type of insulation

[jamesandtheopenroad]

Morning!

Gonna be insulating the van at some point towards the end of summer and have seen all the postings about THERMOWRAP and the like, but stumbled on this in ebay and wondered if anyone had used it/seen it before and if so, how good a product it is?

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Ta muchly!

[uniB]

That stuff looks really promising, I can see it being more effective than Thermawrap. If it were combined with a deadening matt, something like Damplifier in areas such as under the seats and the bulkhead to cut down road noise it could be great. I've used various types of insulation in my re-fit but if I'd seen this I'd have probably have given it a go.

[jamesandtheopenroad]

YO!

Yeah, I've been following you blog - it's BRILL! Showed my girlfriend your new furniture last night - it looks the business! Feel really inspired to do similar stuff to ours but at the mo have neither the space, time or money - but dreaming about it is keeping me from dull dull work, so happy days.

I had the same thoughts about sound deadening as that. Perhaps rubbing down the inside doors and panels, treating with vactan, a coat of hammerite or equivalent, self adhesive sound deadening and then this on top - hopefully should do the job.

In your blog, you say you used Reimo X-trem. Looked for it on t'internet and it seems to be quite a thick runner mat type thingy. Is that right? Looks ike it could be good for under the floor.

BTW, did you drill any extra drainage holes at all?

[uniB]

Hey, glad you find the blog useful and entertaining I must say, the internet and searches for T25 related stuff does a great way of passing away the time when I'm s'posed to be working!

I'm not sure you'd need to vactan the whole panel and hammerite it – I only did any areas that were there were any issues. The rest of the internal panels were clean apart from the residue of contact adhesive that had been used to hold the lovely water retaining insulation in! Getting the panels smooth will help the deadening matt stick and work better but it is the most sticky stuff known to man so it doesn't have a problem sticking to everything except fibreglass which it doesn't seem bothered for – I actually had to add extra carpeting glue to get it to stick.

I ended up with something similar to X-Trem that Torbay Conversions (grrrrr) use, you can also get it from another supplier in the UK who I wish I'd used, not sure where their details are. The X-trem is a bit like camping mat and would be good under flooring, I ended up with some 15mm stuff which was good for the hi-top but you can get it thicker. There's also someone on Ebay selling it and he looks like he will ship to the UK. To be honest though, the stuff you pointed out on Ebay looks similar – closed cell, but not as thick – I think it'd be pretty effective. I'll be lining my cab area and under the seats with Damlifier with a layer of Heat Wave Pro on top.

I found that the panel behind the sliding door was full of rusty, standing water which was a bit of a worry, so I drilled out a drainage hole in there. I didn't run the insulation to the bottom of that panel and Waxoiled the bottom 6 inches. Also made a drainage whole in the sill under the fridge as that was also full of water. Now I just need to stop the sliding window from leaking – I think it's destined to be replaced by a non sliding window as it's a right pain in the backside.

[Gunslinger]

I agree, great blog and and inspirational to those who would have otherwise been worried about tackling some of the tasks that you have made look so simple

[meehaja]

Insulation does look good, but seems kind of expensive, I paid about £5 for normal household foil sheet/bubble wrap type insulation. This stuff does look better, but what I have seems adequate?