Building our Sprinter Van Bathroom + Shower | Van Build Series

we have a shower frame and some plumbing so it's finally my turn to be down here in Austin to work on brisket I've missed it haven't seen it since since we bought it I was really excited to get down here and start working on it but ever since I've been here it's just been pouring down raining it's now day two and rained pretty much all day yesterday it's about almost 10 o'clock now on day 2 and and it's still raining so there was a little bit of a break yesterday but it's kind of a bummer all we've really done has gone to the store and get get a few things a bunch of wood and and Home Depot of course can't can't come down without going to Home Depot so kind of a bummer but we'll get going here soon hopefully once the rain passes so the main projects that we're working on while I'm here is to get start building out the shower and some of the other cabinets on day one yesterday didn't get a whole lot done because of the rain but we went to the lumber store and bought some maple and birch plywood we bought this because it's nice and strong we bought a few different thickness a 3/4 inch 1/2 inch and a quarter inch that we'll use for the shower and some of the other cabinets so we bought them because they look nice they're very strong and they'll be great for for those applications so the second major project we were looking to get done this trip or get started was to install the heat so heater underneath the passenger seat most people that we've noticed like to put that in that area because it's just nice and convenient to open box and just to open space to put but we started to take the passenger seat off and we noticed that the 19th floor underneath the seat is completely different from previous versions it's not as level it's more sloped up towards the front and also we think it has like a double wall so when you drill down it doesn't you won't immediately see the intake and exhaust not the bottom so running into a bit of complication there so we're gonna have to probably hold off on that until another trip to figure out where it's gonna go and how we're gonna implement that in the band so the weather cleared and we finally have some action very exciting so what we've done is we came in took a writing a piece of plywood and made a template for the bathroom walls is what we're working on so this was a little more out here like that because it was square and so we took measurements in here all along the way it like six inch 6 inch increments and then took it inside and cut a little bit off of at a time it took a few back-and-forth tries but this template fits really nice all along the way as you can see so we took this template back into the garage and we had a 3/4 inch plywood which is going to be their walls it was a big nice square rectangle cut it right down the middle laid the template on top of here I put some up the top to the proper height and then cut it along that curve we had for the curve of the wall so very exciting that we finally got some work done so it's been pretty boring just waiting around waiting for the rain to pass but we should be in the clear until Thursday when I leave so taking a little break now and then we'll come back out and get going again so poking out of our frame of our bathroom here this was the major major dealio we got done today so this is gonna slide up against the wall obviously and that's gonna be our bathroom and shower super cool just giving it like a little test run here so the toilet will be right here at my feet it's gonna be pretty tight in here should be able to stand should be able to rinse off and sing my songs in the shower and all that so very cool that we got that done another piece we got done her got started on was the wall for side of this closet here so this will be right here and we'll have some little shelves here laundry basket we'll keep a suitcase here and this will be where we'll keep some of our backpacking stuff and a couple of little things and then the plumbing will go right in here which will start on tomorrow so much more productive day then then the last day yesterday where we didn't get hardly anything done just getting some supplies and waiting out the rain so pretty big day and like I said tomorrow we'll get going on some of the plumbing and keep working on that closet on the other side and then later on in the week we will start messing with the building the dresser out right here so very exciting and like it's so cool to like see stuff like taking shape man like you can really just you can just start visually like seeing it come together it just gets me gets me pumped so it's pretty cool [Music] who've been a long day so at first glance it doesn't look like we've gotten a lot done but we had this bathroom cabinet going yesterday and then today we were solely working on this closet area going on right here so this whole thing is one unit and it's gonna slide off into this corner more this is some storage here laundry and then a suitcase we'll go here our dog crate will go right in here and then some backpacks and some other things as much as we can shove in there so cut out all this wood put in like the supports for it things like that got the back on it all that jazz so been a long day tomorrow we're looking to hopefully get to the plumbing we thought we could get to it today but it's looking like it's going to be more tomorrow got to get the installation in on the back of it and keep things rolling so there's just lots of moving parts all along the way on each step so we're keeping it going and we're calling it a day today and then we'll be back at it bright and early tomorrow so see you then another full day of the van build is in the books at first glance it doesn't look like a lot but it took took us all day so let me show you what we did got that drain drilled in through the bottom there we've got this white tube is the exhaust for the composting toilet this is the hot and cold for the shower and then they come down around here and they go out here well that comes up this way and then that white one is the drain from the kitchen sink so it goes it's gonna go all the way down and around here to the sink that's right here for the door shower pan fits in nice and snug there and the water lines are running under that lip there so we're gonna end this blog right here I've still got two more days to go Wednesday and Thursday where I'll continue we will continue to work on the finishing touches on this get everything right and squared and get everything done and get it pushed back in its final place and so hopefully we can get all that done before I leave I'll also be getting a lot more of the insulation in there down at the bottom and then Catherine I'll pick up where I left off when she comes in a couple weeks so it's been very productive I'm proud of myself proud of us for how much we've gotten done and it's been a learning experience but it's been fun so it's getting exciting we have like an actual structure in the van now so pretty cool I'm excited I can like I can start to start to feel it and taste it so and see it so very cool sitting on the toilet sittin on the toilet sittin on the toilet sittin on the toilet [Music] you [Music]