We're Philip & Lidia and in this video we're gonna do the insulation for this van and we have some
automotive materials right here and some house insulation right here and for this job we only
need minimal tools so it's gonna be pretty easy so stay tuned and let's start this video guys
this van is covered with windows and that's where the heat is gonna come in more than the walls so
a lot of people forgets about the windows and it's very important and something that i did in
our other van that we have some custom window covers and basically like you see right here
it's made up with like some reflective materials and then i saw some fabric and i have like some
magnets going around and it's basically some stuff like this you can buy almost anywhere
cut it to size to the window and then they just basically attach just like this they're
not perfect for this window because they're from my other van but this is the idea that i want to
show you guys basically we're gonna pay a lot of attention in this van insulating our windows
means making some custom window covers and i don't know if a lot of people is gonna be interested so
leave me a comment if you want me to make a video doing these window covers because i think a lot
of people will find it very useful so the floors like you see have already been done and you can
kind of see how we did the wheel wells here if you want to check out exactly how we did that
we made a video doing it make sure to check in the description below and we'll put a link for it but
for the meantime we're going to get to cleaning because this thing's super dirty and nothing's
going to work out if we start with it dirty so here's what we're dealing with we got to get
all this crud off or else the guitar stuff isn't going to stick because this stuff just comes right
As we could we off everything we could and now we're gonna just clean it with a
little bit of alcohol and water and now it's time to apply this sound deadening
right here and what this is gonna do is going to reduce the sound and the vibrations in the
band so when we're driving is super quiet and this backing right here is some butyl that is
really sticky and what we're gonna do we're gonna tape it on the walls and we're gonna
roll it with this roller at the same time that we are applying a little bit of heat with the
heat gun and i think it's pretty easy it's just time consuming so i'm gonna start here
that seems the easiest part you just peel this off so we're just gonna try to center it right there
we're gonna use the heat gun and we're gonna use this little roller too and we're gonna heat
the area a little bit where it's warm and then you're gonna use the little roller and make sure
that these little bubbles right here they look flat you go like back and forth back and forth
everything gets warm at the same time right here on the sheet
like you see i only use one sheet of Killmat because in our previous build we basically cover
the whole entire vehicle with this literally you couldn't put a finger that it wasn't one of these
that's a lot of weight it's going to make the same effect we don't put that much basically
they say cover like 20% 25% of the panel so one sheet in each section is probably plenty
That thing is pulling some juice
Wait a minute are you using the Jackery to run the heat gun yeah using the Jackery and he's 97 so far
so let's see how long he lasts let's see we can do the whole thing put that sucker to the test
you know we just want to see we can kill it yeah pretty much just got the rest of this to finish
all the sides are done this thing is not easy yeah actually i changed my mind anything is
addictive anymore is cleaning my neck right out here now you're over it yep
These last pieces on the ceiling is not easy it's brutal we're almost done guys hey the Jackery
made it too check it what's it at it's 67 guys yeah like you saw we use this heat gun literally
for almost two hours i was a little skeptical that it was gonna make it but honestly i still have
used to do another one just like this one right now so i'm pretty stoked and yeah if you had a
hair dryer basically this is what it is it's like a hair dryer so you could do your hair for a while
with one of these and it's working really good for all the bamboo we're basically
putting it to the test we built a whole entire van cutting things with big tools
with this baby boy right here and it worked perfectly that is insane dude this thing is
amazing everything we throw at it it just man handles it like this thing right here let's see
Yeah this thing's cranking over a thousand watts right here it handles everything our power tools
circular saw if you saw any other videos you know that we just beat the heck out of
it and it just takes it and it's at 66 percent still like so quick rundown of our 1500 here
is you have these inputs where you can charge it either from your house or with solar panels
that we have also they're portable foldable solar panels they're 100 watts they're awesome and you
also have your outputs which are usbc and then two other regular usbs and then you have three other
