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Fiat Ducato camper build
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They’re standard IKEA drawers, called Maximera 37cm deep.
They’re rebranded Blum parts.
You get them in various heights too, get the highest type you can to fill a particular gap. The top bars are adjustable too so if your front is slightly off square you can correct it.
Here is our parts list, we got a few dividers and side panels that weren’t essential.
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Added in the shower mixer and outlet.
Trickier than you’d think because the outlet needs to go on after the plastic board which covers the plywood.
I wanted the angle on the outlet to be perfectly vertical which led to some challenges but I got there eventually.
I made so many holes in the original panel that I just cut a new one altogether.
Still a lot to do here.0 -
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Boring tricky stuff today.
First job is to figure out the hole in the side of the van for the Truma water heater. There are a lot of things to take into account, like the angle of the van wall vs the angle of the heater manifold.
I made a small frame taking the contour of the van into account. Thankfully the sliding door made a handy template for this
The red line shows where the metal plate for the heater will sit.
Frame in. Thank god it’s actually lining up with the heater
Heater will sit like this
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I also fitted one of the tambour doors and a support for the bed frame.
The support is an IKEA kitchen cabinet hanger I’ve been keeping for about 9 years..
This will be faced with the same laminated birch ply as is on the cabinet doors.
This is kind of a test fit. I’ll use this as a template to make it nicer.0 -
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As planned, I tidied up the tambour door, made a new stronger frame
Had these furniture grub-screws left over from various IKEA packages. Very handy as I can’t go all the way through the board, and they’re very strong.
Ran the gas line to the kitchen as well, and have clips ready for the hot/cold pipes.
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You can see from this photo how bad the glue from the signwriting had soaked into the paint. We had used tar and glue remover on this before but it was too embedded
Spent a few hours with a DA polisher this evening doing the panels that had sign writing on them.
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There were a few light scratches on the passenger door that looked a lot worse than they were
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The whole van will get a compound and polish one of these fine days. For now I’m happy enough with that!0 -
Finally got the floor finished today. Delighted with it.
Ready for the rear seats to go in now. They’re back from the upholsterer so can fit them soon.
The seat base got a final coat of paint
Got a lot done on the utilities side of things too. Additional drop-out vent and drain valve for the plumbing fitted and that area trimmed.
An awful lot of tidying with wiring that’s not worth showing.
RGI installed the gas manifold a few weeks ago too
Oh yeah. Installed a second rail so we can take the table outside if we want
Starting to see the finish line.0 -
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