2nd March2023 - Disco Transit Green Long Wheel base and Hi Roof Conversion

Now I am back on my full meds, I am back to sleeping all day and most of the night once again???

I feel all the progress I had made up until a couple of weeks ago, when I had no choice in not taking the meds any longer.

I have been put back some 8 months in improvements and what I was able to dong. Which without me realising it I had been doing a little bit more most days and instead of being able to do something 1 day and them having to sleep the next 2-3 days, to working 4-7 days non stop.

Ok someday's I may have not been well enough to do as much as others, but I now that I was improving. Oh just to have them days back again!!

It has been 2 days since I was up and pottering about on various things, and I still feel groggy, no interest, cannot be bothered, just wanting to go back to bed!.

But I do not want to go back to that life.

I know we have had to put the Scotland trip off till April, as I gotta go into Hospital (and not enough money raised to finish conversion)  and now just gotta letter from surgeon who is waiting to remove the kidney stone and add stents, saying I gotta go for a ct scan next Tuesday.

Maybe that could be a good start for another fight to pull myself out of this shit.

The black dog is with me as soon as I wake up again, until I go to sleep. 
I have the strength to fight one, but not both together !!

Today, I will be happy just to be able to stay up and maybe get something done, let us see what happens ??

it's 14.30 and I am still in agony and not yet manage to get out of the house!
I went back to bed and finally managed to get comfortable enough that the pain went away.
I thought great I will get up again and get in the transit, but before I got down the stairs 

I was again in agony!.

My eyesight is not good either, which means sitting on here is very painful if I look at the screen,

So i am looking at the keyboard instead ( so firgive me any spelling mistakes)

Updated - Jobs pencilled in till Sunday

Boy has this list grown !!

I will delete completed jobs a week after they are finished !

Green - Completed job

purple - job in progress

Yellow - Job Description
Blue - new jobs added or not started

1. cut n fit bed foot board panel to passenger side of van - Finished 25/02

1A. Insulate food board panel passenger side  - Finished 25/02

1B. glue foot panel board passenger side in place - Finished 25/02

2. cut n fit bed head board panel to driver side side of van - Started 25/02

2A. Insulate food board panel Driver side side complete - Finished

2B. glue foot panel board passenger side in place - Started 25/02

3. Measure & Cut front 9mm ply panel for bed - Started 25/02

3A. Measure & cut storage hole in 9mm ply for bed - 

3B Fit & secure bed front 9mm panel - 

5. add extra supports to mount the sink. - hopefully be completed next Monday
6. Panel the bulkhead battery frame work.
7. Area next to passenger door, needs washing and going over with wire wool -  Finished!! 25/02
8. Get MDF from old bed from green shed and cut to fit the bed frame - 

9. 35. Paint the Passengers side rear wheel panel -  

10. need some material for bed header cover - use some DODO insulation as filler - 

11. Insulate bed panels Passenger side - Finished 25/02

12. Insulate bed panels Drivers side - Finished 25/02

13. inside kitchen cupboard by bed, need strengthening, so we can bolt the kitchen and the bed together -  

14. make base for bathroom sink 9mm ply - 

15. Mark out and cut inside bathroom wall 3mm ply - Finished

16. measure and cut 1st roof panel 3mm ply - just some clips to add
17. Finally screw roof panel into place. - Panel clips have arrived
18. install sink tap & waist pipe - REMOVED to install wall boarding

18A. 2nd panel run light wires thru roof frame. - 

18B. 3rd panel run light wires thru roof frame. - 

18C. 4th Panel run light wires thru roof frame. - 
19. scobby doo's for blue cover for Mattress to protect it.
20. mount bathroom sink extra mounts - 

21. bring mattress down, when bed frame is made

22. add mount points to transit frame for bed frame

23. re-assemble the framework onto raised toilet area - 
24. sand back to bottom of the bathroom wall, so panels match the upright

25. Paint the Drivers side rear wheel panel -  

26. - put bathroom door frame back. - 
27. remove grill from kitchen unit and repair and put back - Removed, Lynne has started washing it.
28. water pumps screw to back of kitchen unit - 
29. remove sink and drainage board - 
30 buy some sealant gaskets for kitchen unit and install - arrived - not yet ready to use
31. refit cooker & sink & drainage board -  
32. move kitchen to its final location - Now needs Bolting in place (25th/02)
33. bolt the kitchen in place.
34. Glue extra Insulation in the inside of the drivers side rear wheel arch panel. - Done 25/02

35. drivers side wheel wheel build framework & board over - Started 26/02 Framework finished - Just needs boarding.

37. Passenger side wheel wheel build framework & board over - Started 02/03

38. Cut passenger side floor batton.

39. Rear Drivers side sound proofed bottom half -  Finished!! 25/02
40. Added DODO insulation and more sound proofing -  Finished!! 25/02
41. Cut out storage hole in bed side panel. - 

42. needs sanding and prepping for painting white - 
43. Paint the panel - 
44. rear passenger side lower half needs to be washed. -  Finished!! 25/02
45. sound proof pads need adding -  Finished!! 25/02

46. DODO sound/insulation needs adding -  Finished!! 25/02
47. Add guide lines for storage containers to floor - 
48. needs prepping for paint

49. Paint

50. measure and find best position for bed. - DONE 25/02
51. Start making frame for the bed. Started 25/02
52. Buy extra Containers needed for under bed storage. - 

53. Measure area and test fit Generator (remove when tested) -
54. 

39. Kev's workshop - Make some brackets and install roof rack on roof of transit. (Funds ring fenced) - Booked in on Tuesday 14th Feb.

39A. Kev's workshop - If time and funds allow, get water tanks installed underneath and plumbed into the back. (have some funds available but I know it will not be enough!) - Booked in on Tuesday 14th Feb.

Double Bonus job, to have worked out and cut the bed frame & have it mounted!

Please forgive the quality of the photo's, I have lost my moby phone which I use just for photo taking these days, so I had to use the Kindle, and never used it to take photo's before.

First job today is to finish dry building the top of the bed's frame.

Unfortunately we cannot mount it to the framework, as I am waiting for the weekend, to remove the side panel, so we can make the cuts with the jigsaw we need to do.

This is the 2nd upright from the kitchen unit side.

Using a 3x2 off-cut, I find a piece that just needed 1mm trimmed of the end to fit. for the 1st upright.

3rd upright is measured n cut and screwed into place

and finally the 4th bed upright is screwed into place

With a 2nd baton sat on top of the 1st cross baton, to bring the bed frame to the height we needed.
Again it is not screwed into place as we will have to remove it to remove the side panel.

This is the spacer panel, that sits between the kitchen unit and the bed's side panel.

It did not quite fit, so I used the planer and took of all the curves, and it is now ready to be glued in place.

This is my next target the passenger side wheel arch.
It needs to be framed in like the drivers side.

But 1st I need to have a bit of a tidy up and move around with the power tools n work bench.