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Hey all,
Though people might be interested in our induction hob and "big" sink install in our GC600. We ditched the gas last year, and have been cooking with a portable induction hob as we have a decent electrical system in the van now (5kWh of 24vnom lithium), but i've now installed a dual induction hob in the worktop, and fitted a bigger sink as well.. It all goes into the factory space, with a few tweaks!
1) remove the std Dometic sink and hob unit. Comes out pretty easily if you take all the drawers out of the kitchen unit below it:
2) remove the worktop from the unit. It's dowelled and glued on to the main carcass of the kitchen unit, so carefully use a wooden or plastic wedge to lift the dowels. Some dowels will have to be cut to do this with the unit in situ in the van, use a sharp thin bladed scraper hammed in or a thin bladed reciptocating saw) Just do this prgressively and slowly and it's pretty obvious where all the dowels are. You'll need to take out the RH sliding flyscreen first, which requires the removal of the white trim panel above the unit.
3) Remove the pointlessly small pull out draw thingy that normally pulls out above the fridge door. With the hob we have used, this actually could be replaced with a folded metal pull out that has a much longer reach and this we will be doing at some point
4) cut the worktop to suit your new hob and sink. - depends on the exact units used of course. I found i could use the bit of the worktop removed to fit the hob to "fill the gap" between the new sink and the hob, making the install practically invisible / seamless
5) you will probably need to make the old "gas tap" flap a bit less deep to fit the sink. Move the existing bit of laminate forwards. We now use this as the location of a factory matching rocker switch, which we use to turn on our inveter and hob and to rehouse the USB charger that previously was next to the bed in the rear corner of the van (it whine's at high frequency and annoys SHMBO!) There is also a little indictator lamp to show that the 240VAC is on, either from the inverter, or from the normal EHU (makes diagnosing campsite EHU power supply issues a lot easier...)
6) with the sink we chose, the tap needed to be relocated to the wall behind it.. Custom ally bracket and nutserts into the body, custom 90degree water quickfits to replace the 45deg ones, a nylon spacer or two to fit around the wall trim (original water pipes are juuuuust long enough if you pull some slack through):
7) Sink we used is a Reginox R1823300SK. I used a hybrid of the original dometic waste / plug / trap and some custom silicon pipework to connect the overflow. Post waste piping is pretty much the same as std, just replacing a couple of 90deg elbows with 24deg ones and a slightly longer link pipe
finished assembly:
It was a fair amount of careful measuring and thinking, but the end result looks pretty factory imo
Though people might be interested in our induction hob and "big" sink install in our GC600. We ditched the gas last year, and have been cooking with a portable induction hob as we have a decent electrical system in the van now (5kWh of 24vnom lithium), but i've now installed a dual induction hob in the worktop, and fitted a bigger sink as well.. It all goes into the factory space, with a few tweaks!
1) remove the std Dometic sink and hob unit. Comes out pretty easily if you take all the drawers out of the kitchen unit below it:
2) remove the worktop from the unit. It's dowelled and glued on to the main carcass of the kitchen unit, so carefully use a wooden or plastic wedge to lift the dowels. Some dowels will have to be cut to do this with the unit in situ in the van, use a sharp thin bladed scraper hammed in or a thin bladed reciptocating saw) Just do this prgressively and slowly and it's pretty obvious where all the dowels are. You'll need to take out the RH sliding flyscreen first, which requires the removal of the white trim panel above the unit.
3) Remove the pointlessly small pull out draw thingy that normally pulls out above the fridge door. With the hob we have used, this actually could be replaced with a folded metal pull out that has a much longer reach and this we will be doing at some point
4) cut the worktop to suit your new hob and sink. - depends on the exact units used of course. I found i could use the bit of the worktop removed to fit the hob to "fill the gap" between the new sink and the hob, making the install practically invisible / seamless
5) you will probably need to make the old "gas tap" flap a bit less deep to fit the sink. Move the existing bit of laminate forwards. We now use this as the location of a factory matching rocker switch, which we use to turn on our inveter and hob and to rehouse the USB charger that previously was next to the bed in the rear corner of the van (it whine's at high frequency and annoys SHMBO!) There is also a little indictator lamp to show that the 240VAC is on, either from the inverter, or from the normal EHU (makes diagnosing campsite EHU power supply issues a lot easier...)
6) with the sink we chose, the tap needed to be relocated to the wall behind it.. Custom ally bracket and nutserts into the body, custom 90degree water quickfits to replace the 45deg ones, a nylon spacer or two to fit around the wall trim (original water pipes are juuuuust long enough if you pull some slack through):
7) Sink we used is a Reginox R1823300SK. I used a hybrid of the original dometic waste / plug / trap and some custom silicon pipework to connect the overflow. Post waste piping is pretty much the same as std, just replacing a couple of 90deg elbows with 24deg ones and a slightly longer link pipe
finished assembly:
It was a fair amount of careful measuring and thinking, but the end result looks pretty factory imo
