I still enjoy my “very much a campervan “ without the poptop. I’m not paying someone £5k to fit a bit of fibreglass and tent material. As I’m keeping my campervan for many years to come, I’m happy enough
Jim, I'm pleased you're happy with your set-up, and I wouldn't try to change your mind or have the temerity to tell you that you've made the wrong choice, but you don't need to use such pejorative language to describe other options in order to make your point.
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My only concern is how do two 65 year olds get into the pop top to sleep and at our age a toilet break at 4 in the morning is a must lol .Jim, I'm pleased you're happy with your set-up, and I wouldn't try to change your mind or have the temerity to tell you that you've made the wrong choice, but you don't need to use such pejorative language to describe other options in order to make your point.
The £5k (+/- £2k TBH) not only buys "a bit of fibreglass and tent material", it also buys the comfort of being able to stand upright in the van (priceless, IMO) and it converts a 2-berth van into a 4-berth van without the need to lug around a large bundle of tent material, string and fiberglass poles that are a PITA to erect and pack away on a daily basis when you're touring (pejorative language used only for effect
Yeah, for most, the pop top is usually the preserve of kids, though it is where me & Mrs Bav (two young-at-heart late-quinquagenarians) prefer to sleep.
Practice, use it or lose it.
There was no intention to be disparaging. I was looking for a few other synonyms to look intellectual. It seems to me that the cost for installing pop tops is very high for what they are. Material costs are on average circa £1500, I would guess and with roughly two days to install the majority of the cost is labour £1000’s. Think I should be able to have an opinionJim, I'm pleased you're happy with your set-up, and I wouldn't try to change your mind or have the temerity to tell you that you've made the wrong choice, but you don't need to use such pejorative language to describe other options in order to make your point.
The £5k (+/- £2k TBH) not only buys "a bit of fibreglass and tent material", it also buys the comfort of being able to stand upright in the van (priceless, IMO) and it converts a 2-berth van into a 4-berth van without the need to lug around a large bundle of tent material, string and fiberglass poles that are a PITA to erect and pack away on a daily basis when you're touring (pejorative language used only for effect
no offence intended
I'm as thick-skinned as they come Jim, so absolutely no offence taken by me and, of course, you can express your opinions - I'm quite opiniated myself.There was no intention to be disparaging. I was looking for a few other synonyms to look intellectual. It seems to me that the cost for installing pop tops is very high for what they are. Material costs are on average circa £1500, I would guess and with roughly two days to install the majority of the cost is labour £1000’s. Think I should be able to have an opinion
Someone expresses the opinion that a campervan with a pop-top is not a campervan and I voiced my opinion "tongue in cheek" on the what I consider to be an unrealistic cost, like many other things post-covid, to retrofit same . No personal attack on anyone given or intended. Let's leave it at that please. Harmony restored?I'm as thick-skinned as they come Jim, so absolutely no offence taken by me and, of course, you can express your opinions - I'm quite opiniated myself.
I do, though, try not to express my opinions in terms of negativity towards counter-views or alternative options and, despite sometimes falling short myself in this regard, I do (as above) encourage others to do likewise. The harmony on this forum is hard-won and could be easily lost.
High tops could be classed as campervans I think.Like I said “for me” a campervan without a poptop roof is not a campervan and therefore it has value to me beyond what I paid (albeit not the most expensive roof by a long way), I didn’t mean to imply that no other choice is valid, people who stealth camp I assume see little value in them for example, we don’t so that doesn’t figure in my personal opinion.
Not sure where I stand on high tops
. It will shine some extra light on my seat/bed and on the Induction cooktop. Seat/bed build In progress below.
Is that a campervan bed?High tops could be classed as campervans I think.
I'm going to fit a Dometic skylight pop-up vent soon. It will give me 400mm square hole and it will pop-up and I should be able to get my head through it.
Will be very comfortable once I get the cushions and pillows
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no..it's a van bed.... no pop-top on the roof;Is that a campervan bed?
Joking! Looks great!
, a pop up skylight coming soon
Wasn't that a Romanian gymnast from 70s?
That’s from the advertising for skyline roofs I guess
