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HI Peeps

Today I have made a thermal wrap for Roxy.



I have started to see these for sale at shows but sellers wanted between £120 and £150 pound. So after a little trip to B&Q to buy two rolls of silver back bubble wrap at £8 per roll and a short trip to hobby craft to buy some heavy duty cotton trimming, some sticky velcro, and a denim needle for the sewing machine I run this up in about three hours.

Total cost £28 BARGAIN!!!!! Just hoping now its going to make camping at VW Action at Santapod this weekend a tad warmer.......Brrrrrrrr!

Roxywagen x

Wow thats magic! Posted to the Tech forum too...must be fairies about!

Roxywagen!

you cant look out the window now though

weldore wrote:you cant look out the window now though

Its only for the cold camping months. I could cut holes for the windows but I wanted to try it out this weekend as it is first.

Roxywagen x

i was just being a pratt..it looks really good does that .
i have the same roof and all the heat goes up there from the propex..tis a good idea

We made one of these earlier in the year for Dubaid in March. Not sure whether it made any difference went down to -5 brrrrrrrr cold.............bit of a pain to get on n off but hey its gotta be better than nought !!

When its cold, you want the shiny side inwards to reflect the heat back into the van.

horns wrote:When its cold, you want the shiny side inwards to reflect the heat back into the van.

Yes i read that, so when I made it a put the two sheets together back to back with the shiny side facing out on both so it looks pretty on the outside and practical on the inside (bit like me dare I say it ).

Shoud reflect the heat nicely

Roxywagen x

Aha - the all-year solution!

when its cold..we drop the roof

weldore wrote:when its cold..we drop the roof

But that would squash the kids. And I dont want them in bed with me....stealing my covers and the like....they can freeze up top!!

Roxywagen x

me n gail dont suffer anymore from the kid thing..its just the bloomin great dog thing

couldnt they have a tent or summats

weldore wrote:couldnt they have a tent or summats

They are 7 and 8, when they are a bit bigger maybe, thats why we bought Roxy because we all no longer fitted in our tin top Bay Window as it was us sleeping in the awning last year and I couldn't suffer that for long

Roxywagen x

Looks like a really good job you done on those, well done, and saved yourself over a ton, nice

Now make some for your windows, you WILL notice a difference, plus like stated already duel purpose and it keeps it dark in the summer months