Retractable Shower Door | FOUR SEASON VAN LIFE BUILD | EP. 55
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Last video we built our complete wet room containing a complete flush toilet and shower. Now it is time to seal the wet room in with a door. This wet room door is made by Stoett industries and is called their Nautilus brand. Very simple install and makes for a very attractive looking, space saving, light weight, wet room door.
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Thx for everything, we are building a van on your guidance. We call you ‘Peeps’. Thank you so much.
I'm so grateful to watch your video and see how you solved the problem of installing the wider Nautilus frame in a narrower bathroom door. This is the same problem I'm dealing with. Thanks!
nice job on trim. It is the details that adds that professional look to your project.
Living in a van will become even more popular this decade. Eventually, your videos will take off, and reach a million views. Your videos are excellent.
Really enjoying the build series. Love that finish 👏
I've looked at several videos on installing this retractable shower door. Yours is the best I've seen. Great detail. I really enjoy the humor in your videos. Keep up the great work.
Jeff. Van’s coming on and looking good. Some interesting innovations and new thinking in the build and the fact that you test out techniques and materials before the instal gives confidence for others to use your solutions. This is a great series for prospective van builders to follow.
Nice job. Additional ideas would be to install a fan in the ceiling to help exhaust moisture and two PVC pipes from your heater into the side walls so it can double as a Clothes dryer.
Pretty indeed.
Greetings from The Netherlands. Love your video's and you are an inspiration to start building my own Sprinter 4x4 Van soon. So thanks for sharing it with us🤘🤘
I’m installing my skylight in my Sprinter tomorrow. Can’t wait. It’s big enough to use a ladder to climb on to the roof thru it.
Clean install
DD ... came to your channel late, like about 3 weeks ago. I got caught up today. I'm a fan... your breakdown of the entire project, your recording of the work, the research you've done, and the overall vibe that you're communicating!! Keep on truckin'!!!
PS) That you're doing this in Calgary weather absolutely blows this Texas boy's mind!!!
Slick door for the Roamer, great trim choice as well. Keep the videos coming!
Super clean
Fit like a glove, no fuss!
Looks great! The trim really made for a professional and clean look. Looking forward to next week's video.
Hoping for a new video today!! I don’t know if I can make it 2 weeks without an update!
This series has been awesome and so helpful, I have been planning my own build for about a year. I found your channel about 3 months ago. I have watched every van build video and it’s helped me gain the confidence to actually do my own build, I ordered a van a couple months ago! Unfortunately it keeps getting pushed back, I’m hoping it comes in the fall. Thanks again for this series, I can’t imagine how hard it is to film and edit everything, but without you I don’t think I would have moved forward with my build!
You smashed that right out of the park buddy...Love it ...yes mixed subject is at rest.
Looks Fantastic!
I love your videos, your style and most importantly, YOU! Your can-do attitude is a real attribute! I can’t believe you didn’t have any previous experience in a van build! One more thing, when I got to your fridge install video and saw you chose the exact same side by side I chose for my enclosed cargo build, I was hooked! Keep up the great work Sir!
Nicely done! So what, to figure out the right length of door to order you subtracted 3 inches off the total hight of the van for the bottom and a 2-3 inches off the top, so you ordered a 58" door?
Another great vid man!!
What a sleek shower door Jeff! Your van build is coming up so well and looks like a high end and probably if you ever sell it you can get way over $200k! I'm pretty sure the last resort van sold for over $300k.
Such a simple but very effective door, but what happens to the water on it when you retract it?
It's like a squeegee
Hi Jeff! Just caught up on your videos. Amazing content. I came for the diesel heater and stuck around for everything else. Looking forward to Roamr’s maiden voyage! Once done with the continent, you should ship her over to Europe and visit some of your subscribers there too! Don’t let that pond stop you!
Bro!!! You doin it! ~ love your flav like a fat kid on a whoppa!!! Kungfu style! 🙏🏽
Great video, great content 💪🏽
Awesome i was waiting
Wow! It's starts to looks so good!!
What an amazing finish! Congrats!
Great video, I’ve been closely following your build as a base for my 21’ 170, 4x4 build. I got the same shower pan and cassette toilet, what height shower door did you go with?
