CAMPING SLEEPING PAD COVER | COLD WEATHER CAMPING GEAR | THERMAREST SLEEPING PAD | DIY GEAR
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- čas přidán 14. 02. 2022
- Put off by the awful weather, I remained at home and decided to make another 'MAKE IT' video - I hope you like it!
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I predict a shortage of insulated windscreen covers after this one, Richard. 😉 Great job and glad you're feeling better. 👍🙂
You can get similar material from hardware stores, if Aldi or Lidl are out. It is used to insulate sheds and similar.
Hello Richard Outdoors! Thank you for showing me a nice video! I really enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing! Have a nice day!
Pleasure! 👍
Well, I don't know ..... give a man a sewing machine and a few days off! Good to see that happy smiling face out of a hospital gown. 👍👍
Use the foil picnic blankets ,they are foil on both sides and come in larger sizes.
Hello Richard, Pleased to hear you're doing well. Great project and great idea. Cheers
Thanks Mel!
Great to see you back 👍
glad your back and on the mend
Good idea and Glad to see your on the mend!
👋 great 👍 job well done 👏
Nice effort. I've worked with heat reflective material for nearly a year now. I make clothing, anoraks, full sleeve shoulder cloaks w/hood, leggings, etc.. In reviewing your effort, the auto window covers are quite heavier than the material I work with but yours is likely more durable. Unless you add an insulating layer to the bottom of the heat reflective bottom, you will loose some of your body heat to conductivity. My experiments with clothing start with a base layer to gain a brief dead air space. My second layer is the heat reflective piece of clothing. My third layer is an insulating layer to limit heat loss due to convection. This method proved to be the best solution for my heat reflective sleeping bag. Alone without an insulating layer I didn't notice any appreciable heat gain. But when I put my Sea to Summit Reactor bag liner over the sleeping bag, the heat just poured back to me. My material is heat reflective, breathable, wind and water repellent. I coated the anorak and over pants with a DWR coating when if it rains or snows, I wear the insulating wool sweater over the base layer and the heat reflective, water proof anorak on the outside. I gave up working with my Singer Heavy Duty sewing mach, as I've developed a new adhesive with excellent flexibility, ease of application with a raw set-up in about 20 min. I also gave up sewing because I can't sew a straight line.
Thanks Stuart, an interesting read. 👍
That's a great idea good to see you're well great vid
Middle of Lidl, a source of a great deal of items in my backpack, in my home and some of the items I wear as well.
I can't go into a shop without looking at items and thinking: _Yeah, but I could also used it for such and such or adapt it for such and such._
I'm always looking to make items double or multi use to lighten the backpack.
Rather than sewing, as I'm arthritic, so find it impossible, I'd seal both sides with aluminium tape.
Wouldn't last anywhere near as long as your more robust solution, (👏👏👏) but would do for quite a few trips.
This vid just earned you a new subscriber and thanks for uploading!
Thanks Billy and nice to hear from you!
You just done what I was thinking about , hopefully I'll get a few tips 😀
Great job Richard and am very proud of how far you have come since starting way back when. I'm Blessed to know you're on the mend as I'm still dealing with my own issues but it's all good. I'm missing something as I swear I seen some awesome "Ink" on that left arm of yours. Probably my 58 year old eyes playing tricks again,,,LOL. Cheers from Alabama my friend. God Bless~
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Great Video, had a similar idea myself, open-ended envelope. Enjoyed
You have done a great job of the cover Richard,
You're also good with the sewing machine🧵🪡👍🏻
Appreciated Eddie!
Good to see you back and doing stuff! Hope you will be fit to fly again soon as well...? Now all I need to do is teach myself how to use a sewing machine...oh, and probably buy a sewing machine...might be useful...?
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Brilliant Richard very useful
Glad your back Richard. 🤗
I am!
Welcome back old mate!
Thanks Stuart!
Good to see you back. You can get that reflective foam on eBay quite cheaply. It comes in 2 metre lengths and 1, 1.5 or 2 metre widths. I've been using it with my sleep mat for years. As well as the warmth benefits, it helps to protect the mat.
I used a sheet glued on a tarp to reflect back heat from the campfire.
