Why I m Selling The Car I Said I Would Never Sell

Oh my God, guys, pretty sad news, putting the Patrol up for sale. That is the title of this video, but we're breaking this episode into two parts. We're starting with, Bill and I bought renos. I had a bunch of content filmed over the past few months of doing some renovations on the property, doing the bathroom. Another big bit of news is we do have merch back on the website. So we haven't had that for almost two years now. We had some stock left over from the Brisbane Ford Drive Show, and we're talking stickers, banners, shirts, stubby coolers, bar runners, key rings, playing cards, schooner glasses. We've got so much stuff on there. There'll be a link down below. I'd appreciate it if you support the channel, support me, grab some merch, because a few of you guys had some shirts at the show that were looking super ratty because we haven't had some new ones to send you guys. So go check that out. Let's get into Bill Not Bought Renos. Guys, welcome back to another episode of Bill Not Bought Renos. That's right, I'm a renovation channel now. Yeah, it seems like everyone's doing it, so why not me too? But as you all probably know, I've been building this property for years now, and it was what, three years ago that I bought it. The bathroom slash bedroom upstairs reno mezzanine situation has been going on for a long time. Finally got the council permit with the septic in, and we can build this thing. So in this episode, we're bringing this bathroom to life. In the last episode that I posted, I gave you a little bit of an update of what we've done. The plumbing's gone in, electrical's half in. Look at my dog. Does your dog do that? Like whenever there's insulation or anything fiberglass, the dog loves to lay on it. Like, I'd get itchy, but there's something about dogs and laying in fiberglass, it's weird. Anyway, let me just show you this trench. That's one thing that had to go in. So we had to dig all the way from up there, dug all the way down and around, ended up cutting through this pipe here. That's sort of the main feed to the house. Luckily, we're on tank water, so it's all just run off a pump. I could just switch it off, isolate it, and Matt will be coming back, who's gonna reconnect that plumbing. That is for, like, the waste. So what happened, a few months back, they added a new septic down the back there on an effluent system. This is the old house septic, well, feed, and this is where the old tank was. They've put a T-piece in here, so we've basically dug a trench, connect up to that piece, and that sends it down to the bottom. So that hooks up both the house and the new renovations bathroom that we're doing upstairs. So that's the waste sorted. The feed's already been done. So Matt from MRT Plumbing, spiders everywhere. He's already put the feed in, so plumbing's pretty much done. Now what we're doing in this episode is pretty much everything else, building the bathroom. I have to go through and rip off all this gyprock glue. Don't ask me why. So I thought I'd use my due diligence, and literally, I gyprocked this whole place. Obviously, like, glued it all on, and then it all had to come off because we're putting villa board up. So I put the wrong stuff up, plus the plumbing wasn't in, so I gotta go around and get rid of all this using a planer or a chisel and a hammer. Bit of a messy job. It was my ****-up, so I gotta fix it. Well, you win some and you lose some, to be honest. I did this over the span of two or three days. It's one of those scenarios where you try and do something to get ahead, and it just makes you take longer in the long run. It was a super messy job as well. A combination of a chisel, a grinder, and a bit of a planer, but we got there in the end. It has been a couple of days, actually. Sorry if the light's kind of shitting here. It's dark, there's no lights, I know. But anyway, skimmed all this off, got the glue down to this, done all the walls, all that, everywhere, pretty much. So it was a big job getting all this back. I used kind of a planer in combination with the grinder, and it kind of got all the bits off I could. Where it's flat, you can plane, but up in the corners, you kind of gotta use a grinder and a chisel, and it took ages. Anyway, so now what we're gonna go grab is villa board. Villa board is like gyprock, but it's waterproof, it's a bit thinner, similar to like AquaCheck, anything that's like a water area, bathroom, toilet, you kind of gotta use a waterproof cement, fiber cement, essentially, is what it is. Still use normal gyprock on the roof, which I've got a few sheets of that left over, but we'll go grab some villa board, and then once that's sheeted up, start waterproofing. We're pretty much into it then after that. Alrighty, we're trucker life this morning, heading down to Mitre 10. So, we're gonna go 1800 sheets. Oh, is that these? 