 welcome back to another episode of the van build. It's been a while but we're back at it today we're having a look at fitting the table and working out the bed see if we can get the bed sorted out it's uh it's been a bit of a head scratcher but we think we've got a rough plan so I'll let you see what we're doing stay tuned. Right I've got one of these one of these articulating tables so I think we're gonna a plan is to get it attached to here beef this up a little bit cut these down by half so it's got somewhere to sit and then when the table's not in use it'll fill this area and that'll be uh that'll make up part of the bed and then we'll figure out what to do with this bit as we go. I've got my heater under here auto-term two kilowatt heater you've got the control panel here which does all your bits and pieces and your temperatures and stuff the guys at auto-term did a mint job on that and also they gave me a discount code if you want to get a little bit of money knocked off if you're thinking of using one of these diesel heaters and you want to use auto-term I do recommend them so I'll leave a link below there is a bit of a discount code for you below if you want one of these auto-term diesel heaters I recommend them as a company they were brilliant to work with and I've slept in it and it is super warm perfect for this size van it's attached to a metal plate here it goes under the van and then we tap into the main fuel tank of the van so I'm really happy with it and I tell you what the difference on an evening in here is it's summer else it means I can use it all year round and thanks to the lads at auto-term for starting that out for me so I've marked these so they come halfway over that bit of lap there so we'll have a bit of a recess to put the table on that's the idea there's loads of options yeah I think what we need to do is fix this then you actually put that on top and f*** around with it until you're happy with where it is could you say that again please F around with it we'll beep it it's funny to have a few beeps in here right okay then so that's that beep this out attach this leg and then have a go with like the options of whether we want it to the side or to the front just to make it work as best it can and then get it we get some of that oak stuff on it yeah finish it up that is your bob that is your bob that is your uncle and this is your aunt this is your auntie's left leg if my dad had uncles should be my bollocks we're using these mdf bits and we're just going to cover these in carpet and attach them to these bottom bits and on these bits we're going to do with some of it a little bit fancy down where you're adhesive and then just want to give it a minute wait till it's tacky to the touch and then we're folding it over these fixings they came with it so what we'll do is put them through as is and then you plunge that down because you can see it and it it pushes these two side bits out and keeps it keeps it tight in there and looks quite good how's that table coming along dad it's working yeah look at that the focus works in hot rod top shagger that's not the facial over 17 year old is it made them different in 1600s look at those cowboy boots hustler there he is you can lock it in any way it comes up down perfect for having your tea on or if you want to just lie in bed and have your laptop on and do a bit of work as an office you can bang it over there and then you can just tuck it out the way lock it off while you're driving and still walk about get it back out put it where you like and then it's completely removable and then this becomes part of the bed system when you're ready for bed it just comes off like that now all the table mechanics are behind there and that becomes part of the bed or a different way of sitting and now the conundrum is to extend this and so there's this area here it's been a bit of an ongoing head scratch and we've had lots of different ideas of how to utilize this to bring it out and cover this area and in the end we've just said let's just get an extra piece so that we're not having to muck about this will sit here dovetail joints either side and then the other bit will just slide down here out the way and so when it comes to setting the bed up the tabletop goes there and I'll just pull this bit out it has two legs on it that go here and then the two dovetail joints all fit into there and so that means it won't pull this way I didn't just want a plain plywood table once I'm a little bit fancy so I've got some oak veneer which is actual oak it's so thin and you can we can I'll show you what we do we're gonna put that so it's got an oak finish and then Bill's gonna trim some oak up around the edges so this will just look like a solid oak table but with all the lightness and cheapness apply and that's another one at jobs today also going to try and get another one of these panels in and maybe do a bit of carpeting so let's crack on no nonsense no nonsense Kevin Peterson all right so we leave no nonsense Kevin Peterson just for a just for a minute until it gets a little bit tacky to touch and then we'll go on with it action hi guys you joined me today so yesterday we had a problem putting the um the pop rivets or whatever the what are there plastic pop rivets yeah the sort of plastic pop rivets through here because all the material was gathering in the in the mechanism of the rivet so we've come up with the idea of using a soldering iron into the hole and you can see it melts it away gives you a perfect hole to work with tips and tricks after all our pissing about and coming up with different ideas this is the end result sometimes it's the simplest of things isn't it works a treat works a treat just three dovetail joints in there it's not going to go anywhere the what is it the main support of the yeah it's a it's a tripod system so it's the tripod system that'll just flip down off the the main thing here and support that'll support my legs and then you just fold it and then you can just fold it up fold it up and when you want to put it away you can just slide it back down there so yeah that's pretty cool okay it's built just for the benefit of the people watching can you