Still got it
It's my dad's phone
Robbie
It's Jenny
You sound like your dad
It's Uncle Stevo
You're not my uncle
Yeah. Yeah, alright. Is your dad there?
He's in the shed working on the camper trailer
Oh, is he nearly finished?
Yep, he just needs to find someone to do the gas
What? You tell your dad that I'll come over and do the gas for him
Hmm, he's good. He needs someone who knows what they're doing, with a license
Hey, let me tell you, Missy
Back in the day I did a DYI course at WASL with the Luigi
and I got top marks
Let me guess. It wasn't fancy but it was cheap
Uh, yeah. Anyway will you let your dad know that I'll come over tomorrow morning
I've got to pop past Bunnings to pick up a few flared fittings
and I'll come over and I'll stick them in
Will you remember to tell him that?
Sure, if I remember
What do you mean if you remember?
I just remembered, I have to go and do something. Bye
Don't forget to tell your dad that I'm doing the gas
Hey? You still there? You still there? Jenny? Must have gone
Good day, I am Ben from Beautiful Plumbing
Now that was based, loosely based on a true story
but maybe it wasn't true at all
but this is what happens when someone's got a little bit of knowledge
a little bit of skills but just enough to be dangerous
and that's what happened on this camper trailer here
It's a custom made job. Looks fantastic.
Obviously the tradie who put it together knows his stuff
but anyway he's got a mate or something to do the gas
and it's an absolute debacle
So yeah I'll just show you what's happening in this and why it's so dangerous
First up, where the gas bottle is located
There's no marking of where they are
Now it's very important that if they are in a storage compartment
that there's a red reflective sticker
so if something goes down and it's on fire or something
the fireys or anyone's helping out to put stuff out or coming to the rescue
they'll be able to shine a torch or something and it will reflect
saying "Hey, there's LPG bottles here so be careful ."
The front here, there's no labels or anything like that
Now if you go inside
We've got the gas bottles there but check out over here and here's the battery
So imagine if the one of the cables were slightly loose
that could spark quite easily and this whole thing would blow up
There's another one on the other side here
Just here too. There's meant to be a test nipple on this so you can test the gas main
These aren't even flared for LPG flares anyway
So another T in here. Now this T goes up
The guy obviously knows how to bend pipe
He's done a great job here
but then they've got the hot water system on the outside here
It's just one of the little Joolcas. It's got a lovely cover for it
but because these are made to be portable
you're not by law allowed to screw them to anything
They have to be able to be removable
and that's where Patriot Camper has got into a bit of trouble
because they mounted them on the door
It was safe and everything but it's just the wording that they've used
It needs to be portable so you can't ever bolt this in
You can see that he's done a great job
nice little bends and everything go up there
but again this is a flared fitting
but still you can't have any piping going through into it and in there
So you can see here, there's no seal or anything
This compartment needs to be fully sealed
and there needs to be, down the bottom there, needs to be a hole or vent
that the gas, because it's heavier than air, can go down into it
so none of that's happened so if there was a leak
it could build up a big spark and the whole thing would blow
so it's totally set up for remote camping
but make sure you're totally remote from everyone else
because I sure would not want to be camping next to this camper trailer
the way it is now
I'll show on the other side now the bbq setup
Okay, they've made up this sort of cooker thing on the side here
It's a bit sticky and they've got that mounted in there
so, I mean, the guy who bought this secondhand has never used it
here's where the barbecue is
So I think the guy's cooking here but this hose goes all the way up here, through there
underneath all the way around
and underneath here there's a bayonet fitting that is connected to the gas bottles
So again he could have left this on and gas could have been leaking
If you know one of these things
it's easy for that to get bumped
the on off switch or whatever to get bumped
and then you've got gas coming into this whole chamber here as well
And also you can see that the hose has copped a lot of folding and bending
or it's been jammed in the door or something so not ideal at all
to have a hose going through into
Dust as well coming in here. It's not great
So I'll just show you in here
There's a kitchen here
and they're gonna buy one of those dual gas wok burners like the Companion
I've got a video about that one
So they'll probably chuck it up on here when it's finished
Of course not, they're gonna bolt it down or anything like that
We're gonna try to stick a couple of bayonets in here to run the hot plate
and also we're gonna try and get that Joolca portable again
whether we're gonna hang it on the door
because it's very important if you've got one of those Joolca hot water systems
one of those portable hot water systems
the best thing is to get it as close to the kitchen sink as possible
so you're not wasting too much water as it's flowing through and heating up
The only other thing we need to do is put another gas bayonet out here somewhere
so that barbecue can be run out over here somewhere
First of all we're going to do is get those batteries out of the gas compartment
He's going to go fit them in another compartment
This will be all sealed off with the door
so when the door's shut, there's no way the gas can get through
I have to figure out a way to do that
Also we'll put a vent in the bottom
because LPG is heavier than air, it'll sink out if there is a leak
We'll get a test nipple on that
Also we've got to get rid of the Joolca hot water system
Take it off that and get it at the back there
so just bring it up to spec and then of course I can sign off on it
and give it a completion and compliance notice and everything like that
That's what we're going to be doing on this build ,making it safe
We'll take some videos as we go along so you can see what we're doing
and also we'll show you the finished product
when it's all up and working and safe again
And remember if you've got a mate who's offered to help out on the gas
just make sure he's got a license
You don't want to be remote camping and then things go pear-shaped
or something explodes
Anyway stay tuned and we'll keep you updated
Good day guys. All safe and all sorted.
