An Extraordinary Cargo Conversion Built To Accommodate Special Needs

hey everybody bill and deb hi it's a beautiful morning here along the arkansas river uh in south central arkansas beautiful it was a little nippy this morning but it was just a tad nippy earlier this morning uh and it's still a bit breezy but anyway we'll be fine hey this video you're about to watch is a long one oh but it's worth it yeah it definitely is worth it i tried to edit out as much as i could but there was so much information here that we feel some of you might find very valuable that i couldn't i just couldn't cut out a bunch of it i had to leave it all in there as much as possible just great information and it's their extraordinary home yeah very extraordinary the the things that they did marvin and mary are wonderful folks and you're going to enjoy listening to them and watching them we had the privilege of them being our neighbors for two or three days while we were at shepherd state park down in southern mississippi and we thoroughly enjoyed visiting with them and hearing about all the places they've been and the things they had done in their previous life before they took up full-time living in a cargo conversion trailer and i think you're going to love them too now marvin has a few mobility issues and because of that he designed his particular conversion to accommodate his particular needs now as with all conversions there are going to be things in here that some of you would not do no matter what but there's also a lot of stuff in here that most of you could possibly use i'm particularly intrigued by the way he arranged his battery bank and also by the way he dealt with his gray water and that particular segment is towards the end of the video so if you can't watch all this video right now save it to come back to it later because there's a ton of information here that we're certain some of you might find helpful so anyway we hope you enjoy the video all right i'm standing here with marvin and mary and they have an awesome eight and a half by twenty four is that correct you all went full time in this thing as of the 20th of last month that's the 20th of september and today i believe is october the 6th 6th if i remember yeah so because marvin has a little bit of a mobility a lot of a marvin kind of supervised and mary did a lot of the construction work is that correct she did oh you look so nervous mary you're so afraid to say anything along along with her 16 year old nephew he was a lot of help as well yeah i remember you mentioning him i remember you mentioning him and that's great that his name is juan his name is juan okay so one your 16 year old nephew helped you with it too and that's just absolutely awesome so what we're going to do we'll do a quick walk around okay right quick on the outside and point out a few things and before we start that i don't have a ladder so i can climb up and show the solar panels on top but you have quite a solar array would you like to tell us about i have i have four uh 200 watt um anyway i have four four 200 watt panels okay but i have them wired in 24 volt so i have two on one lead and two on another so that they putting in a load about 40 volts into the into the mppt controller and it takes that extra voltage brings it down and turns it into excess amperage usually on a sunny day i'm getting between six and 800 watts and i'm putting around 26 27 amps at 24 volts into the battery bank i see that you have a mini split up here yeah and what do you know what brand that is mark yeah it's our sin build one this is a 9000 btu the smallest one they make if i had to do it again i'd probably go with the 12 000 but this one does a fine job as long as it's not over 100 degrees outside now one question that i've always had when you mount whether you mount it at the front or you mount it at the back of course is when you're going down the road i always worry about the fan spinning and things like that and protecting it so what have you done to take care of that i was worried about rock strikes and and such as that so i raised it 10 inches here and then and then i have a i bought a generator cover that pretty much fits it i put that on i've got a piece of foam rubber that fits here and i put that over the front just in case something would penetrate the cover it can't get through and get the coils and and i secure that and i'm i've been very happy with it so far of course it's only been a few weeks but yeah but you guys have covered quite a few miles we have we've done we've done 1200 miles wow so i would think in some of the places you told us you've been i would think that uh if you were going to have an issue you would have had an issue a lot of gravel roads and a dirt road and it's been fine your trailer says fairly fairly low to the ground but that's by design it is that right and here again that's that's because you have a little bit of a moment right i wanted it as low as i could keep it and still be able to to travel on less than even roads i mean some of these places you're going to have to it's on torsion axles and it's on there's only 11 inches of ground clear and then of course i notice your windows here now you installed your windows after you got the trailer home all every window on this side is a is one we put on the one in the door including the one in the door yep okay and these here are 12 