I began insulating the walls in October, I was soo happy to begin this project. The Layers Here’s how it’s all gone down. I got the first layer of insulation in the bus. What you see here is a 1 inch of polyiso with a reflectix radiant barrier between the insulation and the outer metal…

So I completely forgot about my XPS insulation struggles, but basically I looked all over Washington for about 3 weeks for 1/2 Inch XPS extruded polystyrene insulation.   It was a huge struggle but I finally found it.  Why did it have to be 1/2inch XPS?  Well I didn’t raise the roof of my bus..

The Return to Electronics I was both excited and terrified to install a backup Camera as well as a trailer hitch.  Not because it was expected to be difficult, but because it would be a lot of messy anxiety inducing work.  If I were smart I would’ve taken care of this during the first round..

September was a month full of little projects.  A lot of which were based around the idea that I wouldn’t be able to do these after the fall rain began.  One thing I was putting off was a bathroom roof vent; originally I was planning to use an original schoolbus window and throw in some..

Window Skinning+Window Install I found myself anxious about my drivers side window so I replaced it with a nice big beautiful dual pane window. I put it in a little crooked so my bus could be unique, with this window in, all but 1 small window and all of the integrated door windows. have been..

Window Install Copy Pasta Well this past few weeks have been cluttered with last minute summer fun, but a little bit of progress since my last update. After 3 years of reading through builds and hating myself for not being able to weld, I finally got myself a modest lincoln MIG Welder. I went ahead..

Roof hatches Copy Pasta Front roof vent cleco’ed on. I cut the whole with an abrasive cutoff wheel, if I could do it again I’d probably use a jigg saw. The rear roof vent location was not ideal, so I tore it off and cut a new hole for the roof vent. Skinning the bus..

Somewhere around this time the bus project started getting really fun.  It no longer felt like troublesome work, from this point on the bus project was pretty much all I could think about. Skinning the Bus Copy Pasta This past two weeks has been an emotional roller coaster, I had a few other pictures I..

April So April was a slow month as far as visual progress goes.  I reinstalled the two front heaters and re-wired almost all of the dc components.  At first DC electric didn’t work, I had about a week of troubleshooting but once I started using a multimeter (and my brain) I was able to figure..

  The first thing I did was buy a bright LED shop lamp so I can work when I get home at night.  This is by far the most important thing I have purchased for the bus, without this I could barely get any work done.  After this, I wasn’t sure what exactly I needed..