@@billyandrew I'm hoping one of those can have warmth, comfort, & puncture resistant benefits as a groundsheet... As well as true blackout shade in the heat as a tarp. And of course sit pad.
Oh great fella, good to see you on the mend. That looks good...I predict a shortage of that insulation material.
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Brilliant project. One tip from a longtime sewer, (careful how you read that). Try making your pattern with the sleeping mat deflated. Your cover will then easily match the outer fabric of the sleeping mat. Cheers seeing you back at it.
Hi. I needed to get the ‘height’ of the inflated pad in order to get the space correct for the end pockets 👍
Good job Richard.
Great to have you back Richard!!!
Quallity Great to see ya back Richard 👍👍👍
Great to see you back & hope onwards & upwards from here in!!!
Nicely done 👍 good to see you back, and doing well 😀
Great to see you on the mend. Great little video so will be good to see this tested out.
Welcome back.. great to see you online again.. Take care
Richard, good to see you, inside or outdoors. This is a good idea, nicely imagined, it has given us an idea or two, so thanks.
Wow! Very creative and useful! Lightweight! Cheers!
Great sewing skills! Can't wait for you to use it and report on its success.
The Highlander reflective mat on Amazon is what I use. Pretty much the same thing for £12 and no faffing
Ok. I like ‘faffing’! Thanks for watching!! 👍
Great to see you finally again. Happy to hear you feeling better.
Great idea this! Gonna make one too👍🙂
Welcome back. Nothing like getting past a big health issue to make you want to get out and about.
Glad to hear you are feeling better, great video as always. The cheaper the kit the more people who can take part.
I don't have a sewing machine but I need one. I thought about an idea for a mattress cover but haven't done anything about it. But I have gone so far to get the materials. I wanted to make a wool cover. No not lightweight. But you know the whole wool blanket vs synthetic routine. So I got three long wool coats for 3 dollars. At a thrift store of course on a dollar day. And I might make a canteen cover out of a sleeve. Who knows. But thanks for this amazing video.
Thanks Joanne!
Great idea, a versatile bit of equipment, can fold up as a sit pad, and act as an insulator to wrap food in on the way to camp
Really good to see you are now fit and well.
Lookin. Really healthy actually!!!
Well done and all the best
Regards Brian
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Great work. Would love to see you make something like the thermarest trekker chair kit 😎
An other nice one! Ik have been thinking about something like that. However, I had not yet goten a good idea of how to do it. Thanks!
I'm glad your on the mend and will be curious how well your project performs.You did a good job putting it together See you in the next one.👍
Fantastic Richard what a brilliant idea.
Your have to mass produce this baby !!👍👏👌.
Glad your feeling better.
Atb Graham
Nice one 👍 Richard thanks it would be great if you do more DIY home work for camping good job ps glade your on the mend
Pretty neat idea ! I'll be waiting for your insight on it when you have a chance to go camping . Why does the brittish make the best music groups and singers and also the best oudoor youtubers ?
Really like this idea, I use a Snugpak Antarctic mat on top of my self inflate mat which works a treat but this is a great budget idea
Glad you are doing better Richard. Interesting project. Well done! As I told Simon in a comment a year or so ago - I discovered early in life that I and a sewing machine do not mix. 😅🤣😂 I can do lots of stuff mechanically, but I am ALL thumbs when I try my hand at a sewing machine. Maybe if I bribe my wife she might think about helping me, but I think she gave up on trying to teach me early on in our marriage when I almost destroyed her machine. Not so funny story - at least from her perspective.
Good to see you looking vaguely human again. That's a good idea you've had there, one to bear in mind. Having just started sewing things for myself, but by hand, I agree that not having a machine would make it a very slow process! All the best, Pete.
Richard, I didn't know you hadn't been well but I pleased to hear you are now on road to recovery. Will watch the rest of the video but had to pause it to send this message, Take care of yourself.
Thanks John!
Good one mate should make a difference in the freezing
Good to see you looking well
Atb 👍🏽
Thanks buddy. On the mend!
Great Idea Richard! So happy to see you back on camera. Glad your doing better my friend.
Thanks Michael!!
