 Telo was poppin We are on twitch. We are We are live by the time you see this we won't be so just leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post notification bells Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK You know I'm saying We do got merch We also got the patreon where we post five days a week Monday through Friday, and we post the stuff that we watch on twitch when Because you know we watch twitch exclusives, but we also put it on Put it on patreon so it can stay longer. You know I'm saying anyway This is a video by steps to adventure It dropped four hours ago. I Don't know why I clicked this could have been the thumbnail salute. You know I'm saying Van tour After one year full-time Van life now, I don't know if y'all noticed about me if y'all watching my previous streams Y'all know like this is something I wanted to do at one point and I would still do it when my daughter gets a little older I would I would rock out like this. I promise you but it had to be elite level Elite level stealth van. You know I'm saying It's the tight like before I was doing YouTube. I was watching like weird stuff like this not weird, but like This is the type of stuff. I mean find an interest in You know, I'm saying copyright disclaimer under section 107 of the copyright act 1976 Allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism comment news reporting teaching scholarship and research Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing Non-profit educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use No copyright infringement intended all rights belong to their respective owners And if y'all happen to watch this video respect of owners if y'all want me to take it down Just hit me up. I'll take it down We don't have to do any of the extra stuff or any animosity just hit me up It's all love at the end of the day I salute y'all and I just want to you know get an idea of what I got going on with myself if I ever to do this This is the video you've all been waiting for we've been living in our 2007 Mercedes Sprinter for the past year and a half traveling to some amazing locations in Europe If you've been following along on tiktok Facebook, it's not to grab YouTube I think that's them all then you'll know that we've been making some major upgrades to the van So without further ado, let's get into the video See most people buy a Sprinter van and like make it like you know into a splinter like a decked out night Sprinter For people to rent wrappers blah blah blah, but they took it and made van life. It's a nice little intro with it Is this real? This to see this is why I want to do this like look at this Like I don't really like nature, but this is like this is calm. This is peaceful You know I'm saying a little piece of water that I would never swim in You know I'm saying backdrop some mountains with snowy peaks, you know, I'm saying Look, it's a whole crib in there. Welcome to our tiny home You said van life is getting banned in the UK soon. That's a travesty. That's unfortunate But the good thing about the van people they will pick up and van about it there and just get out of UK She is a long wheelbase high-roof 2007 Sprinter van that we bought in 2019 and was converting for around about two years Because we was working full-time jobs and didn't have enough time to jump into the van to just blast the build out So if you're a long time viewer of ours, you'll know that we've been making some upgrades to the van So let's start from the front and work our way back. So this is one of the upgrades to the van It's a lagoon style table leg so you can move it around wherever you want and it's perfect as a little office So that's cool like I will have my life I would definitely have my reaction set up right here my reaction like it's little enough Like I think I got this huge set up. This is this is my portable setup. My big setup is still in a Chicago like I would have me a light right here like a little light Then my laptop another computer. Okay. Yeah, this is good work If Jordan's gaming and it also acts as a dog platform for Lily So this isn't actually a lagoon table leg. It's a remake on Amazon and it's about a hundred pound cheaper We will list all the links discount codes and everything like that in the description below The links are affiliate links, which means we get a little kickback, but not at your expense So it helped when you got a woman decorating because this wouldn't be the same if it was just a man The seat that I was sat on actually acts as a big storage unit So you've got one half for shoes and one half a dirty laundry Annalise has recently fitted this spice rack which puts like all the candles in and a smellies and stuff up top here We have overhead storage for coats and jackets Just because it gets too messy in the van if you're hanging your jackets up and stuff We just stuff them in there hide them away, but the big upgrade is inside It's a shower and the major upgrade is inside the shower room We've got a composting toilet instead of a chemical toilet Which means we can do our poo's in the bag and then throw it out the window No, I'm only joking It is actually a massive upgrade for us because a chemical toilet in the UK are really hard to empty Whereas in the composting toilets, you're pretty much empty in anywhere This is the chelina Wait, what do you mean by that? Composting toilet, so what do you mean like? No Origin L composting toilet and it only weighs 6.8 kilograms Both containers hold up to 10 litres so there's plenty of room for your number of ones and twos Let me talk to y'all for a second You hear me hear me out real quick So I'm listen I'm not like if I got a girl I love you You know what I'm saying, but I don't want to sit until 10 litres of boo boo gets full As soon as your boo boo hit the hit the bottom of this bucket Take it out do something with it Get it out of here, you know what I'm saying? I don't want to smell it because if it get full like it's This thing definitely ain't keeping a smell here You got to open the top of this every time you