18, that looks 6 mil, 1800. No, we need one that says villa board on it. So, this is Hardy Flex. There's villa board up here. And also probably get some waterproofing stuff as well. So, the plan is to get the sheet up today, first, and then we'll get the sheet up. First layer of waterproof, because it needs to kind of set overnight, and then tomorrow we can do another layer. There's villa board there. So, we looked around Mitre 10 for a bit for the stuff we needed, and of course they didn't have pretty much anything we needed. So, we went to the other hardware store, the better hardware store, and got everything we needed. Alrighty, so we've had this awesome idea to, while the bathroom's happening as well, we're also gonna do a little bit of a freshen up of the bedroom area. So, we're gonna paint. Hey? You had a brilliant idea. No, it was you. Jess had this idea. So, we're gonna freshen up the bedroom and office as well. So, we've got black, I think it's black. Yeah, Riverstone, good stuff. Something like a black feature wall, and she found some wallpaper on special. So, a bit of a risk, but we'll see how it comes out. And that's what we're gonna do in between when the waterproofing's getting dried off and stuff as well. One week later. All right, I don't know how good the audio will be, because I've had to put the mic in my hair, because I have my shirt off. Topless tradie, come on out, mate. This is Des, this is Troy. Okay, please don't. Okay, she hates it when I do that. So, I've actually turned all the power off, because we've got to undo some of these outlets here too. So, essentially, put the villa board up, cut the holes for the electrical, all the outlets and stuff. But, I've got the air con going, because that's on a separate circuit, and I'm using, well, it's not quite happening just yet, but look at this. Here we go, so this is EcoFlow's, I think it's the Delta 2 Max. Get the fan going, get some air con happening in here, and we can use it to charge batteries while the power's knocked out, so we don't obviously zap ourselves. But, what's the plan first, babe? This one? We'll do the toilet area, it's the simplest one. There's less outlets, there's only one switch, it's a smaller room. Get our bearings there and go from there, but she's the professional. I am the laborer today, so see how we go. Oh, this is smart, babe. Working smarter, not harder, I've got the forklift. Let me just pull this sheet straight off there, bang, bang. Him, him, straight in. All right, so I've got a little bit of a method going here, as Jess was banging up the sheets. My job was to cut and prepare the next one. I was also putting these little holes in the wall as well. I'll show you what they're for later, some pretty sweet little marker lights we've got going in. All righty, guys, day one is pretty much over. We got quite a bit done, considering we didn't start till about one o'clock, but all those kind of base level sheets are up. A little bit in the bathroom section, and then tomorrow we can start putting the top sides up. But tonight, we're going on a little side quest, so gonna start doing some paint tonight. So I think this wall, obviously this has all been cleared out. This wall, my interior designer has come up with an amazing plan. I think we're doing that black, and possibly wallpaper this wall, which won't happen tonight. But James has found me a black air con, which is sick. So I think I'm gonna do that wall black. This will eventually be more of a kitchen built out here, whatever. But we need to do these door frames. So these just never got properly finished, nor the doors, no paint on them. So this all got done a couple of years ago. So finish off the door frames, get all them flushed out, paint there, possibly a black wall in the room as well, which I'm not sure about. Whether to do this bedhead black, or whether to do that back wall black, I'm not sure. But that's kind of a theme, black, white, and then the bathroom will tie into that. So I'll probably just time-lapse a bit of that, kind of boring painting. Just set the camera up, you'll see it come together. Pretty sick. 10 seconds, wall painted, no dramas, been in real life. It's gonna take a few hours, so that's what we're doing. Dude, building houses is kind of fun. Look at this, it's all come together. Sorry, the light's actually terrible in here because we've boxed it all in. But Jess has gone through and like set it all in. I think that's what it's called, like setting in. So gone through and done all the joins. Sealed them up, ready for waterproofing. So there's still a little bit of work to do on the floor section. Need some little angled pieces, add the water stop in for the shower. And I think we're gonna add one more drain into this kind of wet area here, like laundry slash toilet area. So that's the last little bit to do, door jams and sheet them off with some Villa Board as well. But the main walls have started to get all the, I don't know, what do you call that? The bathroom? You're starting to experience me not understanding what things are called because I'm not a builder, anyway. So I think the next job after that, once the waterproofing's down, is to get a tiler in, start laying some tiles. We are going floor to ceiling tiles. Obviously just a normal white ceiling and then a feature wall as well with some rustic stuff. So I'll show you what they look like, but we'll pretty much come back to you now when we start laying some screed down. And what tiles are we using? Righto, where are we up to? I'm not sure. Tiles, screed, all