110 outputs and these are the 1800 watt out of a pure sine wave inverter and then you have your
12 volt receptacle here that's your dc output has your input read out here and output readout here
as you see we have 66 battery left so definitely we recommend Jackery if you're into one life
and you want remote living and all of the grid you should definitely get one of these Jackery
because they come really handy so we're gonna leave their website down below so check it
out guys if you want to cook one of these before they're gone and for now let's keep moving on with
these walls because we still have a lot of work to do yep gotta get back to work make sure to check
the link guys check them out so this is what we're gonna put on the ceiling now this is
closed cell foam it's only a quarter inch thick i would have got thicker stuff if i could have
but this was just what we got so i believe this has an r value of somewhere between two and three
and that's not gonna be enough so we are gonna do more to the ceiling but we'll show you that
later for now we're gonna stick this onto the ceiling probably this way the whole way down
we'll put the amazon link for this stuff down below but this stuff is actually
super sticky so be very careful once you stick it down it's probably never coming back up
Now we gotta cut peel the backing off like this stick it on engage the time lapse
So we have the back all the way halfway about and then we just have this much we only have
this much material so hopefully we make it let's do one of these okay
Basically we're doing the last piece right there that's all the material that we had left literally
there's no more all right so all the closed cell foam stick on stuff is on the ceiling now
it's late we're going to call it a night and we'll pick back up in the morning and show you
how really good it looks all right so day two here we are we finished doing the ceiling and
we had just enough we actually ordered more and amazon brought it very next day
so we're gonna go ahead and do all the walls as well because it is fairly cheap the best
thing about it is it's lightweight and it also does a really good job of sound deadening so
once we're done with the walls it's going to be super quiet in here check this out
Huge difference even this thing
Huge difference one of the main things we're trying to do here
is keep cost and weight down we're going to be doing a lot of wheeling and off-roading in
this thing so we want to keep it as light as possible so we can get further out there all
right so now we're going to stick this on the wall so let's engage the time-lapse sequence
I'm all done with the close so foam insulation from top to bottom and you can see here this side
i pretty much did flawless but this side i had to speed up a little bit so you can see here it's not
perfect doesn't have to be perfect we're running out of time just gotta get the job done just put
it together guys now we're gonna do the next stage of insulation which is gonna be this fiberglass
mat it's got the foil backing so that helps too so we're gonna see if it'll squeeze through here it's
got an r value of six which is not bad so let's uh get it up in there and see if it's actually gonna
work or not because it is fiberglass we're gonna use some gloves and a mask because it's not cool
so i got it tucked in around the edges now i'm going to use some 3m
adhesive spray and some reflectix tape try and stick it to the roof that way
it'll hold up on there until we put the roof panels on so let's see if this works
You just want to give it a couple minutes to let it get tacky and then stick it on there
so
All right so that's that the front section is good we're gonna give it a couple minutes to see how
well it stays and then we'll decide if we're gonna do the rest of the roof uh but for now
we're gonna do the walls because that's gonna be easy so we're gonna bang that out
give that some time and keep moving forward so let's get to doing the second stage on the walls
and we're gonna use some fiberglass insulation that we have right here and it has some plastic
around it so it's kind of sealed so it's not going to be so messy but either ways i'm going to put
the mask on and we're just going to fit it in here as good as we can and let's see how it's rolling
All right so we got this side done now we're gonna move on to this side
i don't know if we talked about it this stuff is just fiberglass mat
and it's r13 it's a pretty high r value so it's probably more than we need for
the walls but it fits perfectly like you see and it's super cheap yep cheap is good
Now you see we got the walls all done it's time to move on to the ceiling
like you saw earlier the ceiling is going to be this foil backed fiberglass so we're
going to continue that all the way back it seems like it's staying pretty well
so we're gonna get it on here with the glue like you saw and just finish it up and then we're done
and there you have it we have the ceiling pretty much done i think i'm just going to
tidy up a few things and get back to you guys in a second and show you guys the finished product
of the whole insulation job