boo boo So I know some it's getting some seepage It's tough We love to look at this toilet and actually matches our van interior This is what's going to keep us off grid for longer periods of time In the shower room we've got Clipfinal flooring which is fully sealed and waterproof PVC shower panels for walls and ceiling and we have a mixer tap with a water saving trigger shower head inside this And it's nice and I got the filtered water too Bench seat is our diesel heater and our separate fuel tank We didn't tap into the main fuel tank because we find that it's much easier to diagnose issues when your fuel tank's separate Also acts as storage as well And if you're wondering how much we paid for our diesel heater We actually only paid £87 and it's been in the van about a year and a half And it's never missed the beat You eagle eyed viewers would have noticed this little switch here I didn't notice it. I'm not eagle eyed, my fault So it is actually a remote, wireless remote And this turns our light on and off Oh okay It also has 50% so it drops it to 50% or back up to 100% Or you can hold the minus and it'll dim the lights Or you can hold the plus and it'll make the lights brighter It's the same as my ring, like look On, I mean off, on, almost went camouflage right there You can hold it down, it'll go dimmer Go lighter Tight, y'all got, y'all, this is, look at this The lights is built into the ceiling We have one at the front of the van and we have one in bed In case we forgot to turn the lights off We can just switch it while we're in bed So moving further down the van, we've got this table Now this is a collapsible table leg so we can just take that out, remove it And this turns into full-on sofa mode And this is another storage box which I won't open Because it's a bit messy And this is where we house all Jordan's clothes Kitchen is definitely the main feature of the van It just looks like The van is nice, this is nice A little apartment So we'll start at this end We've got the black sink with the black tap We've got the black kitchen roll holder The IKEA spice racks with our little spice jars Carbon monoxide alarm Make sure you get one I don't see no pepper up there, salt and pepper We've got these lights Which are really handy If you don't want all the lights on We can turn them off And just have these on while we're cooking We've got a two burner hob Which links to the camping gas 907 Jordan, is that right behind the camera? And then we've got our magnetic spice Spice? And then we've got our magnetic knife rack The tiles on the back are tic-tac tiles Which just stick on And we've got a 240 volt plug socket We've got so much storage in this kitchen We've got the two overhead and everything's in storage boxes To keep it nice and neat We've got under sink storage A drawer here That was crazy Like once van people are done living in vans Like and they go back to a regular apartment Like I wonder how that experience is Like all this space that y'all got now Like how do y'all decorate a regular apartment now? I wonder if something mentally happened Like what's that like what's that Now we're going to keep all our cut away Another cupboard underneath here Which is all our plates and bits and bobs And then we've got these are the new additions So we've got another drawer here Which as you can see is just more stuff And then the big one This is like our pan cupboard And it is huge It houses all our pots and pans Toaster, blender, milk software Everything is in that Milk who? All our pots and pans Toaster, blender, milk software Everything What is the milk? What is that? Then is in that drawer And in the bottom drawer is where our gas bottle And water heater lies So one thing I was doing when I was building this van out Redoing the kitchen Was making sure that this line on this Matches this line here Yeah, yeah because that'll bother me too That the lines don't line up together Like we've got to start it over Tear the whole kitchen out And it really winds me up When for instance I see a kitchen built And like have these drawers like this And then the other drawer here And the line lands like say there Yeah, you're not alone my boy Oh, you're not alone I hate the one thing we absolutely love Is our 12 volt fridge freezer It's a 26 litre Freezer And a 62 litre fridge And it's absolutely massive Oh, and it even has a coke dispenser Check that out You just slot in there So you can have all your cans of coke in there It's perfect Your friend of this is Montpellier And if you do want something like this Head over to Jackson's Legend Check it out on the website So under the table We do have a 240 volt plug socket And above here And Elise has recently just What's the standard house voltage in the UK Because they keep telling us it's 240 Like I ain't know In America we don't even pay attention to that Only carpenters know that type of information Like I could care less what voltage is what Me personally Just bought another mirror from Old Bargain I think she's just like collecting mirrors And she's stained this with some 3M stain So our walls and the ceiling are all cladded The top's been stained But I think it's 3M Or it makes the 3V3 I can't remember But we stained They look like 3V3 honestly In the ceiling All the way at tops And this mirror Pretty much with the same stuff And then the walls have all been painted white We've added this rope trim For like aesthetics But really it's not really aesthetics It's just to hide our bad edges This is all around the vibe It's still a nice additive I'm not even lying Like I wouldn't Did you think of that or did she think of that Like that's what I'm talking about Having a woman around Like oh let's get a rope to hide yet Like I would have never I would have been like just leave it out I don't care We're good And around the back edge as well Just adds like a nice little touch So let's talk roof fence What've we got? So we've got a Fiamma 40 roof fence here Just a standard one that you just open up With a fly mesh above And then we've got a Max Irfan Just at the back above the bed