by 24s is that correct yes i bought them from a guy that does um tear drop trailers i looked some of those up this morning and what's neat about those and correct me if i'm wrong but they fit between the metal studs and your trailers everything the floor ceiling and walls are all on 16 inch centers altered that way so i have about 14 and a half inches between the metal and so that 12 inch fit right in there right so that means that you didn't have to cut any studs at all no metal studs were harmed in the building [Laughter] i like the way you say that no metal studs were harmed now something else i noticed too and we will uh talk about that more in just a little bit but i want to mention this right now because you mentioned this to me but the standard uh axle center line when they're building these cargo trailers the standard is 60 40. in other words the axle center line would end up being 60 back from the from the front of the trailer not the actual uh tongue but where the actual box starts without the v right right but you had them set yours back just a little bit further 10 inches because i knew i was putting uh 500 pounds of water right on the back end and i didn't want that to be more than seven or eight percent of the total weight of the trailer sitting that far back as it is right now i'm seven seven and a half percent of my weight is in the water when it's full and it pulls truth it didn't there's no sway issues i don't have any any galloping issues none of that fantastic fantastic well i i know that some folks might be concerned about that so i was i did a lot of math a lot of careful math before i ordered it i understand all right well we're going to be right back just a second we're going to go take a look at the uh garage in the back and the nerve center of the trailer oh we'll be right back we're back here at the nerve center and wow when you first showed this to me i was just i thought my my my how awesome is that so i'm going to let you talk us through it and tell us all about it how it works i i knew that everything was going back here so i laid all of the components out across the back and i sat here in the chair one day and i just tried to figure out how i was going to run the wiring how i needed to separate it and what i did is put my solar over there all my uh 12 and 24 volt here 110 volt here so my 110 volt comes in i have a hardwired surge protector so it's not sitting out here nobody can steal it it's it's right there the only thing about this when you plug in to 110 volts it this takes 128 seconds to check everything and actually turn the power on to the box okay and that that's the longest two minutes and eight seconds waiting for this waiting for the red light to turn green and know you got power there's there's 12 individual circuits which is way overkill i know that up but i ran a lot of 30 amp wire for 20 amp circuits because i didn't want to have any issues with wiring later on and and everything has its own circuit so if something goes wrong i know exactly what wire it is and on the inside i can take trim down and get to all my wiring to me that really makes sense it really does and and i've seen you and others do that where you're where your wire is accessible and it just made sense to me so this transfer transfer switch if the if the ac power cuts off it immediately goes to the uh inverter so the inverter then picks up and provides 110 volt power so you don't have to do any manual switching or anything it does all that's automatic all automatic fabulous and this is wired very short cables the battery bank is running outside this wall just right there so the cable is three feet long at the most and this this little baby right here is my battery charger 24 volt battery charger because my bank is 24 volts i can plug my generator which is only an 1800 watt generator directly into this box alone i have an extra cord here that i carry just for that that way i'm not limited by what i can run off my generator i'm still putting 24 amps in my batteries all the time all the power is coming through my my inverter and i can run 3000 watts which i don't have 3 000 watts of stuff to run at one time so it doesn't it may it may gradually pull my batteries down if i have everything on it once but as soon as i turn something off the batteries then start coming back up and it keeps me from having to buy a huge generator and then i know that my generator is going to run a steady speed because it's all its power is this right so and i tend to get between six and a half and seven and a half hours on a gallon of gas that way and most nights when we when we crank the generator up if we crank the generator up uh depending on the weather we just let it run out of gas by itself and we don't worry about it next morning we fill it back up and then we're ready for the next evening interesting if it's if the temperature is not too bad outside we don't turn the air on so we don't even hook the generator up i have enough battery bank with 400 amp hours at 24 volts to easily run everything else overnight fantastic and we'll take a look at that here in a little bit when we go inside this is a 24 to 12 volt step down transformer it takes the 24 volts from the battery steps it down to it to a 12.4 volts dc constant if i had a 12 volt battery system my voltage would vary between 11.4 or whatever up to 14. so that's exactly