I built a LUXURY micro camper for less than $1,000

in this video me and my brother are going to build a luxury micro camper and we're going to do it for less than a thousand dollars this idea all started when we came across this old trailer on Facebook Marketplace for a hundred bucks [Music] it was old and dirty and came with a ton of trash but it was going to be the perfect base for our camper [Music] [Music] let's go [Music] all right the trailer looks amazing I cannot believe we got this for a hundred bucks six feet on the dot eight feet dude our trailer had a base right around 48 square feet which meant this was going to be a little tricky you see not only are we staying under a thousand dollars but we want this camper to sleep two people have a mini kitchen and a living room nice the first step was to put down a moisture barrier to cover up the wood after that we're going to use foam for our insulation [Applause] and then finally we put on our subfloor [Music] then it was time to put up our four walls we decided to use basic two by fours because they're not that heavy and they're super cheap [Music] wow so it doesn't seem like we had too much weight yet okay so for the windows we're going to save a ton of money and use these These are bus windows and we have a ton of them just laying around but you can get these things for free on Facebook people don't want them [Music] oh that's gonna look incredible dude that is awesome wow everything is now framed out next it's time for sheathing to cover this camper up Colby and I decided the cheapest way to do it would be using quarter inch OSB or plywood this does add a good bit of weight but each sheet was like less than 10 bucks so he spent about 70 dollars on this [Music] don't like that wind nope [Music] [Music] hey now that the camper was covered in Wood the next step is absolutely crucial so this is what's known as Poor Man's fiberglass it's how we're going to make this whole thing waterproof for basically free what you do is just get some glue and you put it on like paint and then you put a cloth over it and repeat that process over and over and over again until you have a really solid fiberglass like layer that's completely waterproof foreign [Music] [Applause] if we were to cover up the outside like a regular camper in real fiberglass this part right here could have cost anywhere from two thousand to four thousand dollars but instead we just bought a ton of glue and three drop cloths and the total cost was under two hundred dollars foreign [Music] so now that we got the cloth attached to the camper the next thing to do is completely cover everything in glue this is what ends up making it super hard and strong [Music] the glue is what makes it hard and the paint is what makes it waterproof so we're going to start with these three buckets of like whatever paint we just found and then we're going to top it off with our final coat it looks like expired milk dude it does it might be expired paint by now the glue had dried and it felt like a hard plastic but if it rained or got wet then the glue would just turn right back into a liquid and kind of melt off it was the paint's job to make sure that the glue always stayed dry and therefore waterproof all right in a recent video we made this bus into an epic tiny home and after taking it camping one time we actually had to sell it because we couldn't afford to keep it so when we're done with this camper we're going to take it to one of our favorite places that we never got to take our bus foreign we have is our door so we there's a lot of things to consider it's got to be waterproof It's gotta be light and it's gonna be cheap we came up with this little wooden frame that we're going to cover in metal that we have laying around [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh that looks so good [Music] it's white too all right dude nice wow [Music] [Music] okay you guys ready I'm proud of this door look it even has a lock so you can't get in from the outside now that the door is on there was only one thing left to do to the outside which was seal up the corners basically our goal is to make a ton of pieces to cover up all the corners where we can waterproof them and it's going to look like that to make all these pieces we once again used all the school bus Metals sitting around in our yard so it didn't cost us a dime and for those of you who don't have school bus metal you can get some for very cheap on Facebook [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right now the outside is waterproof it's time to get started on the inside and that begins with the electric [Music] regular house wire costs like a hundred dollars for 100 feet this is an extension cord and it's 25 for 100 feet I do not recommend you doing this ever but let's get this electric done bro there it is [Music] for the installation we're going just with a basic fiberglass r13 stuff we actually got all this on Facebook Marketplace for super cheap [Music] foreign [Music] because this is a budget build the best solution we can think for the walls is just using plain old drywall the only concern is the weight all this weighs about 500 pounds a little heavy but it still should be within the 1000 to 2 000 pound range which is a very light camper [Music] it's pretty crazy after getting the drywall in we could really start to see everything coming to life then Kobe started working on the trim which we made for free by the way out of leftover wood [Music] we then did the same thing with our cabinets so these cost us nothing they're literally really made from scrap wood it was starting to look just like our little animation from earlier [Music] but we desperately needed one very expensive item countertops one secret little building technique you can use to save some money pallets [Music] [Music] this is the idea behind our countertop we're making this whole thing out of pallet boards and it's going to save us a couple hundred bucks one of my favorite things about building is you can take anything no matter how bad of shape it's in and make it into something amazing if you put enough time and effort into it [Music] then I just had to get rid of the nail holes [Music] foreign [Music] I started to cut the hole for the sink [Music] [Music] oh my gosh that looks good that's freaking beautiful wow oh my gosh this is gonna look amazing [Music] all right for the beds we wanted to do something as cheap as possible so we bought these um foam mattress toppers we're gonna do like two layers on each bed so it should be really comfy then we're wrapping it in a cover to make it look like a mattress once we finish building our mattresses the next Focus was the floor and I went and dug up some old tile from our bus build that was laying around laying down this tile really made it seem like we had part of our bus back [Music] once we finished a couple of the final details we were finally able to take it to the campsite and test it out [Music] so we made it to the campsite let me show you the inside totally waterproof with the lock on so once you open that up here's the inside [Music] right as you walk in the first thing you're going to notice are these twin beds this one doubles as a couch so you can watch the TV we have two Cubbies over here but the main thing is you can very comfortably sleep two people we wanted a mini kitchen and some way to cook food wash our hands and you know do whatever we need to do just to be outside for a weekend and be comfortable so we made enough countertop space where we could fit a basic cooktop along with our sink that works then we have a 5000 BTU AC underneath this bed we have two adjustable can lights and then one of my favorite things we did from the very beginning was install working Windows everything you see in this camper including the trailer we did for under nine hundred dollars [Music] so our camper wasn't quite as big as our bus but for a thousand dollars to have something you can take anywhere and be comfortable totally worth it [Music] all done

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Length: 14min 27sec (867 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 06 2023