I turned a bus into a luxury tiny home

In this video I am going to convert a 1991 bus into a small

luxury

house. This project took us six months to complete. I hope you enjoy. My brother and I bought this old school bus from a guy who collected trucks on Facebook and honestly it was in terrible shape but had a good engine and transmission. This bus is going to need a lot of work. It's very, very sticky and there are a lot of important things that need to come out. The first step is obviously to completely gut this bus, bro. I have a lot of work to do, okay, I have a big crowbar, oh, yeah, oh, and this bus was dirty, incredibly dirty, there were several spiders, wasp nests, cockroaches and what looked like a pretty bad termite infestation.

We're almost done with the demolition. looking great after that we can start building we bought some wood online we saw people who kept the metal roof of the bus and just painted it white and it looked perfect which was great because we thought it would save us time and money, this is the last time you'll do it. I see this ugly tan bust, but to try to save time we used the wrong spray gun. The result was like this, there are lines like dripping paint, which is a big problem because the roof of the bust was made of metal, we had to get a special paint. that was 200 the next day when it dried, we tried to correct our mistake by sanding but ended up finding a much bigger problem when it started raining, how's it going?

Well I think I made a discovery oh my gosh it's coming out Here we have to take the whole roof off and figure out where all this is coming from so we're at a low point right now and we found out that the roof of the bus is leaking very, very bad, not only that, but what we did. the paint still looks horrible it looks worse than it actually was so this whole roof needs to be torn down and replaced now once we got the old metal roof off we were able to climb on top of the bus and fix all the leaks.

The bus was from 1991 so honestly we should have done this in the first place and in my opinion the new roof ended up looking much better anyway to be able to edit a video so all the framing today at least depends on me in the back. We are going to put in a private bedroom that houses a full size bed, that's what Kobe is working on now, so this is what I have so far. Boom, two beds right outside that room will be our living room space, so we. We will need a large bathroom with a sink and shower and, finally, in front of the bathroom will be our kitchen.

These old bus doors will be a thing of the past very, very soon if you sleep in an RV. We're going to want security, which is exactly why we put a real front door here, we found a good will, the next big job we had to do was install the tanks. Every RV or camper you see usually has three tanks, one fresh water, one gray water, and one black water. The fresh water tank supplies clean water to everything that needs it. Gray water is what gets washed down the sink while that black water is what goes down the toilet right now I'm under the bus and this is where the poop tank goes To go right under the toilet, what I'm going to do is basically make a tray for it to sit in, but It has to be strong because when the tank is full it will weigh over 300 pounds so the day has come that everyone in construction fears insulation day now the bus has insulation behind this panel there is about an inch of thickness but that's not good enough for Chad to change it it's been five hours and 30 minutes since I

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this camera on my whole day I've been under this bus This is going to be the coolest camper ever although Colby then put up the drywall that closes off the bathroom where we could start with that so today I'm going to make this base waterproof with waterproofing material we're about to do this bathroom and pretty we want this bus to be really modern and shiny , so we went with this plastic tile which had a weird marble pattern and of course for the shower area we wanted something a little different so we went with brick as an accent because we're going to put it in the kitchen too , so in the end it will really help tie the whole bust together.

It was going to be a drain. I wanted to put a secondary waterproof layer on top of the toilet and for now the bathroom was ready. Let's move on to this is the generator box. One of the things we wanted for the bus was to be able to have electricity anywhere in the world, so we came up with the idea of ​​adding a generator box to the back that way. We could feed it while going down the road or camping in a parking lot, but we needed some way to cover the wood because it looked bad and wasn't waterproof.

Now we are removing the metal from the roof. of the bus and we're turning it into um this is the top for the generator there you go this is what it's going to look like once it's assembled it looks amazing then we build a waterproof door and test it out there you go. see what's here, that's cool, this is amazing, look at this, next was the loft. We wanted this bus to be able to seat four people comfortably. We also decorate the space under the bed. This is the last look under the master bedroom. our storage area right here with the water heater and access to that water pump and back here is like our garage so you can access it from the outside this will be like the master closet it's like a drawer that you can use and now . we're going to cover it up and then we went back to the loft to finish the accent wall with bricks, what does that mean?

I have no idea, but you drew it 10 minutes ago. Those were our plans to build the kitchen cabinets outside, so. I was a little wrong. These cabinets are the size they would be if we had put them in a house, so I'm going to make them smaller because they are too big in this case. In this case, bigger alone does not mean better. I'm also taking down this stupid wall, yeah we're good, go ahead and put it in place. I thought we were going to have to wait three weeks to put this in but we can do it today oh man another reason why I'm so excited about the sink we only paid like 45 bucks for it man this is crazy so we built the upper cabinets and started turning our Focus towards what we call the living room because this is just a 20 foot bus that the living room can't have a couch so what we did was build two benches one facing the another at each end, then we finished the left wall with the brick we put in the bathroom and in the Loft it really helped tie the whole bus together.

