MAJOR REGRETS | I HAVE to Rebuild

It's official. The peach remodel has begun. And a lot of you had some questions. The biggest question is why remodel if you're just going to sell? And I want to kind of answer that question for you and go over why I am doing the remodel and not just selling it as it was. So for starters, I hated the layout. Doing the slap bed and it maybe it's just me and everyone's different. Everyone's wants and needs are different. But I just wouldn't feel right selling it the way that it was. I learned so much over the last year about just building and also about living in a bus and especially living in the peach and then moving from the peach to the big bus. Such a big difference. And one thing I learned really fast is having a bed that you have to basically break down every day, especially in the peach. So like if you have a dinette bed in the back, that's a little bit different because you can just leave it down and just have the bed in the back if you don't feel like putting it up into the dinette. Couldn't do that with this bed I had. If it was out, you had this much space to walk through your bus and it was just really annoying. It was I. I had two memory foam mattresses on top of each other, so it was really, really thick. I just stapled it to a piece of plywood, so it was really, really heavy, and that made it difficult to move the bed in and out. The slot system was like not the best. And also I built that pull out couch based on the dimensions of a Chinese or a Japanese style futon mattress that I had bought on Amazon, which was actually a bit longer than a normal full size bed. So when I switched from the futon, which was extremely uncomfortable, and I went to the regular full size mattress, I had like this much room at the end that was just like dead space. So yeah, that was a big thing for me is not liking the bed situation. I personally have come to realize that the bed set in the back is preferred, like the most preferred layout for me, and I think it's the most practical. So the layout in this bus is going to be pretty similar to what Isaac does in his smaller builds. I don't want to say too much. It will be a little bit different. I think that there's some cool things I want to do in the kitchen that I don't think I've ever necessarily seen done before, which probably has, but I haven't seen it. And so I'm really excited about doing the kitchen part. I didn't have any problems with the kitchen. I think it was great, but the way that this layout is changing and the way I have the kitchen isn't going to work. So if I took what I already had in here, it's kitchen-wise, and I moved the toilet, I moved the closet, bring the kitchen over, great, right? Well, the wheel well's in the way. So the refrigerator can't sit there where the wheel well is. So that's a problem. So we're going to have to do the kitchen a little bit differently. It'll still have just a foot pump. I'm going to put in an actual water tank to where it will have a fill from the outside. And it's just way less of a hassle than the blue tank, the blue jug I had in there originally. So that's a big one too, for me, I think is having a larger water tank, not having to fill it up as often and not having to deal with that blue jug because it was only five gallons and it was just a nightmare to get in and out. And it was so big and bulky. So having an actual water tank that has a little bit more capacity is going to be just a way less of a headache. And you don't have to take it out to fill it up. You just fill it up through your little spigot on the side from the outside of the bus. The toilet and the closet. The closet was fine. I think a lot of people expected that to be a shower and it would have been great to a shower. This is a dually, so it can hold a little bit more weight. I'm glad I didn't make it a shower because of the, all of this that's happening right now anyways. So we're just going to take the closet out. There's going to be plenty of overhead storage. There is a big, going to be a big box at the end of the bed because this is such a wide bus. You can, you can have that big box at the end of the bed and still have your full size bed, which is great. There's plenty of storage underneath. And so the closet isn't necessary. So that's going to be eliminated. The toilet, it was a DIY composting toilet. And while I'm sure some people don't mind it, I didn't like it, especially after having like the Ogo or a nature's head or even a port-a-potty toilet that do-it-yourself composting toilet, not my favorite thing in the world. So I probably would never do that again. I would definitely splurge and just buy even, even the port-a-potties. I've had one before and it was much better than that whole situation. Also that just took up a whole lot of space that could have been better utilized. I think the closet and the toilet could have been better utilized and it will be now. Another part of the bus that I kind of loved personally, but I felt someone else might not love it so much as I did was the front part of the bus on the floor. I had put in carpet and I had put in like a waterproof foam underneath and I had like layered it up three times. So it would match the floor because the floor was so high. And I just, the way that the carpet was, I couldn't get all the edges right and stuff. So there were parts of the carpet that just stuck up. There were parts of the carpet that I didn't get to put in, like in the driver's side door, when you open it up, there's the little place where you put your, you know, you step up into the bus. That was just treated with Rust-Oleum rust prevention. So it was just like a red rusty, a rusty red paint. And I didn't like that. So I definitely made some changes. I took the, I took the rug completely out and made some more modern changes up front, which I'm really, really happy with, honestly. I think it looks great. It, it cleans up the build a little bit and it doesn't look as quirky. It, I think it gives it just a more finished look. So I'm really happy with that. Along those lines too, like I said earlier, the floor was so high. So the, when I built this bus, I was just watching, when I started building, uh, I was just watching YouTube videos and I was just kind of learning as I went. And not everyone on YouTube knows what they're doing, but we all, but I mean, you know, if, if you want to post a video and be like, this is what I did so that someone else can learn, but also this is what I did. And this is what I learned. I used two by fours to start the flooring to like frame it out. And that was a big mistake. That was something I always wished that I could go back and change, especially after seeing how Isaac does the floors in his buses. Now I was like, that would have saved me so much height. I wish I would have done that. And doing this remodel, I really went full in and committed and I completely