BEST Campervan DIY Ceiling I How To Build and Install
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- You asked for it, there it is: OUR CEILING TUTORIAL. Inspired by our friends at Vanlife Customs and Native Campervans, we’re taking you step by step to building and installing our very popular ceiling.
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TIME STAMPS
01:30: Material
02:35: Design Tip - How to choose color scheme?
03:51: Step 01 - Plan your design
05:34: Design Tip - How to choose gaps between slats?
06:19: Step 02 - Cut your slats
07:17: Step 03 - Sand + stain your slats
08:49: Design tip - Why is it important to sand?
10:19: Step 04 - Assemble slats to plywood
11:30: Design tip - How to arrange slats imperfection?
14:54: Design tip - How to hide nails?
14:47: Step 05 - Brace your ceiling
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WHO WE ARE? WHAT’S WITH OUR ACCENT?
We're Dom & Marie, a French Canadian couple who love Nutella and live in a van.
Marie is the brain (Ph.D student) and Dom's the dreamer (Creative director).
In our newly converted Promaster 136'' named Vanessa, we plan to visit every single corner of North America. Our goal is to inspire others to start #vanlife and to help build their very own home on wheels.
What's up friends! The long-awaited ceiling video is LIVE! Hope you like it!
Thoughts on Marie's construction skill ???
She'll be a pro before you know it :-)
Annie couldn’t agree more 🙋🏼♀️
Leah Easterling coming soon !!! It’s shot and everything. Just have to work on the edit.
Anyone else come back to these videos to see the beautiful chemistry between all 3?
Please don't ever take these down.
Loved this video, would be great if you / your father could make a series of it. Also, your explanations/afterthoughts after each section are very helpful!
We're on it! Building a new van soon and we'll be doing too many tutorials :)
I just discovered your channel about an hour ago and I’m already into my fourth video. I’m fast becoming a fan.
TravelBuffet hahahah woot woot! Welcome the family!
I love you guys. There's a lot of couples out there living in vans doing youtube videos. But you guys are my favorite. I like others too. But you guys are my favorite.
Hahah oh stop it! We like you too. We like others also, but you're our fav :)
really good tips here. but my favorite part is the humor.
We always try to make it fun.
The colour scheme lesson is as valuable as the slat ceiling, I think I will grab both.
Glad this could help!
"Hey, your slats are curved?!"
"Yeah, so how's your daughter??"
This killed me 😂😂😂
Hahah that boy. Makes me laugh every day!
So now I know that dom comes by his goofiness honestly ! Awesomeness
hahah right? 😂
You do a great vid, informative and a great watch %100..
Well thank you! More tutorials coming your way!
Awesome and then some!! 💚👏👏👏👏👏👏
24 Hour Travellers yeeeha! Helpful? 🤷♀️
Great content!! I’ll watch all other videos ♥️ regards from Brazil 😌
Thanks Maria! How are things in Brazil? Staying safe?
J'adore vos vidéo. Vous êtes aussi drôle en anglais, qu'en français. Très rafraîchissant
Ah ben ça c'est gentil, parce que you know we do the effort pour faire ça drôle! :)
The reason a 2x3 is 1.5x2.5" in reality (and similar smaller net / actual sizes for 1x4 through 2x12) is because the original 2x3 many many decades ago would have been full sawn rough 2" x 3" green lumber (and the same full sawn green size for 1x4 through 2x12 etc). Then the industry evolved and clients wanted smooth planed material, so sawmills began investing in planers to give the customer what they wanted but the mills still wished to charge the full rough sawn count (ie, 2x3) and in fact added a premium for the planing "service". The planed 2x3 was then called surfaced 4 sides (S4S) Green lumber and the net size was 1 5/8" x 2 5/8" but still sold on 2x3 count. Some years later, customers desired to have a more stable (less twist while air drying) lumber and easier to handle product (smoother / less slivers and so forth), and sawmills realized they could fit more product on each truck or rail car for dryer product, and so kiln dried lumber started to become common. The drying process reduces the rough lumber in size ever so slightly so the final finished size had to be reduced again to allow enough material to be planned off and create a good dressing on the lumber surface. Thus the 2x3 took another step down in size - 2x3 full sawn green, then kiln dried, then dressed down to a final size of 1.5x2.5" but sold on a full 2x3 count.
WHATTTTT. That is really nice trivia information right there! Thanks for sharing. I always wondered why the measures weren't exactly the measures!!!
