VANLIFE BUILD: Installing Windows & Fan in our off-grid tiny house

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Published 2021-02-07
VANLIFE BUILD EP.04 - It's official! The work on our new Vanlife build officially begins. This week -- cutting holes in our $40 000 truck to install windows and fan. Feeling pretty anxious and want to know the PROPER WAY to install windows and fan? We've asked an expert who installed over 1500 in his life to show you how it's done.

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IN THIS VIDEO
Sprinter Freak: sprinterfreak.ca/store/en
Left Window Behind Driver: bit.ly/3jrlOCY
Sliding Window: bit.ly/3tDaMiD
MaxxAir Fan: bit.ly/3aGwfyv

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CHAPTERS
Intro - 00:00
Windows Installation Road Trip - 02:17
Windows FAQ - 04:28
Installing Windows - 07:25
Testing the Baby Cage - 10:42
Installing a Fan - 13:49
Ze French Lesson - 18:28

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CATCH UP ON OUR BUILD SERIES
01 - We Bought A New Van: bit.ly/boughtanewvan
02 - We Have A Problem: bit.ly/thevandisappeared
03 - Picking up our new van: bit.ly/newvan-sagas

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WHAT’S IN OUR CAMERA BAG
Canon 5d Markiii: amzn.to/2Xk3uSp
14 mm lens: amzn.to/2Pju2Pa
16-35 mm lens: amzn.to/3fraP9e
50 mm lens: amzn.to/33iHziy
24-105 mm lens: amzn.to/2Pd0Nhf
100-400 mm lens: amzn.to/2EJWTKR

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WHO WE ARE? WHAT’S WITH OUR ACCENT?
We're Dom & Marie, a French Canadian couple who love Nutella toast and live in a van. Marie is the brain (Ph.D. student) and Dom's the dreamer (Creative Director). We have spent the last 2 years travelling around North America in our Promaster 136'' named Vanessa. In 2020, after a 12-month trip that was cut short because of Covid, we decided to sell our van to start a new project: a bigger van.

Our goal is to inspire others to start #vanlife and to help build their very own home on wheels.

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MUSIC IN THIS VIDEO
Dancing to the Beat, by Clarence Murray - spoti.fi/3aHjIuL
Let's Get on with It, by Clarence Murray - spoti.fi/3joEzHj
Too Dark to Tell, by Ben Bostick - spoti.fi/39VBECM
How Many Breaks Can One Heart Take, by Mickey Murray - spoti.fi/3aMSvqO

All Comments (21)
  • @vanlifesagas
    Calling all experts. Who’s the baby? Dom or Romie? 🤷🏼‍♀️
  • Did anyone else who saw this this videos 26 minutes after it came out. Then re watched it 3 hours after it came out and noticed that the thumbnail was different and the title. Love the little details, you guys put into your work.
  • @Ari-ld9hi
    There are some women in this world that are perfect for motherhood and you my dear Marie will be a great mother. Marie: "Delivery"
  • @kellyk3933
    Dom, I agree with you.....Baby cage sounds much better than Golden-Kids-Kingdom-Of-The-Yellow-Stripes. Your vlog always makes my Sundays. Love you guys.
  • @carolz5090
    First off - Excellent music as always! Secondly - 👋Dom’s Dad. Also, here is a digital stuffed toy, a sheep🐑 of course, to the renown baby cage subject matter expert, Romie. Now, on a more serious note, I seem to have fallen down some Canadian vanlife sinkhole. Because I like videos on small space storage and design, YouTube sent me Todd and Tyler, who I freakin’ love. Their relationship is (literally) Golden, Todd’s humor is lightning ⚡️ and Tyler’s wry reactions are legend. THEN up you popped as a recommendation and silly me took the bait. You two are in a word, delightful. How about charming? There’s also honest. Although...the image of Marie shaving her legs out the side of the van now appears in MY head when I shave and this worries me greatly. 👀 And here comes the scary part, 😱 I just subscribed to Max and Occy in Australia! Now the God of YouTube algorithms is deluging me with van conversion videos. I don’t have a van or an RV, I have less than zero probability of ever buying one let alone converting one, yet here I am. This past week I was notified that you were doing on Instagram Live so I dropped into the middle of it and stayed for half an hour and watched you speaking French to a buddy, and despite a smattering of Ze French Lessons I DON’T SPEAK FRENCH and I’m not Canadian. WTH? WTF? Clearly I now have a problem, I’ve become a vanlife addict. I need an intervention. If anyone has made it this far, send help!!! 🚑 🆘
  • @alantacitus
    Dom est jeune de cœur... Une bonne chose, ca augmente l'espérance de vie. Je sais je suis pareil a 51 ans. Bonne chance a vous 2 (3?)... Dom is young at heart ... Good thing, it increases life expectancy. I know I'm the same at 51. Good luck to you 2 (3?) ...
  • @gabrielw7929
    In this episode we learn that Dom has been doing an impression of his father all along. ;)
  • The baby cage tester is adorable! Ohmygoodness! ♥️ And Dom playing w/her on the horn- priceless. What great parents you two will make when the time comes. Great progress on your new build. Can’t wait to see what’s next. Thanks! ☮️
  • @bruceaux174
    Marie, I shuddered watching you catch the roof cutout for the fan. SAFETY GLASSES!. The little metal shards from the saw are wicked on eyes.
  • @shake6474
    Love the small French lessons at the end
  • @anakinlejedi
    Marie, tu aurais dû porter des lunettes de sécurité en tenant la plaque que ton beau-père coupait ! Et aussi des gants anti-coupures, ça coupe les tôles fraîchement coupées ;) ( dit l'outilleur qui travaille chez Bombardier ) ;)
  • Dom’s Dad was a sweetie..... it’s real life for all parents and the reverse is truer for our children!!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
  • @tomasthomas7407
    “Infortuneately”, i really enjoyed this video ... 👀🤔🤣👍🏻
  • @sunnyd5535
    Dom looks and sounds just like his dad LOL - his dad isn't quite as silly though ;)
  • @jdwoodworth
    I am excited to start my build too! We received "Theresa Moorea" named after my baby sister who passed away in here early 20s and Moorea is the Island in Tahiti we my husband Steve and I went on our honeymoon. She is a Silver 159 WB High roof with Swivel seats. My husband bought her formy 60th Birthday this March.
  • Aucune chance que vous n'avez pas 👶 dans "the oven" et j'ai trop hâte!!!!!
  • @DeborahLong7777
    No one can say your video's aren't EPIC !!! Big word for you eh ? Priceless and Dom with the baby on the horn was hilarious! Never a dull moment with Dom 🤣🤣🤣 Gotta love it your precious Marie . Much love from Texas ❤🕊
  • I used to keep a small sheepfold to use for wool. (I have sheared, carded, and spun the wool to use in making garments. [Hey! That’s another word Dom can use to avoid the word “clothing!]) The plural of sheep is ... sheep. I know, I know... English is just weird like that. Love you two! I should crochet you something. It looks so much colder there than in Texas!