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    Do locals not like van dwellers?

    Someone can correct me but I don’t see a problem with my grey water. It is all plant based, I usually scatter it over the ground from a bucket I place under my spout. Sometimes I pour it over a fire pit. If I am rinsing a cup or brushing my teeth I often just let it fall to thé ground depending...
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    Do locals not like van dwellers?

    Here is the way I see it in this situation, one cop comes to the op tells him tells him locals don’t like free loaders, in other words he is the local.
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    Imagine this

    I think if you took the premise and altered it slightly to lighten it and simplify it. it would be cheap easy to build, light and nice looking. Instead of having it go round at the bottom at about bench level you go straight down to a flat bottom, floor and this section of wall plywood, the...
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    Wet room pan and drain

    If your room is already built and you are stuck on building your own pan, then why the tailpipe, why not buy a proper shower drain with all the fittings from the plumbing section of your hardware store and install that the same way you would on a store bought pan. Am I missing something.
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    How do you carry, if you carry a gun?

    .one more reason to avoid Texas.
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    Tongue and Groove Board Reccomendation

    You can also buy pine t&g in 1/4 inch boards, from most lumber suppliers, if you intend on painting the pine a good idea is to seal the knots with a shalack so they don’t seep through the paint. Ask me how I know.
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    That's another way to do it

    They also make a wide variety of other fake bricks and stones in panels that clip together used as siding some of it is very convincing, I played with the idea of using some behind my heater. They are made of plastic/vinyl
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    guns

    Bearing arms and selling arms are different aren’t they? No laws against having cats but if your recently deceased aunt had a managerie of 150 cats I think the authorities, spca, animal welfare, would get involved, or would have to be consulted about dealing with them.
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    Wind turbine

    I have seen them mounted low on sailboats and also have seen them low on RVs. On the sail boat on a pole on the push pit about the height of the boom. On thé RV it had a pole that folded up to about 4 or five feet above the roof, when driving it sat just above the bumper when folded down. I...
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    Choose only one

    To answer your initial question The first thing I would buy would be a 12 volt Compressor fridge, Plug it into your cigarette lighter while driving, if left closed will stay cold overnight, buy ice when sitting for longer periods, then I would buy a deep cycle battery, wired into your vehicle...
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    Much ado about urine

    For you guys living in the desert, I read awhile back that they have figured out a way to recycle poo and make edible/nourishing, probably could lay it out on drying racks, turn it into powder, add spices and reconstitute, not exactly sure that is how they were doing it but while your trying to...
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    Rear door surround finish ideas?

    You can also get this t&g in pine, cheaper, not as pretty slightly heavier. When I installed mine to my ceiling, I glued it to the wood strappping with no more nails as well as brad nailing it, I also used white wood glue to glue each board in the groove. I did this because of the movement I...
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    Rear door surround finish ideas?

    Looks pretty rolls Roycie to me, good job, whole interior looks nice.
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    Much ado about urine

    My understanding is you are fine with dumping urine directly on the drip line of established trees, without diluting it. If you are dumping on seedlings you should be diluting as it may burn them. Otherwise you are doing them a favour by fertilizing. I pee on all my fruit trees have been doing...
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    Six years in a stepvan & now into a Winnie.

    Hi welcome back hope your well, healthy, good luck with the new purchase
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    Van Build Off Competition

    So is it five days, five nights or five days three nights? Are the teams building out a van an rv and a schoolie each or each team builds one of them, what happens to the build outs afterwards are they auctioned off, raffled? Who decides who wins if this is a competition, can anyone enter a...
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    Rear door surround finish ideas?

    I’d go with noodly that way you can just screw on the top pièce, easily removed for accesss if needed later. That is the way I did both sides in my kurbmaster I also ran an old extension chord inside from front to back in case I need extra wires for something at a later date.
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    Cooking on a road trip

    I would cook at any business, in any parking lot, I often park next to those little verges in large shopping centres or malls with a tree or on the edges of parking lots, usually the farthest away where there is a bit of dirt, so I can dispense of any extra water. I cook when it is time to eat...
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    Mosquitos

    No they were definitely mosquitoes, I think the buzzing outside the net was driving us as crazy as the bitting there were so many inside the van that night. Another time I was camped with a motorbike, I sat up reading a book at a picnic table and kept scratching /rubbing my sandeled feet around...
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