what all of my 12 volt stuff would get they get a varied voltage this way they get exactly 12.4 all the time no ups downs no peaks no lights are always the same everything runs at the pump runs the same speed so there's no variance there and the it's counter is counter intuitive but wiring for 24 volt only needs to be half the size of the wire if you were to do the same thing with 12-volt because you're only pushing half the amps i see so my wiring that's why these cables here can be so small because they don't have to be you know bigger than my thumb because they're only carrying half the amps at 24 volts and they would at 12 volts interesting i have two 30 gallon water tanks and where we are right now we're hooked directly to uh pressurized water so i have a a check valve here that keeps that from running back to there it only it only goes this way right into my into my pressure system and if i need to run that then i just fill the hoses here fill the tanks here and then i've got 60 gallons they run off my water pump so these are 30 gallons each 30 gallons each and my grade tank inside is is just like it's a 130 gallon tank on the inside there's no tanks underneath the trailer two reasons it's only 11 inches of ground clearance and i didn't want to have to worry about freezing tanks under my trailer uh-huh because we will spend quite a bit of time in colorado this winter and i don't you know i don't want to be i don't have to run from 20 degree temperatures just because i might have a tank freezing issue well you've definitely thought of everything that's for sure i spent 14 months watching videos studying reading because i knew next to nothing when i started and and i know enough now to be dangerous [Laughter] but because i have enough confidence in what i know that i'll just do stuff and then if it's wrong it's wrong okay i understand that i've been guilty of that myself sometimes i sure have one thing i do want to point out too and i know they weren't here to see that when we opened the doors but you've got a spare tire hanging on this door and you've got another spare tire hanging on this door over here now that's what i call being prepared well that that decision was made for me when i bought the tires and rims for this trailer because i didn't want the the ones that came with the trailer i wanted something heavier a little heavier uh they came in twos i couldn't buy five and i had to have a spare so i wind up with six there you go so i took six i also have this this little unit here it's a it's a battery protect i have an app on my phone and that 220 amp at 24 volt battery protect will tell me what the the exact amperage of my battery is at any one time and if it gets below 24 volts it shuts the entire system down it will not let the my batteries drain so low that it can harm them i see 24 volt batteries the the cells are 3.3 nominal when they get down to 3 volts each which would be 24 volts that's about as low as you want to take them they'll go lower but if you're going to get 5000 charge cycles out of them you want to keep them in that 80 90 percent range so i try not to discharge them too low and i and i will not overcharge them the the solar the solar controller there won't let them overcharge and if it shuts off and i'm just running this i'm monitoring it with the battery protect so i know exactly what the voltage is i never let it get above 27.2 great well i know i've learned a bunch of stuff since i've been visiting with you the last couple of days that's for sure well that's a trade-off because i learned a lot from you well and i appreciate that and uh uh you've given me a lot of stuff to think about if deb and i decided to build our next one that that's absolutely uh a fact there so we're we're so happy we've got we got to meet you and mary one more thing i'll point out you don't have to follow me around for that but i'm going to show everybody where your uh where your city water inlet is and your gravity flow so you got your city water inlet and then of course you have your gravity fill right here and this is your 30 amp power inlet right here and for those that worry about egress we have that window there is one we had installed at the factory it has two little red panels on the inside and it it swings out on the hinge at the top and my intention is to put a fold down step right there so that i can step out onto that and step down on the ground if i ever have to use it right now just have to dive out head first well uh deb and i are uh we were very uh adamant about having two means of egress yeah from two ends of the trailer you know because you just never know what could happen and then it's just great to have another way to get out should you have to get out i spent a lot of time thinking about your setup with the two doors and it just it wouldn't work for my design so i opted to do this instead well that'll do it that'll do it for sure yeah i can see how it's hinged on top of it it is let me get up close maybe they can hopefully they can see those hinges up there how that uh swings out now they installed this at the factory they did a rock solid they did yeah um about 300 it may be 285 but i i just remember thinking that's about 300 yeah and that that next little cover up there is the event fan for the shower because my wife likes showers that are scalding and humidity inside of these trailers