Gas

I’ve kept the gas installation as simple as possible, largely because I only needed something I could cook food / boil water on.

So the installation consists of a 2-burner SMEV hob installed flush into a worktop, and a single gas bottle, installed directly beneath it in the ‘kitchen’ cupboard supporting the worktop.

The hardest part of the whole thing was cutting out the large hole in the worktop, frankly.

I almost installed a shutoff valve (see brass fitting on the wall in the picture below) but never ‘plumbed’ it in as it seemed fairly pointless – it was just as easy, and probably safer, to turn the gas supply off at the cylinder itself.

The metal floor is just an offcut of sheet metal (steel I suspect) which I thought would make the cupboard a bit more resistant to the cylinder being pulled in an out frequently due to a need to change it.  The grill in the bottom left is a ‘gas dropout’ valve which allows any gas leakage (in theory) to go down through the floor of this cupboard, into a small void below (more storage) and through another dropout valve through the floor of the van to the outside world.

And that, as they say, is that!