The van build, in the order the van will accept it
A van conversion has a build order that cannot be argued with: insulation before walls, wiring before both. Plan the parts as a board with the stage each belongs to, so nothing arrives three months before it can be fitted.
The short version
A van build has a fixed order. Anything behind a wall goes in before the wall: wiring, insulation, plumbing runs. Buying out of order means storing expensive parts in a van you are trying to work in. Tag every part with its build stage and its weight, because payload is a legal limit rather than a preference.
A sample board
The van, stage by stage
Insulation before walls, wiring before both. Bought in the order it goes in.
- Items
- 6
- Fitted
- 1 of 6
- Total
- $6,575
- Budget
- $425 left of $7,000
Open any item for its details.
$180FittedStage · Before wallsWeight · 14 kg
$240To orderStage · Before wallsWeight · 11 kgAmps · 10A
$120ResearchingStage · Before wallsWeight · 60 kg full
$95ResearchingStage · After wallsWeight · 22 kg
$140ResearchingStage · Fit outWeight · 6 kg
$5,800ResearchingStage · FirstWheelbase · LWBRoof · High
Board photos from Unsplash, by charlesdeluvio, Benjamin Jopen, Jude Wilson 🚀, Scott Webb, Zhivko Minkov and Jordan Irving.
Who it's for
Anyone converting a van themselves, over months, buying parts as money and time allow.
What people use today
A spreadsheet and eleven hundred YouTube videos. The knowledge is generously shared and completely unstructured, and every builder rebuilds the same parts list from scratch.
What a board tracks here
Fields you name yourself, on the item they belong to. These are the ones that decide a purchase and have nowhere else to live.
- Build stage
- Anything behind a wall has to be bought before the wall. This field is the whole plan.
- Weight
- Payload is a legal limit. A build creeps toward it a component at a time.
- Amps
- The electrical budget is as real as the money one, and less forgiving.
- Fits the van
- Wheelbase and roof height decide almost every part, and listings assume you know yours.
Start one of your own.
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