@@vanlifesagas LOL - yeah, me too! I started in Forestry where everything had already been converted to the metric system many decades ago. When I transitioned into lumber product sales, I was shocked to find the industry has not converted to metric (eg, 2x4" is 1.5x3.5" actual - 38x89mm) is because carpenters in Canada and more importantly our largest trading partner (USA) rejected the metric system completely. So forest product companies have to be able to speak in both imperial and metric system interchangeably. I am full of interesting but otherwise useless information! 🙂
I think I might go with this type of ceiling. Thanks for sharing!!
You are very very welcome! If you have any questions, don't hesitate!
omg I love this! just bought a van doing the build now! thanks
Woot woot! Congrats !!!!
Hurrah for Bromont! I grew up in the next town over - Waterloo. Great videos. Thank you.
Eve 55555 Nooo way? We’re basically neighbours!
Love your ceiling ! Merci beaucoup pour ces instructions 🙏
Avec plaisir! Si vous avez des questions, on est là!
Excellent tutorial - and fun, too!
Thanks amigo. If you have any questions, don't hesitate!
Always in the sense of the graine.
Thierry Faucher Always. Always.
I had to explained to my girlfriend why I was laughing so hard.
You two should totally have your own television show.
Hahah can you imagine that?!
@@vanlifesagas I can very easily.
❤ ❤ ✌ ✌ gorgeous!! So kind to share!!! Thanks Dad!!
Awe look at you ❤️
Merci pour la vidéo, ça m’a beaucoup aidé à faire mon plafond!
How beautiful. Very nice and simplish lol
Vegan from Venus thank you so much !!
very helpful! Merci!
You are welcome Judi! 😎
Learned some tricks thx guys 😄
Most welcome :)
SICK content! :D loved it, keep it up!
Thanks Hugo! Appreciate the love man!
@@vanlifesagas I'm looking forward to future videos! :D
Really great video, naturals in front of the camera!
Thanks, let us know if you have recommendations or tips!
Let me be a ti-joe connaissant. The reason a 2 inches piece of wood is smaller is because they are sawing the wood at 2". As that is the rough size, they are planning it, which makes it smaller. The same way that the size of rough wood is given in quarter. Four-four, or six-four, or eight-four. The reason is that a mill can set the blade in increments of a quarter inch. Ze French lesson, ti-joe connaissant is a Quebec expression meaning a know-it-all. Ti is a diminutive of Petit, and would translate for Small Joe knowing.
Whaattttt! Insane! Thanks for sharing that. 😮😮😮
Love the ceiling. What is the stain you used for the bamboo color?
Can you explain how to plan a max air fan into the ceiling? Cut the hole and then the ceiling or the other way around? How do you line it up?
Are the horizontal slats screwed in at an angle into the metal "joists" prior to putting the plywood with slats up? I have a transit so it's a little different but I also don't have upper cabinets so I'll need to bend the plywood more or have a trim option similar but at an angle. 🤔. Thanks guys!
Hi guys, we love you and your ceiling they look fantastic. Could you please explain how to install overhead cupboards. There is nothing seem between the ceiling and the cupboards. Did you fix them only to side wall of the van? Thanks in advance
very good question. Yes, the cabinets are only fixed to the side walls. We put a beam under the cabinets as well to make it stronger.
My first view of your channel! Very nice presentation, great info and giving credit to all! You may have saved me from making an ugly ceiling! What about glue, given the vibration of the traveling vehicle?
You can also add glue, but you will need some nails to hold everything in place. Thanks for following us! We'll do our best to keep you guys entertained and informed!
I’m going to try this on my class a 40’
Cool, glad we could inspire you 😁
You guys are hilarious!!
Well thank you !!
Me too. Warning most of their videos i just realized are in French though 😕 with subtitles. But since i already like them i guess I'll still watch. Not that Im against French at all but Im wondering if ill get the humor still in French in subtitles though 😞 ?? Hopefully 😜
liza martin Many of the future videos (like this one) will be in English though. So you don’t have to worry!
@@vanlifesagas great bc i really enjoy your videos. Your funny. You have a good relationship. And the photos are beautiful!!. You give good tips. Interesting content. I hope I didn't offend you!! 😬 i didn't mean to if so. I was being honest. But i actually think your language is beautiful ❤
Wonderfully explained!
Brigit Scarborough thanks Brigit! We’ll be posting many more instructional videos like this. Anything you want to see?
