hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i cover tours of tiny homes and unique spaces
in this week's video we're going to be taking a look at one couple's converted ambulance turned
overlander tiny home greg and ginger have put a lot of work into this tiny space to make it seem
more functional and absolutely livable for full time on the road a couple of the things they've
integrated into this ambulance tiny home is a convertible bedroom and dinette area creative
hideaway areas for their dish rack microwave and airfryer as well as several converted compartments
on the outside of the ambulance for storage electrical and even an outdoor hammock setup
so without further ado let's take a tour of greg and ginger's ambulance
hi i'm ginger bonjour i'm greg and this is ross our adventure ambulance
before we got on the road we were maxing out on vacation every year and it kind of got to
the point where we were just waiting for more vacation time so we could travel more ginger
came to me one day and asked me like hey why do you think about traveling full time and i
was like oh yeah that sounds good i mean once we got on the road though we found out that
we actually really love going off-road and that's something that we never did before
we had no idea that we were gonna love off-roading and as far as the inside of the camper we really
learned what we don't want so that we could build something that is honestly our dream vehicle
we were spending months looking for an ambulance this one was perfect
it came up while we were quarantined in mexico so we had to buy it sight unseen
we had a budget of 000 in mind and in the end we actually spent just over 59 000 that includes the
ambulance and all of the modifications and the complete build out of our living space
let's head inside so i can give you a tour right by the door this is our isotherm fridge
and freezer it is a total of seven cubic feet it is huge by camper over landing standards
we built this raid to do long-term off-grid travel and having a freezer allows us to
keep a lot of meat frozen and we also have very important items like ice cream and jagermeister
so this is the inside and it is 112 square feet we wanted a four season a true four season camper
so we had to have some very serious insulation we decided to go with closed cell spray foam closed
cell spray foam has one of the highest r values this is our dinette table it's also i guess our
office and workspace we wanted something that was a really good size we also wanted to be able to
have at least two other people come in and eat with us inside or play cards or games we can
actually fit six of us pretty comfortably since this dinette seat does extend out what we did in
this design is on each side of the dinette right next to the wall there's actually a little cubby
hole that is padded our laptops slide down there it's padded so they can stay there even when we're
going off-road and they're actually charging when they're down there one of the things we really
love is that when we're sitting at the dinette we have this awesome view out of this huge window
one of the features we really love about these windows is that they have a built-in screen
and then they also have a built-in shade so this is what we do you know in the evening or
whenever we want privacy putting up the shade also keeps the heat in or keeps the coolant
if we're using the air conditioning and it's really good for staying a little bit stealth
too when we have both of the window shades up you can't see that there's any light on
inside if you're standing outside so by raising our dinette about two feet off of the ground
we got a ton of storage underneath so what we did is cubby holes under the bench seats the bed and
the table right now are in what we call daytime position this is where we have the ability to have
one person working and one person sleeping or just relaxing reading a book up here in order for us to
go to sleep at night the first thing we have to do is drop the table it only takes a few maybe
30 seconds for the table to go all the way down it is just a full-size bed greg built
this little step that we just pop out and hop up underneath our mattress we have what is called
a froley system and that is going to raise the bed up and allow some air to circulate under the
mattress it is actually really common in rv is for people to put their mattress on a platform
and then for mold to grow on the bottom of the mattress because of humidity and moisture in
the rv so we absolutely didn't want that so that's why we have that furley system
greg built this custom headboard for us it was actually pretty complicated to build because
it actually is not the same depth from front to back to allow for our mattress to roll up
we do have a charging station for all of our tablets camera batteries we have our sirocco fan
which moves in every direction one tip we learned from some of our friends along the way was to
use extra pillowcases to hold things other than pillows in this case we actually keep an afghan
that my mom crocheted for us and this is a nice you know sentimental thing to have from home but
we keep it in here and you know no one can really tell that it's not a pillow we actually use our
small pillows on the dinette to hold all of our off-season scarves hats gloves so those actually
aren't pillows either we get a lot of questions about the height in the bed area we obviously
can't sit all the way up but it's a really comfortable height for us we don't feel like
we're missing out at all by not having entirely full sitting height up here in the bed area
this is our kitchen we use a lightweight butcher block which is so far holding up really well
right here we have a two burner induction cooktop something that we use a lot more is actually our
airfryer oven which is down below the induction our airfryer oven is actually on a slide out it
has tons of room to vent when we're using it in order to prevent this from sliding out when we're
driving greg put in a 12 volt electromagnetic lock and there's actually a button that's hidden up in
here you have to push the button in order to release the lock and pull it out so we decided
to come up with something that would be a built-in drying rack that the water automatically went into
the drainage system and our dishes could actually stay in there permanently so what we've done is
we've created this lift off section in the counter top and all of our utensils live here permanently
