WINTER VAN LIFE UK | WOKEN AT 2am 😳

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Full time vanlife in the uk as we explore our new burstner argos motorhome

In this video we get some jobs done around the van and head out for gas as winter vanlife in the uk gets underway .
Woken at 2 am to flat batteries on the motorhome !!

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It got very dark very quick um it was the fact that all three Renegy batteries underneath that seat there had all gone flat mhm and all the they’d all come up with warnings on under voltage morning how are we on this beautiful morning Zach has just come up with a valid point

What did you say Zach is that what did you say I um we’re always picking up Parcels or doing washing oh yeah van life realities for you oh and you probably just noticed this here the diesel ler came yesterday which I’ve got to do a little product

Review on um so this is the type it’s a suitcase one little Cary on the side 5 KW yes that’s the Cary in a radio on remote control you know like in the Swift I believe it’s got Bluetooth I’m not 100% sure yet I’ve literally just

Got out the box but we’re going to whack this with think under this chair down here um yeah this is only going to be used during the daytime the diesel we’re not going to use this at night you can actually take them out of this box let me just show you

Quickly that’s what people are used to seeing that part so we could actually take this out of this box and mount it and do it that way but they wanted to send me this uh suitcase style want to do so that is what we’re going to be

Fitting in the van as extra heating well we don’t really need extra heating cuz the heating is good enough in it yeah starting atus 5 last night let me show you this ice CL here I kicked it off this morning but yeah there’s a the ice

Out the heater up still I kicked all that off so that is going to be today’s Mission – 5 this morning Catherine’s on bedding duties y it’s that awful day oh what a lovely sunny crisp morning Isaac yeah and there’s a little thin layer of ice ice

On the canal oh it’s lovely look at the ice forming in the little pockets and then some quite a bit over there booze out this morning it’s day three since he’s been out of the vets and as you can See’s happy he’s a happy little doggo feeling much better again we’re just

Going to start trying to introduce his uh back to his uh nor not his normal food because we’ve actually been to a localist pet suppliers who specialize in a wide range of dog food and they also know their stuff there so a big shout out to Kerri at

Bradin um her knowledge on the dog food was fantastic um we’ve actually got him on uh a food to help his gut uh one that’s very very easily digestible and has a little bit of extra extra something in it to help his tummy um yes it’s a bit pricey but he

Worth it he’s old but he’s certainly a lot happier this morning is we’ve got Road Works going on just across the road so I thought that the Finish beeping for a minute I’ll put the camera on the noisy Devils but it’s a lovely crisp morning he’s happy toddling along there

Look to the right all ice yeah all ice on the canal this morning look the glare of the sunshine which is beautiful Oh look The Stick just goes through it somebody’s chucking sticks testing the depth of the ice it’s about 1 1 mm oh what a lovely morning that one didn’t go Through tick stick near the lock is it isn’t it God it’s a good I would say 2 in deep ice here it is I know cuz the sun don’t get on for the trees yes it’s rather thick the it’s not very often you see the canals and rivers

Frozen over especially the canals cuz they’re more still but yeah there’s been no boats this morning so it’s not broken all the ice up but somebody’s enjoying himself pottering around sniffing nice to see him back Again oh don’t let me down I think you love SS honey don’t fool around you know I’ve be waiting Honey so I’ve got the diesel little temper fitted just trying it out it’s not too noisy this one I don’t think it’s quite quiet I’ll just mounted the fuel tank here for now parking into the uh fuel tank rather state of this van got stuff all

Over here managed to take the tools back out we’ve got another parcel up there we’ve got stuff down there stuff on the table stuff all up there we got the heater running down there red up the heat coming up down there but I think just got the wires in

Temperary I think I’m actually going to remove that heat here it from that box fit a turret plate in the floor fit it in properly that way cuz I’m not happy about the exhaust gr for that pipe in the floor even even though I put a big

Thick steel pipe in the steel pipe’s getting hot quite hot so it’s like I think I’ll just rip it all out of the box but cuz I’ve got to do a review on it just so just get it all wide into tempering try out but yeah there’s some

Heat coming out there Zach is there yeah yeah and it’s Bluetooth as well so next mission is we better get tidied up cuz Catherine’s popped out and she’ll not be happy when she gets back and sees the mess I’ve made hey feel that good a it you can feel it you can’t

Feel it here you can’t feel it here you can feel it blowing right across here we definitely turned into a shopping channel or a buying Channel C been buying I’ve been buying and uh we was asked to do a a little riew on a air fry

