Minxy
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- Aug 22, 2007
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- Since 1996, had Elddis/Swift/Rapido/Rimor/Chausson MHs. Autocruise/Globecar PVCs/Compactline i-138
Andrew, I hope no-one tips off the border police etc when you go abroad, or back to the UK, that you may be carrying contraband as they'll think they've hit the jackpot if they see all that 'white plastic packing' hidden in the doors ...!
Seriously though, your 'next' mission, should you choose to accept it, is to do the next major bit of insuation needed ... there's none (or very little if it's in there!) insulation in the roof edges (ie where it meets the wall panels) I found this out when I was fitting extra sockets and fed the cables along behind the upper rear cupboard plastic lining/covers. You can loosen the covers but won't be able to remove them (unless you take out all your lockers totally!) so will need to carefully stuff the insulation in a bit at a time to fill all the voids there.
I didn't do mine at the time I found it as I wasn't sure how big an issue it would be however I found that even with the over-bed lockers closed the areas were a cold point in the camper and at the start of our holiday when the temperatures were lower in France in November we got condensation forming on the plastic cover and making some of the clothes wet. The front lockers weren't affected so it must have been as a result of us sleeping there with the warm air we breathed-out overnight meeting the cooler surface in the locker above. Fortunately I had some of the 'bubble wrap' type silver sided material with me which I'd used to line the over-dinette lockers to help keep them cooler in the summer and not affect the food etc stored in there so I used this to line the top of the affected overbed lockers instead which has sorted out the issue, but isn't ideal so I'll be doing some insulation of ours too, both dinette and over-bed lockers to prevent both cold and heat issues.
Seriously though, your 'next' mission, should you choose to accept it, is to do the next major bit of insuation needed ... there's none (or very little if it's in there!) insulation in the roof edges (ie where it meets the wall panels) I found this out when I was fitting extra sockets and fed the cables along behind the upper rear cupboard plastic lining/covers. You can loosen the covers but won't be able to remove them (unless you take out all your lockers totally!) so will need to carefully stuff the insulation in a bit at a time to fill all the voids there.
I didn't do mine at the time I found it as I wasn't sure how big an issue it would be however I found that even with the over-bed lockers closed the areas were a cold point in the camper and at the start of our holiday when the temperatures were lower in France in November we got condensation forming on the plastic cover and making some of the clothes wet. The front lockers weren't affected so it must have been as a result of us sleeping there with the warm air we breathed-out overnight meeting the cooler surface in the locker above. Fortunately I had some of the 'bubble wrap' type silver sided material with me which I'd used to line the over-dinette lockers to help keep them cooler in the summer and not affect the food etc stored in there so I used this to line the top of the affected overbed lockers instead which has sorted out the issue, but isn't ideal so I'll be doing some insulation of ours too, both dinette and over-bed lockers to prevent both cold and heat issues.