is always an issue yeah so that that little cover pushes out and there's a little fan under there that draws the humid air out of the shower while she's showering aha well i'm that's a that's a good idea to get that humidity out i'm still thinking about this window though you said yes if you thought it was around three hundred dollars around 300 egress from the factory yes they did and they've welded a nice frame around it yeah i did when i pulled the walls down on the inside with pulled the plywood out i did take that window out and and i was impressed by how well framed it is yeah and all those screws around it are in the metal studs well they uh they framed our windows out too the same way and i was real impressed with how they did that at the factory for sure but what i what's really sticking in my mind i think our standard 30 by 30s we have in our trailer which are not emergency egress we're around 250. yeah so if if it's around 300 for this so roughly for another 50 to have a emergency egress that's just uh that's money well spent yeah all there is to it it's money well spent and the height of that window was was decided by how how i can step over to get out i understand i put that at my height there you go it would probably be a little higher for most people but that one is is there for me well i always wonder about that with an emergency egress window you know if it's too high what's going to happen when i hit the ground i told my wife however skin up i get landing is better than burning that's true there's no doubt about that whatsoever all right well we're gonna go inside so folks we'll be right back and uh we'll take over on the inside and we're gonna include mary in this one okay all right be right back folks all right we decided to start at the back of the trailer and work our way forward because uh well everybody's still got your battery your your setup in your garage which is behind that wall it is uh we'll go ahead and talk about that but first what i want to mention before we show that everybody the battery bank is uh this mattress is a really nice mattress you want to tell us about that it we bought it from amazon we had one in our house a king size like this and when we were talking and i wasn't trying to convince her to do it but i was you know trying to give in as much as i could to her needs she requested very strongly that we have a mattress if not the same size at least the same uh quality it's the same quality the same mattress but in a smaller size so if you'll pull that corner up mary i think the name brand is on that corner do we have a corner maybe yes i'll pull this right there on that corner i think it is it's a lucid brand okay well i know i said on it man it uh it felt uh every bit as good if not better than our 12 inch thick memory foam that we have now how thick is this one here it's 13 inches okay and it's a hybrid it's memory foam on top but it has coils on the bottom and if when we've we've stayed in some very nice hotels and every time we do we say we miss our mattress i want to get back to our bed because we we don't know any other sleep as well so this mattress is not a lightweight mattress no it's not it's very it's a 110 pounds i think it is okay so uh you've made you've accommodated the weight so you can raise it so why don't we go ahead and raise it right quick and i my wife uh i've researched and and found what i thought would work and bought it and i sat on the bench over there and watched her install these things she installed them so if i can do it anybody can do it there you go there you go wow so that mattress weighs you know at least 100 pounds if not more yes and and the hinges are way back there so there's a lot of leverage yeah so you're not lifting just part of you you're going all the way back to the back of the mattress i'm hoping the folks can see those uh hinges those lifting um what do we call them the cylinders yes those cylinders uh-huh and i'm hoping they can see that and uh but anyway there is the battery bank and there's the battery bank back there that is 16 200 amp hour cells at 3.3 volts each so i've made two 24 volt batteries at a total of 400 amp hours which is equivalent to eight of the battleborn 100 amp hour batteries i see well i'm telling you right now marvin um what's going to happen and you'll have to monitor this video for a while because there's going to be a lot of folks that have a lot of questions so you'll have to monitor the comments for a while so you can answer some of these questions i have i have probably written it out a couple dozen times already for people when i was doing this and my wife uses it for yeah that's the next thing i was going to mention is all we have to worry we have first aid kits uh extra plumbing supplies which we will eventually get brave enough to take out our ladder uh yeah she has a an extending ladder so she can clean the solar panels off okay it's just odd dance chairs yeah but man look at all that space you've been able to utilize and it's so easily accessible that's the part that uh impresses me the most is how easy and easily accessible that is we left the space in the frame on purpose because the batteries have to have a temperature that's above freezing right the floor under them is insulated and that wall behind them is insulated so if we keep the air in here above freezing the batteries will be fine