Date:         Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:32:33 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: vanagon Digest - 29 Aug 2006 - Special issue (#2006-717)
Comments: To: Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@vickersdesign.com>
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Good one Jeff, and its light as hell too.

Jake

On 8/29/06, Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@vickersdesign.com> wrote:
>
> I used a double layer of the silver bubble wrap insulation that Home
> Desperate sells in 2 and 4 foot rolls. Its a good, cheap insulator
> that won't collect water and also reflects radiant heat as well. I
> used 3M adhesive spray (the version with a nozzle that shoots a
> stream vs. a spray) to stick the stuff down---it doesn't take much.
> Prior to putting that down I used Foilastic roofing stuff on a 9"
> roll on the metal walls as a sound deadener. 1/4 the price of FatMat
> and works really well. I found that using flexible smaller sized
> pieces of both the deadener and the insulation worked best when
> trying to get into some of the harder to reach areas of the doors, etc.
>
> Jeff
> On Aug 29, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>
> > Date:    Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:23:57 -0700
> > From:    Florian Speier <groups.florian@GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: thermal insulation
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I just ordered fatmat (following the brent weide trend) for my sound
> > insulation. However, if I have the panels off, I would like to use the
> > chance to add some decent thermal insulation on top as well. I
> > think the
> > optimum would be something like 1/2 inch closed cell polyethylene
> > foam, like
> > www.reimo.de sells it for that purpose, but cannot find anything
> > like that
> > from an american supplier. any ideas? i dont want to use fibreglass
> > as it
> > holds water and dont want to use the blue roof sheedt insulation
> > stuff from
> > dow chemicals as it is rigid.......
> >
> > flo
>



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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
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