Fairford shoe locker

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]A mod I done on the van - a table mount fitted, wiring tidied and step cut. Space for shoes, etc.

That's really neat. Shoe storage in our Sussex is always a problem but unfortunately we don't have that step.

Well done, looks good. I wouldn't dare cut into the van like that.

Thanks chaps. It’s only one cut and at the end of the day, if worst comes to worst, buy a new bit from A/S.

Good idea Stew, unfortunately our Kemerton has the gas heating in that space. Might keep the shoes toasty though!

AutoSleepy_Don wrote:Well done, looks good. I wouldn't dare cut into the van like that.

Go on Don be a devil! Wait till you take a jigsaw to your new coachbuilt sides to install wet  lockers by cutting 1 ft by 2.5 ft. Holes in its nice new shiny sides! Go on ask me how I know.....

Hmmmmm!!

It didn't even occur to me that the space there might be hollow!

I shall investigate mine tomorrow :)

I’m gonna investigate too but I think the 2017 model doesn’t have a step that broad. I’ll look.

Please Kas, no more mention of gas pipes and fittings - you know what I mean Arry  

Nice work Stew, but you did tell me it was originally going to be a " beer locker ". So is this what happens when the alcohol goes up to 50p a unit, it turns into a " shoe locker " 

It's very nice to be able to say something positive on here for a change. And I reckon it's a bloody good idea and a mod with practical use of unused space. Also you have not abused your van in any way, you have made it better. Someday all Fairfords will be built like this. 

I'm thinking this would be a great place to hide a safe too.

RogerThat wrote:I'm thinking this would be a great place to hide a safe too.

There ya go Rog, another good idea if you can find a safe small enough. I reckon there will be more good ideas coming from this. Some funny ones as well.

Mindhyg wrote:

RogerThat wrote:I'm thinking this would be a great place to hide a safe too.

There ya go Rog, another good idea if you can find a safe small enough. I reckon there will be more good ideas coming from this. Some funny ones as well.

Ok, what about putting ................... the microwave in it? 

StewPotch wrote:

Mindhyg wrote:

RogerThat wrote:I'm thinking this would be a great place to hide a safe too.

There ya go Rog, another good idea if you can find a safe small enough. I reckon there will be more good ideas coming from this. Some funny ones as well.

Ok, what about putting ................... the microwave in it? 

Now don't push your luck, Stew!! But you could put your heavy atlases in it and then they wont fall and hit you on the head

RogerThat wrote:I'm thinking this would be a great place to hide a safe too.

Not any longer!!    

Well done lads back to where we once were, nice banter with humour and no knockers. That's one reason that this forum was started in the first place. Good info, tips and other innovative ideas to pass onto other members. This one looks like it will actually work. It's a pity that auto sleepers design team don't read this forum as this is good design stuff. Will be getting my saw, hammer and chopper out tomorrow. Well on second thoughts, perhaps not my chopper

I'm more surprised the forum software let you say 'knockers'...
Al.

Ah . . . but what you don't know Al, is that you are both on a countdown.

In 3 hours and 17 minutes your keyboards will self destruct!! 

bikeralw wrote:I'm more surprised the forum software let you say 'knockers'...
Al.

Ha ha. Probably would not get away with t*ts, but who knows

Gromit wrote:Ah . . . but what you don't know Al, is that you are both on a countdown.

In 3 hours and 17 minutes your keyboards will self destruct!! 

Well Dave, you were right. My computer keyboard went bang dead on 3 hours 17 minutes. The bills in the post

Mindhyg wrote:

Gromit wrote:Ah . . . but what you don't know Al, is that you are both on a countdown.

In 3 hours and 17 minutes your keyboards will self destruct!! 

Well Dave, you were right. My computer keyboard went bang dead on 3 hours 17 minutes. The bills in the post

Wow, mine did the same. Two bills will be arriving very soon

Three bills. No, you can't say '* Inappropriate Word *', even though they're charming little birds..
Al

Now now children.

Just saying.

Love Sally
X

great idea for a shoe (or beer...) locker.....
small vans are great, but they also need plenty of innovative storage ideas...
if you want to see this done in a terrific way have a look at La Stada PVCs....plenty of large wide drawers, and making some use of underfloor voids..
AS won't be interested, wrong type of vans altogether, but AS owners might pick up a few ideas that could be incorporated...

Can you buy underfloor voids as an optional extra Chris? 

I jest of course, but I'd have some if you could. Very handy! It would solve a minor storage problem we have at present. 

No, Dave, but, even without resorting to a double floor, AS could easily modify it to included fairly deep moulded 'bins' with access covers built into the  floor....we had a couple on our Boleros and one was a 2007 and the other a 2010 model, so this sort of offering has been around for a while...
one was for battery storage and the other was a shoe/beer type locker..
please feel free to take the Michael, Dave (even in jest) but it's touches like this (and more) that make the difference between two (on the face of it) similar vans....
implementing good design need cost no more than implementing design that lacks the fullest thought....
and as I said above, creating and maximising storage in small vans need innovative thinking to drive out beneficial solutions.