I’m such a newb to all of this lol. Just taking notes for the day I decide to take the plunge and try to do a van. I love y’all’s work and I’m sure I will appreciate any work you put out :)))
@@brigits353 Ahhh that's kind! You must try it, you'll love it. We fell in love with vanlife during a trip to Colorado with Native Campervans. Try them out!
I just watched this again, I have to redo my van's ceiling because it's coming down after the heat we experienced here in Texas last summer. :( I had used construction adhesive to the metal and placed the insulation up that way and then used a burlap fabric, because I liked the look of it. Well it's not so attractive now since the adhesive didn't hold in several places. I have had to do some stop gap measures while I decide what to do and I like the idea of the slatted ceiling. Only have one question, are you screwing the plywood between the slats to the ceiling via furring strips and rivets?
Nooooo. That’s so unfortunate. We seen this version of the ceiling where the back board is simply insulation, and we were wondering if that actually worked. Let me know how things are going!
Guys! Amazing tutorial. Thank you! We are going to install your signature ceiling. The way our van is shaped, it will need to bend towards the front. (We opted for a higher van so naturally angles lower towards the cab). In your experience was it possible to bend your ceiling lengthways? We are thinking we may need to use thinner materials for a little more flexibility?....
We would greatly appreciate your opinion! Happy travelling!
Nathan & Julia.
It totally is. Our van is a bit bent in the front and it still works. That's why we opted for those slats, they bend!
* Can you tell us, when you put the slatted ceiling up on the transit, how many ply boards did you use and what was the layout? And how did you make sure the boards lined up? *
Hey! Excellent video and we were talking today about how to do this so great timing! We are just getting started on our van conversion - Dodge Promaster 159 WB with high roof. Love your van, you are our inspiration! We plan to do the ceiling but have one question - you mentioned the longer version will just require more help, any more details on that? So you put up beams across the van ceiling to attach the whole 12 foot piece, and then with people holding it up while you brace it with the vertical pieces for support, and then attach it to those beams on the ceiling? Thank you so much for sharing!
Also, with the longer ceiling, how do you deal with the three different pieces of plywood for the base? Do you attach them together somehow before nailing on the slats?
@@barbarab2646 Hi Barbara! Good questions! Exactly, it's the same process for the longer version. You put the beams across the van ceiling (brace) and then you ask 2-3 buddies to come and lift that up, you hold it in place with the vertical pieces for support and once it's locked in place, you can start screwing in the beams. If you have 3 different pieces of plywood, put them together by adding little pieces of wood under (screw them). Then, when the slats are on top, you can remove the small pieces of wood you used to make sure the plywood would stick together in the first place. Does that help?
@@vanlifesagas That helps a ton! Thank you so much! We shall enlist buddies with masks!
Very helpful video! Great job! Thank you!!!!!
Glad we can help!
You don’t even know how happy your video made me! I am just starting my build and I have saved a picture of your ceiling and now I feel confident that I can make it happen! Thank you again for taking the time to make this video!!!
Sherry Moore Is everything clear enough though?
Yes it was very clear, all of you did an excellent job explaining it! I’m a total amateur woodworker and I am just starting so it will be a few months before I get to the ceiling so I will probably have more questions the only question I have right now is when nailing to the underneath how many nails do you do? It looked like you only nailed it at the top and bottom of the pine boards?
Sherry Moore Good question. You don’t need that many. I’d say put one every feet or so.
How would you install pot lights in that ceiling - would you cut the holes before attaching the ceiling?
Susannah Levy ohhhh damn, good question !!!! Forgot about that. We could cut holes in the slats before, yes.
Hey guys,
We LOVE your ceiling and are thinking about installing it in our van. So my question is: are you afraid that it might splinter in case of an accident? Thanks for the great Video by the way :)
Cheers from Germany.
Dominic and Anika
Ouf, it's so tightly screwed in place, I don't think it would move at all. It if does, the accident is massive and you'll end up beaten up by the impact of the crash, not the ceiling.
In love with your ceiling! By chance have you ever tried this ceiling on a Transit high roof and if so, did you extend all the way to the cab area or did you stop short? So far I've only bought a 4 ft piece of the pine slat to test stains, but struggling, imagining how this will bend lengthwise as the roof slopes down going toward the cab. Appreciate any advice you may have :-)))
Hi Kelly! We did try it on a Transit before and it worked like magic. We made it all the way to the back to make it look epic and wide.
