This weekend I’ll be mostly.....

[F.J.]

More pics

 

[daleyd]

This weekend I am mostly waiting for Welsh Water to come out and find out why my drains are full of poo - I’ll spare you the pictures.

 

[F.J.]

This weekend I am mostly waiting for Welsh Water to come out and find out why my drains are full of poo - I’ll spare you the pictures.

I had this problem when I moved into my new house. Turned out the soil pipe under ground had the fall going the wrong way!!! It was only found when we dug the garden up for the extensions foundations.

we had it coming up out the grid 4 times in 18 months

 

[daleyd]

Turns out we have some tree roots in ours - we have a silver birch tree at bottom of the garden which has caused the problem, I put some rods down this morning but only had enough to get as far as the tree - it was about another 2 m on. We also have another manhole which we didn’t know about either under a concrete base that our summerhouse now sits on (was an old asbestos garage when we moved in, we reused the base) or under a patio at the back, either way looks like I may be doing a bit of digging in the near future

 

[F.J.]

Turns out we have some tree roots in ours - we have a silver birch tree at bottom of the garden which has caused the problem, I put some rods down this morning but only had enough to get as far as the tree - it was about another 2 m on. We also have another manhole which we didn’t know about either under a concrete base that our summerhouse now sits on (was an old asbestos garage when we moved in, we reused the base) or under a patio at the back, either way looks like I may be doing a bit of digging in the near future

Sounds like a really crap job

 

[daleyd]

Sounds like a really crap job

Yeah - I did say to the guys thanks for coming out you’ve really got me out of the s£&@ - I wonder how many times they hear that

 

[stuvy]

Looking good @F.J.

What’s to stop that bottle jumping out!?

 

[F.J.]

Looking good @F.J.

What’s to stop that bottle jumping out!?

It’s held in by a ratchet strap at the moment but tomorrow I’m going to roll some 50x5mm flat bar and make a frame for it to sit in more securely.

 

[nickk]

I’d like my tool box to be at the sliding door but my genny will be there so may fabricate a frame for the box to sit above the genny.

It’ll come clear when it’s in the van next week

If you’re not drinking then I’ll put mine back

Very neat & organised,btw ,check with insurance whilst carrying gas cylinders,lots of things to trip you up on ,at the minimum use warning stickers on the doors,for the fire brigades benefit.

 

[Yamhon]

Do you use ventilator in the van? With regard to transporting gas cylinders in an enclosed space.

 

[bricol]

Make sure you do something to stop that sliding door being peeled back - keep seeing similar on local facebook.

 

[zx9]

Do miss my old Mitsubishi l300 sliding doors both sides. Not very common these days.

RHD Vitos have doors at both sides the LHD only have one on the near side which is a bit odd.

 

[F.J.]

Very neat & organised,btw ,check with insurance whilst carrying gas cylinders,lots of things to trip you up on ,at the minimum use warning stickers on the doors,for the fire brigades benefit.

I am covered for gas bottles and have new stickers to fit tomorrow, the originals were only taken off over Xmas as the van had a bit of paint work whilst off the road ready for my company decals to be fitted

 

[F.J.]

I have realised it’s too dull in there too so will be looking for some LED lighting and may replace the lining or at least overcoat it with some white plastic type lining.

If anyone has any opinions on LED lights or the sort I’m all ears

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I have realised it’s too dull in there too so will be looking for some LED lighting and may replace the lining or at least overcoat it with some white plastic type lining.

If anyone has any opinions on LED lights or the sort I’m all ears

Couple of cheap led worklights on swivel brackets in mine.

Cheap as chips.
Bought for the exterior but ended up replacing the original interior aux lamps with em instead

Led strip lights get used a lot.

 

[F.J.]

Couple of cheap led worklights on swivel brackets in mine. View attachment 207641
Cheap as chips.
Bought for the exterior but ended up replacing the original interior aux lamps with em instead

Led strip lights get used a lot.

Do these just wire straight into where the original interior light is?

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Do these just wire straight into where the original interior light is?

I had aux worklights inside mine already with a dash switch.

No reason they couldn't be fed off the original lights though then would work with the doors.

Can get led replacement bulbs for interior lights but won't make it much lighter on there just less power hungry.

Led strip kits are about on eBay too

Got one front right and rear left pointing inwards but will shine out of the doors nicely when required

 

[F.J.]

I had aux worklights inside mine already with a dash switch.

No reason they couldn't be fed off the original lights though then would work with the doors.

Can get led replacement bulbs for interior lights but won't make it much lighter on there just less power hungry.

Led strip kits are about on eBay too

Got one front right and rear left pointing inwards but will shine out of the doors nicely when required

Thanks mate, I’ll take a look

 

[dobbslc]

I wired some led strip lights into the existing useless Ford rear interior light. I took the bulb out and used spade connectors, it's really bright in there now!

 

[F.J.]

I wired some led strip lights into the existing useless Ford rear interior light. I took the bulb out and used spade connectors, it's really bright in there now!

Just what I wanted to hear, I’ve got three interior lights in the back of the transit so it should be lovely and bright.

The work light idea sounds good but if I needed to illuminate where I was working in the rain the back of the van would get soaked so I’d prefer to have them on the outside