One day I decided to work on the front of the bus and while it may not be as exciting as some of the things Kobe did, I cut out the steering wheel piece, I think I'm going to show it off because I didn't find myself and I'm proud of it. foreigner with a bit of a look, this might fit, come on honey, come on, I did, yes, and conveniently later that day our new seat arrived, when we put it in we were impressed, I mean it just looked beautiful. but it was much bigger than the old bus seat.

Okay, it looks a little tight. It's a bit tall. When we built the bathroom, we didn't really think about the seat being as much thicker as it is now. We could never fit. there to drive the bus comfortably, okay, if we could slide it back two or three inches, then we start cutting a small portion of the wall, then we put the seat back to see if it fits and the crisis was averted originally. sort of a farmhouse shiplap door, but in the end we decided to sand it down because we wanted a more modern finish to match the bus theme we're going overseas.

These doors look good, but up close you can tell they are made of a lot. of pieces of wood and we didn't like that one bit, well it's a new day and we realized these doors stink, we have to do them again, oh the next door

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out much better and we were able to install them in two days. it was worth the effort they are beautiful they are so soft it was worth it it was worth it before we got too far into the construction our next step was to install the air conditioning the air conditioning came in two parts, one that goes on the outside of the bus and one that it goes on the inside this is my problem this is where Che wants to put the air conditioning unit I think it's going to look very ugly I have to change this we're going to put it here under the bus you're welcome Chase there's the air conditioning but now I'm facing a new problem, this is where I want to mount it and we glue all the drywall together which is probably smart but now I hate us for it because it's very very hard to remove.

Remember that the air conditioner has two parts, one that goes out and one that goes in, and they are connected with copper lines. Kobe had to tear this entire wall apart to be able to run those copper lines through the floor, through the wall, to the indoor unit, and then. We button everything up or we could start working on the outside of the bus. He undergoes a small surgery. Oh, that looks very good. Okay, get ready. This is the last time you will see the bus before it is painted foreign. Thank you. So we painted the. black bus and it was beautiful it was amazing our repair it cracked before we bought our bus it was hit by a tree and we did everything we could to fix the dent and it looked pretty good at least until we left the bus in the sun somehow This It didn't cross our minds.

There's a reason most RVs and campers are painted white: it's to reflect light. When they are painted black, they absorb all of it and the inside and outside get very hot and since our bus was stopped in the sun. That's why our repair cracked, but the biggest problem is the temperature inside, it's almost 100 degrees in there, our air conditioning could never keep up. Now we have to fix this again and repaint the entire bus. I know we paid like 300 to fix this. We're supposed to take the bus to the beach in four days and we're not counting on painting it twice, go ahead, it's gotta come out and not to mention the interior still had a lot of work to do, it's gotta come out buddy.

We are going to repair this Dent Colby and I spent almost three hundred dollars on countless hours working with foam and sanding Bondo and it really sucks to get it out oh this sucks I hate this I hate this but when we got it out we were able to move on and find a much better solution than just fill it with foam, the idea was to just make a helmet to cover the dent. It looks like a bus again. Once again, luckily we were able to use the metal we removed from the roof. To make this repair and after covering the facelift metal, we covered the top and added molding to keep it from getting too hot inside.

We had to change the color of the bus, but we didn't really want it to be white again, so we made do. in one of my favorite colors it's going to be pretty it's going to be a pretty color we only had three days left until we had to leave for our trip and of course as soon as we got the new paint it started raining but we could. Use that time to start finishing up the interior starting with the painting. Shout out to our dad for doing the whole bus himself. Do you see this tile?

Do you see it because it is beautiful and it is going to fall today? At this point, there were only two days left until we had to leave for our trip, but sometimes a deadline can be a very good motivation because, even though it was raining, we still managed to do a lot of things indoors, it was the purest President Jay style that me, my brother and my dad all came together to get this done and with only one day left we had the perfect opportunity to paint the bus. Thanks, we stayed up all night to put on the last two coats of paint and in the end we are all very happy with the black.

It didn't work we're leaving today the last thing we need to do is wash this bus and we're leaving here we have about a six hour drive to the beach this thing only goes 55 miles an hour so it's going to be slow it looks so good, I'm really proud of it right now, I can't wait to see it in the future, thank you, thank you, so let me show you everything we need to do to get power on the road, just opened. This is it, now we have electricity on the bus, come on, this is what we do when we are hungry, we go down the road, we put some grits in a bowl, we put it in the microwave and the grits are not the only thing we can cook.

Let's go, let's go, ready.