WE MESSED UP (raw caravan build vlog) 

Happy Easter guys once again love watching yr vids, cant wait for the van to b finished so I can watch yr adventures in Mertyle 😊

Happy Easter great video you two rock as always

Loved it 😊

Nicely done you guys 😊

Thanks guys!!

Welcome back! 🥰

Stoked to hear that! Thanks for watching ☺️☺️

Happy to hear you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for watching 😁

Thanks mate! Happy Easter to you

Happy Easter Ron! Was definitely nice to get away for a couple of days! Keen to get stuck back in tomorrow though 😁

😂😂 gotta love Bunnings 😉

Different folks for different strokes lol. I lived in a Viscount for a year and that lounge was awful. First the seat is too low making your knees splay apart (I'm 5'7" so it's even worse for taller people) which soon makes your hips ache. It's ok for 20 minutes sitting upright to eat a meal, but any longer - ugh - and that was when I was only 21. (Older people would feel it more.) Second, with the vinyl at least, it sticks to you making standing up a pain because it "holds you down", makes you sweat, and just feels "yuck" against your skin anytime except peak of winter. No matter how clean you know it is, it feels dirty/sweaty/sticky/slimy like a vinyl seat in a diner that never gets any soap - just wiped with a wet chux and some cleaning product that's been wiping food and oil off every table for the last 3 months. Third the seat cushions squash completely flat so is like sitting on a flat board or a metal train station bench. Four, the back is perfectly upright/straight with little padding which = uncomfortable and soon makes your back ache. You want to arch your back so your shoulders are further back than your tailbone but never can. I had 3 pillows behind me to try and get a comfortable back arch and I was always fighting to keep them in the right spot. (Two down low, one on top of those first two.) It's also natural to want to tilt your head back when watching TV, but the back of your head wants to rest on the flat hard wall behind you. It's irritating, so you wind up sitting upright all the time, which kind of makes your head further forward than your shoulders like a "z" turkey neck. Everything about it is uncomfortable unless it's for 20 minutes, sitting upright, and leaning forward like when eating a meal - but it makes for a terrible lounge. I loved living in the caravan (two newlyweds, always bumping into each other) but detested that lounge, lol. This is all from memory so I'm sure I've missed more that I hated about it, but the final thing I remember is the front slope below your knees isn't angled back/in enough. So the back of your heels hits the lower face, which means your feet sit more forward than feels natural/comfortable. (Same thing with all the caravan furniture really, today the still make it straight into the floor at 90 degrees, with no toe space like a house has below the kitchen sink and cupboards. It makes you stand further back from the sink/oven/bench so whatever you're doing you feel like you're extending your arms unnaturally or falling forward. Personally I think caravans and motorhomes waste so much space by having the bed permanently down. I would raise the bed into the roof using 4x electric actuators or just a winch operated by a cordless drill or motor, or just by hand - and have a nice comfortable lounge underneath that better sculpts to your back so your hips are more forward, shoulders back, and padding behind the head. (So when the bed is down it barely touches the top of the lounge cushions.) The bed mattress would be just forward of the back of the lounge, so when the bed is down the back of the lounge becomes the padded bedhead AND a back rest when sitting up in bed. During the day the bed is raised to the roof, and when sitting on the lounge underneath you don't need the full headroom of the caravan anyway. You have to duck a bit to sit on the lounge, but once seated there is ample headroom and you're on nice comfortable lounge seats you can sit on for hours. Fit a removable table as well and you've now combined 3 areas (lounge, bed, dining) into one saving heaps of room compared to the layout of most caravans and motorhomes. The table could also be made to drop down from underneath the bed. Just forward of the bed/lounge make a couple more seats to do away with the original 2+1 or 3+1 orange vinyl one (no-one except toddlers can sit in the corner space) in case someone wants to lie on the bed during the day. That way a second person or two still have seats when the bed is down covering the lounge. Which also gives more seats that the original orange one when the bed is up. Getting rid of the orange thing (I think 75% were orange and 25% were dark green lol) also frees up more room to have a larger bathroom space, or longer kitchen bench, a wardrobe, etc.

Thanks so much! Happy Easter to you too ☺️

Aww thanks so much Christina! Really appreciate the support 🥰

Happy Easter Glenn! 🩵

Cheers Richard! Hope you're having a great weekend. Woohoo not far off now! 🙌🏼

Yessss I literally said the same thing 😅😆 happy Easter Bert!

Happy Easter! Hope you have a great day 🥰

Thanks so much Macka! Hope you're having a great weekend 🥰

Cheers Craig! Glad you’re enjoying it so far 😄

Thanks Mick! 🥰

Thanks Mark! Glad you enjoyed it ☺️☺️

Happy Easter! Haha yes they supplied our tools for the build. I was thinking while editing this one omg our tools are scattered everywhere in this video 😆😆

@@itsJackandMegan haha I thought so as there are a lot 😜 good product we have many as well 👌🏻

Will let you know how it goes! We used similar stuff in the troopy and didn’t get scratched from vacuuming

@@itsJackandMegan Not sure what you mean my getting scratched from vacumming.

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Ohh that’s a good point!! We just put it back the way it was originally but will have a look into swapping it! Thanks for sharing that thought 🙏🏼

Ooo that’s a good idea! We’ll look into it thanks!

Haha that would be awesome!

Under the bed will be all storage! Just didn’t want to add the weight of floorboards where it won’t be seen

We made it out alive 🙌🏼

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Happy Easter! Thanks for watching ☺️🩵