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Just tweaked my 'truck transformation' CapCut vid, so the music lines up better ... wait for the drop! 😉
Music: Cannonball by The Breeders
The rest: All my own work 😁#tinyhomes #offgrid #DIY #music #selfbuild #vanconversion #nomad #NewAgeTravellerCommunity
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Just tweaked my 'truck transformation' CapCut vid, so the music lines up better ... wait for the drop! 😉
Music: Cannonball by The Breeders
The rest: All my own work 😁#tinyhomes #offgrid #DIY #music #selfbuild #vanconversion #nomad #NewAgeTravellerCommunity
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Thinking About Sliding Doors? Here’s What You Need To Know Before You Specify - IDSystems...
#IDSystems #SlidingDoors #SlimFrames #Architects #HomeOwners #Specifiers #RemovableGlass #Affordable #Stylish #Renovation #SelfBuild #NewBuild #Light
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Second window added and *most* of the roof rack. There was a part delivered that was a second driver side part instead of the required off-side part.
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Now with skylight. This one should have been simple, but no, I cut the hole too far back meaning the inside cover touches one of the support cross beams. That and play in the hole meant everything slipped forward by 10mm, sliding the adaptor across its nice adhesive seal. Cue much buggering around with the pressure of the adhesive curing quickly. All sorted this morning and I’ve resealed the edges on the roof so fingers are loosely crossed for water tightness.
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Second, bigger, hole in the van is for the first of two windows. Measurements were tricky as I want both windows to be in the same position on both sides but with the door the sides aren't quite the same internally.
A bit of structure grinding, frame making and refinement, jigsaw hole cutting, edge treating, priming, sikaflexing and screwing later and this is the result. Still need a bit of cleanup but the first window is in!
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First big hole made in the van. A Maxxair MaxxFan to get a bit of air flowing when we are in hotter climates. It was, as you can imagine a bit nerve-wracking but fairly easy in the end. It might even be waterproof 💦
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First big hole made in the van. A Maxxair MaxxFan to get a bit of air flowing when we are in hotter climates. It was, as you can imagine a bit nerve-wracking but fairly easy in the end. It might even be waterproof 💦
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Insulation repair - The 2nd board should have been easy as it was nearly a plain rectangle. Cut to length & fit.
Except...one of the floor batons had been lifted by the expanding foam I used to close any gaps in the insulation. This meant the board wouldn't lie flat. So up with the board and out with the belt sander to get the batten level.
Sadly, I sanded a little too much insulation away and had to do some repair work before I could finally place the board.
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A full day of work later, and three sheets of 12mm structural ply are laid on the insulated subfloor.
The first and third boards involved a lot of scribing and cutting, checking fit, modifying, checking fit, modifying, you get the picture.
More insulation including covering the wheel arches. Very bling!
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Floor insulation installed and taped. PiR board (foil wrapped foam) in-between the roofing battens, taped with 75mm aluminium tape.
I'd like to say this was the last time I touched any of this but it wasn't.
Some of the sound deadening tiles and first level of insulation is going in on the walls and ceiling too.
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The framing for the subfloor is in using roofing battens glued to the floor with Sikaflex 522. Actually I still had to finish the last bit at the back before it's finished but I didn't take a photo so there you go.
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This was the inside after finding all the holes in the metalwork left by the previous owner, and painting them with anti-rust paint. There's a bin bag on the top as I was trying to keep the intermittent rain from getting into the rear light and camera that I broke on the first day by letting the van roll a metre down the drive and into the garage 🤦🏼 #muppet
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Meet Manny. He's the MAN TGE (VW Crafter rebadge) I've been converting for the last week. He's the big boi long wheelbase version. This photo is of him getting his wheel carrier/ladder combo fitted by #MuleVans in Barnsley.
I'm now a white van man - eek, but he's all l soon(ish) be a fully fledged camper van ready to take our home (and our bikes) to new places without air travel.
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Meet Manny. He's the MAN TGE (VW Crafter rebadge) I've been converting for the last week. He's the big boi long wheelbase version. This photo is of him getting his wheel carrier/ladder combo fitted by #MuleVans in Barnsley.
I'm now a white van man - eek, but he's all l soon(ish) be a fully fledged camper van ready to take our home (and our bikes) to new places without air travel.