right is how you did not enclose this fully you lift up you lift an air gap all the way around the frame and i put on an idea i put a 110 volt receptacle in there so if i have to put a throw electric blanket over them i can do that too there you go man you just thought of everything that was her idea that was mary's idea that's that wasn't intended originally but after she said it i said that's a good idea so we drilled a hole in the wall or another wire and there it is yeah well mary thought of everything she thought she thought of something yeah and then of course you got a his and her closet on either side now she was generous the the bed is set that way six inches off center because of my size and mobility issues so your closet's a little bit bigger my closet is wider so she has a shelf up there for folding clothes and i had to put agreed to put this shelf above i'm a little claustrophobic i don't really like stuff above my head she wanted it out to here okay so we compromised there you go yeah this is my hanging closet yeah and we have we have lights underneath we have usb charging ports each of us have at least four usb charger points under there and these little these little plastic cabinets i couldn't build i couldn't build anything that would hold as much that was that would be as light as these are and these were cheap well sure so uh so i think she got a dollar general at walmart walmart okay she left and came back with them so there they are cool really cool so uh anyway i just it's just really neat to have a closet on either side of the bed the way you have them and i just now saw your little reading lamps here too yeah these are these are touches they're you guys got all the cool stuff you guys got all the cool stuff and she wanted she wanted this end wall to match that end wall so we have some of the kitchen backsplash up there and the area where the air conditioner is mounted matches the headboard yeah we'll show that to the folks here a little bit so remember that folks and you'll see how it matches on the other end of the trailer here in just a little bit i don't understand the thing with pillows every night we have to find somewhere to put all these pillows because they don't sleep with us it's the same in our house uh marvin it's the same in our house and there they are okay so then this is mary's extra shelf up here yeah and behind that is a wire race uh-huh same thing on this side yeah yeah and i wonder where you got that idea to run that wire chase some guy has a channel called i ride and i want to race channel so all your wiring is there's no wiring inside the walls correct except what runs directly to the receptacles underneath i got you okay but your main wiring all runs behind these these chases all the way to the refrigerator on that side so you have easy access to them on this side it goes all around to the kitchen gotcha all right now we're up to and i'll just uh well here i'll let you guys get on around over here okay mary obviously and i recognize this immediately when y'all showed it to me it's a nature's head composting toilet uh how do you like it so far i love it there's no smell there's there's less smell from this than there is in a home because there's a constant negative pressure on that toilet air is constantly being pulled in and blown out through the vent in the floor so even while it's actively being used to put it mild to put it politely there's no smell no smell because there's negative pressure all the time yeah yeah well i know a lot of people use those for sure it has a fan that runs in it constantly here yes sir yeah and we we got the one instead of the spider handle we got the long handle that you just it ratchets you pull it down let it up pull it down and then so you don't have to crank it you ratchet it like this instead well i can see how that would be better in a lot of a lot of cases oh yeah yeah that would be a much better it's easier it's easier for me to get to because i have trouble getting down anything below my knees have trouble getting i understand and then for privacy uh we'll go ahead and mention this right quick you do have a curtain i'm a retired nurse and this is a hospital privacy curtain it made me feel kind of at home there all i had to do was hem it and it i did that and it's uh it's been great well fantastic fantastic all right now we're over here to the shower and this is a full-size 36 inch square shower okay this handle design is my wife she wanted uh yard garden spigots i thought that come out so cool so we spent a little time in the garden section at lowe's or home depot i like home depot i think it was oh and came up with that and then um i got a message after i showed it to you i i've shown this to you earlier and i had the original valve that came with that shower head which allows water to trickle right and you suggested that i get something that shuts it completely off so i don't waste water and we did that and we're much happier with this than we are with that constant water trickling yeah and it makes it easier on my water evacuation system as well you would be amazed the difference that made and how much water you saved just by going with that and that's strange this is the one of those oxygenic wands yes and we have the exact same wand but we just couldn't believe it when we first got it that it would not completely shut off it