Minivan Camper - Sink and Water Pump Faucet

In this video, I’ll show you all of the products and steps I used to create a sink with running water for my Minivan Camper.
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Sink: www.amazon.com...
Curved metal tubes: www.homedepot....
1/2" PVC Pipes: www.homedepot....
PVC Plugs - www.amazon.com...
Todd Parker UA-cam channel: / @todd.parker
Water Pump Faucet: www.amazon.com...
4 Gallon Water container: www.amazon.com...
Food Grading Tubing: www.amazon.com...
Braided Tube Covering: www.amazon.com...
L Joint: www.amazon.com...
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll show you all of the products and steps I used to create a sink with running water for my Minivan Camper.
Recently, I converted my minivan into a camper that sleeps two. I have a three part video series that describes that conversion. I didn’t have quite enough time in those videos to give all of the specifics on how I put together the sink with running water, so I thought I’d do a separate video on that.
Because the bed occupies so much space in a minivan that sleeps two, my kitchen only uses a little less than two feet in the back of the van, plus some of the great outdoors. When cooking, I keep my cooler, cabinets, and stove outside the van and use the back part of the van for counter space and access to storage. The sink hangs off the van and pumps water from a storage container that is stored underneath the bed. First, let’s talk about the
Sink
I knew I wanted the sink to stick out from the back of the van so that I could drain water directly onto the ground. This is the sink I bought. It collapses and pops up for use and has a nice drain in the bottom that you can seal and use just as a basin. The question was how to secure it without a big, built in solution that wasn’t easy to store. After about 2 hours of wandering around my local Home Depot and thinking about and rejecting dozens of ideas, I found these curved metal tubes in the shelving section. I’ll try to provide links to all of these products in the description if I can find them. My third row seats are folded and stored in the trunk of the van, so I can shove these tubes down in this crevice and the stored seats make it tight enough to hold them in place. Because they have a tendency to shift from side to side, I cut a piece of plywood to fit into the right side of the van and drilled two holes in it to use as a spacer. Okay - that works well, now I needed to extend these tubes to give something for the sink to hang on. I tried a bunch of things, but ended up finding 1/2” PVC pipes that were precut to 24" long that fit nicely onto the ends of these curved pieces. Because they fit a little loosely, I wrapped a piece of electrical tape around the ends of the curved pieces to make the fit a little tighter. Then I ordered some 1/2” plugs to cap off the end of each pipe. Okay - so now I had two sides of the frame for my sink. For the other two sides, I ended up using 2 pieces of nylon rope tied in a loop. First I put one loop onto the pipes, then I slide the sink onto the frame, and finally secure with the second rope loop. The sink is fairly secure on this frame, but for even more stability, one corner of the sink rests on the rear ledge of the van. The other thing is that the whole sink folds down into almost nothing and stores easily in my 3-drawer cabinet. Okay - now I wanted a solution that didn’t require me to lug out my water storage every time I wanted to wash my hands or rinse off a piece of fruit, so let’s talk about the
Water pump faucet
I learned a TON from UA-camr Todd Parker (a link to his channel is in the description: www.youtube.co.... I watched his video where he tested out 4 faucets so that I could choose the right product for my needs. I also watched and rewatched the portion of his car camping kitchen box video that discussed his faucet to figure out how he got his to work. As a result, my design is largely based on his with some tweaks . . .

[@13sqmaddog]

Just bought an enclosed trailer to camp in and looking for sink solutions. This gave me a lot of ideas! Thank you!

[@Mike-hu8yz]

Practical 😎