2007 Dethleffs Globebus Motorhome — Video Tour (Part 4 of 7)

As you can see, we've now achieved a nice steady flow of water. There's no spitting, trickling or gurgling, so we can turn this tap off now. This now means that we know that the boiler is full. It also means all of our other water appliances now are able to be used, as, of course, we've closed off the boiler, and that means that there's no chance of any water draining from the boiler drain.

So as soon as we turn the taps on, it will then ask for the pressure from the water pump. In here as well, you have your Toilet Plus, which is the blue button to the side here. I'll stick this torch on just now. This also uses your fresh water system, so you've got to make sure you've closed off your boiler first before you can use any of these water appliances.

And the flap I was telling you about outside is here. This opens and closes the toilet to settle in your waste to flow through. Now, you have to make sure that's fully closed before you try and pull your cassette out from outside. Now, because you've achieved that steady flow of water, we now know that our boiler's full and ready to turn on, and your boiler controls are just next to your bed here on the side controllers.

On here, you've got two separate controllers. The one on your right is your source. It's what we're using to heat the boiler up, and the one on your left is what we're doing with the boiler. So we'll start with the source first of all.

On here, we have two wavy lines. This is two elements of electricity, and you'll have to be plugged into the mains for this to work. We then have one wavy line. This is one element of electricity, and again, you'll have to be plugged into the mains for this to work.

Here we have gas, which will spark and light on gas using gas to heat the boiler up. We then have mix settings using gas and electricity, which means you'll have to have your gas bottle on and be plugged into the mains. That's gas and one element of electricity, and you've got the option for gas and two elements of electricity. Now, giving you an idea of the power coming out of these sources, two elements would roughly be two kilowatts.

One element would be around about one kilowatt. Gas on its own is the equivalent of having around about a four kilowatt boiler. Gas on one bar would be five kilowatts, and gas on two bars would be around about six kilowatts. Your more powerful sources are going to be your mix settings or gas settings.

If you're using your van during the wintertime, I suggest you stick to these options. Over to the left-hand side here, we then have what we're doing with the boiler. Today, I'm going to leave it on mix settings as I am plugged in and I have the gas bottle on. We then need to decide what we're doing.

We've got on here an outer ring and an inner ring. Outer ring all the way to the top gives us 60 degrees hot water. Down one gives us 40 degrees hot water. Down again gives us a zero, which will shut the boiler back off.

Down one more gives us the heating option, and we control the temperature of the van with the inner ring here from one all the way up to number nine. Down here, we then have heating and hot water. 60 degrees and heating. Again, controlling your heating with the inner ring here.

One up to number nine. Now, if you're using your heating and hot water option, it will take a bit longer for your hot water to heat up as it's using the same boiler to heat the van as it would be to heat that water. So it's pushing all the air out just now, which means the water is going to be compromised a wee bit. Today, I'm going to stick it on hot water.

We're going to get the water nice and hot, and then we'll come back later on in the video and show you some hot water coming out of the tap. On your back bed here, we have a nice big window. We turn the retainers all the way around. We then need to push the window out and tighten the stay where you want it to stay.

Now, to bring the window back in, you loosen the stay back off. You can vent the windows by putting them in the center slot. That's going to leave that vent around the rubber there, but make sure these are fully closed before you travel to their second locked positions all the way around. On here as well, we have your fly screens and we have your blinds.

Now, your blinds and your fly screens should be open when you're travelling. That's the position they're in just now. Otherwise, they could sag or lose tension. Above us here is skylight.

On your skylight, you do have a blind which pulls across and hooks in at the other side. You also have a fly screen here. When we pull this down, we can vent this window further. As you can see, it's always vented, but to vent it further, you pinch and push up, pinch and push up, bring it back down to the van before you travel, pinch and pull down, pinch and pull down, and your fly screen clicks back up into place.

In your bathroom here, a tinted window. This one here, turn the retainers all the way around, push the window out, and tighten the stay where you want it to stay. To bring it back in, you loosen the stay back off. You can vent it by putting it in that center slot, but make sure it is fully closed before you travel to its second locked position.

Another vented skylight in here, got a fly screen on here. You can push this window up, push it up, bring it back down, pull down, pull down. Fly screen pops back into place. All windows and skylights should be closed while you're traveling.

In behind your kitchen area here, another window. Turn the retainers, push the window out, and tighten the stay where you want it to stay. Bringing it back in, you loosen the stay back off. You can vent it by putting it in that center slot, but make sure it is fully closed before you travel.

On here, fly screens and blinds, blinds and fly screens should be open when you're traveling, otherwise they could sag or lose tension.