Last weekend, we indulged in a bit of a spending spree for the build—nothing too outrageous, but let’s just say the HouseBus Savings are now looking a little more depleted than they were. In the end, we picked up our first big bundle of gear from two main suppliers:
I got in touch with a fair few companies beforehand, hoping for some advice and maybe a cheeky discount for buying in bulk. Price-wise, there wasn’t much between them, but RV WorldStore stood out—they were helpful, quick to respond, and didn’t seem fazed by my long list of questions.
The web team at Burnsco were a bit average if I’m honest, but I was keen to have a relationship with a local store (and ideally avoid playing courier roulette), so I reached out to the Albany branch—just up the road—and found them great to deal with. Friendly, knowledgeable, and didn’t look too horrified by my plans.
Some of the kit has already started arriving. Our so-called “room of requirement” (aka the spare room and my office) is now starting to resemble a storage unit crossed with a bomb site.
We’ve bought a lot of this gear well in advance, but there’s a reason for that. We need to know the exact sizes, power consumption, and fittings before we do the first fix on the bus. Better to have everything on hand now than to discover halfway through that we can no longer get that model, or nothing fits and we’re left muttering darkly at a whole that’s to small, or into a pile of mismatched cables and hoses.
Over the coming weeks we will start fitting stuff, that’s not in these photos, but is in transit or on order, This will involve cutting large holes in the bus lots of drilling, grinding, banging and stuff ..
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