Smooth Sailing for Your Next Adventure
Updated on February 15th, 2021
We are starting to get to the fun stuff now, framing the cabinets and bed! Good thing because the van mattress arrived last week and it’s taking up a lot of space in our living room! We have decided for safety reasons to anchor the bed and cabinets to the walls and this requires us to place framing for everything to screw into. We decided to do this before wall paneling so that we knew where the paneling would need to abut the railings.
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Van Insulation is very important because it helps keep the van cool when it’s hot outside and warm when it’s cold outside. We plan on using our van only for adventures and not full time so we did go slightly lighter duty on insulation than someone might if they are planning to live in their van. We also chose not to insulate the floor. Andy gave an in-depth explanation about why we didn’t insulate the floor in our Subfloor Video at around 5:30.
Updated on February 15th, 2021
The first major step in our van build was installing the van subfloor. We managed to complete the install in one
Please note: we made the decision not to insulate our floor. You can find out why in our van insulation post, but if you are planning to insulate your floor you will want to do that before you lay down your subfloor, and you will likely have to use a different method than the one laid out below.
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