that good stuff. So last night, Jess laid down the first layer of waterproof. What we're actually doing is two layers of waterproof. So if the TikTok inspector's watching this, it is compliant, okay? So we do a perimeter waterproof first, lay the screed, and then a full one where you got the walls and all that good stuff around the wet areas. So what we're doing today is laying screed. So this is a little instructional video of how to screed. How do you make screed? So to make a classic screed, you generally start with a base of crushed rock. So what I'm gonna do is use some crushed rock and gravel, and we're gonna mix it with some water. Or you just go down to your local Mitre 10 and buy a bag of stuff called screed. I have a bucket, does that help? Absolutely, a bucket can come in handy for all sorts of things. Alrighty, let's get to it. So this is called engineered screed. So it's like when you get the sand and stuff and concrete, you make your own. Yeah, this is like a really expensive version of that that you pay so much extra money for for not much gain. Now, look, this is not a real screed, The guys at Luxe Concepts, they definitely recommend this stuff. And if they screed your bathroom, they use the good ----, all right? And just to be clear, guys, Luxe Concepts will get a professional tiler in for this. The reason I'm doing it myself is because one, I'm Mr. Built Not Imported, and two, that ----'s expensive. The quid I got, I was not gonna pay for that. So we're doing it ourselves, because I'm cheap ass, all right? All right, so I'm diving head first into this one. Never tiled before in my life. Jess has done a bit of it. So between us, I think we can work it out. Three days later. Righto, been a couple of days, back into B&B Renos. We're here, we're here doing waterproofing. So you've laid perimeter waterproofing. So that's like around joins, corners, floors, everything. So the next thing is to waterproof the whole floor. And then that wall's having a vanity. This gets waterproofed here, where X marks the spot. So there, there, there, there. And we put it on with that stuff. And then the TikTok inspector comes along and checks it, and it's all good. But we do need to get more to finish off the walls. I've only got enough to do just the bathroom area at the moment. But also I dropped my camera today. So this is the ancient one from, jeez, it's an A7 III. All right, but they've got the five out now at the moment. So that was a great, great day for me today. So back on the old camera from 2017. And it's fucked me lens as well. So we're back on a ---- lens too. But that's fine, that's a good new camera. This one's shorter. All right, what we're gonna look at now is tiling. So we're doing this ourselves because I'll let you tell you one thing. The quote to get the tiling done without supplying the tiles was more than the whole budget for the bathroom. Put it that way. So Jess has chosen these pretty sweet tiles. It's kind of going with the color theme of the whole place. I wanted to show you this tool. If you heard the term score and snap, it's probably from one of these things. So tilers use these, and it basically uses a diamond tip to score the tile. You bang a little bit of pressure on, and it just snaps the thing perfectly in half. It blows me away every time. I had a mate who was a tiler back when I was like 19, and he showed me one of these things. And they're pretty bloody cool. So I thought I'd show you one. We're gonna take 100 mil off the first few tiles just to get the center lines right with the grout. So all the tilers out there just cringing the way I do this, probably. Now I've done a few of these successfully, but I bet you the one on camera will absolutely not work, ready? Let's try it. Oh, it's done good. Perfect line. All right, so we're just gonna start with the floor area. So that's the easiest one. Obviously doing walls, window reveals, it gets really technical. So gonna start with the easy bit, which is the floor. There's no floor for this section here. It's only in the shower. So pretty much keeping it all flat. This is where I took that 100 mil off. So it's really trying to get the grout center line, because if I had that as a full tile, you end up with like a tiny little sliver here. So that's not great. So get the floor down today. See how that looks. Is it just me, or does everyone's YouTube just end up on 4DRIVE247? I don't know how they've done it. Their buddy probably mates with YouTube, but every time you watch something, it'll just land on their video and stay there forever. I need to know their secret. All right, just infinite amount of tiling to do. Now, the time of editing this video and pretty much recording this, we still haven't finished the tiling. It was a little bit each weekend. We've got pretty much the toilet area done, but we still have the walls of the actual bathroom to do. So we'll probably wrap up the reno updates for this video, move on to the patrol. Okay, a little update. This room is pretty much nearly tiled, which is pretty cool. Now I want to show you these lights also that I was talking about earlier. Check these out. Got this idea from Phil actually. Phil from Pro Built over in New Zealand had these in