Hetty is up for grabs!

Time for someone to grab themselves a bargain. A mere £22k. Loose change down the sofa for some.

After much deliberation, we have made the difficult decision that Hetty would be better off continuing her life journey elsewhere. She’d make an amazing AirBnB / small home for someone. Just not us, due to our current circumstances. We have concluded it is such a waste to have her sit idly on our driveway, basically providing the occasional accommodation for when we have friends stay, but mainly being the main source of shade for our lovely old dog, who makes use of this provision on a regular basis.

You can see how much love, effort and attention to detail has been bestowed upon her over the last few years by checking out the previous blogs.

In an effort to summarise some of the key points, we sat down this morning before the heat started to melt our brains, and also took some more photos of her. She does not have an MOT, and will need some work to get her through. New tyres are definitely on the agenda, with brakes following fast as the second requirement. Quite essential items, in my opinion, as she is not a light girl so having effective brakes and tyres are a no brainer. We have been starting her engine regularly, but she has not been moved off the drive since she went to get weighed, so could also do with a service too.

Here are the results from her latest photo shoot.

Key points to summarise her complete transformation include, but are not limited to:

• New fully fitted kitchen including gas cooker and fridge freezer.
• Bathroom with Simploo and full size shower
• Truma gas electric combi boiler with warm air ducted heating
• Solar panels on roof to top up batteries
• New walls, roof, flooring, bearers and wheel arches. Walls made of fibre glass insulation composite panels, with internal 40mm additional insulation, a vapour barrier and clad with tongue and grooved boarding
• Wood log burner with new double insulated flue
• Pull out small second bed/sofa
• Large over cab bed with recess and lighting
• 12v/240v electrics with shore hook up
• 250 litre tanks (clean and grey)
• Reversing camera
• Storage to rear
• Drop down ramp creates a terrace
• Custom made underslung storage lockers
• New wing mirrors
• Full external repaint using coach paint
• Powered roof vent with additional vent and two spinning roof vents
• New windows with pull up blinds and screens
• Bluetooth ceiling mounted speakers and LED lighting
• Removable table
• Awning for rear (some assembly required when using)
• Full gas certification with swap over regulator
• Optional steps for constant use
• Sliding door access to cab
• New exhaust
• New rear and side lights
• External battery isolator
• New windscreen wipers and washers
• Mileage: 76811km
• NXXX XXB
• MAN 8.153

Please get in touch if you are interested or have any questions. In an ideal world, we are looking to get back what we spent. This excludes the hundreds of man hours (which we considered to be a labour of love), and the blood sweat and tears shed during her transformation from crusty ole smelly van to a beautiful, unique place to live.