Balands National Park

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Modifications

The Sink 

Over the years we've made a few modifications to our original design.  One was a stand-alone sink cabinet that included a wash basin, a pump, fresh water storage, and additional storage space.  




For a faucet/pump we purchased the Whale Flipper Pump from Amazon.  



For fresh water storage we alternated between 10L and 20L Scepter jugs and connected the jugs to the pump using CPC (Colder) fittings, and 1/2" tubing.  Grandson Jack is testing the pump.

 

The addition of the sink cabinet required us to come up with a new design for a smaller dining table, and for that we turned to a Lagun mount system.which is used my many camper van and RV companies.



As much as we liked the sink cabinet we felt it created a crowded floor space in our van, so we eventually removed the cabinet, and attached the Laguna mount to the bed post closest to the sliding door.  The Laguna system allowed us to rotate the table to accommodate both of us for dinner, and still allowed us easy access to the sliding door.


Next we purchased an 11 liter Domestic fresh water jug with an attached battery operated electric pump. 
                        

We cut a hole in our driver side countertop for our wash basin/sink, and mounted the pump next to it, We also have the option of locating the fresh water jug in the footwell of the passenger side sliding door and mounting the pump on our dining table.



The Portable Toilet

Although we have very rarely used the Luggable Loo porta potty we decided we would like it more accessible. Yet once we removed the sink cabinet we did not have a place for it.  The 5 gal bucket of the Luggable Loo was too tall to fit under the bed, but after a lot of online searching we found a shorter PVC bucket on Amazon that worked.  



At 11.2" in height our porta potty fits easily under our bed.  We line our porta potty with Double Doodie waste bags which are available from REI and Amazon.