Down there it’s only going to be an integrated review and I thought that’s a big box there’s two air frers in box so we a got room for one air frer two I know what you got yeah I’ve bought um cuz we’re like I did a bit of a

Spring clean yesterday you know in all the cupboards and everything and it’s like it’s like in this cupboard this half is all full of spices jars and jars and jars of spices they need to come out so I’ve got more room for other stuff yeah so kitchen roll

Older and yeah it’s like my kitchen roll I keep picking it up moving it putting it in all the cupboards and it’s annoying it just wants to be on a rack so I bought a kitchen roll holder but instead of screwing not cuz we don’t really want to keep screwing into walls

Both of these things have come with these selfadhesive pouches and the set of screws they come with both so they come with these things which I think are really good you just peel the back off so have to see apparently they are very very very very strong very strong

Very very strong I just finished me blue and on the subject we’ve got oh yeah yeah we’ve been on it this week haven’t we 36 cups on order yes so they’ll you lovely lot probably be here next week and then we’ll sort out um

How much they are in that cuz we have to order the boxes separate to post them cuz I presume most people will want want to post them so have to sort out how much they are I think they’re going to be about £450 to post them yes we’re

Going to sort the prices out and let you all know anyway but stick around later for the um dash cam drawer we’re doing the drawer on the dash cam you just eat it when you get some out of the box and you cannot for the life if you get it

Back in cardboard boxes we got some down there some there got door roll there cuz we’ve been working all day it’s it’s you know I most TI of this side off yeah well you did till I put stuff on there yes and Boo’s got himself a new

Collar he has but I’m sending it back cuz it’s too big wait too big the the size around the neck’s right but what I didn’t realize was look how thick it actually is it takes up his whole neck he’s only a Wile doggy he’s only wickle so I’m going to

Send it back well that was a bit eventful W it Zach yeah we just sat here Catherine’s gone out me Zach sat here gaming I’m sat here doing next to nothing and all the lights went out it got very dark very quick um so some reason the panel seems to think the

Van is gone flat and I can only think when I I put the lithium batteries in it was set up for a it said 65 amp battery and I didn’t know how to change it so I just left it but because we’ve been going on Electric hookup it’s been fully

Fully charging the van the panel thought the van was flat but my phone said the van wasn’t flat so I had to put the generator on and then mess about with the settings and we think we might have got it set up better this time but

Because we haven’t been on a campsite on electric hup for nearly 2 weeks now we’ve been relying on the generator and we haven’t been fully charging so the panel keeps thinking it’s flat but I thought it don’t really matter if it thinks it’s low well obviously when it

Gets to a certain point it switches itself off yep and we’ had to figure that out the hard way yes we have to figure that out in the dark so that was eventful it’s all adds to the fun doesn’t it y my worry was is if we

Didn’t quite know why it could go off in the night and it’s been cold um so yeah because I’ve got it all wired separately from the um the electro block Electro BL whatever you call it the big blue thing it doesn’t measure what’s going in so

When you charge if you put it on Main’s hook up the charging system goes through that so when it goes up to full percentage it knows he’s at full percentage but because of the stuff I fitted is after there it doesn’t know there charge going in so I think that is what’s the

Problem bit of excitement in the dark good afternoon I would say good morning but it’s not morning now it’s afternoon and there’s a reason reason why it’s afternoon because cuz it’s gone 12:00 well yeah there’s that reason but the reason being last night when the battery situation and I was blaming the

Control panel up there it wasn’t actually even the control panel it was the fact that all three Renegy batteries underneath that seat there had all gone flat mhm because at 10: to 3 this morning everything went off the power went off so Catherine woke me up because

The panel lights up when it goes off so it lit up and went off mhm got up and checked it checked on my phone and sure enough all batteries were reading about 60% yet they were only reading 11 volts something I thought that’s a bit odd and

All the they’d all come up with warnings on under voltage mhm so it was like well that’s a bit strange but the actual percentage works as in it knows how much you’ve taken out and now we should put back in the battery so we’ve never really because we’ve been off grid now

Two weeks next two weeks yeah I’ve been putting the gener generator on getting it to about 90% going now that’ll do there’s plenty inway so we’ve not completed a full cycle so uh in in the process of it working out what’s gone out and what’s gone in it’s obviously the batteries

Were a lot lower there obviously about maybe 10% 15% even though it we’re showing 60 so what we’ve done this morning is is well when we got finally back to sleep at about 5: cuz we had to start the engine up on this van yes we

