Van Interior Roof Insulation

For the van you should take a look at our mass noise liner the material is a 2 in 1 drop in in sound a heat barrier.

Van interior roof insulation.

Selecting a transit van ceiling liner. You should be able to fully insulate your van with havelock wool sheep s wool insulation for about 300 to 600 including shipping depending on the size of your van. Many established methods for insulating traditional homes exist. It means applying one inch thickness of the material will provide 6 5 r value.

Using foam board you should be able to fully insulate your van for about 150 to 250 we spent about 150 to insulate our standard wheelbase chevy express. And since the first layer of the roof ceiling insulation was installed between cross ribs running furring strips the length of the van will give you 100 coverage over the entire roof. The higher the r value the greater the insulating power. R value denotes the capacity of an insulating material to resist heat flow.

It is normally noted for example 6 5 per inch. This same thing will happen on the side walls because the wall sections you build will not line up with existing wall ribs again giving you 100. Unfortunately most of these methods don t apply to vans as they have metal walls lots of single pane windows and lack large hvac systems. We sell transit van roof liners separately from our wall liner kits but these are a critical part of your van s interior.

Applying two inches will provide 13 0 r value. Therefore you could have air pockets that collect moisture. The idea of a vapor barrier is to seal off the interior of the van and protect the walls and insulation from being exposed to any of the moisture that develops inside the van. And so on r value takes into account all three heat transfer mechanisms.

In this how to guide we will detail step by step how we installed a simple ceiling in our camper van conversion. We hope you can take away some tips and ideas to help you with your campervan conversion ceiling. If you want to install insulated wall panels and doors you will also need to insulate the ceiling of your van. You add insulation to a van for the same reasons you add it to a house to reduce the transfer of thermal and sound energy.

It doesn t bend or curve to follow the ridges of your vehicle s interior meaning you might miss a few areas when insulating your van. Unless you want to stare up at insulation and roof beams you are going to want to install some type of ceiling in your van conversion.