We have a cooker (or do we?)!

 Well what can I say! Cooker ordered. It is a Thetford (Spinflo) Caprice MK3. We decided to pick it up as we could save £50 off the asking price. We had to travel 45miles but would still save a bit. 

We arrived at Motorcraft Conversions near Doncaster just before lunch. I then made a big mistake! The cooker was loaded into our car still in its protective cardboard box and we zoomed back up the motorway to Ripon. We didn't check it! Epic fail!

We got the cooker onto our boat. It is about 26kg. So quite heavy and awkward to move. We opened the box and low and behold it was the wrong colour. We wanted a black hob and we got stainless! The front was grey but there were a couple of marks on the chassis. We were not happy! Why did I not check it?!

A quick call to Motorcraft and they said we could bring it back and they would get a new one. Alternatively, they offered us a new one that they had took delivery 2 weeks previously for one of their conversions. It has a black hob but black doors. We zoomed down the motorway once again and once we had seen the black cooker, it was what we wanted. It was loaded into the car and we zoomed back up the road to the marina in Ripon.

By this time we were too tired to start fitting it so left it lying on the cabin floor. Phew. Nothing is ever smooth. Next job -fit the cooker!

The cooker 'asleep' on the floor.

And there's more!

Quite a bit of work has been completed this week. Our new work top has been purchased and taken down to the boat. It is 2.5m long and very heavy. Took us a bit of effort to get it into the boat. It also cost us a new windscreen for the car!

Today we fitted the sink and took it out again to seal the work top where we had cut it. We will refit the sink next weekend when the work top seal is dry.

We have also constructed the first part of the rear steps. The AC/DC are housed within.

The rear step with fuse boxes.

We intend to clad the rear step and make or buy 2 oak doors. This will enable us to access the fuses etc.

Dc fuse box almost complete.

AC RCD box still to wire up. We also intend to fit a galvanic isolator.

Coming along fine....

Oak window liners go in

With most of the lining out complete, our attentions move to some of the finer parts. We have fitted the window liners and they add that touch of class. They were not cheap but I couldn't have made the window liners any better. We had to enlarge the recesses as they were a bit small. It took us 2 days to get them in and we still have the porthole to do. Not looking forward to that!

It took us a while to decide how to fix them. Screws? Glue or mastics? Velcro? We decided on brass screws with eyelets. They look good, are secure and we can remove the liners when we need to. Some pics of the liners:

They look great!

The oak detail is perfect. Did I tell you that we are 'oak mad'!

More to follow....