his little shed bathroom and it's just the perfect amount of like light, especially in the nighttime or early in the morning when you don't want to bang on the big one and blind yourself. You just have these little marker lights and it's just a bit of dim light, which is sick. So they're nearly done. We're just going to keep tiling the main bathroom. I do want to show you the kitchen setup. So actually first thing, wallpaper. I don't know if we filmed that going up, but this is how it's coming out. Pretty sweet. And then the kitchen, it's kind of a little kitchenette thing. So like that's actually a cooker out of my four wheel drive. So that's like a camp cooker, which we just kind of stuck there. And then little sink, just like it's going crazy with all the gold and that super flash. How blingy is that? I've got some doors to go on all here. It's going to be black. So it'll be sort of this vibe here. So it's a little pantry. That's all black as well. And then quick squeeze in the room. We ended up doing wallpaper there and there's that black feature wall. So we're going to do artwork and stuff on this side. A little bit of artwork, waiting for James to put that aircon in. So that's current progress. Slow, but sure. Getting there. And it's one of those things that you kind of just do a little bit each weekend. So now I'm going to talk about the patrol. And why I'm selling it. So this is a big, big, big decision. Let me think about it for a while. And I'm going to run you through how I came to this point. Right, I guess it's time to talk about the title of this video. You're probably wondering why I've decided to sell the patrol. The car I'd never sell. Before we get into that, I'm just going to do a quick shameless plug. Heatwave have hooked me up with a discount code, BNB. It does save you guys some money to check out. And all of their sunnies, well, most of them are safety rated. So I do use their clear ones in the workshop. And I've been wearing these every day. Amazing. Go check them out. Right. The big GU. Here's the logic behind it. This is the life cycle of that car. I build it. I drive it. I build it again. I drive it some more. I rebuild it again. I drive it again. Another rebuild. That's where it goes around in circles. Where it's currently sitting, it is in an awesome state. Awesome state. I would change nothing about it. So I don't need to rebuild it again. So it's kind of come to the end of its life cycle in my life. Number two, I'm getting older now and I'm spending my money on adult things like houses, renovations, just life, you know. Getting more into motorsport. So I don't have the disposable income anymore to just keep building, building cars and hoarding them. Build it, keep it, build it, keep it. Having to pay money to build a bigger shed to keep all the cars, right? Stuff needs to move on. You've got to make room in the shed for new projects. And that's where I'm at. I have a new project. I've got my eye on something new. I don't think I'm going to reveal it just yet. In order to build that, I need to free up space and money. I ain't selling the Hilux because that is a weapon that will go anywhere. And it's honestly not worth that much. It's not going to give me the funds to do this next build. It leaves me with a Patrol here, which has a lot of money tied up in it. Duramax Patrol ain't cheap. So it was time to put it up for sale. If I kept this car, I'd just drive it again, rebuild it again, throw more money at it. And to be honest, with the next thing that I'm building on this channel, I'll either going to fall in love with that and be converted, or once that's finished, sell that, and I'd build the exact same car again, the same way, the same components, the same driveline, probably the same colour. Perfect car for me. I'll build one again. So that's where we're at. The car's got to go. So if you're interested in buying, I actually had, I chucked up a post yesterday. I've had a few inquiries. A couple of people come and look at it this week, like serious buyers. But if you are interested, give me a message because it may not have sold at that point. And yeah, on to bigger and better things. But massive part of the channel, this car, I understand that, but it isn't my first car. Yes, it's the first four-wheel drive on the channel and people say, don't sell your first car, but it's not my first car. It was just the first one that appeared on the channel. I've had many builds before this. So there's an attachment there, but it's not super, super sentimental. And who knows, I could buy it back. To be honest, remember when I bought my white wagon back, the first one I took to Cape York? That was like six years later, I bought the exact same car back. So who knows, same thing could happen here. But that's the explanation why it's got to move on. It honestly just sits in the shed and never gets used anymore, which is kind of sad. I'd rather give it to someone and let them enjoy it because it's a weapon of a car. It is ready to go around Australia. You could live out of the scene for weeks. Awesome tow rig too with that Duramax in there. So that's where we're at guys. Might be the last time you see it on the channel, but wait to see what's coming.