And the reason why we put it in above the bed Is because Obvious reasons Ha ha ha yeah Talk to us Tell the truth don't lie Because when we go abroad And it's really warm We can turn that on Blows nice cooler Stretch on top of the bed We can cool down while we're chilling out Let's show you Bro come on now Come on now Okay I'll take that answer That's a logical answer as well But Respectfully that ain't it My storage So I've got the best deal I've got the full wardrobe Which used to be Jordan's But he very kindly donated it to me And then I've got the two overhead storage Just above the bed Before we've done these little bits of renovations The whole van was actually white Which was really nice But for us it just felt a little bit too clinical So what we did was If you've noticed We've painted the whole bottom of the van gray So all the cupboards on the bottom are gray And then we didn't really know what to do with this Because obviously It's part of the bottom But then it's part of the top So how big is this bed? Like I don't feel like like Because bro is pretty tall Like Or he's kind of He's tall enough Even she doesn't look like she can be in that bed You got to lay in there diagonally Decided to go bold and paint it gray And we absolutely love it It just feels more homely So down here we've got a bit of a control panel So we've got the Renegi battery monitor So we can monitor what the batteries are doing What the charging at What percentage that on And we also have the Renegi inverter switch So we switch that on And we want to use the 240 volt plug sockets We've got some USB and USB-C plugs here And a cigarette port This is just the Bluetooth connector So we can connect to the Renegi app and see what Somebody's folks in here It's really going on with the batteries Let's get to the bed Where all the juicy stuff happens Yeah, see So everybody always asks what size our bed is Because obviously the Mercedes Sprinters You can't fit width ways in them Without the side pods So we've got something called the Euro pods on our van Now, everybody always thinks I'm lying when I say the size of the van But let me show you It is exactly 6'4", exactly So it was 76 and a half inches See I'm too tall for that Too tall for that That's not enough space Like if I have a bad dream Wake up quick My head is going to smack this piece right here Back size of the pod At the back side of the pod So that's 6'4", and 6'2", so I stay at this side And then the front side of the pod So we're the same height There is 6'2", because the pods taper in slightly Now these are with insulation and carpet on So they are actually wider than 6'4". I think they're about 6'6'ish When they're fitted with no insulation or carpet on So having the side pods has been an absolute game changer Especially for me, because I'm lanky I can actually fit in here with ways Because the bed is actually bigger than a standardised double bed We do actually have a gap down here And I just think it helps with airflow But now and again it winds you up when your pillows drop down So sometimes you put these little pink pillows down first And then we pop our big soft double pillow And it gives you extra space for your head So as Annalise mentioned before She does have the overhead storage, which is great And we have these little lights inside I just want to show you them And the clicker lights So these are these little lights They're on a magnet at the back And you can plug them into a USB charger And charge them up And the motion detect So as soon as you open that You can see what's inside the cupboard They're brilliant They are from Amazon So the links will be in the description below But moving on over here That's pretty cool We've got a WSB socket here Which is a... I'm not gonna lie Like what did the bro do before this? And what does she... Like what were their regular jobs? This is innovative They built this whole thing out by themselves That's tough Standard USB and USB-C And then all this carpet that we've got on Behind this carpet is dodo mat insulation So everything is soft It's not going to the burn metal So it goes to the insulation first And then the carpet over the top of the insulation So we've used another one of these IKEA spice racks As a brew holder for when we're in bed We've painted this one grey And then we've added the tablet holder So this... A brew holder I ain't a drink holder Is that what that is? This is actually really really good It's really stiff So you can pull it and move it where you want And it doesn't like bounce around or anything And I think that's everything for the inside Oh wait the window So this is the ice cream patch Can I have an ice cream please? So then let's talk electrics So we've changed a couple of things in the van Where is this in the van? Like there's still this much There's got to be in the back underneath the bed So I'm going to show you what I've changed Let's start at this end and work our way back So we've got a mains charger Which is a Victron mains charger And that is a 30 amp So we have two solar panels on the roof Which are two Renegi 200 watt solar panels So we've got four under watt This is a lot that you don't even think you've got to do all this They got amplifiers They got relays I'm just guessing It's all together That then comes down into this breaker So that we can isolate the panels whenever we need be Then this comes into the Renegi Rover 40 amp MPPT charge controller This charge controller is actually a lithium one as well Then we come over to our two plug sockets here That is runoff mains So when we plug in Yeah I've watched a lot of these van life videos And this is very informal Like I don't know why Would it never even knew that this stuff was going on? Obviously like it has to be because For obvious reasons but And we have our inverter plugged into one And we have our mains charger For the batteries plugged into the other Then over here we've got our 12 volt fuse board We've got two positive and negative bus bars Quite big these are 500 amp ones We've got a 2000 watt Renegi inverter But