Design stages of building my own camper
Background: I currently have a 2001 Lance 820 and a 2007 megacab dually. We recently had our first child so now the size of the camper is being called into question. So it has me daydreaming about bui...
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Capt Eddie wrote:
You might try looking at the floor plan of the Lance 830 or better yet the 1040. It is very similar to the $250K Earthroamer layout. I have had the standard camper layout before. And when I saw the floor plan and extra room of the Lance 1040 I was hooked. You owe it to yourself to take a look at the 1040 and change the little things to fit your needs. Let me say this about building your own. I priced out all of the material and equipment needed to go into a similar homemade model. I came up with $25K No labor. That is why I paid $24K for a factory built Lance. Now I just have to maintain it to keep it in good shape.
This is quite right. Although my TC was just a gut/rebuild (practically a build from scratch) I still invested over 10,000 , not including labor. considering we put in an entire year of work... I would guesstimate our time to be worth another 20 grand. It was more work than I could haver ever imagined.
