With this almost 40°c again this weekend, we borrowed some more shade from @entirefire , and while @michelle_eves was busy trimming some more ceiling lining to length, @chris.eves.pt was inside the bus continuing what we started in the evenings during the week. The ceiling is well underway with a decent batch of pallet-boards trimmed and machined ready for painting, so while […]
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Was a multi-tasking weekend in the @magickandmarathons camp 😁. Chris was busy removing some rust from a couple of patches on the roof (and making a right mess), getting ready to put some new patches in and seal it all up ready for painting so we can start getting ready for solar panels. Huge thanks to the
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Lately it feels like we’ve been taking the windy road to progress, but it’s been such an awesome week – re-fitting the exhaust manifold and she drives like a dream with no ‘farty’ noise going up hills anymore. Not to mention, that even after the thicknesser (to machine the pallets) threw a blade out, we
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Chris has been busy playing mechanic while Michelle and the kids have been painting the first batch of ceiling boards. The plan is to have bed/s in so we can wake up in the bus Christmas morning after cruising looking at Christmas lights I’m pleased to report that the three perpetrators have been escorted from the
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One of the big drivers for us to move to #buslife is to minimalise our lifestyle and our earth footprint. So it’s really important to us during our build to find materials and way’s of building that involve as much re-use, re-purposing, re-cycling and up-cycling – so of course – PALLET’S!!! We haven’t paid for
This weekends job is to get the air con off the rood and the pipework out of the ceiling space so we get on with the inside work…. After having a great morning making lots of progress on Sunday pulling out the a/c pipework, cabling and pulling the components out, the afternoon was all struggletown
We’ve had a reasonably busy couple of weeks, what with deciding what to tackle next, a little bit of work, driving practise, GETTING MY LICENSE!!, getting a mechanical check, and a bit of recreation….. So we took the bus down to Diesel Torque – a heavy diesel mechanic (also a friend of the family –
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Between playing local chippy as well as our resident bus-converter, Chris has got his MR Class L plates so he can drive our new home (legally anyway..) and has had a couple of trips out and about driving the bus on trips to Bunnings and to collect pallets etc. etc.Looking forward to getting his license
So this last weekend we’ve (I have) been honing my ‘building skills’ – sort of a LARGE SCALE practise run for our bus. I scored a little chippy job helping one of my brothers-in-law put together a timber frame granny flat that one of his mates is building. It felt great actually, breaking out the
Building Building Building… Read More »
Today I (Michelle) am feeling a little overwhelmed and blergh about the bus reno. It was a hard day today. Having to take apart little bits to work out how the bus was put together. Finding so much tack welded and riveted from the top and unable to be removed without days and days of