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#Architect shares the Secret Key that could Unlock your Challenging #Planning Application for #SelfBuild in #England
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Longton Avenue, Sydenham, Lewisham
1981
Walter Segal
#architecture #SelfBuild #lewisham #waltersegal
https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/segal-in-suburbia
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Longton Avenue, Sydenham, Lewisham
1981
Walter Segal
#architecture #SelfBuild #lewisham #waltersegal
https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/segal-in-suburbia
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Next to painting, surely one of the worst jobs in building/home renovation #itchyaf #SelfBuild
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Next to painting, surely one of the worst jobs in building/home renovation #itchyaf #SelfBuild
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Spent two long days putting vapour membrane on the lower part of my renovation near Cambridge just in time to prevent Storm Boris destroying the plywood sheeting. There will eventually be vertical cladding after the windows have gone in.
Still more work to do than I want to think about.
Back in Shropshire now aching in every joint.
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Spent two long days putting vapour membrane on the lower part of my renovation near Cambridge just in time to prevent Storm Boris destroying the plywood sheeting. There will eventually be vertical cladding after the windows have gone in.
Still more work to do than I want to think about.
Back in Shropshire now aching in every joint.
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Framing at my new house will have to pause for a short while as the swallow chicks have finally hatched. Nature has a habit of redefining priorities.
Unfortunately the nest is exactly where a steel joist needs to go and I can't prepare the location whilst they are there.
The picture isn't great as I didn't want to disturb them any more than I have to.
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Framing at my new house will have to pause for a short while as the swallow chicks have finally hatched. Nature has a habit of redefining priorities.
Unfortunately the nest is exactly where a steel joist needs to go and I can't prepare the location whilst they are there.
The picture isn't great as I didn't want to disturb them any more than I have to.
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Our hand made house looking spic and span and ready for our summer guests
#photo #photography #photooftheday #darktable #umbria #italy #italia #selfbuild #handmadehouse -
Our hand made house looking spic and span and ready for our summer guests
#photo #photography #photooftheday #darktable #umbria #italy #italia #selfbuild #handmadehouse -
Current status.
Sitting right about where my end of day sundowner G&T lazyboy chair will be sitting one day soon.
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Had the 300kg of steel rebar turn up for the piles today, I've just finished carrying it all up from the road by hand as the truck was in no way making up the driveway, it ran out of traction just 20m up with about 180m to go to the house site.
Next up is is assembling all the bits and pouring concrete.
#selfBuild
#newHouse
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4 for the price of 1 for window Friday.
I love the way the wisteria is a green curtain in front of the little windows.
#photo #photography #photooftheday #smartphonephotography #umbria #italy #WindowFriday #handmadehouse #PhotographyIsArt #SelfBuild -
Looking out from the dark, cool, ground floor of our old house out into the heat of a summer afternoon.
#photo #photography #photooftheday #smartphonephotography #umbria #italy #WindowFriday #PhotographyIsArt #SelfBuild #FensterFreitag
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Site office on our #selfbuild didn't get delivered until 2 years after we bought the site.
However, after being in place since January 2021, it's finally leaving!
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Our humble home struggling to emerge from the vegetation that surrounds it!
#photo #photography #photooftheday #smartphonephotography #umbria #italy #silentsunday #SelfBuild #home #dogsofmastodon -
Looking out from the hand-made window in Casa Angiolina.
#photo #photography #photooftheday #smartphonephotography #umbria #italy #WindowFriday #landscape #handmade #SelfBuild #ArtistsOnMastodon
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"Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses."
—#AbdulrazakGurnah, By the Sea (2001). (#NobelPrizeLiterature 2021 winner). https://archive.org/details/bysea00gurn/page/1/mode/2up?q=%22Sometimes+I+think+it+is+my+fate+to+live+in+the+wreckage+and+confusion+of+crumbling+houses%22&view=theater
Left: breaking down a free 28ft (8.5m) trailer, in order to build myself a new house on the chassis—see #Mendocello house project https://www.tmccormick.org/projects/mendocello #Architecture #MobileDwelling #VehicleResidency #SelfBuild #DIYarchitecture -
When you want a handful of standoffs for your #RaspberryPi builds, but have to order a bunch more stuff from #Farnell to avoid the handling charge.