our plates our bowls live here to accomplish this all we did was create a custom aluminum
pan in the bottom that is tilted towards the back and drains out into our gray water system
we're not losing counter space by having our dishes drying up here we have another hidden
appliance we actually have a very small microwave the microwave is on a locking side just like the
airfryer oven and we have a huge huge pullout pantry that is behind this chalkboard wall
on the pantry here we actually have pictures of some of our friends and family that we miss
a lot we're on the road being away from them is probably the biggest challenge that we have so
we keep these pictures up here it's not everyone but it's really nice to see some faces from home
up here is a speaker for our surround sound system we actually have six speakers and we have a
logitech surround sound system that is built into the dinette this is honestly awesome because when
we get in bed pull that tv down watch a movie we have really really good sound and then we have our
victron color control which is kind of the heart of our electrical system this allows us to monitor
our system remotely we also have a control for our heated floor which is really nice in the winter
so we are now in our bathroom area this area is basically in between the cab of the
truck and the living area i am currently standing in the shower pan this shower pan is slanted
such a way that when we take a shower and the truck is not perfectly level water will still go
toward the front of the truck where the drain is also have here on our left side
the access to the shower head is going basically on top we have our toilet also right here and
this shower curtain is also used for privacy when you go to the bathroom our toilet is actually a
composting toilet from airhead this toilet comes usually with a jug on the front to collect the
urine we plumbed it into a tank below the truck such a way that we don't have to take that jug and
empty it manually it's done at the same time that we are empty or grating to me like being able to
take a shower brush my teeth and poop at the same time is not a feature that i really enjoyed so
you didn't want to sit on the toilet brush your teeth and hold the shower head at the same time no
i didn't know yeah i mean for some people i'm sure that they're very like multitasking multi-task and
life like to save time maybe they would find that it's a great feature but yeah
our ambulance comes with a pass through which means that
we don't have to leave the actual living space to go into the driving space
so this is our precliner truck it's an fl-60 and it has a cummins 8.3 liter diesel engine
with alison transmission the ambulance is an over length of about 25 feet and 10.5 feet high
we went with an ambulance because of the safety point of view it's crash tested and rollover
tested it's hard to get anything better and going off-road safety is one of our key component that
we wanted to have also in the design we have all our heavy component on the bottom as low as
possible to keep our center of gravity low which help a lot when we go off-road we have done some
upgrades on the wheels and tires we have split rim which means that we can open them allowing us to
mount the tires ourself aluminum wheels in order to reduce the overall weight of the vehicle and
also it's reducing the weight on the suspension which is better for going off-road when you're
buying an ambulance the thing that you have to be careful is the engine hours engine hours are more
important than the miles because ambulance don't necessarily have to drive far but ambulance stay
idling for many hours and not really moving so you may have a lot of engine hours with very few miles
in term of fuel efficiency this truck is not great we are like highway about 10 maybe a little bit
more than 10 miles per gallon one of the major upgrade also that we've done is fuel tanks
the ambulance came with like a 40 gallon fuel tank which was really really annoying so i've
added two fuel tanks which now allow us to have 110 gallon of fuel we have i believe 900 miles
wrench on our driver's side we have three storage compartment that we modified this is our
new electrical panel so when we started with the ambulance there was a huge electrical panel and it
was a mess when we tear down the full ambulance they were wired everywhere the ambulance didn't
came with any wiring diagrams so i had to route every wire to figure out what it was used for
which took me probably two weeks just to do that and to clean up the wiring basically removing
all the wires that were not used or not going to be used and repurposing those for features
that we were gonna add into the build on the lower level of the storage compartment we have
our house batteries that are actually two tesla batteries 24 volt battery is 433 amp hours which
is equivalent for 12 volt system to 866 amp hours four solar panel that totals 1200 watt of solar
all right this is our water system in our water system we have a water
heater it's a kuma water heater which is basically electric water heater
and it's also coolant so as we drive the vehicle heat up and heat up our
water our drinking water go through three stage filters and we also have a uv light filter
i designed this back rack for few reasons we have a pioneer ac that is like a residential ac
this rack also carries the spare tire and also carries our bicycles we designed this
rack such a way that we can still have access to the back door this is access to what we
consider the garage area which is under a bed so in this storage we have mostly tools
one of the features that we had to have was our hammock in our previous rig we
were carrying our amac all the time with us and it was really difficult to find
trees in some places to be able to hang our imac so we built our own habakk system
i definitely learned that this is not at all what a lot of people on the internet make it
out to be don't think that all of a sudden if you go to build a van that is going to be all
perfect and all beautiful it is hard hard work to do this this was not an easy project people
leave that part out because it's not beautiful but i think it needs to be talked about more
i like that i also was able to learn new things and seeing also these crazy things
that we had in our mind in our head to come to life to come to life and yeah it's it's really
rewarding and i really enjoyed this process thanks for watching this week's video make
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