the big thing what we've changed recently Is definitely our bi-directional B2B charger Now if you don't know what bi-directional B2B charger is I absolutely do not so It takes power from your alternator And fires it into your leisure batteries However if your van battery decides to die Because this is bi-directional It can throw power back to your van battery Which means that we'll never need to jump start the van And we test those kind of like a capacitor But it's bi-directional and it can throw power back Did it quite a few times now Where we've left the van for like weeks on end And you think when you come to turn it over It wouldn't work But turn it over, start up First time every time, it's amazing We do have discount codes for a lot of this stuff So if you are looking to get this type of stuff Check out our discount code below Because you do want to save you And I was muted, great I said did I say Did I say informal? I meant informative That's what I meant to say Sell some money And every penny helps when you're building out of van And another thing that we did change We did have AGM batteries Now we didn't have any problems with the AGM batteries They were perfectly fine However, we had 300 amps But you can only use 50% of capacity of an AGM battery Otherwise you start to damage it So really we only actually had 150 am usable Right, right And they were bloody heavy Now we've got three 100 amp power Li-time lithium batteries in this Now they're a budget lithium battery Like what? 100 amp power This had to be a strategic insert He was like, babe, just stand by the batteries To make it look more Li-time lithium batteries in this Now those are huge They're a budget lithium battery But they are bloody good I can tell you that now We've drained them right down We've charged them right up We threw all sorts of stuff for him And they've not failed so far They've been brilliant But yeah, it's been absolutely brilliant This system's been faultless It's been in the van for quite some time now We've only made two major upgrades Which is the Stirling Power B2B If I were to knew about the Stirling Power B2B I would never have bought the Renegi one Because the Renegi one failed on us like Constantly, it was so annoying Like really annoying And the same with the batteries They've been absolutely brilliant But apart from that We've not changed anything on our electrical system Literally just the batteries and the B2B A lot of people are asking That's good, man Because like I'm one of those people Like let's do it right the first time So we don't have to revisit this occasion You feel me? Like I don't want to, you know Do we have Wi-Fi in the van? And the answer is yes We've got a max few Wi-Fi And it just takes a SIM card We've got our SIM card with EE So our internet is just here Above the bed And it's a max few Romex And then on the actual roof itself You'll be able to see That this is a little poc antenna And it's just super simple We have it turned on permanently All the time We actually don't take it off We don't take it off whatsoever Or we don't turn it off whatsoever And it's been brilliant It uses next to no power And we get full signal Also if you're looking at building out a van The best thing you can do Is add a massive garage space Because you can put tools in there Put e-bikes, padderboards And then we have our skis on the door You also have like a... Okay, I guess your roof is being utilized Okay All's either side And they've been done with like velcro We've got like little velcro mounts that we made And then you can just pop your skis on there And this is where we fill up our water It's got a little key slot Just open that up And we can fill our water up We have actually got a 30 PS side pump That I think is 7 litres a minute And it's a sure flow pump And if you're looking for side pods like these This is what they actually look like from the outside So they just stick out the van ever so slightly They're wider on the driver's side Than they are on the passenger's side Because you have your slide door on your passenger side So that when the door opens The door doesn't smack into the side pod So that's why the side pod Is slightly narrower on one side Than compared to the other The electric hook up is on the outside here Just pop this up Plug your electric hook up in We never really use it to be fair We've not really used it that much Because the van's pretty much generating power all the time The only time we really ever use it is if This is solutable I'm not even gonna lie Like I didn't think this was gonna be this informative But I'm glad it is man Because at the end of the day There's enough jokie-jokin' here And little other little things that are going on To make it an interesting video And like this is the type of stuff that I'll be looking at When I'll be looking at channels I'll be like oh yeah They're definitely gonna be busing very soon Like maybe in a year or two a YouTube channel It's gonna be like tough Maybe less than that If we go on a campsite We'll plug in and then charge up our power banks as well While we're there This is the front of our van And you'll probably notice that we've got a massive light bar up top And some As you should You in nature all day If I wanna see what's going on in front of me I'm like light it up You know what I'm saying? Little ditch lights on the bottom On our bull bar You can have them flashing white You can have them flashing amber You can have them on amber and white What about security? Since your van life Can you like Get a gun? You can just do all sorts with the little control panel Which is quite cool And the light bar is ridiculously light Like I definitely will not be turning that on Whilst driving I can tell you that now So that's it from the van tour guys If you can think of anything that we've missed off Please drop it in the comments Nah, buddy, y'all done told us everything I like it, man See y'all don't leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post, man Let me know if you think you can survive van life I definitely could 100%