hello and welcome back to yet another video on the channel you're watching shane downey's van life
and behind me is my 1982 volkswagen p25 in fergus that we've been renovating over the last year
so in today's video we're going to be giving you a brand new event here
of how far this looks now so let's get on with the video and jump inside
okay so moving inside fergus if you remember the very first video we did the kitchen was all
outdated it had an old cooker old sink everything like that and we went for more modern look with
the kitchen with these white doors like these oak countertops and we finished off with some
brand new appliances like brand new sink hub and a fridge and i'm going to show you that right now
so moving on into the interior of the van the van looks completely different to what it did when we
first got fergus if you remember it had a tall cupboard here it didn't have much counter space
and there was a little bit of storage back there but for this look we went for a brand new
modern white kitchen with a solid oak top and plenty of workspace so moving over here we have
our dometic two-piece gas hub and our sink all together so you just have to lift this up
you have your two gas rings you have your spark for your gas and you have your two knobs
to control the gas over here you have your sink with this micro switch top that you just
and then you have runner water inside the van close these down and then you have full
workspace to work with underneath the sink you have your water system this is a very basic water
system in our van we have our waste water tank and our fresh water tank this is our 12 volt
water pump that takes the water from this through this tube up into the air and out into the sink
now when we drain the water from the sink it comes down here through the screen and yellow
hose in to our waste water tank so when we're finished and we need to empty it we just unscrew
the lid pull this out empty our waste water and then we can fill our fresh water back up again
in this side of the kitchen we have our two drawers our fridge and another small
cupboard here i'll explain more about that in a second up here the drawer you just
pull it and we have space for knives or forks and all our cutlery see him as the one
down below it for the fridge we went for dometic 12 volt compressor fridge and some of you might
remember in the very first or second video we bought uh victor vigo three-way fridge but we
found out that it wasn't efficient enough thanks to watching just into the sunset so we decided to
get rid of it and go for this 12 volt compressor fridge which is more efficient on the battery so
you open it up you have plenty storage on the door inside the fridge you have plenty storage here
and pull down this and then you have your freezer compartment
along the side here you have your controls to control how cool you want to keep your fridge
because the fridge that we originally got was a little bit wider than this
we actually had to make a cupboard in here which is not going to be much used to us because it's
so small but it's more storage for us moving over to this side of the van we have our control panel
here with a voltmeter two usb sockets and a cigarette lighter and if you pull like this
did we have a pullout table so when we're walking in the van
put your laptop there you can sit on the couch and you can walk away
underneath we just have more storage down below
moving on to this side of the kitchen we have even more counter space where we can do stuff on
under here this lifts up down in here is where we have our gas tank that control for the hub
this here lifts up and down below you have your gas bottle
over here you have more storage and down the back you have
two cupboards for more storage and two e-shelves moving on to the main part of the van the couch
and the bed and if you remember in the very first video there was a welded frame that came out
almost here and took up an awful lot of the floor space so we want to go for more original style
look and we went for the rock and roll bed so this bed is very very simple you just lift up
pull out and it drops down and it gives you your full size bed so let me demonstrate how it works
just like that you have your full size bed
moving underneath the bed this is where we house our leisure battery down here we have our split
charge relay that is constantly charging the battery while we drive when that battery is full
then we just have a main breaker so we can break up the circuit whenever we want and then over here
we have our fuse board so everything is running back to this fuse board everything is fused
and that is basically our electric system now on the outside we do have a means hookup point
that will become rounded here and we'll have a plug in here we just haven't got around to that
just yet underneath the bed if we ever want to access it without having to lift this up we have
pull down draw like that where we can access our battery we have our inverter and we have
our jackery
one of the first things someone ever advised me to get for the van
was this portaloo because they come in so handy when you're stuck in one of those emergencies
and you need to use the toilet so one of the first pieces we got was this portaloo and we wanted to
hide it and make it rather useful so we turn it in to this box that somebody can sit on
while in the van and if anybody needs to use the toilet
the lid lifts up and you can go to toilet
in order to keep our battery charged as much as possible we fitted the split charge relay
that is going to be charging the battery while we drive so when that fan battery is full the
relay switches on and directs the power charge to our leisure battery so that is keeping it
charged but on a sunny day like it is today we fitted a solar panel to the roof we went for
the ecoworthy flexible 130 watt solar panel that is mounted on the roof and the wires come down
in to this control panel down here you just have your two wires coming from your solar panel
and your two wires go into your battery that run along under the floor
they join onto the battery so on a day like today that battery's being charged
and you know it's working when you see 13.1 volts light the van up we use
these 12 volt led lights so i have four of them fitted around the van
and they put off enough light one would be enough back here at the back of the van
i installed a light which is directly above the engine so in the unfortunate event that we did
break down somewhere at night i have a light right above my head so for the curtains we used this
cotton rope that runs along the net top and bottom of the window and these are actually
recycled curtains that we got and we've turned them in to our own so pull off the tie back
and do the same the far side
in the interior of the van we didn't change anything at all we just kept it original the
way it came now the dash is a little bit scruffed up so we will probably end up hitting the dash
but we kept the original headliner the original steering wheel the original dash we
have just painted the inside of the doors to match the outside
so there you have it guys thanks very much for watching after a year of renovating fergus it's so
good to have them finally finished and the next step is to get them out onto the road and get
traveling around ireland first so our plans are once we get a couple wee bits and pieces
added to the to the van and we put it through the test we're going to be taken out onto the
road and we'll be traveling around the coast of ireland so that's going to be coming up very soon
and we actually got these little cards printed with a qr code on it so when we do see other fan
life people we can hand them out our card scan the qr code and it's going to take them right to this
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