gutted it, took everything out. So the floor came completely out. I had an extra box of flooring that I had saved just in case I might need it. And I did, I used the entire box to refloor. I used, I reused the flooring that was in here, but for the parts where I needed to add a new piece of flooring, I was able to do that. I already had a box, an extra box laying around. So that was nice. The way that I redid the floor now, it saved probably at least an inch, maybe two, uh, headspace, which I'm pretty tall. So it made a huge difference. And I'm really, really glad that I was able to do that. I'm sure the next owner will appreciate that as well. So that was a big major choice that I made to do that. Also, another big thing was since day one, I've been trying to power this bus off of a power station. So first it was a Jackery 1000 and that actually worked great. The only thing that's in here that needs power is the refrigerator, the diesel heater, the puck lights, and the max fan. That's it. Four things. And the Jackery 1000 actually powered it perfectly. I was really, really happy. And then my bus got broken in two and they stole my Jackery 1000. So then I tried to use the Blue Eddy and the Blue Eddy has to be, the solar panels have to be wired a certain way and you have to have a certain amount of solar. And I didn't, I only have, I think two 100 watt solar panels on top and it wasn't enough. And so I couldn't use the Blue Eddy without making those changes. And it was just a big headache. So I tried to, I actually got a Jackery 1500 and I figured that would work for some reason, it wouldn't power the bus. And so I was like, that's so weird that the Jackery 1000 worked great, but this 1500 is brand new and it won't power the bus. So then I switched to, I traded Isaac my 1500 for his 1000 and his 1000 wouldn't work either. It was like so weird to me that nothing was working. And so I was just getting so frustrated with these power stations and it got really complicated and nothing was working. And so I just decided it would be best to put a real electrical system in here. So I am installing a real battery that will be connected to the solar panels and then also a Renogy DC to DC charger and a 1000 watt inverter. So just putting a real power station in here is just like a huge, huge change. Also, it was a little bit more than I wanted to spend, but honestly, it's worth it to just put a real power station. I put a real power system in here instead of trying to power it off the power station. And the back door, I used moss on the back door and it wound up like just getting everywhere all the time because there was so much movement on the back door. So I wound up just ripping all of that off, sanding it down really good. And I actually did sear panels on the back door and I think it looks much better and obviously it's way cleaner. The overhead shelves, I originally put in these overhead shelves with these L brackets that have like a metal line on them. The L brackets I used were just not practical for curtains. I just want to be able, I'm going to change the O bracket so that I can be able to just hang up a curtain rod and have normal curtains that you can just open and close. No big deal. The whole thing I did was just a mission to put your curtains up and down and I didn't like that. So I just want it to be easy. Same thing in the back. I'm just going to do a curtain that you just move and that's it. Also last but not least, the front door lock. I used a master lock on the front door and while it works, it's a pain in the butt. I do not recommend it. I feel like a lot of people have done it just because a lot of people have done it online and you're not going to know what works for you until you try it. So I tried it and honestly I'm not happy with it and it's just, I would like something I can open up from the inside because you have to lock it from the outside and so you'd have to lock it from the outside and get in the driver's door and then get out of the driver's door and lock it or unlock it. So that's, it's kind of a headache. So I'm going to do Isaac's schoolie door conversion as he likes to call it and it's going to be one piece that you can open up from the inside and lock from the inside and the outside and it's just going to be way less of a headache and so I'm really excited about doing that also. So those are all the big changes. I have this mirror here I'm going to be replacing because this one's busted and I think that pretty much covers everything that's changing but that's why I wanted to do the remodel before I sold it because those little things that, those are just a bunch of little things that really add up and I want to send the peach out to someone and they can just, you know, get in and go. They don't have to make those changes because it is annoying to have to unlock the door like that and maybe they're not capable of doing a door conversion that way or they don't know how, like they don't have the tools or there's just so many things like I just wanted to make this bus build as practical as possible and as comfortable as possible for whoever buys it to just get in go and live their best life. I didn't want them to have to deal with all the headache that I was dealing with and you know I've learned from my mistakes and I'm not going to sell this bus off to someone so that they can also learn from my mistakes and have to rebuild it anyways. So after the engine was fixed like that was a huge weight lifted and I felt so much more confident in the that I could do this rebuild and I could sell it and I know that whoever buys it is going to be happy and comfortable and they're not going to be dealing with all the issues that I dealt with. So a lot of you are asking and I just wanted to do this video to kind of give you a better idea of why I wanted to do the rebuild and the remodel. I just I learned so much over the last year year and a half building wise so I definitely wanted to take that knowledge and just fix my mistakes and like I said I don't want to put those on other people. So I'm really happy with how it's turning out it's definitely been a lot of work but I think it'll be worth it in the end and I think whoever buys this bus is going to be really happy. So that's it for that I'm definitely curious to hear your thoughts of what you think about everything that I disliked about the bus because a lot of people were like oh I love it so much but you don't know how it really is until you're in it and so I hope that I explained it well enough that you understand a little bit better as to why I wanted to really make those changes before sending her off. So that's it for this video thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you guys on the next video hopefully the peach will be done or pretty close to be to be being done the next time that I see you. So thanks for watching I'll see you guys on the next one.