just talk us through a dovetail joint it's very simple that it's in the shape of the dovetail and it locks itself in it can't pull out so this is just about as simple as you can get we've just done three on this doesn't need anything special because all the weight's straight down easy to take out and put into storage perfect perfect it's you know it's like a it's a very old school way of doing joinery in it is yeah yeah but it's still strong so there you go just three dovetail joints and it's as simple as that so this piece of ndf is broken so i'm just putting it over some six mil ply draw around it make a template cut that out put the holes in carpet it and that's going to go on the inside of the sliding door won't need to sand the edges because it's going to have a carpet going over it we'll need to put some holes in it and just a nine mil drill bit that's another panel ready to go it's actually wood it's oak 4.4 mil it's got a dc on the back two bits cut that's pretty much invisible when it's touched that's pretty good isn't it all oak and fold we'll just peel back the first cone to get a start point yeah and we'll peel it off underneath once we're happy with where it is it's quite nice that it looks oak hey hey this was this was my granddad's my dad's dad's and how old is it probably well when he was decorating he would have been in his uh late 20s early 30s and is now 96 you do the math right so there it is in all its glory it's just gonna put well bill's gonna put some trim on it we're gonna varnish it up this is our mdf board that we if you see from back of it plain old mdf and then wash it'll look better than that once it's got its oil on and stuff but that's that's the sort of look we're going for and then we put holes in it and we're gonna go and offer it up and see if the uh the rivets match come follow me camera i'm torching like a key floyd you see key floyd the chef yeah he said no no come to me to me gonna gonna look at this look this is the real stuff up here i'm the star no the real star is this bolognese wrong side in it so that's the look we're going for but all this will be carpeted so it's sort of like that looks pretty good doesn't it yeah once it's vanished up and it'll look the same as this like finished oak so that's a little hack that for you veneer or the mdf to look like it's really super lightweight but looks like a big solid oak panel now what we're going to do is put a little bit of Danish oil on and come and have a look gosh one coat look at it it's looking really nice actually nice isn't it so that's just one coat and uh took another couple of coats and like you can tell did it yeah subtitles the death said it and then that was it so i got away with it 30 a stretch was out in two goodbye there'll be people who've done this before there'll probably be even professional van builders watching this so so it's all it's what it is i'm realizing now that when i had it all stripped out and after i'd insulated it should have just carpeted the whole thing when it was done but hindsight is a wonderful thing didn't do it and now all furniture's in so it's going to be a bit of a chew because all i want to do is just do the metal bits so i have to tuck it right into here into here then put the panels on and that's my job today i'm just going to cap it the this side and hopefully this side and the inside of the door as well get that finished leave a little bit over hanging here so when i decide what i'm doing with roof which i think i know and i can just tuck the carpet in and on with roof what you'll need for this project is a pair of gloves some sticky hairspray a face mask a Stanley knife and uh whatever some plastic we've got these wedges that are obviously but it's very nature it is a wedge thicker at your end thinner at other and i'll just use that to work the carpet into the corners and get it tucked in one more thing i need is just a little bit of like a chunk of cardboard or whatever just to put up to stop the glue going in unwanted places safety first your doctor will see you now do you feel in charge i was born in the dark loaded by it so clean the area that i'll be sticking the adhesive to all the dust gone grease whatever furniture went there yesterday was a disaster because i watched one youtube video on carpet in a van and thought was an expert turns out i'm not it's harder than it looks and i also in hindsight should have done the carpet in before we furnished it so i wasted a lot of me time putting in the carpet and then it was twisted by time i got to end i was just doing it a bit wrong and rushing it i think that was a right off and then and this is a bit of a lesson for anyone who's doing this um oak veneer stuff we noticed at the end of the day i got the table to go varnish it and it had it had warped it started to warp quite badly and this did as well yesterday this was all risen but i went over it with went over it with this nicks grandad's decorating tool i just sort of smashed it down with this and then left it in here overnight and it seemed to have calmed down on you can see it there look you see that oh it's not good enough so that started to happen all on the table as well so yesterday was a right off it was uh yeah one step forward two steps back just one of them days had a good night's sleep back at it today uh watched another youtube video so i'm pretty much an expert take three so hopefully the next shot will be of this all beautifully carpeted progress report i've not had a meltdown today it's going on well it's just been a bit of a chew getting all the contours right and uh i'm just using this wedged bit of plastic to sort of took things in in and around there and behind here this was a chore but everything is running flush i'm going in well i don't want to jinx myself because i've still got all that to do we go back in with the soldering iron just to get our holes back please work so this ply had warped pretty badly but i've kept it rolling kept it at a decent temperature added a couple more layers of Danish oil and it's looking all right it looks well i know we just need to finish this carpet near the door and then that's that side done i had to remove the rubber trim