Road Trip Van Conversion - Insulation begins

My Road Trip Campervan conversion / Bug Out Vehicle (BOV) continues.... Although the primary use will be pleasure, as a prepper, I will soon have a self contained BOV. After all the cleaning, sweeping and floor preparation I took a well earned break. The next step was to get the floor insulated. However, before that could be done, the wheel arches needed to be insulated. For this I used double sided foil bubble wrap, which is flexible enough to be moulded around the dents and curvature of each arch.

ROAD TRIP VAN CONVERSION INSULATING THE WHEEL ARCHES.jpg
A good, strong Spray glue was required... Some aluminium foil tape and the wrap itself...
WHEEL ARCH INSULATION.jpg
The foil wrapped bubble insulation had to be measured and cut for the curves and dents... A relatively simple task, just spray the glue, wait around 30 seconds for the surface to become tacky, then apply... (Tip = A foam painting roller is useful to get all the surface to adhere to the contours).

Getting High On Spray Glue - Was novel but disturbing at the same time!

FULLY WRAPPED WHEEL ARCH.jpg
Cutting slits enables easy fitting for the curves.
WHEEL ARCH FOIL WRAP.jpg
Next Step - Applying some aluminium foil tape around all the edges in order to ensure a complete vapour barrier is maintained.
WHEEL ARCH WITH VAPOUR BARRIER.jpg

Another small, essential slice to the project...
FOIL WRAPPED WHEEL ARCH.jpg
The finished product!
COMPLETE WHEEL ARCH INSULATION WITH VAPOUR BARRIER.jpg

The project is moving along, slowly but surely (for now anyway). Things should appear to speed up a little I suspect, visually anyway. Time taken for this step was around 2 hours.

The Complete Project so far:
My Latest Brainwave & Project
Assessing The Task
The Strip Out
Floor Preparation & Rust Treatment
Hole Plugging & Lock mending
Finalising The Floor Foundations

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