hello my name is Mel welcome to my world for those of you that are new to my
channel I'm currently turning this Mercedes Sprinter into an off-grid go
anywhere sleep absolutely anywhere kind of stealthy camper van if that's
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there today I'm going to be constructing or installing my bed now I've left the
bed till the end because up until now I've been using the back doors to get in
and out of the van, it's just so much more convenient with my van reversed
onto my workshop so that's why I've left the bed till the end
so once I've built my bed there's no more jumping in and out of vain I'll
have to use a sliding door let's get on and build a bed so once again like
everything in this van I'm just going to be using simple hand tools
my fancy tools no bench saw or routers or anything like that just a
simple hand saw a little workbench and a set square on a ruler they'll take me to
just hand tools that's all I'm going to do I'm going to do it's such a way
that's so simple and anybody can do this anyone can build a campervan using
simple hand tools the whole point of this build series it's just to
demonstrate there so the main structuralist bet is these support
things these are just groups of the sides of the van and the sides of these
van a screw to bands between turn screw to the frame of the van so it's quite
strong now I'm going to put beams going across there's gonna be free and I was
going across and in slats on top of that and the reason I do this is because then
it can breathe there's gonna be no moisture buildup in the mattress if you
put solid base then you get mould underneath your mattress as a lot of
people are finding out around about this time of year so let me grab some timber
and I'll show you exactly anything can be done so the team but I'm going to be
using for this bed he's 38 by 63 and this is made from sustainable sources
apparently it's certified from being key so it must be right so these are
select timber there is my main support and the legs are made out the exactly
the same stuff comes you two and a half meter links very very cheap rotary then
my sweat or 18 by 70 I need to don't leave this material this timber is the
same thing but I used to frame out my upper cupboard it's the same thing where
I used to frame my fireplace in my bench seat as well so you can see a pattern
emerging from here and these are gonna go across like that now you might think
this isn't very strong but it is surprisingly strong once you get three
of these going across and all your flats going across that way is really strong
and it gives you it's nice big open space under the bed as well
now originally I didn't have to build up here like this it was up here there's
one thing you mustn't do next cheap out on the mattress I've brought a really
nice I inch fake memory foam mattress wasn't cheap but if you get a good
night's sleep I think you can achieve anything it's really really important so
that's one thing I didn't want to cheap out on because the mattress but because
it's a inches deep it made it this high which was ridiculously high so I'll
simply cut Richie's off of these legs to bring quite a bit down I mean I'm now
losing a little bit of space on the knife but I'm not going to be putting
motorbikes or anything under this I don't really mouth on blob of Dijkstra
height that I can sit up in bed since electracy inches deep yeah I needed to
lower it a little bit right so enough face waffling on let's get on and build
a bed
so they go really simple really simple bed frames now all I got to do is lay
the slats well there you are see s simple that is really really simple and
literally all I used was a handsaw and a tape measure that was it on a bit of
sandpaper to smooth the edges off this this nail here is to stop the Maxis from
coming forward will not break hard but luckily it's gonna be up against this
unit anyone so that's it should contribute to stopping the metric
sliding forward which is a problem that I had in my transit because it was the
bed was the same level is the kitchen work surface but I did that for a reason
so that I could sleep this way along the trains it isn't quite six foot wide but
this fan is six foot wide because I'll take the ribs out allow me to
demonstrate now I'm six foot tall with my size
remember the met feces gonna be up quite high it's gonna be I know inches higher
than this
beside me feet a bit about their dick before
so there you code I'm six foot who said a spring up isn't six foot wide so it
just proves that sprint a can be six foot wide so now I need to paint this
and put a bit of paint down there but before I painting it I'm gonna get my
mattress and I'm right unravel it because memory foam X's come rolled up
and they need to be unrolled and allowed to expand before you fit them all so I
need the car bet six inches off it so bad noise because a standard match
versus six foot six long I think it's only to cut six inches off it so that's
what I wanna do now I'm gonna unravel me mattress now I'm gonna paint this on
while sex drawing I'll start trimming off as a bit of a
mattress on it trim off really full it's really coming together nest and I look
like I can't the fame
I need to take this out something plain
really so God's just take these seat out so I can paint that panel there as will
tumble for it
so me paint is all dry off cut six inches off the mattress so all I need oh
now just try and give it any of some health which is no easy task on you I
gotta say it looks like it's gonna rain in the mix off bitter re-up
butl wife this is the back tough cut cut the corners out for the pillars
that's big mattress
well I'm in trunk turn it corner was easier said than done be outside
the needle i Daniel this
six inches off figurine doesn't make it six foot
oh I know I've done that's cuz these Bitsey yeah okay
it explains blokes are to be vetted oh
god yeah I think I'll get a cut at least another two inches off of it but does
actually look like it's gonna stop trying it oh well I'm not exactly where
I've got long she's just a kid somebody look at this one it's because because I
lowered my bed before inches because my Maxis is ie gistic it means that my
mattress is actually below this gray panel and from this gray panel to that
gray panel he's actually six one I think
it's actually six foot one so I've cut my Maxfield I've cut six inches off my
mattress which means my mattress should wait but as you can see does at the top
the problem lies in the bottom part because the wall the thickness of this
wall it's two inches which means my mattress directly it's four inches too
long I think I'll have to take it out again cutting
out four inches off but I'll save that for a hot sunny day oh well that's a bit
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oh absolutely shattered well before I forget I better mention me slept and
what I did you saw that they were screwed down across the three cross
members and these slats are simply screwed down a screw a change on one
screw in the middle and two spiced amount I used a little block this block
is part of the slates and simply screw bones flat down put a block down I named
did that so the gap between each slat is equal to the thickness of the slats you
have most perfect thing so theoretically this should fit between those gaps there
you go
so you know they try and film it but because I'm battling against the weather
I think white film it quite right and I didn't want to redo it cuz I don't waste
time I'm gonna beat the river and it is actually um raining now so I think that
was a good cause I was quite lucky with the weather so any one thing left to do
I see how comfortable with bare buoys
was it worth oh my god comfortable where I could sleep like this I think but the
cushion I think it's easier like this so there you go if you liked this video
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