@@vanlifesagas Appreciate your generosity is answering so many questions (even my question!). So excited to kick off our ceiling this weekend (after lots of mini-experiments so far)--going for mahogany slats and steaming the boards to ensure they keep the curve with the front of our van. Fingers crossed!
Basic math... hardcore dad😉
Ah. That’s the thing !!!!
So rad! Do you think you could pull this off with the curve of a school bus ceiling?
Yes, we could probably. We would just have to make sure we work with wood that is flexible enough to be bent a little! Are you converting something?
Great video! The van you show at 14:47 with the light bamboo ceiling; is there a link to photos/video that I could see that in a little more detail please?
jack molyneux shooting a van tour on that van today. Coming to you soon!
@@vanlifesagas - You could do a 'scandinavian look' design too. Light wood in the ceiling, on the countertops and for the flooring - and white walls and cabinetry. I think it would be a hit :-)
Annie ouhhh that would be pretty! Thanks for the tip!
Hey the thumbnail for the video shows a cool configuration with a couch on the left side. Any chance you could do a tour of that van?
It's coming up in a few weeks actually.
@@vanlifesagas yay!
In one of the vans, the pine planks on the ceiling are a a bamboo color. How did you achieve that? What kind of stains are used? Thank you! The craftsmanship on the vans are amazing and I aspire to be on this level.
Hey, glad you like it! The stain we used was just very very pale, and applied on pine! It was almost translucid!
@@vanlifesagas Thank you for a speedy reply! I appreciate the help
Vous devriez commencer à faire des t-shirts avec des citations hors contexte.
« Just align them, make them spoon on your ceilling. »
Hahah crime c'est bon!
Hey there! Curious how you stop the ceiling from squeaking when you drive? Are there just a lot of screws?
It doesn't squeak at all. There are screws, but not LOTS of them!
@@vanlifesagas got it...we are really struggling with squeaks when we drive. (ram promaster 2019) and we can't find anything online about what to do! any suggestions?
Really nice and easy to do! Are you planning to do a step by step tutorial for electricity ?
Yes, it's coming this summer.
@@vanlifesagas If you need a van as demonstration I am at that part with mine and totally overwhelmed with the topic haha!
@@PJLeblanc Hahahah taking notes !!!
The size is Ex 1x3 or Ex 75x25 in real language. The Ex means "out of" meaning the finished size will be smaller because it's made "out of" the 75x25 before it's finished.
Ahhhh there you go! Didn't know that! Thanks for sharing!
Hey! We are gathering our supplies to start our ceiling this week! A couple of questions - what type and size of screws did you use to attach the wood strips to the ceiling ribs of the van that the ceiling panel will be attached to? What type and size of screws did you use to attach the ceiling panel to those wood strips? Thank you so much for any info!
Barbara B getting back to you !!! Asking the builder.
Vanlife Sagas Any luck getting info on the screws from the builder? 😀👍🏻We bought the wood that the slats will be attached to and since we couldn’t get 1x3 pine here we are going with hemlock. The birch plywood for the floor is beautiful! Floor wood is cut and waiting for insulation. Sound deadening while we wait! Thanks so much for your help!!
Send us a quick email. Asking the father : hello@vanlifesagas.com
I would like to know this too on the screws and what you used to screw the wood to the metal roof?
@@barbarab2646 By chance did you ever hear back on screw specs? We just finished a ceiling and are in the process of getting it up (not fully screwed in yet), but would be nice to know what's worked well for them given they have more experience with this ceiling ;-). thanks!
Hi Cuties, I'd like to replicate Vanessa's ceiling in my van build. You mentioned the pine slats are chocolate walnut gel stain. Can you please share with me what color the plywood is?
The plywood is simply painted black!
Pour viser le plafond, vous utilisez des vis autoperçantes dans le « frame » ?
Exactement : si t'es pogné pour visser dans du métal, des autoperceuses vont être nécessaires.
Vanlife Sagas pas de problème avec la vibration ? Beaucoup de gens parlent de ça ?!
"Wunderbar" - Top of the world! - Fabulous - Outasite - Vantasket - Nothing "Tops" it! .............
Marie has the ingredients for the recipe, guided by Dom's super Dad who taught everything Dom knows. Right Dom?
Hello Dom, are you listening?
He's sanding his mind to smooth out the rough surface. Marie, give him guidance, especially sanding with the grain.
