How Much Does It Cost To Build A Campervan Conversion At Home?

If you are planning to carry out your own Campervan conversion at home, you are going to need a rough idea of what the costs involved are going to come to before you start your project.

If you think about it, the cost of carrying out a DIY Campervan conversion will lie somewhere between an extremely low financial outlay, and up to, whatever you are prepared to spend and more. We are going to consider how much it should cost to build a Campervan somewhere close to the average of those two figures.

In this post we are going to look at how much you will realistically have to spend to build a Campervan from a class B van that is suitable to be used for a week long vacation at the very least. So no Day Vans or Surf Busses are going to be considered.

Let’s also be clear here? This is not a follow through of a build that I have done. This post is the findings from a collection of research that I have carried out after studying the details of numerous home Campervan conversions.

I an a registered Engineer with the Engineering Council here in the UK, as well as a qualified Vehicle mechanic and Electrician. I believe that I have been able to unearth a lot of helpful and valuable information. It is contained in the following paragraphs. I hope you enjoy reading through it and find it useful too.

Contents

• 1 What Are The Main Savings From A Home Campervan Conversion?
• 2 How Much Does A Donor Van For A Campervan Conversion Cost?
• 3 What Amenities Does A Home Campervan Conversion Need?
• 4 What Tools Will I Need To Carry Out A Campervan Conversion?
• 5 What Level Of Practical And Mechanical Skills Do I Need?
• 6 How Long Should A Home Campervan Conversion Take?
• 7 Where Is The Best Place To Carry Out A Campervan Conversion?
• 8 Should I Fit Solar Panels To My Campervan Conversion?
• 9 Do I Need To Register A Home Campervan Conversion?
• 10 How Does the Cost Of A Professional Campervan Conversion Compare With A Home Conversion?

What Are The Main Savings From A Home Campervan Conversion?

Without a shadow of a doubt, the largest savings when carrying out a home Campervan conversion are going to be Labour Costs. If you are doing even the majority of the work yourself, you won’t have to pay someone else to do it. It’s like money in the bank, or it can be, if you do it right the first time.

Even if you are reasonably skilled at physically working with hand and power tools, it is more than likely that you are going to come across things during your Campervan conversion that you simply don’t have the skills or expertise to do yourself. When this time comes, it is time to call in a professional.

You are going to have to accept that some specialist or complex things simply aren’t worth taking the risk on doing a bad job of, if you don’t already have the skills to do it to a good standard. Leaking windows or pop top roofs, faulty solar panels or the smell of gas when cooking come to mind!

That being said, there is very little that you can’t find a YouTube Tutorial on nowadays, so all might not be lost. You could always experiment with a few small bench sized models of what you are trying to achieve to hone your skills before taking the leap of trying it on your donor van. Read more...