This was the scene as I walked out of the door at 8am, white, white and white everywhere, it was cold. Before I start another van conversion I will have a workshop big enough to get a van inside lol. Set off for Norms to get working and just as I turned into his drive the car felt more like a heavy weight tractor than a smooth car, the drive belts had snapped, darn. Called the Caistor mechanics and Jack said to get it over and he would order the belts in. Called the breakdown who said they would be there within the hour. We waited and drank coffee talking about how this could be done and how that could be done.
90 minutes later I called them to find out they were going to be another half an hour at least. I was not plexed by this as we were sat in a lovely warm room and I felt for others who were sat in a cold car on the side of the road but I wished that we had started work on the van straight away. So we got to work. Breakdown arrived and we went over to the garage with them. Jack was waiting and took the car in straight away suggesting it was only going to take an hour. We went off for a cornish pasty from Morrisons and then on to Magnums to get a roof vent. I decided to go for a slightly more expansive type which has a completely clear lid and a silver screen. I think we are both a bid concerned about cutting into the van but its getting close.
On route we dropped the fridge off at the house, really just to release a bit of space in Norm’s garage. We noted how silent the van was with the flooring in place, no knocks or bangs, we felt proud, I think of our work.
Back to Caistor to find out a pulley had gone on the car and the part would not be in until the next day. So back to Norm. It was now 3pm and we really had not got a lot of work done. Sho was collecting me at 5pm so we had 2 hours.
In those two hours we scrapped the edges of the cross beams, bonded the first foam to the ceiling, holding it in place with Lidl stretchers which norm had previously purchased for a bargain £5 each and got stuffing insulation in the lower body panels. We are trying to adhesives and will report on our findings later when we remove the supports this morning. Shona arrived and was really impressed with the amount of work we have done. Its hard when you are working to realise what you have achieved. For Norm and myself, although between us we have loads of experience of motorhomes we have never done this sort of thing before so its a big learning curve. I am finding that I cannot wait to get at it each day which is great