How to Make Plywood Walls | Self Build Van Conversion 

hehe I'm glad you're enjoying the videos! If you ever get a van you'll know what to do :D

Our flooring is amazing! can't wait to get it in! :D

Haha, thank you for shattering it!! 😄

Yeah that’s what we though as well! We didn’t want it to look like a sauna.

@@OurWildHorizons let's hope that the insulation works and it doesn't become a sauna in the sun 😅🌞

Luckily we’ve got the extractor fan if that does happen!

Thanks Ger! Hopefully it wont take too much longer :)

Hope that it helped! :)

Thanks for watching 😃

Thanks a lot. It’s been a great learning experience for us!

Hope it helped! Thanks for watching :)

it still looks perfect though! :D

Thanks, we used 3.6 which sounds too thin but actually with the battens and insulation, is more than enough.

We'd decided on the same approach as you guys! Ply for the walls and T&G cladding for the roof, but possibly spaced with a thin piece of dark painted ply underneath. What thickness ply did you use for the walls? I don't recall hearing you mention it. Thanks :)

That sounds awesome! I've seen that done with the dark ply underneath and it looks amazing! We used 3.6mm ply for the walls as we needed it to be easy to bend around some big bumps. we could have gotten away with 5mm ply too :)

@@OurWildHorizons That's great, thank you :)

Thank you! For the layout we took inspiration from other people’s van build tours on RU-vid and photos along with our own preferences. For the wiring, we saw a couple called Vanessa and Adam and they mentioned how their wiring was all in the back of cupboards rather than in the walls and we liked this idea as we aren’t 100% on electrics... And know that we want to add extra things later on. Just tonnes of research on RU-vid for the main bulk of ideas. Hope your build goes well!

@@OurWildHorizons Many thanks, will keep planning and searching

Thank you!! 😁

that would be handy, if we could do a time lapse in real life, imagine how knackered you'd be by the end of the day :) hehe

Very pleased with how It turned out!

We used celotex everywhere we could, then finished off the small gaps and channels with recycled bottle wool 😊

For the walls it was only 3.6mm which we have found to be thick enough as long as you have battens underneath in places that you might screw cupboards to. Thanks for watching!

Don’t use anymore more than 6mm Anymore won’t be flexible enough to bend around the curves

Haha, thank you so much!

I think it depends on how you want to attach your ply or tongue and groove walls. We chose to do vertical battens since we had that main sideways ply and wanted to screw it in place more than vertical battens would have allowed! Thanks for watching :)

Thank you Zena! :)

We used 3.6mm ply for the walls which seems really thin when you buy it but it’s been great and held up perfectly these past two years!

you can drill a small hole first then use a self tapping screw. We also put some blobs of sikaflex along the batten before we fixed them on :) If you want you can buy screws that you don't need a hole first they are called self drilling metal screws, they have a weird flat bit at the end. This is kind of like a drill bit build into the end. We would have used these but we used what my dad had in his garage :) xx

Thank you!! Good luck with your walls! We got our ply from Selco and it was 3.6mm (when you buy it I think it just says 3mm ply) 😊 It bends nicely to the curves of the van to save space! You could probably get away with 6mm ply too (I think it would bend in a similar way)

They're 3.6mm! So very thin but also very lightweight and it's proved it's strength too as we've not had any issues with it in nearly a year!

Yes that’s exactly what we are doing there :) we used a small piece of wood to help us mark the contour of the van with a pencil :) then when we cut it to size it fit perfectly :)

Our Wild Horizons that’s great thank you! 👍

Hi! Yes it was £4900 with 42,000 miles :)

@@OurWildHorizons Aww, thats amazing. Definitely found a bargain there! I'm loving your videos! I'm inspired at how you've managed to do this without huge expenditure (relatively speaking!) Kudos to you both, you seem like a lovely couple :)

Hi! Thanks for watching 😊 yes we just pained over them! At a closer look they are visible 😊

If you can get a hold of a selco card you won’t be able to do it any cheaper than this 😀 Thank you for watching our video!

@@OurWildHorizons Thank you

Thank you for watching 😀

We didn’t fill the gaps because we planned it so all the gaps were hidden by the bed or the counter space (then the splashboard covers the last bit) 😊

@@OurWildHorizons makes sense. :) i think on our layout it may be trickier , but will have it in mind.

Hope you work it out 😊

Sorry I have no idea anymore but it’s wide and flat. I want to say something like 45x16mm as that number stands out but I can’t say for sure!

Hey! So we used 3.6mm ply for the walls which is thin but is still doing us well! Kept it nice and light too 😀

Thank you Shannon 🥰 This was because the holes needed to be in a very specific place to fix things correctly. We wanted to be accurate with the placement of everything and it’s worked so well as everything looks perfect 😀 Another reason we didn’t reuse some of the holes is because they were too big ☺️ Thank you for watching

@@OurWildHorizons What kind of screws do you use?

Self tapping screws 😃

@@OurWildHorizons But how do they hold? Since there is only a thin metal sheet (the van wall) and nothing for the screw to screw ONTO. My screws just pull right back out.

I’m not sure why that happened to you, ours stayed in just fine. Did you pre drill a hole? Make sure the pre drilled hole is much smaller than the screw and then screw it in my hand with a screwdriver (it should be very stiff to get in) xx

Fair enough! We actually enjoyed working things out ourselves, all part of the experience 😊

@@OurWildHorizons Coool!👍👍