We've taken the Joolca off the front of the camper now
so it's not bolted on there
so it fits to the instructional manuals and all the rest of it
because it's meant to be a portable thing
We've put the LPG sticker on the front which is really important
so if you do have an accident or something's going on at a campsite
the firey and everyone knows that there's LPG stored in there
They're gonna be aware of that
We've also put a 25 mil hole at the bottom of the compartment as well
because LPG is heavier than air, it can drift out inside there
We put a new gas regulator on
I like the single ones because then you know if one of the bottles is empty or not
You just have to change it over
It's also got a test nipple which is important because then we can test for pressures
and also make sure there's no leaks when we finalise it
and most importantly too that we've taken those big batteries out of there
which were absolute hazards that could set an explosion off at any time
We've removed those completely
pulled out all the wires and everything, so that's all good
He'll have to install those somewhere else now
And also we've put that pinch weld, okay, that sits across there
because it's really important that the LPG compartment
is sealed off to the rest of the camper
because you're not really meant to store anything in that LPG storage compartment
that is electronic, like you shouldn't even have your battery drills in there or anything
so we've got this pinch weld and it was quite difficult to do
so as the door shuts, it pinches against this steel strip there
from the shelf above and seals it all up
so that's all done too
It's looking great
We put a bayonet on the side for the barbecue and also a couple out the back
One for their Companion wok burner that they're going to buy
And also one for the hot water system.
Now the hot water system, because it's at the front
when they turned it on and they ran the shower at the back
I've removed that whole hot main, took it right out
because it's not in that location anymore
And I'll tell you, it was nearly five and a half meters of hot water pipe
so all that cold water would have to empty before the hot came through
Now, when you're remote camping
you want to save as much water as possible
because you might be able to stay an extra day or so
By moving it up the back, and having it teed right near close to the kitchen sink
you're going to use a whole lot less water when you're out there
I've put some new quick connectors in there
tool-less connection for the gas and also the water
And I'll just show you that now
Hey, guys. I just want to show you this too
before I show you the hot water system
I had this three meter hose stored inside
and I just dragged it out and I dragged it across the other battery that was stored here
but as you can see, I put the battery down here now
but as I pulled it across, it sparked on the top of the hot water system
And it just, cooked this hose completely
so that's totally stuffed in about three or four places, it's gone,
so really, really dangerous
and they were the batteries that were installed inside the gas compartment
so it's going to be in that one
All right so here we are
So get the new 1.5 meter hose
that we're going to use for our hot water system
Once the dust cap's removed, we'll chuck that back in there
This is live at the moment
No gas is coming out because it's got the quick release fitting
Here are the hot and cold, I'll drag it out, I'll show you how it works
Drag it all the way out
We chucked these new quick release fittings in here
I've got the hot one that's connected straight to the kitchen sink here
and your cold one is connected to the water tanks and everything
We've got the two hoses here, so they're both exactly the same
First of all, what you do is you hook up your hot
The hot goes into the hot, on here and just clips in like that.
You grabbed the other end, and you go to the outlet on the hot water system
which is that one there
Hook that on
Same thing with the cold now, right, but you always do the cold one first there
You clip that on there. Pop it on
Make sure that's clipped on right
And this little bench comes out on this one, so you put it down
As soon as you start plugging that in
water will start charging through and going through the hot water system
trying to light
Okay, so hot water works fine
Now, in our case, that's all going with the kitchen sink
Now, if you do one, they have a shower installed out the back there
I'll show you how that works as well
All you got to do first, just un-clip it from the cold side
just hold on to that, so it doesn't go in the sand
Now, there's another hose here that's connected onto the shower
You unhook your hot
And you connect your shower one on under there, you put it on there
This hot pipe, see how easy it comes out, as it clips
We don't need that anymore
Now the water will suck straight from the kitchen sink
so we'll tee it onto the kitchen sink. Turn that on now
We'll just go around here. I'll show you
So this is the hot water shower here
so now the water's coming from the kitchen sink through the hot water system
and now you've got showers that's connected to your tanks and everything
so really easy to hook up and change over to shower and kitchen sink
and we're not wasting that water anymore
So we just shut that off
Now to disconnect the whole system, I'll show you how easy it is
First of all, always just unhook it from the kitchen sink
Grab your hose. Empty it out. Roll it up. It's really easy. Like that
Chuck that in your kitchen sink. Chuck the other one in the kitchen sink too
That's all done. Unhook your shower. That can just pop inside. Leave it in there
That closes up.
Shower just pops back in the back here
Pretty cool. The wheel shuts.
Locks on. No worries
So now the kitchen can just be pushed back in all the way
Disconnect the gas. Quick like that
Roll it up
And all you do, just take your hot water system out and store it, so easy as
So if you need any work done on a camper
or it's unsafe and you want to make it safe
and you live in Perth, then give us a call
and we'll be happy to help you out
Hey thanks for watching and I'll see you on the next video