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Location: Randolph MN | I'm looking to insulate the gooseneck dressing room on my trailer. Please share experiences, tips, products used and pictures if you have them! Thanks |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | We've since sold the trailer and I'd really have to dig to find pictures but we used foam sheets for insulation. Come in like a 4 x 8 sheet. Easy to score and cut. We cleaned the walls and then sprayed them with spray adhesive and then stuck the foam to it. Once we did all that we bought pine look paneling. Our trailer had the ribs that we fit the insulation in between so wherever the ribs were we used self tapping screws to screw the paneling on. We also layed carpet down, used an indoor outdoor type. I think we did that first then put the insulation and paneling up. The ceiling we did the same thing, insulation and paneling. The spray adhesive worked really good and everything held even through out excessive heat and cold. I found a cute pine trunk that we bolted to the floor. It was used as a step to get in the gooseneck, a seat and it had a lid that flipped up so it had storage in it. Hubby added a couple 12 volt camper style lights too. Loved that trailer. I kick myself that I sold it. Sure would come in handy now instead of pulling my pig everywhere I go. |
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Location: Randolph MN | Wonderful. Cheap too! Did you insulate under the mattress? |
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Location: Bandera, TX | We also put sheet insulation up and then covered it with panels that look like wood. Looks nice. |
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Location: Randolph MN | How do you insulate the door and make that look nice too? |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Casinoscash - 2014-04-02 9:21 PM Wonderful. Cheap too! Did you insulate under the mattress?
No we didn't put insulation under the mattress and we didn't insulate the floor. |
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| I insulated our dressing room. I used the foam board (I used the pink stuff, some people said use the white). Be sure to use aluminum tape on all of the "studs". If you screw the paneling right to the trailer without the aluminum tape you can have condensation seep from the metal to paneling. I just used the aluminum tape on the edges to hold the foam up. I screwed small furring strips (like a 1x1 board) to the metal studs with self tapping screws and I even put the aluminum tape over the screw heads. I then covered with a cool paneling I found at Home Depot that looked like leather with staples to the furring strips. I insulated the entire dressing room, under the bed and everything because I am in MN, wanted to keep it warm, we used it to camp.
I will attach a pic of one of the walls. The ceiling was fun. I also ran most of my electrical through the top curve of the trailer and put a thin board there that I screwed in the middle and it flexed to the curve. That way we could access wires a little easier.
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Location: Randolph MN | Stubsgirl - 2014-04-03 9:59 AM
I insulated our dressing room. I used the foam board (I used the pink stuff, some people said use the white). Be sure to use aluminum tape on all of the "studs". If you screw the paneling right to the trailer without the aluminum tape you can have condensation seep from the metal to paneling. I just used the aluminum tape on the edges to hold the foam up. I screwed small furring strips (like a 1x1 board) to the metal studs with self tapping screws and I even put the aluminum tape over the screw heads. I then covered with a cool paneling I found at Home Depot that looked like leather with staples to the furring strips. I insulated the entire dressing room, under the bed and everything because I am in MN, wanted to keep it warm, we used it to camp.
I will attach a pic of one of the walls. The ceiling was fun. I also ran most of my electrical through the top curve of the trailer and put a thin board there that I screwed in the middle and it flexed to the curve. That way we could access wires a little easier.
Thank you! How did you do the door? |
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| Check around to barn builders and restaurant builders that use the hard blow in foam that is around an inch thick to give you an R90 type of insulation ... it comes in colors or you can paint it ....
It is used on walls and inside ceilings ... so start looking at Chilli's and others that have used it ... including Walmart ...
This is not the fuming, smelly, sticky type of foam in a can ... costs around $1 per foot from a professional sprayer ...
Edited by BARRELHORSE USA 2014-04-03 2:48 PM
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| Thank you! How did you do the door?
I cheated and bought a used camper door and had it installed. I wasn't sure how I was going to tackle that. My thought was just to do it all in silver tape and come up with a way to attach paneling. |
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Location: Randolph MN | That's an option! |
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Location: Randolph MN | Any other tips? |
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