The floor looks nice. I plan on using lonseal in the garage and vinyl planks in the galley as I’m putting a heated film underneath. I used the original floor with just kilmat and TAI1547 3M thinsulate under it to save head room. I see you raised your floor an inch but at 6’9 you have to bend over anyway. 😂 I’m 6’3 so I can benefit from not raising the floor. To save space on the ceiling, I’m putting the furring strips on the side of the roof beams using riv nuts in the small holes on top next to the beams. Good job.
Thanks, the lonseal is certainly a popular option and it looks good to, and yes being a giant is a challenge in a van, so since i have to bend down everything is a compromise so the emphasis is all placed on function, our old van had the same floor height and it worked fine, i am used to ducking my head. I played around with some of the 12v heating film and ultimately chose to exclude it, i wanted to do the hydronic flooring and heat but the cost and system maintenance/complexity just was more than I wanted to deal with especially given the diesel heater I had in my old van keep us warm with no issues and will be the same heater we are installing in this van!
@ I agree! The hydronic floor is way over priced! It also uses a diesel heater in the system. I’m getting an espar heater myself. I hope it fits in the seat pedestal. It’s way short as I ordered swivel seats. So far I hear they fit. Guess I’ll find out. 😁
@rod8073 we bought the espar heater as well, in my old van it is installed under the passenger seat base and there is plenty of room for the shorter base for everything to fit, we are putting this one in the base of our electrical cabinet more in the center of the van to help with some of the cold spots especially since this van is the extended 170
@@ramblingambition Thanks for confirming that and the help. I measured the back of the pedestal near the slide door as about 8” and got worried. Are you installing a shower? I am.
@rod8073 we are not, again as a giant, haha, its just not practical, everyone i know that has one hates it because its so tight and usually uses it once or twice then it becomes storage, plus it takes up so much room, adds a ton of humidity into the van, is another system to maintain and we are prioritizing sitting and remote working space, we will have an outside shower set up from the rear of the van for non winter time fun, during the winter there is planet fitness memberships which are pretty much anywhere and super cheap, plus as we traveled the country camping out of our jeep in our early overlanding years getting a shower is not super hard and in fact its a great break to take a real shower, just our perspective, you have precious square feet in the van and we just want more function is all
I did, in my old van there was a terminal underneath the van where i connected my power post for my accessories and extra fused terminals in the main fuse block under the drivers seat, in 2024 they got rid of the aux battery post under the van and all of the fused locations are taken, there are two available posts in the main panel but the bridge plate to electrify the circuits is not present, so i connected a 1/0 cable to the main power feed into the distribution box under the drivers seat and ran power post and connected the dc to dc charger to that with a battery switch and fuse! They did not make it easy!
@rod8073 absolutely, i hope mercedes has the power bridge for those open post online somewhere, i havent been able to find it yet and i cringe at calling the dealer $$
The floor looks nice. I plan on using lonseal in the garage and vinyl planks in the galley as I’m putting a heated film underneath. I used the original floor with just kilmat and TAI1547 3M thinsulate under it to save head room. I see you raised your floor an inch but at 6’9 you have to bend over anyway. 😂 I’m 6’3 so I can benefit from not raising the floor. To save space on the ceiling, I’m putting the furring strips on the side of the roof beams using riv nuts in the small holes on top next to the beams. Good job.
Thanks, the lonseal is certainly a popular option and it looks good to, and yes being a giant is a challenge in a van, so since i have to bend down everything is a compromise so the emphasis is all placed on function, our old van had the same floor height and it worked fine, i am used to ducking my head. I played around with some of the 12v heating film and ultimately chose to exclude it, i wanted to do the hydronic flooring and heat but the cost and system maintenance/complexity just was more than I wanted to deal with especially given the diesel heater I had in my old van keep us warm with no issues and will be the same heater we are installing in this van!
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I agree! The hydronic floor is way over priced! It also uses a diesel heater in the system. I’m getting an espar heater myself. I hope it fits in the seat pedestal. It’s way short as I ordered swivel seats. So far I hear they fit. Guess I’ll find out. 😁
@rod8073 we bought the espar heater as well, in my old van it is installed under the passenger seat base and there is plenty of room for the shorter base for everything to fit, we are putting this one in the base of our electrical cabinet more in the center of the van to help with some of the cold spots especially since this van is the extended 170
@@ramblingambition Thanks for confirming that and the help. I measured the back of the pedestal near the slide door as about 8” and got worried. Are you installing a shower? I am.
@rod8073 we are not, again as a giant, haha, its just not practical, everyone i know that has one hates it because its so tight and usually uses it once or twice then it becomes storage, plus it takes up so much room, adds a ton of humidity into the van, is another system to maintain and we are prioritizing sitting and remote working space, we will have an outside shower set up from the rear of the van for non winter time fun, during the winter there is planet fitness memberships which are pretty much anywhere and super cheap, plus as we traveled the country camping out of our jeep in our early overlanding years getting a shower is not super hard and in fact its a great break to take a real shower, just our perspective, you have precious square feet in the van and we just want more function is all
Did you run your DC/DC wires yet? They used to run direct to the battery but now I see them connected under the drivers seat by everyone?
I did, in my old van there was a terminal underneath the van where i connected my power post for my accessories and extra fused terminals in the main fuse block under the drivers seat, in 2024 they got rid of the aux battery post under the van and all of the fused locations are taken, there are two available posts in the main panel but the bridge plate to electrify the circuits is not present, so i connected a 1/0 cable to the main power feed into the distribution box under the drivers seat and ran power post and connected the dc to dc charger to that with a battery switch and fuse! They did not make it easy!
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Oh. So it has to connect under the seat now? I have the wiring kit from Explorist just needing info on installation. They went under the seat also.
@rod8073 yep they probably hit that main lug, its the heavy gauge cable in the middle of the main terminal area
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Forgot to mention they were building a ford transit. You are a big help. Thanks
@rod8073 absolutely, i hope mercedes has the power bridge for those open post online somewhere, i havent been able to find it yet and i cringe at calling the dealer $$