What did you do to your van today?

Onto washroom floor rebuild today.
Decided to make most of it in a oner and then fit it so I can glue and screw on bench.
So the floor is made as original but thicker wood/less polystyrene.
Its a sandwich of ply, wood strengening round edges and ply top which linoleum sits on.
Left glue to set,probably fit this afternoon - glue and screw in place and then all new sections will have marine ply bonded and screwed to it, then seam sealer and finished with black bitchumen paint.

Note : the squint piece of wood is just for clamps to brace against whilst glue dries. 🤣

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AlyJay said:
Onto washroom floor rebuild today.
Decided to make most of it in a oner and then fit it so I can glue and screw on bench.
So the floor is made as original but thicker wood/less polystyrene.
Its a sandwich of ply, wood strengening round edges and ply top which linoleum sits on.
Left glue to set,probably fit this afternoon - glue and screw in place and then all new sections will have marine ply bonded and screwed to it, then seam sealer and finished with black bitchumen paint.

Note : the squint piece of wood is just for clamps to brace against whilst glue dries. 🤣
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Could I ask out of interest what glue you are using?
 
Washroom floor fitted and clamped up.
Will reinforce with some carefully positioned SS screws tomorrow once glue had set. Then marine ply goes on underneath everything.
If I have time I'm going to remove and reseal main skylight aswell and cut tops for TV area.

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Allen said:
I’m too old for all this crap now.
Really strange noisy sound from the engine.
Took it to the garage….
Fan belt tension pulley,bearings, and summat else i can’t remember…
£286 ….the price of getting older.
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Fan belt tension is done with the altanator, simple 2 min job to retension, think they are having you on.
 
Allen said "fan belt tension pulley". That means changing the pulley that controls the fan belt tension, much more work than undoing two bolts and jerking a crow bar to increase fan belt tension. Although having said that I don't know of an engine that has a fan belt and a belt tensioner pulley. FWD engines have electric fans and RWD engines don't usually have belt tensioners. It sounds a bit as if Allen has had an attack of 'summat else I can't remember'.
That's a very expensive job, I know from experience.
So £286 for a successful visit to a garage is quite a relief. I have been ripped off for thousands, garages doing what the computer says is wrong rather than actually using a brain and fixing what is actually wrong. In my experience of paying out lots of drinking vouchers to have stuff changed that was not faulty I think at last I have found an honest, helpful, reasonably priced garage. It's tucked away on a farm with lots of small industrial units. The last visit was when I took my 2019 AutoSleeper for an MOT. It was going to fail because of lots of flashing rear lights when the indicators were on. The guy said "there are usually some plugs at the back, connecting the lights to the chassis, it might be one of those". He waited while I went underneath, found the plugs, disconnected one, saw some crud in it, the guy gave me some contact cleaner which I sprayed, put it all back together, the lights worked and it passed the MOT. He could have booked it in, charged £120 for a diagnosis on top of an hour's labour for fixing it.
I used to go to a particular MOT testing place. I had a Volvo with an intermittent message on the speedo cluster. "Anti Skid service required". Before the MOT I went in and asked if that would fail if the message came up. The guy said it won't fail if there are no other lights lit. I booked it in and took it there. A different guy did the test. I had renewed all the discs, calipers and pads and shoes. It passed the brake tests with flying colours. He failed it. I asked why, when the brakes work perfectly, it cannot be a fault. He said 'well it might be a fault'. I took it to another garage who plugged their computer in which said ABS pump faulty. He said its either £1,000 for a genuine one or £500 to have it reconditioned. I was so fed up with garages mis-diagnosing faults I just sold it there and then. Later I went back to that garage for something on my daughter's car and asked about the ABS pump. He said oh, it was just a £50 sensor. I know the chief MOT garage inspector for the East Midlands and asked him about the MOT garage failing it. He said they had no business failing it provided there are no warning lights on, such as engine or emissions lights. So I don't go to that MOT place any more either.
 
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I was talking to a very very strange chap yesterday, he'd tried to fit a fire door to his van, and was contemplating wrapping his damaged bonnet with woodgrain fablon, could this catch on?
 
No.
I bet he was lining the inside with tongue and groove pine from B&Q, and install a wood burning stove and multicoloured LEDs.
 
I couldn't possibly comment, but he's a lovely chap.
 
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