Great to see you back again Richard and looking more like your old self. Glad to hear you are on the mend mate 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Paul!!
I wonder how it works and how many degrees it could add to limits
Beware of that middle lane in Lidl
Another great diy video! I don’t know how you find the time to make these videos of camping and diy. And be a commercial pilot. Well done Richard! glad your health is improving. Alan
It’s because I’m off work! 🤣🤣🤣
Yaaay King Richard is back looking very well fella, great video just shows you what can be done with a bit of imagination, Aldi 😂 I've even seen a Cement Mixer for sale in there before now 😂 take it easy mate 👍😁👍
Thanks Malc!!
I've got a plain rectangular sheet of this material that I picked up from Amazon that I use under my pad, but this fitted sleeve system is great. If you sew one again try sewing the foot and head box portions inside out and flat like you would sew a pillow. Then when you are done you just pop it right side out. It so much easier that way and you are basically sewing an easy arch instead of fighting the fold and turn.
Top tip and much appreciated 👍
silver mat.... poundshop inflatable pillow.... n a bit a ductape .workin gd in my hammock. cant see all d fuss wi airbeds-mats lol
Great job Richard glad you are feeling better. I wonder if you could cut a long rectangular piece that slotted in each end and under the elastic to give you the option of a ‘double’ insulated thermarest?
Yep. Would be pretty bulky though. 👍
Good to see you back in action! .. you beat me to it with DIY mattress cover, although I was planning on making a pocket style cover using mylar emergency blankets and gaffa tape. And put my 2 season mattress inside it like a giant silver crisp bag. ( Guess where I got the idea?) 😅
Not sure if it will work or add much warmth but the emergency blankets were only £2 from eBay for two. .. your cover looks a lot more robust and the foam backing looks like will add more insulation. Does it roll up easy?
Hi Micky. Thanks for the message. Yep, seems to roll quite small!
Brilliant video as always, and good to see you're on the mend.
Randomly, are you and KevTee related at all? Subscribed to you both and you both are eachothers Doppler Gangers...!!
I don’t think so, I’ve never heard of him!
Hi Richard, great video, I was just wondering how you have found using this and would you change anything? I am planning a similar project, using 3mm foam to create a sleeve to protect and boost the R-value of my uninsulated air mattress.
Very pleased with it. Light and compact.
You made a cover for a Xtherm, which already has a reflective layer inside it. Does this second reflective layer reflect more heat back to the sleeper? For that to be the case, it must be radiant heat not reflected by the first layer, which raises the question about the reflective efficiency of the inner layer reflector and how much additional you might get by adding a second layer.
Assuming that there is some amount that gets past the inner reflective layer, which is then reflected by the add-on layer - how much of that actually makes it back to the sleeper verses just getting trapped between the two reflective layers?
No idea. Haven’t used it yet. Thanks for watching! 👍
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I would be curious as to what "R" value it adds, I mean, does it make an appreciable difference. I have a mat, made of very similar material that I bought on Amazon to place under my sleeping pad in the cold. I cant say it does anything unfortunately. So your project is very interesting to me.
Sorry, I have no idea what an ‘R’ rating is. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Great idea… How much does it weigh without the thermarest inside please?
I haven’t weighed it but it’s negligible.
Have done something similar to my hydration bladders to keep my water cold but doesn't look as good as yours. How much did this weigh when completed?
Haven’t weighed but it’s negligible.
like d giant pocket can get ya feet in lol
Advice to any one looking at purchasing a sewing machine. 1. Make sure it has metal gears. 2. It is heavy duty enough to hem a pair of denim blue jeans. If the machine can do the second part you can sew leather or canvas or use the leg of the pants to make bags to store gear. Not to mention repair your pants you ripped while out goofing around.
This is really interesting Richard. I wonder if you had an infrared device to show heat loss if it would show a significant improvement as an objective way to test it. I saw a CZcamsr who did this to various pads to see which ones really did the best job at trapping in heat and I have a Klymit pad I love that has a r value of 4.3 and I was surprised how much heat was loss in the portions of the pad that have the least amount of air.
