It's amazing how you guys are growing! happy for you! Can't wait to start our own Van Life build in a few months, until then we're building an SUV Camper and will start traveling with it pretty soon! Keep sharing! you are an inspiration 🙂
@@SarahandDave thank you so much! It’s really an incredible feeling, the whole being proud of yourself thing. And pumped for you guys!! I definitely hope you can learn from our mistakes 😂
People, listen up and let me tell you from experience. You absolutely must wear close toed shoes when you are working with wood. Ouchies! Cannot believe the walls are (mostly) up. What a project! Keep the videos coming along. So good.
Wow Lauren and Jason... the build continues and your work is paying off. Looking good. So many questions.. 1 - what/how did you hold those window frames in place? I didn't see you screw them into anything. They look great. 2 - plywood resting on the floor or do you have a small gap at the bottom? curious about noise/movement at the floor/wall junction. 3 - plex water pipe on the driver side back?? the red stuff? assuming this is for routing some future water tank. 4. - the big window - driver side.. did the van come with that in place? I'd like a window there that would tilt or slide open in that spot. Most importantly - Happy Anniversary and have a blast in Italy!! We visited Glacier NP over the long weekend - a must visit for your van some day.
@@patrickvanderhyde Glacier NP is gorgeous!! So glad you guys got to go, and thank you! We are super excited for our trip. Have been waking up at 4 AM to prepare for the time change 💤 So I’ll try to answer some of your questions here. 1. We used the furring strips across the top and bottom of the frame, Gorilla wood glue, and 1 inch brad nails connecting the furring strips to the frame itself. 2. The plywood for the most part is resting on the floor, but we are going to be tightly securing our floor against it and adding a trim so there shouldn’t be much movement there if any at all. 3. The red and black chords on the bottom were actually wiring that is going to connect to our car battery (I’m going to ask Jason to elaborate because I’m still learning some of the electrical stuff and don’t want to give the wrong information). 4. The window didn’t actually come with the van, we installed it ourselves. I genuinely wish I had more footage of this but I did make a TH-cam short you can check out that gives a small run down of it
@@patrickvanderhyde ok so it’s what I originally thought, the red and black wires are going from the battery to a DC to DC charger which is going to allow us to use the car battery to charge our lithium batteries when the car is running.
The mailman on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was Mr. McFeely, who was played by David Newell. McFeely was Fred Rogers' middle name, which was taken from his mother's maiden name.
That's amazing! How in the world do you know all of that-are you a big fan!? When that mailman stopped by our house, I thought for sure he was going to come in and pay us a visit but he didn't! Such a bummer.
@@DVaccarelli1988 I mean, so did I-but I didn't have that sort of knowledge about it. Even watched the movie with Tom Hanks but it seems like you've got the insider scoop. Incredibly impressive.
Hi guys. Greetings from the UK Loving the videos and the way you explain everything in detail. Also loving the tattoos.. what donthe 3 interlocking triangles represent (if anything)? Cheers
So happy to have you here and that you're enjoying the journey as much as we are! And thank you 😊 The triangles represent me and 2 of my closest friends, we all got matching tattoos representing the 3 women intersecting at different points throughout our lives since high school (with the triangle also representing the divine power of the female).
@@hellolaurenstone that's awesome. I'm a late starter with tattoos, I had first one 18 months ago and have 4 now (I'm 54). I'm hoping to start van life soon as there's so much I want to see and do so I'm finding your build inspirational and helpful
@@Pootz1000 no such thing as a late start, only the right timing. 😊 and I hope these videos help in some way or at least continue inspiring you to go after what you want! 🚐
Hi Lauren. Enjoying your videos. The van is coming along very nicely. As always, keep sharing. Blessings from Rick, in N.H.
@@rickw.5267 thank you Rick, glad to hear you’re enjoying them still!
@@hellolaurenstone You're welcome.
It's amazing how you guys are growing! happy for you!
Can't wait to start our own Van Life build in a few months, until then we're building an SUV Camper and will start traveling with it pretty soon!
