Phantom
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It's been our first winter full-timing in our motorhome and it has highlighted a few areas where further insulation was required to prevent condensation which if left would have lead to mould growth too. As we're on electric hook up we are barely using the gas blown heating which would have maybe alleviated some of the issues to some extent but improvements were still needed.
Placing a sheet of 1" polystyrene on the plywood bed base has made up for the cold garage below causing minor condensation. The issue was much worse where the gas locker protrudes under a bench seat but again snug fitting 1" polystyrene resolved that too.
As to be expected really the Sprinter metal cab area is uninsulated apart from the roof and perhaps floor covering if that counts. But there are two remaining areas where I'd like to make improvements. The main one is to somehow insulate the footwells to prevent condensation forming there daily which runs down under the flooring to remain trapped and potentially rot the floor. I removed the factory fitted plastic/foam flooring and the entire floor was soaking wet. Even though the metal floor has bitumen like sheeting bonded to most of it there was signs of mild rust in one area. I guess that many campervans and motorhomes also have this issue in winter but it just goes unnoticed? Condensation also forms on the inner door skins which would have also gone unnoticed if it weren't for the storage compartments which revealed it.
So I guess that the solution to all is to bond some form of flexible snug fitting insulation to those internal areas? Any ideas?
Placing a sheet of 1" polystyrene on the plywood bed base has made up for the cold garage below causing minor condensation. The issue was much worse where the gas locker protrudes under a bench seat but again snug fitting 1" polystyrene resolved that too.
As to be expected really the Sprinter metal cab area is uninsulated apart from the roof and perhaps floor covering if that counts. But there are two remaining areas where I'd like to make improvements. The main one is to somehow insulate the footwells to prevent condensation forming there daily which runs down under the flooring to remain trapped and potentially rot the floor. I removed the factory fitted plastic/foam flooring and the entire floor was soaking wet. Even though the metal floor has bitumen like sheeting bonded to most of it there was signs of mild rust in one area. I guess that many campervans and motorhomes also have this issue in winter but it just goes unnoticed? Condensation also forms on the inner door skins which would have also gone unnoticed if it weren't for the storage compartments which revealed it.
So I guess that the solution to all is to bond some form of flexible snug fitting insulation to those internal areas? Any ideas?