Interesting! Waaaay too technical for me. I think I’ll just do a comparison to a ‘with’ then ‘without’ scenario. ATB
Easy to measure heatloss. Two identical containers of 40C water. Each with a thermometer. One on the pad and one on the floor (or naked mat) next to it. See how long it takes for the thermometers to reach room temperature.
Nice project Richard. You do realise though old debate of whether the reflective cover should be beneath your pad or on top of it for best insulative performance will crop up so before it gets fully underway my thoughts on this subject are: neither on top or below is wrong depending on what results you need from the temps you are experiencing. Your way, underneath will help protect the mat and help reflect the heat that has moved through your pad from your body. This is after your heat loss has heated up the air inside the pad. When its on top of the pad heat will be reflected back to your body straight away, before you have to heat all the air in your pad first. Which will keep you warmer is unclear but logic tells me pad on top would be warmer. I have considered making a pad cover like yours but more like a pillowcase with reflective material on the bottom and on the top, reflective sides facing up of course. Could be a double win and potentially a great way of dramatically increasing the R value of a cheaper air pad though I'm sure Thermarest wouldn't approve 😀
Food for thought. Thanks for watching!
It doesn't work. You won't gain even a 10th of an R values worth. Try it yourself. I have. I knew it wouldn't but I humored videos like these just the same in hopes but it doesn't even gain anything ABOVE freezing, let alone, below it.
Main issue I found with using mylar backed foam is how slippery it is. You slide out of your tent unless you're on perfectly level ground.
Does it feel any warmer to you?
I only made it yesterday so haven’t used it. However, I don’t have any slipping issues as I brush my groundsheets/bathtubs with lines of home-made seam sealant.
I appreciate the skill and the time invested but wouldn't it be better to buy a high-quality insulated air pad?
Just another line of defence and I like making stuff!
😃 bought one of those about 5 years ago not for its reflective properties just as a protective layer for my thermarest. The thermarest is the best reflective Matt you can buy and for temps in Britain it's fine and dandy. You just wanted to show off your lidle purchases, sewing machine , coffee machine, drill ,polishing wheel although that looks a bit more professional for a Lidl job.
Hi Steve. I can’t work out whether you’re being patronising or humorous. I’ll choose the latter! Thanks for watching. 👍
@@RichardOutdoors you've thrown me for a loop there. I was trying to be humerous please accept my apologies if you thought I was being patronising, the written media sometimes is not the best form of communication at times. I do have a dry sense of humour.
That’s why I took the latter! All the best!
This doesn't add even half an R value. The cold air will still attack the air in the pad. I've tested this with and without it at just above freezing temps and felt 0% gains. It just doesn't work.
Works for me. Thanks.
@@RichardOutdoors It doesn't. Remove it after laying on it for an hour. You'll notice no difference at all. I sure wish it worked though. I suspected it wouldn't but kept an open mind. Gained nothing but cold butt cheeks haha. I gave the test a full length movie too. I tested at 33F.
To be fair though, not only did this fail but even adding a 2 R ASTM rated thermorest classic foam pad over my thermorest 3.7R also fail at 33F. I still was left with a cold butt after my movie was over.
I hear this stacking is supposed to work but I'm not having any luck yet. According to most, I was supposed to get a 5.7R rated pad. If that were the case, the combo should have been able to take me to about 0F perhaps even -10F but after a movie, my butt and legs were cold enough to be considered "sore" but not drastically uncomfortable. Another movie though or for sure if I tried sleeping, I'd wake up pretty miserable I'd suspect.
I'm trying to get around backpacking with my thermorest mondoking but I can't find a good high rated pad that's 30" wide and at least 3.5" thick. they don't make much for us big guys, outside of car camping stuff.
You’re getting far too scientific for me. I like the KISS analogy.
@@RichardOutdoors Nah, It's all pretty simple. All good pads have an R value (equally measured using a standard called ASTM so no one can cheat and use a different way to measure) the more the R value, the warmer it keeps you.
It's claimed that stacking pads, means you can simply add their R values together.
My simple tests of laying on them with temps around freezing, tells me it doesn't actually work.
I just carried my 7 R car camping pad again this winter. It's heavy but I know it's good way down below 0F (probably literally -60 F), even if laid right on the snow.