Keep sharing! you are an inspiration 🙂
@@SarahandDave thank you so much! It’s really an incredible feeling, the whole being proud of yourself thing. And pumped for you guys!! I definitely hope you can learn from our mistakes 😂
(Poking my head in here to say hi to Sarah and Dave, and thanks for following along! 🙃)
@@hellolaurenstone Happy to hear that 😄 keep up with the good vibes!
@@hellojasonstone Hahaha
Hi back to you Jason!
@@SarahandDave Well heyyyy! Are you two already building out your van!?
People, listen up and let me tell you from experience. You absolutely must wear close toed shoes when you are working with wood. Ouchies! Cannot believe the walls are (mostly) up. What a project! Keep the videos coming along. So good.
@@hellojasonstone thanks for being so supportive 💛💛 and I’m glad we didn’t have to amputate our foot 😘
@@hellolaurenstone … OUR foot? 😅
@@hellojasonstone what’s yours is mine 😂
@@hellolaurenstone Okay, okay, fine. You win ... this time!
Wow Lauren and Jason... the build continues and your work is paying off. Looking good. So many questions..
1 - what/how did you hold those window frames in place? I didn't see you screw them into anything. They look great.
2 - plywood resting on the floor or do you have a small gap at the bottom? curious about noise/movement at the floor/wall junction.
3 - plex water pipe on the driver side back?? the red stuff? assuming this is for routing some future water tank.
4. - the big window - driver side.. did the van come with that in place? I'd like a window there that would tilt or slide open in that spot.
Most importantly - Happy Anniversary and have a blast in Italy!! We visited Glacier NP over the long weekend - a must visit for your van some day.
@@patrickvanderhyde Glacier NP is gorgeous!! So glad you guys got to go, and thank you! We are super excited for our trip. Have been waking up at 4 AM to prepare for the time change 💤
So I’ll try to answer some of your questions here.
1. We used the furring strips across the top and bottom of the frame, Gorilla wood glue, and 1 inch brad nails connecting the furring strips to the frame itself.
2. The plywood for the most part is resting on the floor, but we are going to be tightly securing our floor against it and adding a trim so there shouldn’t be much movement there if any at all.
3. The red and black chords on the bottom were actually wiring that is going to connect to our car battery (I’m going to ask Jason to elaborate because I’m still learning some of the electrical stuff and don’t want to give the wrong information).
4. The window didn’t actually come with the van, we installed it ourselves. I genuinely wish I had more footage of this but I did make a TH-cam short you can check out that gives a small run down of it
@@patrickvanderhyde ok so it’s what I originally thought, the red and black wires are going from the battery to a DC to DC charger which is going to allow us to use the car battery to charge our lithium batteries when the car is running.
The mailman on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was Mr. McFeely, who was played by David Newell. McFeely was Fred Rogers' middle name, which was taken from his mother's maiden name.
That's amazing! How in the world do you know all of that-are you a big fan!?
When that mailman stopped by our house, I thought for sure he was going to come in and pay us a visit but he didn't! Such a bummer.
@@DVaccarelli1988 I absolutely love this, thank you for giving us better insight 💌
@@hellolaurenstone You're welcome!
@@hellojasonstone Yes, I used to watch Mister Rogers back when I was younger.
@@DVaccarelli1988 I mean, so did I-but I didn't have that sort of knowledge about it. Even watched the movie with Tom Hanks but it seems like you've got the insider scoop. Incredibly impressive.
Hi guys. Greetings from the UK
Loving the videos and the way you explain everything in detail.
Also loving the tattoos.. what donthe 3 interlocking triangles represent (if anything)?
Cheers
So happy to have you here and that you're enjoying the journey as much as we are!
And thank you 😊 The triangles represent me and 2 of my closest friends, we all got matching tattoos representing the 3 women intersecting at different points throughout our lives since high school (with the triangle also representing the divine power of the female).
@@hellolaurenstone that's awesome. I'm a late starter with tattoos, I had first one 18 months ago and have 4 now (I'm 54).
I'm hoping to start van life soon as there's so much I want to see and do so I'm finding your build inspirational and helpful
@@Pootz1000 no such thing as a late start, only the right timing. 😊 and I hope these videos help in some way or at least continue inspiring you to go after what you want! 🚐