Nice work Jeff, I love the pro look!!
Another great vid! Looks beautiful and clean, love the chrome trim very professional and way cool!
Looks great Jeff
Keep up the good work!
I think so if you put it upward it will help During driving it the shower will not run on by the shake
I would still turn the black thingy to the bottom 😂
very nice
nice
Also, you need to caulk around the inside of the door.
Very nice, the trim looks awesome. It’s good to be able to go to your hardware store and pick the item up. Building during lockdown wasn’t great because you can test the item first lol
The mess behind you? Jeff, just don't kick Winston's water dish! ;-)
So. You want to know what I think?? I think you need to come help me build out the 30’ Ford E450 diesel bookmobile I’m thinking about buying! I’m curious how it’s size compares to this van you’re doing. I like your work and humor!
Excellent workmanship Jeff. I am trying to construct with the least amount of wood. Have you looked at any plastics or similar products as substitute for plywood?
Great job! Love your work. What is the thickness of your wall that you mounted it too ?
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Another great video,thanks. Off topic question… could you tell me what size and where you got the portable garage for Roamer?
While watching this I was wondering..
Do you do anything with the inside of your "interior" walls or just 2 frp sheets and mounting blocks over the 80 20 Skelton??
When are you starting your next van? Have you ordered it yet?
The only problem with that shower door I can see is I don’t think it’s strong enough and watertight enough to caulk up in the closed position so you can fill the shower full of 6 feet of water and test it for leaks
Next video please
Why not cut the trim with your electric miter saw.....instead of armstrong miter saw.
Stoett Industries? I prefer shower doors made by Shove It industries
I think you should have made the door an inch or so shorter or you should put in a roof vent. There is nowhere for the steam to go, and no fresh air getting in.
No bathroom vent?
I am looking for a solution for doors over a shower in a bench. I’ve seen some people make a privacy wall around it by making a trifold door that can be stored away to the side when closed but idk how they will hold up with the water. And then I thought about these screen doors on both long sides of this” bench. I suppose with both screen doors opened I could make some sort of bench seat that will fit right over the small groves in the guide rail, anyone have some advice for me?
Wait a minute, didn’t you use to call us just plain peeps and now we’re “my peeps”. Did you adopt us?
Hi , I plan on doing a video giving a shout out to home self build van channels I’m following.
If it ok with you guys I’d love to give you a shout out on it ?
Your first mistake was looking at the instruction manual. Those are just suggestions. Any man knows you can do it anyway you want to. As for switching the hot from the left to the right I think some of these people don’t understand that you intend on having a companion and they won’t know that the hot is on the right. Course you could color code it with red and blue. I do agree that you overdid the height of the shower handles but obviously since the hose is attached directly to the handle area if you lower it down you also lower down the hose making it problematic at times. The one thing I wondered as I thought about this is what breaks the vacuum so that the water in the hose can drain out when you finish your shower? You don’t wanna be getting any legionnaires disease. that’s reserved for legionnaires and they don’t take kindly to people who are not members stealing their diseases.
Very Inspirational. Hubby and I want to build out van and you have wonderful ideas and videos. We want sliding solar panels on top and I just can not figure out how to make this happen What do you think about sliding solar panels on top of van?
I’m glad you brought that up because I’m planning on having tilting and sliding solar panels on my van but I’m naturally curious as to why yours might be sliding and really surprised that you didn’t give the reason
@@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath So I can have more panels on top of van so they slide out and get more sun when we are parked
@@iamsamiam2753 Thanks, that’s what I assumed and what I am building. Mine will tilt too. I will probably be selling the kit in a few months when I get this worked out hopefully in time for the September Overland Expo. It’s mine boggling to me that instead of very useful things like sliding and tilting solar panels people are more concerned about being able to tap dance on their panels. I think that will change when they see what I am doing. I’m curious would you tell me what else you’re going to have on your roof besides the solar panels? I’m curious what people prioritize on their limited roof space. What’s the point in making the inside of the van so comfortable and nice if you just want to stand on top of the van with no protection from the elements and not even a guard rail to keep you from breaking your neck?
