How To Fit Household Hob & Sink To A Van Conversion

Mark shows us how easy it is to fit a household hob & sink to a van conversion! Sprinter Project Episode 8

(00:00) So when Ben and Anna decided to uh pick their hob in their sink for the camper van they actually picked household units, which is fine, they look lovely but pose a small problem for me in the fact that I thought I was going to be fitting campervan stuff, which is fine, so there are a few differences with our household tap and our household hob but I'll run through those with you because it's actually easier than you think. So let's take a look at the sink because it's actually really good, so if I remove the cover that Ben's

(00:28) lovely other half made, it's a beautiful job Ben, but this tap I have to say is pretty cool check this pretty powerful okay so let me show you how I've done that so if we start at the back here our water source as you can see we've got our 70 litre Fiamma tank here originally when we spoke to Ben and Anna we were going to have something small like a 12 litre tank obviously With that big tap it's a no-go so we've gone for 70 litre, we've got a Fiamma filler here so if I take the cap out you can put your hose in and it fills the tank and the great

(01:05) thing is it's obviously got a breather in this cap as well so I don't have to have a separate breather on my tank so there we go we pop that back in and as we follow down you have to drill a hole into these tanks to allow the water to go in and obviously then drill through these as well this is our little clear bit of pipe that we've put on this gives us an indication of our level as you can see that's our level there now the tank itself comes on its own with fittings and that is it it doesn't have all the pipe work so we have all

(01:35) the pipe work here at stock at Jess campus as well so this is a 40mm internal diameter reinforced pipe which is perfect for our water feed inwards and this is just a clear bit of 8mm pipe here and then at the bottom we've got our this is quite high pressure hose actually our water hose this is half inch I obviously just clipped on with our jubilee clips here is one of the outlets that comes with the tank you get a 90 degree outlet or a straight one you have to drill through the tank and then there's a rubberised washer that fits on

(02:06) the inside and you basically do the nut up then I've used our half inch high pressure water pipe with a jubilee clip onto our fitting here around to just an on off tap here and then this goes further forward down to our pump so let's go and check the pump out so I fitted the shore flow pump around the back here out of the way and it's unlike rubber fitting so it tries to eliminate some of the noise when it's actually pumping along now that type of pump is like a pressure type of pump and what that does is pressurize the whole system

(02:37) and then when we open our tap obviously then water flows on like a normal type camper van pump setup you'd have a micro switch in your tap and as soon as you opened you tap that micro switch would then turn the pump on but this is done as I say as a pressure setup also in this line we've got this Fiamma accumulator now all that does is just smooth the water flow out the tap basically otherwise it could be pulsating from that the way that pump works but with that fitted it makes the tap flow really smoothly the Wastewater out the way out

(03:12) it comes right so the configuration we've got here obviously because it was a household tap we had a hot and a cold Inlet obviously we're only running cold so what I've done is just tped off and run to both sides of that tap so it doesn't matter what orientation the tap's in it fires water out anytime so the Fiamma accumulator is a real easy fit It just fits literally in line between the pump and the tank and it comes with a like a right angled fitting and a straight fit in and these are already pre-pressurized so

(03:41) this is the little valve like a Schrader valve car valve Style um and these are pre-filled from Factory I think to about 9 to 13 PSI something like that so you can adjust that if you wanted to change the flow of your rate of well depending on how big the tap is I think it does say you can adjust it but I'm leaving that well alone because it works perfectly and then the final path for our water is obviously through the sink waste into our waste uh water tank here now this is a real simple setup this is what came with this ink

(04:14) actually this sort of corrugated pipe I've decided just to pop it straight into the top here there's enough breather around the top here for it to let the air out as the water goes in and the great thing about it is obviously this has got a handle so it's really easy to empty obviously that's a 25 litre waist so it wouldn't fit all of our 70 litres of water in there but the idea is you're possibly not going to put all your 70 litres down the sink you might hang it out the door and wash your feet that was I think Ben and Anna's

(04:41) idea but the nice thing about it is only 25 litres so you just empty it more regularly that's all but it's clear so you can keep an eye on the level perfect that works really well so to make that work all you need is that pressure type pump so you've got constant pressure in your water system the accumulator to make it smooth a bit of pipe work and obviously a reasonably sized tank so that leads us to our hob now the hob that Ben chose was a 240 volt hob because he liked the look of it fair enough my side of it obviously I would love I

(05:17) would have loved to have a 12 volt hob because that would have made my life a lot easier and we could use the ignition side so we opted to keep it simple and not use the 240 ignition because obviously I would have had to put an inverter in just to literally run the hob ignition which would have been a lot of money and we weren't going down that route so keep it simple they're just going to have to use a hob lighter that's it now the gas side of it obviously we still had to go from household gas to camper style gas now so our campervan

(05:47) piping is actually eight mil and our household is what's called half inch bsp so I had to get a special converter A fitting that would bolt to our half inch bsp with an eight mil compression fitting simple and that was done and then I could run R8 mil pipe down to our gas locker and use our standard gas bottle so this is our very own gas Locker it's completely airtight obviously so if there was a leak with inside of this it would stay in here and not um come out into the van now it's got a regulator inside and then into our 8mm

(06:23) compression fitting and then our pipe runs all the way up here nice and neatly straight to our up and our eight mil compression fitting pipe fits along here to this fitting here so this is our bsp to eight mil compression fitting this is what you would need if you were converting a household hob into the camper van gas pipes so that's our utilities finished I've got a beautiful hob and a beautiful sink admittedly it wasn't what I was expecting so Ben you got your wish you've got your beautiful household stuff in here obviously gave me a little

(06:55) bit of a headache for a short period of time as you can see the camper has really taken shape now um I don't think it's going to be too long before we're going to be doing the total reveal you know anyway stay tuned um we'll see you next time thanks for watching.