EP6 | FLOOR INSULATION WITHOUT BATTENS! | Self build van conversion | Vanlife | VanLife Family
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2023
- In this short video we show the process of how we install the floor insulation to our self converted van build. This floor has NO BATTENS! We've strategically cut and glued various insulations to give us a FULLY insulated floor.
25mm Celotex / Kingspan / ecotherm / PIR insulation, will be the core of the van floor insulation. We sourced a very specific product called NasBoard to fill the 10mm voids in the ribs of the floor and all of this has been glued down using hybrid sealant / adhesive. Sticks like S##T and FixAll has been the weapons of choice.
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Our Family
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We are Coz & Meeks, we are self building a 6 seater / 5 sleeper Arctic winterised van for us and our 2 little girls to build memories and happy lives. Our 2021 Fiat Ducato van conversion build series will be here for you all to watch, enjoy and hopefully help you for your own van build!
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NasBoard
nassboards.co.uk/
Craft knife
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Our great friends from FitsRoy were thrilled to let us use their music for the channel and we are ever grateful. You can see Jordan's latest music here:
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Another great job I must admit I did like the blue lights makes it look spectacular. 👍👊👏👏👏
I think you've commented on the wrong vid maybe?! But we'll take it! It's nice to get nice feedback!
New Subscriber from Arizona. Thank You for the tips!!
looking good guys ! 😀😀
Great job
Hi, great videos I have subscribed and will watch all your videos. Can I ask how many of the NasBoard did you need and would this EVERBUILD STIXALL COLOUR HYBRID SEALANT ADHESIVE C3 290ML CARTRIDGE be OK and how many did you Use? Keep up the good work. I have got the Citroen Relay Van which will have a full build. Thanks
Hi. I think I bought a 10 pack of nasboard. The sheets were 1200 x 600.
Yes to the adhesive, I used about 20 tubes for the whole floor, so not cheap.. but I knew it would work, the van floor has been in for 2 years and is working as it should.
Thanks for watching and subscribing, many more videos to come. 😁
Hi, thanks for a great video. I would like to ask yo what are those metal bits on the floor showing at the top of the image at min 3:00, 3:51, 5:08 to 6:47 and you had to cut the insulation foam around them . they are kind of in front of the side door and that strengthens my belief that they look like they may be some mounts for some seats but not 100% sure. I would like to learn about how you got that done as that is of special intertest to me . I wanted to look at every episode but they are difficult to find so perhaps if you put the list of URLs for every episode, in the description that could help even dumber people, like me, to find all the episodes more easily :-)
Hi, thanks for commenting. Those metal parts are the floor mounts for the additional seats, which are featured in episode 3 "6 seater camper".
Your suggestion is a nice idea, we'll look into that, although if you look at our "playlists" on our CZcams channel, all of the "Tippy Travels Van Build" episodes are listed there.
Good luck with your build!
Love this idea - what depth of NassBoard did you use? Thanks for the idea
Sorry for the delay. We used 10mm nassboard I think?!
No problem - that's what we used in the end anyway! Thanks for taking the time to reply @@tippy_travels
I'm going with the floating floor approach too. Just got some Nassboard. Went with 6mm to sit in the grooves. Love the channel BTW.
Just wondering how you're finding the floor? Did it squeak at all with the PIR board with no battens. Also did you foil tape the edges or use sealant to stop it rubbing against the sides? So pleased I found your video really didn't want to screw into the floor 😊
The van has been in use for 15 months, we've been as low as -18 and plus 40 degrees, the floor has been great. No creaks, no movement, nothing. I was a builder before and we would screed directly on to celotex, it can handle spread loads, but the minimum floor thickness would be 15mm to prevent point compression into the celotex beneath. We rolled the dice with this method but not regretted it.
We expanding foamed the edges of the celotex to the walls, then trimmed the foam back, foil taped the floor to the wall insulation, that was probably over the top as we planned a full vapour barrier, more vids coming soon
how are you finding the insulation in the van a year on and pretty much at the end of the ski season? Do you still stand by this method or are there any changes you would make if you were doing it all again? Embarking on my own build journey and looking at different methods :)
So far so good. The floor is still cold in winter time, but not freezing, however I think it's better than the thermal bridging effect of the wood
@@tippy_travels is there anything you would have done differently looking back on it now? I won't be fixing seats to the chassis. I do like the simplicity of just cutting the cellotex to the floor of the van rather than cutting into squares to fit in a wooden framework
I definitely wouldn't do it differently! If we had a high top van, I would possibly use slightly thicker celotex but the same method 👍
@@tippy_travels great thanks. reckon I'll do the same as it looks quicker and less thermal bridgey. Thanks for your help
why did you make this so complicated. By filling the low points of the ribs you are preventing them to breath and dry. also why why did you fill those tie down points? they are the perfect way to secure your plywood subfloor
Thanks for commenting. Well we wanted a hermetically sealed floor space. So no moisture, no screws or screw holes, sealed with hybrid silicone, this way we don't want it to breathe. So filling the anchor points was an essential part of this as they would allow air and moisture into the sealed floor space.
Filling the low points of the ribs was a way getting more insulation in, but mainly to even out the floor height and prevent point loading of the dense foam insulation. The insulation board is compressible on high points. In other words, to ensure the lifespan of the foam insulation, by spreading the load.
Our glue down method isn't for everyone, it's just my choice.. But thought it a useful video for those who wanted to do it this way.
@@tippy_travels I understand why you fiiled the screw holes but you still could have used them to bolt down the floor. Looking back at your video I see that the Ecotherm does not seem to have very good compression strength that is why i am using XPS . You drive a car on that stuff
Ok. That sounds good. So our flooring has been in the van for 2 years and seems to be working successfully, no cracks in any adjoining panels or movements on the floor. I feel happy that it was the right approach for us. Good luck with your build!
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