@@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Where is September Overland Expo at? I would love to come take a look if it's close to us
@@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath I would like to design everything around the sliding solar panels and roof vent. Thats the main thing. Even the cruisin comfort I want to put in the van is because I want to minimize things on top because I want sliding panels with a low profile. I saw some on Everland and thought they were brilliant but they work on air pressure. We have not bought van I am just exploring ideas
Hey what are you trying to put over on us? the diagrams in your instruction manuals are for round shower handles, not for levers. I move for a mistrial
You better put a sign on the door. What if you have someone “sleep over” who wakes up before you and tries to get in the shower and doesn’t know it’s not a hinged door. If it turns out they’re a transgender former bodybuilder your door’s going to be toast
Jeff, I have to ask you and can’t believe I didn’t already. Since obviously money and labor were no issues in your decision making on your van build, why don’t you have tiltable solar panels? You only have so much real estate on your roof and solar panels are so much more efficient when they’re tilted towards the sun it just seems unreal to me that almost nobody does that. I have watched hundreds of build videos on CZcams and I’ve only seen one where a person did this and oddly enough it was on the channel for the Bob guy who interviews people who do the extremely low budget conversions. I’m going to do it in an ingenious, trust me, way that will cost me almost nothing to install electrical tilt-able panels, so for me it’s a no-brainer. As a matter of fact, because I bought a passenger van that has a rooftop rear air conditioner that I have no intention of removing, I’m going to mount my solar panels on the tilting device over the top of the air conditioner and thereby allow me to have two very large 20” x 40” skylights cut in the rooftop. These skylights will allow me to climb onto the roof from inside the van. My van is already like 10 1/2 foot tall because it’s a tall top 4 x 4 with rooftop air conditioner so what’s another few inches going to matter? It already can’t fit in the local manual car wash bay without jostling the dangling plastic pipe warning and ruffling the feathers of the daytime attendant causing him to threaten to call the police. Guess I could go back over there at night because my van is fine except for jostling the plastic pipe a little. My two skylight Placements amazingly only required the cutting of one crossbeam.
It just dawned on me. the obvious question is why are you looking at the instruction manual for an all in one shower faucet? You are letting the commenters psych you out. Have Winston give me a call cause I’m getting worried about you
ADHD sucks… it’s the best lol
I respectfully disagree with your shower handle orientation. The arguments you put forth, 1) many pictures show the threaded part pointed up, 2) the arrow points up, 3) hot is on one side while cold is on other all have actual other explanations. First, if the handle set was installed at waist level, which would give the flexible hose a few feet of vertical travel without turns to overcome flow resistance, and the same hose was probably going to be used out doors so it would likely be longer, thus a greater amount of hose linear feet left to store that extra hose. In your case, you introduce more problems. You mount the handle high, water goes up for no reason, then takes a sharp turn creating back pressure all for no reason. Flip you handle and solve that problem. Second, many pictures showing handle pointed upward assume a mid to lower lever mounting location. Third, the arrow indicates water flow not vertical orientation. Lastly, those handles are interchangeable. Thus left and right handles can be switched depending upon installation.
Still don't believe me? Ask a simple question. Why would water need to first go up and turn 180 degrees backwards for a shower when a simpler and shorter pathway exists which does not over bend the tube?
Jeff I need some of your commitment. Just a little bit, maybe 10%. Can you spare it? It won’t hurt you to take a day off now and then, and might even improve your social life, and Winston’s because frankly he’s not meeting any female dogs or male dogs hanging around you, and I need to get in gear and work on my van. I’m really good about designing in my head with amazing ingenuity trust me I’m really good about ordering parts from the best suppliers for the best price but ever since my roll over car accident I’ve been pretty lazy about physical things and getting laid off from work to the covid for over a year didn’t help my motivation. So do it for me and for Winston. Give me 10% of your commitment to finishing a van. Think of it as international diplomacy. We don’t want any World War III between the US and Canada. Hey if you don’t take me up on my Americas Test Kitchen idea for you, which I thought was brilliant, maybe you should start a Zoom Boot Camp for DIY van converters. I bet you’d be good at cracking the whip
I think Winston’s been putting on weight because you’ve been too busy working on your van to give him walkies. Do you give him extra treats because you feel guilty for using him to get extra clicks on your videos? Well if you do stop it.