Had to L engine running for over an hour didn’t we run it from 3:00 a.m. till 4:00 a.m. just put enough to keep the heater on because because it was stupidly cold 5 again so we don’t want it to be cold so yes i’ had the generate

On this money for about 3 hours it’s just run out of petrol but um a garage quarter of a mile down the road so get some pet in a minute and put it going to be another two hours before it’s full going to be a while of course I thought

Oh sun’s coming out clean panels it’s gone in no the sun went Hello Goodbye just up pain in their ass because really we want to get some power wack back in these batteries yes and get them charged up so that’s probably a little bit of a

Downside to lifing back what we had this in the Sprint van last it was last New Year’s Eve or the day before New Year’s Eve which was in Sprint van a victron smart sh mhm so when you charge the batter up it works out what you put in to

100% middle of night heating went off kept going with an error what’s up with this so we just left it um and it was saying the B got 80% in and when I checked the battery the voltage was like 11.7 volts which Glen Co Glen so we left there and

Drove to kzk if if you watch that video it was it was for New Year’s Eve cuz we we saw New Year’s eveing in KZ yeah yeah yeah so it was the night before so they’re them them they’re only as good as you keep completing a full You’ got

To look after them to keep them working correctly yeah so I’ve just charged it up and it got to 99% and said you got three minutes till full charge and the generator R for another hour and a half because it was only at 13.3 volts and

They want to be at 13.6 volts roughly these ones I’ve got these rages yeah so uh I need to nip out and get some petrol for that because mhm it’s obviously gone a little bit out of sink but we’ve done well we have done really well we’ve been two weeks and

That petrol we bought was 7 quid yeah £770 that can of petrol and that has lasted us just over a week about a week and a half so that’s how much petel we’ve used charging the van up obviously we’ve not charged it fully it did go flat last

Night which was a bit of an annoyance but for for MoneyWise we’ve done really well haven’t we with you know saving the the amount of money we saved on on not going to a campsite and and hookup charging and but biley is I would say back to his old self or

That close back almost 99% 99% he is absolutely been running around this morning loving it and I thought right I get all the stuff out of the garage it’s gone all dull and cold now but it isn’t going to be as cold but it’s Fus it

Being wet and windy mhm um so I’ve got a few things to do I’m changing the heat around I’ve put in the van I’ve stripped it all out the case and I’m mounting it through the floor on a proper what was that plate called I can’t remember what it was I could even

Remember telling my dad yesterday so it’s no good asking me yeah not a clue there’s a name for the plate you buy a plate and you draw a big old in floor and it’s like a it’s a manifold and you sit it through a manifold so I’m going to fit it in like

That got itching I was getting itching you’re something to do with pressing that record button yeah so the cheesecake lady’s been around but she didn’t bring her a bag of clothes with so she’s going to bring us a cheesecake though she didn’t bring a bag of clothes

With her well I told her to move in cuz she good cheesecakes I wonder what you meant then well she said she never met me before so she had to come around to decide whether she would or not that’s what she said oh dear so I

Think what have you agreed on for next cheesecake Zach I said mint cuz he said he don’t want mint St strawberry Zach doesn’t like mint never has done they just have a normal cheesecake they’re nicer but yes Zach’s agreed on on strawberry for the next one yeah so

We’re still in this lay by living the dream I think we’re going to move somewhere tomorrow yes um I need to go check the gas situation actually because um gas will be running out probably today uh we did use the dies ler quite a bit yesterday but yeah more of a getting

Well getting it running getting the stink out of it the new newness smell um so we’re going to be you know if I can get in today or tomorrow then we can work out this next week we should be able to make gas last a week then be a

Bit long depends how much we cook I suppose yeah it’s just going to be a bit of trial and error into it when it’s up and running properly and to see how long everything lasts we’ve got this little air fryer been sent to us by a company

Yes this little beauty so we’re going to be giving that a few little tests and cooking something in that probably next time but yeah we’re going to be drawing the winner for the dash cam soon as well yes absolutely yeah we’ve had over 700 entries we have it’s gone a lot of lot

Of entries we have gone crazy make sure you stick around for that but uh We’ve also got a few no you’re knocking everything off now a few thank yous to give oh we have and I think one you know the first one to do is for Julie in it

Oh yes thank you very much Julie you’re a star yes thank you is very unexpected yes you’re a star yes so we got a few B coffee thank yous this week and we have got cat thank you very much cat thank you very much Sandra Johnson Jonathan K and Roxy Ru he and