from the door so that i can get a clean cut down here and then cover it back over luckily this stuff is called stretch carpet sir if yous make a goof as i did you can sort of pull it back it's got a few mil to work with bill he's knocking up out of oak some draw fronts for the back of the van how does he do it you ask that's a bit of kit is that innit it's for business isn't it so that's the bit maybe she's the same as that one there you know this one's the mirror image of that one so when we cut the ends of the vertical bits for the draw fronts it cuts this molding into here so these two fit together that's good for picture frames and stuff yeah so you can see that it goes in to be beautiful bits of oak oh machine that is look and so the idea is that these are going to go at the back of the van because we're going to do some sort of oak the kitchen yeah country style kitchen vibes at the back so that's the finished article on the end and as you can see perfectly perfect after that oak faced veneer it was a bit temperamental so we're not going to go with that we're not going to go with the oak faced ply because we'll have to order it in so we're just going to go with some plywood so this is the finished result of what you get using them crazy bits and uh and then there's another one to knock up well as i say that i looked on my left and he's already botched one up so you've seen the wood being routed you've seen them being put together they've had a bit of oil on look at that shit lighting but you get the idea now at the back of these we've doubled up on the plywood so so it's flush with it the the actual draw itself we're just saying that because i keep on my gear in here it'd be funny if my thermo rest x therm was on the other side of that and of course these will get stained the same with the Danish oil all up the same i'll do that in situ and we've left a gap here so when the tables come out i'm not going to get in the way put some oak veneer in here safety here and there you know where i come on whatever sometimes i won't bother but when there's hot metal shards flying about it's good to protect the old noggin bollocks as he piles his thumb into one of these screws these screws are a bit too long so as we did last time we've just screwed them through the ply and then we'll cut them off and that'll give us the perfect size screws they're hot when you hit the sink veneer i'm just going to use some of this foil tape just to cover up some of these holes makes the carpet go better and also stops the moisture from getting in here open window would you like a bacon butty sausage butty egg butty what i'm doing now is i've taken off this oak trim from in here and we're measuring up out of some chunks of wood so that we can attach them to here and then they'll just turn on this side and lock these drawers in because they're starting to you know when you go around the corner they're just open up so i'm gonna have some little things on here been scratching me head about what to do because as the CEO of the most popular latch and lock instagram page in the world i thought i have to do some it some are quite nice so we're going to do some oak i'll probably hand carve them just little oak wooden bits so that they can turn on the side and lock these in we've got our length of oak and this will be cut down to three inch pieces and then i'll just whittle it take off these edges and that'll be our latches the same width as the oak strip on the furniture there that's set safety first right so we've marked three inches i'm going to leave it in one piece so it's easy to work with the material just use me whittling stuff just make them look somewhat like i really like that rustic look stick some oil on them and get them screwed on there it is all oiled up looks pretty good there we go just a quick little fix for the drawers and then you're just twisting when you're in transit and that'll keep all the drawers fastened you could do them deeper and hide the screw screws and put a bit of timber at the top but might do that in the future but for now that's perfect a long way a long way a long way yeah yeah oh yeah all these are the best it's out in the game left handed i'm a long way it's classics and there we go sorry sarah that was nix's girlfriend and it was his fault he sent her for a long wait and a long wait she got there we are that's as far as we've got sir as you can see oh maybe can't manage to get the carpet done gonna put another oak face panel on that side to marry up with that the tables in the faces of the drawers are done we've got the heater in which is pretty cool actually because there's the heater down there then there's this has different modes on it so you can do the temperature power mode ventilation and heating set timers on it and stuff again thanks to the lads at auto term i'll leave a link down below if you fancy one of these heaters you're doing a pavan or a boat or you just want it in a cabinet bottom of your garden or whatever i'd definitely recommend them and there'll be a discount code below if you want it from this like a workspace area and chilling area we can take that off slotted down here is the extension for the bed fits into these dovetail joints and that's it and that creates quite a large bed and there you go thanks for joining us on part three of the van build as i've said before this is the first time so mistakes are going to be made we've learned from the mistakes and downloaded the skills as new like carpet in a van from now on i know what to do but gotta have a little bit of trial and error aren't you join us next time when we'll be tackling the roof and the bedding and cushions and seating area got something special coming up for that we'll be putting some holes in these plies don't worry about that because they can get a bit damp when you're lying on them and when they're not allowed to breathe so i'm gonna figure out where to put the holes and give this a bit of breathability if you're not subscribed already please consider subscribing hit the bell notification to be notified when the next video is out and look after yourselves bye for now 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