Groot's Home 🏡

[RedFrame]

After a very, very wet Autumn we realised that an Autumn/Winter build on the drive was never going to happen so ended up biting the bullet and sub letting a unit on a nearby industrial estate.

It was a huge dent in the budget but I would recommend it to anyone, it makes a huge difference in productivity.

Anyway, after 4 months in the unit and somewhere North of 600 hours work, Groot is finally back home .

Finishing touches between now and Friday, shakedown at Chester Lakes this weekend, then down to see Jaws and his Crew at Swaffham.

Thanks to everyone that chirped in on some of my questions, especially Raul and Lenny HB .

Hope to see you all in a field sometime soon!!!

Cheers
Red.

 

[Just smiffy]

Let’s have some pictures then….

 

[RedFrame]

Let’s have some pictures then….

Sorry, had to wait until Carol and Ed had seen it..

I've run out of black T-trim and need to fit a few snap caps here and there so excuse the bits that stand out...

For those that are interested...

2 × 300Ah Lithium
3Kw PSU Inverter Charger
Sterling Power BB12120
Ablemail maintainer
EHU
325W Solar
100/15 Victron SmartSolar
2 x 105 Ltrs fresh water
20ltr 2Kw Water Heater
Shurflow Trail King 7
22ltr underslung gas
BBQ point
Dellonda 2Kw Induction hob
Microwave/Grill/Convection Oven
2 x Maxair fan
Fiamma F80s
plus a few other bits and bobs...


Cheers
Red

 

[Riverbankannie]

Will look forward to seeing it at Swaffham.

 

[Diabalo]

RedFrame I salute you sir, that has to be the best self build I have seen.

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[RedFrame]

Put him on a weigh bridge with the following results..

That's with 1/2 a tank of Diesel, 1/4 fresh water and me in it.

So the front end will be marginally over with Chris on board as plated at 1650 and we'll probably sit at around 3500 in exploring trim. We'll never get near the rear plated weight at 2250.

It was interesting to add up the weight of all the bits that we would have added should we have purchased a manufactured van...

Awning 35Kg
Inverter 29Kg
Batteries 56Kg
Solar Panel 17.5Kg
Heavy Duty Cable > 5Kg
Gas 25Kg

So taking that off I recon he'd have had a payload of around 370Kg, take me out of the picture and it's closer to 500Kg.

Cheers
Red.

 

[Mikey RV]

That looks great well done.