Motorhome Features

Underfloor Storage Bins

Below deck storage bins will avoid the nightmare of creating brackets and boxes to hold all your water-tanks, gas-bottles, and solar batteries, and then trying to load all your junk inside.

Ah I could imagine nothing finer than having a couple of jerry-cans of fuel next to my side of the bed, or a bicycle behind the lounge, and I reckon a couple of 300ah house batteries beside the dunny would make a great conversation piece too! Not to mention the generator, the out-board motor beside the tele, and all that other handy stuff you "need" in the living room!

Basically, we have planned on mounting our water-tanks in the center and right hand side, with a micro-workshop in the right rear bin.

VIEW INSIDE FRONT-LEFT BIN

Domino Under Floor Storage Bins

That's right, I have got no intention of leaving home without a big gennie, the welder, small drillpress, vice, power-tools, etc. A blokes gotta have a "shed" you know!

This would leave the front left bin for the "Gopher", with the solar house batteries next, and a slide-out BBQ and generator in the back bin etc.

In addition, there is still a mile of room to mount extra items in the engine bay, and room enough for extra mini-bins before the front-axle if necessary. It's all about weight distribution, as it is necessary to keep a good eye on the axle weights as the build progresses!

Remember - Building your DIY Motorhome is one thing, but actually packing it to go will be another as you suddenly realise that you have nowhere to store all those essential items you forgot about, like your toolkit, and a spare jerrycan of fuel. Don't forget the spare tyre, as most "city buses" do not have provision to carry a spare, so that is a very heavy and dirty great item to store in a readily accessible place.

Let's not see you beside the road somewhere busily unloading all your storage bins, stacking up your possessions beside the highway as you try to extricate that spare tyre from way below decks in a storage locker.

This reminds me of the Wally who not only got a flat tyre, but couldn't re-start his engine to lift his leaking airbags high enough to retrieve the spare from the rack he built underneath. Yer... you know who you are if you are reading this hey!