Just sayin' - Rick
Richard MacLean hahaha totally 🤷🏽♂️
Found another interesting way, put a dark grey or black headliner at the top then put the boards over the top...Saves trying to lug the lot into the van, looks the same ..czcams.com/video/dgfeMTVnYRY/video.html
Ohh that's good! Thanks for the reference!
Is this your new van? And do you buy and sell all the vans you've had or did you rent them? Do you ship your van in cargo ships? Or do you rent a different van across the ocean when you go abroad?
This is our van, yes. We'll be selling it in October and buying a new van soon!
Size sand paper??
Great video! Very entertains as always! I also uploaded a video on how I installed a ceiling in a ram promaster! Subscribed :)
🤣🤣🤣"IT FEELS LIKE A DOLPHIN"
Sywy Caches hahaha try it !! You’ll see. It even makes the sound 🤫
@@vanlifesagas 🤣 when i get my van, maybe i will. Thanks for the tips! I really do love the ceiling...
How's the curve .. haha fabellus build .. hope mind is too ...
Thanks friend!
I have decided I am driving to your folks' house and going to beg them to help me when I get my van LOL. I was run down by a car and nearly killed so it is harder for to do anything anymore.
Man, that's unfortunate... If you need help, our dads actually convert vans for other people. The next spot is in the fall of 2021 though. Let us know if we can help!
0:49 "Mr Anderson..."
J adore voir vos video.
Dommage qui soit en anglais
amateurs.autoneiges On comprend totalement. Si vous allez voir sur notre profil, vous verrez que la majorité sont en français toutefois. Les vidéos de voyage sont restées dans notre langue maternelle! On va assurément en produire d’autres!
@@vanlifesagas merci. 😉
Este vous encore à Bromont ? Nous adorons vos plafond et aimerais venir jeter un coup d'oeil si possible ! 😊
Jeremy Maltais ah merde, non. On est dans l’Ouest jusqu’en octobre.
@@vanlifesagas Ok bon trip !! 🤘🚐
Just wondering, have you guys..well your dad..ever converted a shuttle bus?
TravelBuffet they have not. They have worked on Transit, Promaster, Westfalia and Sprinter. I’m sure they’d be up to the test.
Please please please wear your hair in a ponytail if you use any tool that spins around. If your hair ends up in it, it can rip off hair and even more. Happened to a friend of mine while using a drill. Otherwise, great tutorial! Take care
OMG! That scared the crap out of me! Will definitely be careful! Didn't even think of that! Thanks for the tip!
Je comprends de ce vidéo que vous n’avez pas juste fair Vanessa, mais ausis d’autres vans ?
Exactement. On a fait Vanessa (notre première), et depuis on a eu quelques demandes. On est donc à notre 7 vans de construites pour des gens!
What's the cool music?
It's a royalty free song that we found online. Believe it's called ''Dancing to the music''. Confirming this tonight ;)
NAAchos
Conversation starter....
😂
Hahah right !!!
Was this re-uploaded?
Good eye! For some reason, the video edit lagged in the middle. This is a new version!
@@vanlifesagas Okay, I didn't even notice the lagg, but maybe that's because I had 4 hours of sleep haha
@@NinaThoren HAHAHAH! That's hilarious! How do you only sleep 4 hours? Marie needs at least 9 or she's horrible to deal with :)
@@vanlifesagas I am both a night owl and an early bird (good or bad, that's debatable) and it's my first week of being done with another term at university so my body is still getting used to all this extra time haha
Nina Thorén You’ll probably figure out what yo do with all this time quite soon. What are you studying?
LOL, LOL, LOL! Dom's comment that I almost missed.............Hey, ah, your slats are curved.... "Yeah, how's your daughter?"
Hahah what a dude! This guy will always surprise me!
So if the van is white, you always do white walls and white cabinetry because the doors of the van are white? And if the van is blue you always do blue walls and blue cabinetry? I guess you always paint the cabinetry then?
Annie no. We never really refer to the color of the van although it does show. We always tend to go with white walls and cabinetry because it makes the space much bigger and fits with every other color.
@@vanlifesagas - Ok. White walls and cabinetry is what I like the best too, absolutely. Thank you for the fast response! The tutorial is super. I bet you will get loads of views on this one. I'll recommend it to Chrome on Vancity Vanlife.
J
I can't cope with American measure, hoped that French-speakers would do metric.
Who invented metric?
Good question. Isn't it the British?
Argh! Please keep your loose hair away from those spinning blades. Fantastic videos tho!!!!
Ohhhhh can you imagine. ''In the next video, see Marie go bald''.