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- We need your help! Our #skoolie build is about to begin, and we need your help choosing some items for our conversion. Let us know in the comments if you have any experience or comments on any of these items. What are your thoughts on the recpro tankless water heater? It seems like it has some good reviews and is well priced. We are also considering getting an apartment stove for the kitchen. Our solar rack still needs some finalization as well. Skoolie.com has some mounting brackets that look like they will work. What do you all think of these items?
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Welcome to our Big Family Expedition! We are a family of 8 that sold everything we owned in 2019 to travel full time with our kids. After being stationary for a while we have decided to live the RV lifestyle again. We are converting a skoolie for full time travel 2024. Be sure to subscribe to follow along on our upcoming travels.
Not I built a house, But a tiny home, But I am building a skoolie, But I am building a skoolie for full time travel, But I am building a skoolie for full time rv life, But I am converting a school bus into an RV, But I am building a tiny house, But I am building a DIY RV, But I am trying to decide what appliances to get, But I am considering a RecPro Water Heater, But I had to ask for help, But this is a Tough Situation, But this is not the super bowl, But Not I Built MrBeast a Real Life Fortnite Battle Bus, But I don't know if this will work, or any other video like Chuck Cassidy, Isaac Turner, A Bus Life Story, Navigation Nowhere, Us Plus A Bus, Mobile Dwellings, or Jess & Jake would make. This is a real life journey of us building a custom rv to travel full time in 2024.
00:00 We Need You!
00:20 Water Heater, RecPro?
02:18 Cooking
03:15 Bathroom
05:30 Solar Rack
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Ask Scott! He fixes a lot of the on demands after a deep freeze. He can probably give you tips on how to prevent that.
I'll tell Kenny to ask him. 😁
our truma on demand has been wonderful and trouble free over our time of ownership, regular annual descaling of course but then no issues... today's multi use smart ovens can do convection, air fryer and microwave service.. as for stove induction cook top is awesome.. when not in use it is a flat glass surface... if you have the room a full bathroom and a half bath is the way to go...
Thank you for the tips. We will have to look into Truma more, we heard that you had to go to a dealer to install those but maybe that is not true.
We are using the GIRARD Tankless RV Water Heater we bought on Amazon we really like it.
Thank you, this is one brand we have looked at as well.
Can't really offer comments re what to buy, but the other skoolie channel I sub to (I'm sure you'll know) has just today done a video with the RecPro water heater. Can't wait to see the bus color you chose.🌈
We can't wait to show everyone the paint 😁
We have a 5th wheel but we do have the Furion tankless water heater and so far we have not had any issues. We have the Insignia stove/oven. We baked pies for Thanksgiving and cookies for Christmas and it was awesome. It is propane but the oven works better than the one we had in our sticks n bricks. We had a class A with a split bath room toilet alone on one side behind its own door. The sink and shower on the other which could be separated from the front with a pocket door. The bathroom separated our rear bedroom from the rest of the coach also behind our toilet was our combo washer/dryer. We liked it because if one of us was in the shower the toilet was available and not in the same room. Wasn't ever a fan of a wetbath. Kinda weird for me to take a shower with the toilet under me. Can't wait to see your decision.
Thanks for the suggestions! I've had those same exact thoughts about the toilet and shower being together but I've seen others do it and it doesn't seem so bad. We'll see. I'm really trying to be creative and maximize all the space.
Enjoyed again sorry can't help on what brands to use, but on demand, sounds good, with the big family yall have, Christy answered her own question, she likes to bake ,so bigger oven, don't think toaster oven is feasible, Better yet ask BOB and Karri, they give good advice😊 tanks for sharing
Thank you! I think we are leaning more towards the apartment sized stove. I really think I would end up regretting it later if we don't go that route.
Interesting that you don't mention Air Fryer. We have a Ninja Foodie XL Air Fryer/oven. We LOVE IT. We have the biggest RV stove/oven and we can't stand our oven. We use it as storage. The Ninja XL Oven isn't big enough for full size cookie sheets. We use little commercial grade quarter size cookie sheets. Tania has baked 2 cheesecakes in the Ninja XL Oven at once. And we could bake 2 Red Baron pizzas at the same time. We did that a LOT. And the air fryer function is amazing for bringing left overs back to life. I think you would have problems with a full size oven as you don't have 240-volt electricity in an RV. You certainly won't have it at an rv park. The Ninja XL Oven does amazing power wise on just 115 volts and never trips any breakers. We can run it the same time as the microwave and the AC.
We have never actually used an Air Fryer, or had food cooked in an Air Fryer... We must be weird because it seems everyone else has lol. We were actually looking at a Ninja Foodie XL recently and the description said it could fit a full size cookie sheet, newer model maybe? That is awesome that you can make a cheesecake in them because my wife loves to make custom cheesecakes! The other option would be an apartment sized propane stove to not use any electricity, but you can't find them used around our area and new is pretty $$$.
We have 43 ft remodeled RV and we have residential refrigerator, microwave and stove. Our water heater is a fogatti and it works great. We are still working on the solar system but we will get there. Hope this help. Good luck. ❤
Thank you for the tips. I think we are going with the fogatti water heater and full size fridge. We are still trying to decide on the solar mounting though, but I am sure we will figure it out.
Hey you guys, I’m still new to the channel so I’m definitely behind on everything you’ve got going on. I don’t know if you all watch any of the tiny house shows or look at any of that stuff but when you’re talking about stoves and things usually see some interesting ideas with those, and who knows maybe that would help out with other things and what you’re doing. Before we actually bought a camper and I was thinking about trying to build one or convert something into one by practically binge to watch those shows to try to get ideas.
Thank you, Great idea! We have watched the tiny house videos and shows for inspiration in the past but it has been a while. Definitely some amazing ideas on them! I will watch some more of those videos.
Have you looked at layouts for the motor homes? Thats basically what you have. I like the idea of separating the toilet and shower. With that many people in a small area it will be nice to have toilet available while someone is in the shower. I would consider 2 toilets. Emergencies happen lol. Can't wait to see the paint job. Purple would be a nice color.
We have watched other RV remodels, bus builds, and tiny home videos. So many great and creative ideas! We're still deciding between a few different ideas for the bathroom. I would love purple!!! I'm out numbered with boys who don't agree. 😂
We have a Aqua Hot system, not only makes endless hot water but also heats the motorhome when we need heat. Have no experiance with other systems, but love our system.
I have not heard of this one. Thanks for the advice, we'll check it out.
I am the hundredth view
That is awesome, thank you for watching!
Would you have to use a RV model or could you use a residential one? My dad is a plumber and he recommends the propane Navien because it uses stainless steel components over copper. It also has an internal circulating system, some others (Like Rheem do not)
A residential water heater is definitely a possibility.
Let us know if you come up with a cool clothes washing set up. I need to do this.
I have your full-size toaster oven 😢. I use it daily!! Thank you!!
I'm so glad it's still going strong for you! That makes me so happy! ❤️🥰
@@bigfamilyexpedition me too 😂
My previous comment seems to have disappeared but I just wondered if you contacted builders of tiny homes if they might offer advice.
We have not contacted anyone but have watched many tiny house and bus build videos and have seen some amazing ideas! Can't wait to see how it all comes together!
@@bigfamilyexpedition That’s fantastic I cannot say enough about the awesome people who are sharing knowledge on their channels.
Oven oven oven nothing better than a oven
I think my wife agrees with you 😁