2018 Bailey Autograph 79-6 Motorhome — Video Tour (Part 3 of 5)

and then you can release. Sorry, I had to stop the video. I have to stop the videos at 6 minutes and 30 seconds, otherwise they won't send. That was a wee bit longer, probably around about 15 seconds to let that thermocouple heat up, but they're all different.

For your oven, you're all the way around to 240, push in, releases the gas into the chamber, sparks with the sparker, hold the button down, let the thermocouple heat up and realise that there's a flame there, and then you can release and adjust as you need it. Back to zero for off. Nice and easy for your cooking facilities, and as I say, it gives us a chance to run the gas up in the van before we start putting on bigger appliances like the fridge or the boiler. Now, in your van, you've got a three-way fridge, which means it works off of three different sources.

To turn your fridge on, we have your knob to the left. We've got the option for electricity, provided you're plugged into the mains with that mains cable outside. That is going to cool your fridge in roughly around about an hour and a half to two hours. Next here, we have battery.

Battery will only work when you're driving. That's when your engine is running. It's also only designed to keep the temperature in the fridge, which means if you're going away and you're putting food in the fridge, cool it down the night before on electricity or gas, get it nice and cold, and when you switch to your battery with your engine running, it's going to keep the temperature in the fridge. Finally, we've got the option for gas, which will cool your fridge in roughly around about an hour to an hour and a half.

Once you've selected the gas option, we use the temperature control knob here as our gas release, just like the hobs we push in. You then spark with the sparker. And what you want to do is achieve this red line over here moving up into the green like it is just now. Once it's in the green section, we can stop sparking, but hold that button down to let the thermocouple heat up, and then you can release, and provided that the red line stays in the green, it indicates it's lit on gas.

Now I'm going to leave that on gas today. We're going to get the fridge nice and cold, and then we'll come back later on in the video and show you when it's cold. Above it here, you do have a microwave. This is a two-fourty only appliance, which means you'll have to be plugged into the mains for it to work.

And as it says on the front here, to wake it up, you press the eco button, just like so. In your rear lounge, we then have your boiler and your boiler drain, which is just underneath the section of seating just here. The boiler drain is this yellow valve on the floor. It's currently in the upright position.

This means it's in the draining or drained position. And what we need to do is put it flat in line with the pipes. It can go either way as long as it's flat in line with the pipes. Because we've closed this off, it means we can fill this boiler up with water.

And to do that, we come to one of our taps. You can come to any tap throughout the van. I usually just go for the kitchen tap. We turn it to the hot side, which is red, and we open it.

We then come back to our control panel here, and we turn on the water pump, which is a tap symbol. What that's going to do is it's going to pull water from the fresh water tank. It's going to push it into the bottom of the boiler. Once the boiler's full, we're going to get a nice steady flow coming out of the tap.

Now, to begin with, you may experience spitting, trickling, and gurgling. These are all good signs. Once we've achieved a nice steady flow of water, it means that it's pushed all of the air out of the system. And it means that the boiler's full.

So we'll come back in a few seconds and show you what a steady flow of water should look like. And then we can show you how to turn on your boiler and heating system through your Aldi controller just here. While we're waiting on that, any three-pin socket in your van like these ones here will only work when you're plugged into the mains. That's the mains cable you're plugging in with outside.

Up front here, we've got a drop-down bed. This is a manual drop. So we push the button in below the bar here and pull the bed down. It lowers into position just like so.

Underneath here, you also have safety nets which you can hook up to the ceiling to stop you falling out. Push in and push back up into the locked position before you travel and make sure it is secure. As you can see, we've now achieved a nice steady flow of water. There's no spitting, trickling, or gurgling anymore.

So we can turn this tap off now. You will hear the pump running on for a few seconds afterwards, but it's just pressurizing the rest of the system up. It means we can use all the other water appliances throughout the van, such as the bathroom tap now has pressure. The shower will also now have pressure.

However, I wouldn't suggest using it until we've got some hot water flowing. And the flush in the toilet will work, which is the blue button to the back here. This also uses your fresh water system, so you've got to make sure you've closed your boiler first before you can use any of these water appliances. Next here, we have your grey flap, which I was telling you about outside.

This opens and closes the toilet cassette, allowing the waste to flow through. Make sure that's fully closed before you try and pull your cassette out from outside. Now, because we've achieved a steady flow of water on the hot side of the tap, we now know that the boiler is full and ready to turn on. And to turn on your boiler, you simply come up to your Aldi controller just here.

Power on with the power button. It then lights up like so. On here, we then have a menu, which once it's loaded in, we can go into. On here, menu button brings us into this screen here.

On this screen here, the top controller indicates that we have our hot heating inside the van. So it's a picture of a wee house with a temperature symbol inside of it. This is your heating inside the van. You can adjust the heating with the plus and minus symbols to your desired temperature.

It goes all the way down to, I believe, around five degrees. Next, we've got a picture of a shower, and we've got a minus and plus. So plus up to the middle section here gives us 40 degrees hot water, and plus again gives us around about 60 degrees hot water. At the bottom of the controller here, we then have electric bolt, which we can select one kilowatt, two kilowatts, or three kilowatts.

This is your elements. So we've got the option for three different elements inside the boiler. If you are using it on the three element option, do not use anything else on electricity. If you were to, say, put your microwave on or your fridge on or even your hot plate there, you would trip the van inside as it is a huge power draw.

So if you're going to be sticking on anything and using other things, I would suggest you stick to two kilowatts. Finally, here we've got the option for gas, which, as you can see, you can turn on this and then spark and light on gas. And as you can also probably tell, you can also mix these two sources together. So you can use gas and electricity at the same time.

If you're on site, you can use electricity, provided you're plugged into the mains. And if you're wild camping, you can use gas on its own as well, making sure your gas bottle's on and you've run your gas through your hobs. Of course, if you're on site and you want a bit more speed or a bit more power for heating that water up, you can mix the two sources together as it will give you a more powerful source, which is what I'm going to do today. I'm going to leave it on the mixed source.

I'm going to get the hot water nice and hot over here. Not over there, sorry. We're going to show you some hot water coming out the tap and the fridge nice and cold. While we're waiting on that, we've got a few more things to go through in your van, such as any three pin socket in the van like these ones here will only work when you're plugged into the mains.

That's the mains cable you're plugging in with outside.