Chris again thank you fulltime motor home is one that’s called I’ve heard that one before and Paul O’Brien uh and can we give a shout out to Baran Mandy or are in Tor molos for for 6 weeks ooh lovely can’t wait to see you again Paul and Anette wow very nice

Time Talina look at do we being back out there get a bit of solar get get a bit of solar going I know right it’s warmed up no end out here now let’s see where we are on the gas front cuz I’m sure yes as I suspected this one’s

Down into the yellow that one’s gone into the red now so we’re going to need to go and get some gas cuz I’d rather get it before it runs out than when it runs out because if we’ve got to nip up to Doncaster it’s Friday and uh yeah don’t want to be

Going up there at tea time hello everybody and we have to apologize from the Iggy piggledy video this week because we’ve been concentrating on boo so we not we’ve not really picked it up much we picked it up done a little bit and not done bits and we’ve got to the

Point where we need to pick a winner for this um giveaway on the yes we certainly do I’ve got my YouTube comment random comment pick already that’s a bit of I need to paste the link in and whatever so Catherine’s got a few birthdays to do I have while

He’s getting that done we’ve got cuz we’ve got a bit behind on birthdays I’m afraid so I’m just going to give give out the ones were five behind so we’ve got happy birthdays to Victoria from Mark he loves you lots for the 18th of Jan Peter Sweeney and daughter Bowie for

The also for the 18th of Jan Sharon Grimshaw 18th of Jan um Chris from Jan and that’s for the 19th of January and one last one um JP racing uh your mom Sue and that’s that’s a very belated one when I’m afraid 16th of January so I’m sorry we’re a bit

Behind on them but as you know we’ve had a bit of a rough time and a couple of people said in the comments you’re not going to be able to keep up with all these birthday shout outs and I’m sure we’ve missed no Ender people I’m sure we

Have so we do apologize apologize we had things going off uh I’ve got me random comment picker ready so let’s click it and see who’s the winner so we’ve got John John bunot bought 4924 John bunot bought 492 congratulations John I shall put it up on the screen well done I would presume

Your name is John and it is John I I always reply to your comments as John so John it’s John H built not bought okay because it’s all in one long line put up on the screen anyway but congratulations John if you send us a message on um

Facebook Messenger on the page y with your details we’ll get that sent out to you as soon as possible absolutely get in touch and we’ll get it posted yes the cup situation I mentioned earlier they should be coming next week or this week next week yeah

Next week the coming week yeah yes this coming week should we say but um we’re off up to a campsite aren’t we in a bit yes we are um we’ve had a lovely email from somebody who owns their own campsite up near subscribers and we invited us to stop

There for free yes which is lovely cuz I’ve got washing to do we like free we like free he got fishing lakes yes but more so for summer so we’ve spoken to them and uh we’re going to head up there a bit later today and go and check the

Place out aren’t we yes definitely look like it might be a nice little Retreat get away yeah um so we we’ll do a bit of filming around find out what’s going off there um how much it is a night we’ll ask them all sorts of questions the

We’ll ask it all but we’ll put that in the new video yes I believe there’s a garden center there that does breakfast as well so yeah I’ve got all me got all me eily all fitted now properly I took it out of that box it’s all inside it

Want Happ so it’s rip it out and start again them boxes uh they’re made to be portable but they’re not I don’t think they’re that good because it’s what do you do with the exhaust what did you do with this what did you do with that um so I’ve

Took it all out the box um and made it fit properly how we should on a manifold MH the thing is that we we trust him and he knows what he’s doing so if he says I’m not happy it’s all going to come out

As much as you think oh my God it’s got to be done it’s done properly now yeah just got to sort the pump out cuz it’s as they do to switch it off to talk to you guys on here cuz it’s a bit noisy you can get a better pump you can mount

It in foam you can do all sorts I’ve just choked it you won’t think it were outside you think it were in here next to you TS but anyway it don’t matter because it’ll be we’re only having it on jooy the daytime yes we’re going to use

That through the date and then switch to gas at night we are we’re going to switch to gas at night Bo is 100% better now oh he is he is he’s been playing wrestling in bed this morning wrestling in bed AR you but uh you going to look forward to

Going up some nice grass to run around on it fishing L little bit muddy muddy in the van yeah butth a little bit shorter video this week well I say this week I keep saying this week it’s not like weekly videos more like nearly daily video so uh we’re going to thank

Everybody for watching thank all for your support and we will see you in the next one we will we’ll be back on it as well with boobing back up and running again we’ll be back on it like a car Bonet absolutely