always allowed water to trickle a little bit and then of course when my pump was trying to pump you sound like it was laboring because it was trying to push water through through that little bitty trickle and uh so we you know we bought a valve at lowe's that fit right on the end of the wand right there but i really like the way you did that here it's easy to reach and everything it's just right there and then you can shut it completely off and folks we're not kidding you it makes a huge difference on how much water you save when you're taking a shower we can adjust our water temperature shut it off so let me turn it back on it's the exact same chapter with the handles you bet absolutely that's what we really like about it now let's talk about your flooring here a little bit and i'll just kind of shoot like this and then you can tell me all about your flooring it's a laminate um pvc flooring um waterproof it's it has an insulated backing on it it it's not glued down it kind of rides on the floor so we've got a quarter inch gap all the way around that's why we have all this trim right so that it can move a little bit with temperatures and humidities and that's what the manufacturer recommends they recommend that you uh leave a quarter inch gap to allow for expansion and contraction and this is the kind that clicks together is that right yeah yeah and my son laid this for me i sat here and watched him lay it uh-huh well fantastic and let's talk about that a little bit of course you had help from your son you had help from a nephew is that correct and mary and then mary now mary did a lot of work in here she did yeah she keeps saying she refers herself refers to herself as the gopher but she did a lot more than she did all the painting yeah all the polyurethane she she has learned to drill screws with the best of them she has we have an impact driver a cordless impact driver and she has learned to use it uh like a like mo better than most men she's got she had to learn a little finesse with the trigger but she's done that yeah at first she was putting screws in they were just disappearing into the wood you know [Laughter] but after we taught her she didn't have to hold that trigger all the way down until until it disconnected on its own i've been guilty of the same thing mary so don't worry about it you know that was a learning curve for her but um i'm well pleased with the way it turned out even though i didn't drill any screws well i like it it looks good now let's talk about your ceiling a little bit here too now you uh your planks are how thick you're three-eighths of an inch thick uh-huh and you made these out of two by six by eight uh spruce boards so you actually set them up on a table saw and cut them down to three eighths of an inch thick ripped them down what i did first is cut the two well i cut one of the curved edges off of the two by six blank sure and then i flipped the board over and cut two two and a half inch wide sections out which which left the other one the other rounded part as a scrap yeah then i would take those and turn them up on edge and slice three pieces out of that or four pieces out of it well it really come out very pretty it that took some time it took some time yeah and the only reason i did it was because i want to be different well everybody else buys the tongue and groove and then we looked at it and we we struggled with it it didn't it's this is not even more cost effective it's not uh and we knew it's gonna take a lot more time but we just decided that you know what we've got the time or we thought we did it back then so then time starts getting away yeah when we started this in april i was thinking man i i'll be through the end of june i'm going to tell everybody july just in case yeah and it september 19th we finished putting the trim around the front door yeah yeah and we left the next day and then you left the next day and you've never looked back since right no there you go all right now you've also got i know you've got wiring running down the center here so you also for your lighting that goes down the center plus your two uh are these fantastic fans that is a fantastic fan and that's that's an unpowered vent that's the one that i got you okay but uh your wiring runs down a chase and that's what that one by six is four or one six okay one by six uh-huh and then that's so you have access to all that wiring if you need to get to it as well right there all right well let's talk about your fridge while we're here i'll go ahead and step on up here it's a 7.5 cubic foot rca okay um we got it on sale for right at 200 i was actually looking at something a little smaller than that but when i saw the price and i i couldn't say no and it's actually a residential fridge it is a residential 110 volt fridge now that's something we've never mentioned up to this point but you're total electric is that right i am no butane no propane no gas it's all all electric uh-huh cool cool and uh when you're going down the road and stuff like that your battery bank and everything has no issue keeping this thing cold while you're going down the road not at all at home i i charged the batteries up to 26 and a half volts uh went back and turned to the solar i have a switch i can flip the solar panels off without charging unplugged it and ran this fridge for over a week aha and still had power wow wow then