Fitting A Roof Vent To A Tintop

[timthemod]

Seeing as no one replied to my thread on trying to get an opening window for the drivers side, I'm now looking at fitting a roof vent to get the condensation out and let some air into the camper. Especially while cooking as I have two non opening windows, drivers side, and sliding door.

Plenty of options on ebay, does this sound feasible?

Thanks

[1664]

Don't see why not. You may have to build a small wooden frame for it though as I'm not sure they 'clamp' to something as thin as a tin top although they clamp to basic high tops apparently.

What's the problem with fitting a sliding window? Existing window aperture too large?

[discipleofsketch]

I fitted a (hinged not sliding) sunroof in the back of my old tin-top. Came from a scrapyard still attached to a rectangle of roof from the car it was cut out of!

Fitting was easy enough, removed from old roof - drew round it with a marker pen, drilled a hole to get my jigsaw blade through then cut out the hole.

A warning though, cutting a hole that big in the roof decreases the rigidity of the roof, as I found while kneeling on it cutting the hole - as soon as I was finished, the roof bowed slightly under my weight and I nearly fell through the hole I had just cut! Popped back though

[timthemod]

disiple of sketch - hmm, sounds like I should fit a small one then.

1664 - yes existing window aperture too large, all the sliding or louve windows I see are too small. Assume that when the van was converted into a camper they just bought some standard window that would fit!

[trucker]

Are you sure they aren't factory fit windows which are a little bigger than the type a lot of converters used?

[discipleofsketch]

disiple of sketch - hmm, sounds like I should fit a small one then.

The steel frame of the sunroof, once fitted, restored any rigidity lost in the roof I would have thought... The lesson to be learned from my experience is maybe to cut the hole from the inside