We're Newbies!!

Tweetie · 09-06-2024, 01:54 PM

Hello Everyone,
My name is Tara and my husband's name is Tim. We just bought our bus about a month ago. We're in Southern Indiana and we need a place to park her while we live in and convert her. Her name is Tweetie. If anyone can help or give us some suggestions it would be well appreciated.

Rucker · 09-06-2024, 03:07 PM

Welcome!

Where are you going to start? Stripping out the seats?

Does the bus have A/C?

Tweetie · 09-06-2024, 04:09 PM

The seats are already out and no it doesn't have a/c. Right now our main concern is having somewhere to park out while we're living in it and converting it.

DeMac · 09-07-2024, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Tweetie

Hello Everyone,
My name is Tara and my husband's name is Tim. We just bought our bus about a month ago. We're in Southern Indiana and we need a place to park her while we live in and convert her. Her name is Tweetie. If anyone can help or give us some suggestions it would be well appreciated.

How much is your budget?

Many of our members rent large shops or warehouses in which to store &/or work on their bus(es).

Very few campgrounds will allow unconverted skoolies or major RV repairs, but if you're good at bribing, the rules can change.

You dont know it yet, but you wont spend much time on the inside of the uninsulated steel tube, without HVAC. Where are the workbench and material storage spaces? Sanitation facilities?

Once the interior has a sanitary toilet, wash sink, fresh water, grey & black tanks, food refrigeration, heat & air, solar collectors & energy storage, sleeping & sitting arrangements, then inside-your-bus would be a reasonable solution.

If you were in Central Florida I could offer you a parking space next to a shipping container. Complete with water, electricity, picnic table and fire ring. Accessable dumpster, showers & toilets, too.

Our last skoolie visitor, and his pet, stayed in our fenced in area for a few months. He grilled out nightly & worked out of the weather, under the well lit pavillion. His table saw, power tools, and projects left out on every picnic table. I honored his request & took no photos, but he was outside more often that inside.

nikitis · 09-07-2024, 06:29 AM

For me I've gotten used to the heat and being outside. Clearing my 30 acres that's forested which in the summer creates a convection effect because the tree canopy traps in heat in 105 degrees with 80% humidity will get you used to the heat. You even get to where you don't sweat as much after losing 50 lbs like I did this summer in the heat. I got in shape this year for sure, thanks to my bus.

I find myself still going into the bus to sit in it even in the heat and I don't even have any AC or inside insulation yet, but I threw in a temporary couch and love to just sit there thinking about the next step of the bus.

But I feel you, I do stay outside a lot when working on the bus. Small thing here, small thing there, fixed it, what's next, spend like 30 mins thinking about it, then continue outside working on it and accessing my tools.

I've yet to see how I'll be when it's finished. Will I spend more time inside or outside of it? I'm gearing more inside time because I plan to work from home out of it so just from that aspect I'll probably spend more time in it than out. The Fam may be outside more because I'll need times of quiet during phone calls with management during the day while they go for nature walks.

cadillackid · 09-07-2024, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by nikitis

For me I've gotten used to the heat and being outside. Clearing my 30 acres that's forested which in the summer creates a convection effect because the tree canopy traps in heat in 105 degrees with 80% humidity will get you used to the heat. You even get to where you don't sweat as much after losing 50 lbs like I did this summer in the heat. I got in shape this year for sure, thanks to my bus.

I find myself still going into the bus to sit in it even in the heat and I don't even have any AC or inside insulation yet, but I threw in a temporary couch and love to just sit there thinking about the next step of the bus.

But I feel you, I do stay outside a lot when working on the bus. Small thing here, small thing there, fixed it, what's next, spend like 30 mins thinking about it, then continue outside working on it and accessing my tools.

I've yet to see how I'll be when it's finished. Will I spend more time inside or outside of it? I'm gearing more inside time because I plan to work from home out of it so just from that aspect I'll probably spend more time in it than out. The Fam may be outside more because I'll need times of quiet during phone calls with management during the day while they go for nature walks.

with my DEV bus, I love the fact it has a wheelchair door up front.. It is my mobile office rig and I often park with all the doors and windows open in the shade and work out of it.. its really enjoyable to do so. parking in the sun its right hot inside.. with its stock insulation if i do try to use my portable A/C while parked in hot sun it doesnt do a lot...

being able to park in the shade is a HUGE advantage in warm weather when trying to work or live inside..

Dragonpop · 09-11-2024, 05:55 PM

In looking for a place to park you might approach a large construction company or equipment company and offer to stay on site as a night watchman in exchange for a place to park and possibly some power to run lights and tools.