VAN LIFE BUILD: Massive Skylight and Sound Proofing Our Tiny Home

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Ай бұрын

We cut the biggest hole in the van.
This week, we installed our massive skylight, the Dometic Heki 2 and installed the sound deadening to make her whisper quiet
We are slowing making progress cant wait to see her turn into our new tiny home on wheels
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@allegrosotto2126 Ай бұрын

Perhaps an added benefit of the skylight will be to help cool the van in the evening after a hot day?

@wadeanddani Ай бұрын

Absolutely!! The skylight has different opening stages so it can be fully open, or partially open. As well as fully closed obviously 😂

@Creating22 Ай бұрын

We've watched you through all your wonderful travels and now we are looking at doing up our own sprinter to do some traveling of our own. Really great watching your new build we are learning so much. Love your layout especially the shower up the front. Have you thought about an electric bed ?

@wadeanddani Ай бұрын

Thanks soo much 😃 yeah it crossed our mind. It’s a great idea but we wanted some storage under the bed area and also the skylight, it would be blocked during the day. Building a van has so many compromises

@TDLatimer Ай бұрын

Are you just using the car builders layers as insulation? Did you use any foilboard on your last build?

@wadeanddani Ай бұрын

Yes! Just car builders, but the 3 stage system with sound deadening, van liner and van seal. We used foilboard in our previous build so it will be interesting to see the difference, if any

@marniejohnson672 Ай бұрын

I am thinking about doing a van.... as this is a van from lessons learnt, may I ask what your budget for the fit out is.?

@wadeanddani Ай бұрын

Our budget for this van is looking around 25-30k aud. We are doing a few things different on this van and we think it will cost a little more than the last one. Also that obviously doesn’t include our labour cost.

@marniejohnson672 Ай бұрын

Tks.. yes I had a guess of 40.-45 k with outsourcing some of the labour cost.. went to Brisbane caravan show a couple of weeks ago... there was not much to see there custom wise.

@wadeanddani Ай бұрын

@@marniejohnson672 I could be wrong, but I thought I had seen fully custom LWB van costing in the range of 60k-90k, it seems to depend on what materials and products are used. If you get a quote in the future, i would love to know what a large van with all the bells and whistles cost

@martynholder1971 Ай бұрын

why did you fit the skylight that way around all motor homes and caravans have them the other way around so when driving the wind will close the roof light rather than blow it open and off?

@wadeanddani Ай бұрын

Yeah we know, our reason is because we will have a decking system on the roof and would like to access it from the bed and through the skylight.

@martynholder1971 27 күн бұрын

that sounds like a good plan thank you for all your videos please remember to close the vent securely