit of answering of this question and there's more questions in here um so
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I'll start taking the questions from the YouTube comments and putting them in
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here which I've already got some I need to catch up on a couple of these
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but yeah this is cool this is excited that it's
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working I like it
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also we're setting up a shop on Van Builder HQ so curious if you guys are
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looking for products for us SEC car um that mainly this is going to be po uh
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populated by products that are vetted by me to make sure that you know you guys are getting something that I would
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recommend I would put in my own customer builds um because I have accounts with a
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bunch of these manufacturers and um yeah I'm already buying them so might as well
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offer them to uh to you guys be able to communicate which ones I like um which
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ones are available so yeah we're going to be doing the RTX
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2000 we'll probably do an ecoflow system fyama f45s awnings uh possibly crl crl
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Windows um and those type of products just like the core products that I think
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are really good for getting started on a van build so yeah if you're interested put that in
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the chat put it in the comments I'm really excited to hear that don't forget about the camper manand conversion
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course on sale now and then over here on the top right if you're new to Van
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Builder HQ we have a free DIY van build cheat sheet so if you're looking to get
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started you don't know what parts that I use in the shop what I've done is taken
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the last three years of my Amazon purchases put them into an Excel sheet and organized it so that you guys can
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get a jump start on your van build it has everything from electrical fuses solar panels wiring water pumps bolts
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nuts and screws a lot of stuff that I use for 8020 Mountain brackets and stuff like that um it's all on that sheet all
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you got to do to get it is put your name and email address hit download now it'll be sent right to your inbox and uh yep
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it's free and I think it'll really help you out all right
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quiet on the questions tonight so guys thanks so much for checking out the live stream that's going to do it for us
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tonight uh make sure you guys are subscribed give us a thumbs up share this video to anybody who's doing their
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DIY van build or simply just wants to have a place to ask questions from a professional van Builder um yeah that's
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going to do it check out the course before you guys head out and um yeah thanks so much for
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watching live stream tonight we'll see you the next one [Music]
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