of course you got a microwave up here now is this a pantry behind this curtain it is okay it's it's quite full yeah yeah and uh what you did to keep things from falling out i put a lip around yeah and that feels like that's a good inch and a half it's it's uh it's at least a minute some of its inch and a quarter okay okay yeah okay yeah it goes to about right in there yeah where's where it goes so uh so that work does good i'm sure keeping potatoes and onions down there shoe bins under the fridge so we don't track up our trailer man oh man man oh man and we're not done yet and there's this another pantry over here but this this is her she wanted a linen closet oh this was not in the original design but there's her linen closet okay linen combination utility so she has her broom in a vacuum cleaner and that is the shower soap yeah yeah we want to talk about that we want to talk about that since you uh and let me see if i can get a good shot of that for everybody that piece of engineering is stolen from sailboats in sailboats you don't want to let chower run into your build so it collects in a sump and you shoot it overboard what we do the shower drains into this box which will hold half to three quarters of a gallon and there's a bilge pump float and motor in there and when the when the switch is high enough it'll kick on the motor and pump that water behind around and into my gray water tank which is directly under that sink and the sink drains into the grill the sink drains directly into it and how big was your gray water tank again 30 gallons 30 gallons so that that is so cool and man when you told me about that and then of course you sent me the link to that particular uh item my wheel started turning i got to tell you my wheels started turning um that is just really awesome so you elevated your shower floor so three and a half inches so it would drain down to the uh to the in to the uh the inlet right that's about an inch inch and a half drop that's all it is right and uh then once it gets to a certain point the the flow the float lifts up it floats that float it kicks that builds pop motor on and it pumps it it may be on three seconds that's all it takes and boom it's gone wow it kicks on and you'll hear it when you sit in the shower you'll hear them and and then 30-40 seconds later do it again i'm telling you right now a lot of our followers are going to have lots of questions about that so i'm here i'm i'm hard to miss and i'll try to post the link to that uh in in the description also to that particular uh piece of equipment there and it's not all that expensive uh you told me you got it for around 100 bucks and i think when i looked at it it went to like 120 or something like that 113 right now i think oh really okay cool cool now tell us about your worship now this is a combination washer and dryer no it's just a washer machine i gotcha and it's the only thing in here that if i did it again i would probably leave out okay when when we talked about it we talked about the convenience of it and been able to hang clothes inside and dry them and you know we wouldn't have to run to a laundromat the trade-off is it takes five gallons of water to wash five gallons of order rinse and it only holds about what you can put in a five gallon bucket so if you're only carrying 60 gallons of water and you want to boondock for a week it's kind of counterproductive makes it yeah and if you're not going to be boondocking you don't really because you can run to a laundromat and do it yeah we discovered the same thing because we we set ours up to accommodate a washer and dryer and realized the same thing so we ended up selling our little washer and dryer ourselves so so yeah and in fact we just got back from the laundromat and we were gone about an hour and 15 minutes you know and got everything done and now we're back there are two weeks there are already plans being drawn up to to put a series of to take this out and put some drawers in there i got you okay cool and since you're total electric of course you use an induction cooktop and you have a two burner cooktop 800 watts each and that thing does a great job you can set it at 215 degrees another boiled water wow anyone turned down 175 and it'll simmer it'll simmer spaghetti sauce all day at 175. wow we have a single burner and we just love it we really do love it and we never thought about getting a two burner but we may have to do that now yeah and speaking of the backsplash because we talked about that earlier this is your backsplash here and of course it matches what's on the back wall back there uh above the bed headboard and i'll do a sweep across here like this those are peel and stick tiles and i used my heat shrink gun to to heat the edges of them when i needed to bend it to fit that wall yeah and it and it did great that we did a test spot with four tiles and found that the adhesive on the tiles was not quite as strong as we we didn't feel comfortable putting just that so we sprayed each one of those with gorilla glue out of a can there you go and now they are they're up there wow well it looks really nice it really really looks nice and then of course your countertop here tell us about your countertop that that is some more of these ceiling uh planks okay there's a three-eighths inch thick spruce and they have uh epoxy that we bought from walmart it should pour on