Insulation

I was tasked with measuring all the gaps in the body of the van in order to insert 50mm Celotex GA4050 insulation boards so the van stays nice and cozy for those winter trips. The gaps will be filled with expanding foam to insulate and secure.

There's pros and cons of different types of insulation and there's lots of information out there. We considered using all rockwool, but the Celotex has a better heat efficiency; or polyurethane spray foam, but we'd read some stuff about bad fumes coming from that. So we'll use primarily the Celotex but with some rock wool for the small spaces.

This is a messy job with the dust and fibres from this stuff getting EVERYWHERE. Definitely an outside job!

Update: I sneezed so much this day that I gave myself a mild case of whiplash and couldn't look right for 3 days!

Planning.

I hadn't quite anticipated how much planning goes into a campervan conversion. I reckon we will spend approximately 100x more time on the planning than the actual doing of the conversion.

I'm a fan of my spreadsheets, so naturally I created a colour-coded spreadsheet to try and deal with the budgeting side of things. There's also additional tabs for researching and comparing different fixtures and parts.

Also the physical planning, measuring every dimension of the van, marking out with tape where fixtures will be located, deciding where and how many windows to include. Where will a socket be? Where will the speakers be mounted? What size of TV should we get? Do we need dimmable mood lighting? What will the floor be made of? SO SO MANY QUESTIONS!

Here we've started to mark out where the bed and kitchen units will land, and the height of things.

Here we're planning the 'beside the bed' controls, including the lightswitch (dimmable), a USB and 12V charger, and a wireless charging pocket.