um that's the first time i've done it then there are some blemishes in it but yeah but don't tell anybody and they'll never know well we we have learned to be comfortable with it even my water heater under harris is electric yeah i have a seven gallon water righty yeah that thing does they find it heats up in just a few minutes you know how many watts it pulls it pulls 1440 and we have a switch here see the the the red light tells me if the water heater is on now we have hot water right now and if we want to just heat water and even for a shower we turn down a few minutes and then turn it off aha there you go the switch it plugs into 110 volt wall outlet so i ran one down there to plug it into and around another one to plug this into and then all of these are on another circuit well it's just absolutely fabulous it's really really neat the way everything come out and of course your air conditioner has been running the whole time we've been in here and right now and it's very very comfortable in here and we didn't have to turn it off so we could talk and if you were in my trailer with my overhead unit my uh my dometic overhead unit we wouldn't be able to do this at all and of course here's the here's the other part of the unit right here mounted inside right at the at the right near the v it was going it was going to cost me about 400 to have somebody install that unit for me so i bought the vacuum pump and a set of gauges for about 140 and did it myself aha so i did that install too uh-huh well i sat on a stool and my son did most of the actual labor but but it was my knowledge so fabulous absolutely fabulous well is there anything else you want to show us before we go show me the bills oh the she she loves this bench all all we do with that bench i built that thing high enough so that i can get off of it fairly easy okay it's 20 inches and i put a dense cushion on it yeah and it's it's just for i think my drone is under there you have storage and water storage you have a drone i do i'm jealous i'm jealous well that's nice storage yeah and he made the cushion oh wow i made the fishing cover what oh you made the cushion i got you wow i made that quilt a little bit did you really yeah my my let's show that quilt let's get a good shot of that quilt for everybody right here that is gorgeous absolutely you made that marvin right yeah you did wow my wife tells me i would have been a good wife well one thing i want to talk about right quick before we go and uh and uh and i've already asked if it's okay to talk about this but you obviously have some mobility issues i do okay and yet uh you have decided to to go full-time full-time we're gonna go we want to do a minimum of two years and if our health allows we'll keep going after that okay but the whole point i'm trying to make because we have so many people you know comment uh sometimes they'll email us and talk to us about it and stuff like that about their concern because of a health issue i'm sorry health issues and things like that and we just want to say that you can do this folks you know it and am i saying that right you can i built my trailer with my limitations in mind it's close to the ground you saw my little four steps to get up in here yeah and i i i'm awkward but i get up every time uh i hadn't had a failed attempt yet i always managed to get in here and get to the shower in the beds yeah yeah well and you know we've had the opportunity to visit with you all for the last couple of days and we really enjoyed visit with you all and we like hearing your your stories about the places you've been and everything and it's just really been a a pleasure to meet you all and and to visit with you and by the way folks he fries up some really really good shrimp yeah we had shrimp and cheese grits for dinner last night yeah it's a southern mississippi tradition there you go we had to fling it on you and normally i made the mistake of saying that the last time i had shrimp i was i mean uh grits i wasn't impressed and he said well you haven't had the right kind of grits or migrates or whatever but uh man those grits last night i couldn't i think i had two big helpings isn't that what i did there are you is it okay to tell that yeah i think it was too was it commented after after we came inside she said i think he likes the grits because he got his second husband was bigger than the first it was good it was and these were those were big bowls too we we you can tell we like to eat so uh yeah we we but we don't want to make extra trips and waste those calories yeah well i get i got you i i i'm running around when we don't want to we don't want to lose any of it unnecessarily well i'll tell you what mary wants you to step over there next to marvin so i just want to say folks that we've really had a great time visiting with marvin and mary and their trailer is absolutely awesome and we're going to sign off for now and marvin will be available to answer questions uh in the comments section after this video is uploaded and uh we're going to sign off saying this is bill and marvin and mary and we're saying we're not camping we are living absolutely you all take care and we will see you again soon bye bye now

Channel: I Ride Tiny House Adventures

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Length: 47min 9sec (2829 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 17 2020