You got my attention. I built out a 12 x 6 V nose in 2019/20. I live in it full time and am making improvements CONSTANTLY. At the moment I am making a soffit for the ramp spring. This is also morphing into a wall and drawers. Then a window. Then a new drawer / bed slide for the truck. I feel your pain both with labor and money. The thing that caught my attention was the OSB. I have always felt that this was a bad material due to it falling apart like MDF or chipboard. However I built shelves in my kitchen with it and it is holding up. The AC sits on one shelf of OSB. My walls are the original incredibly shitty 3/8ths ply and covered with a 1/8" ply. My biggest problem with the walls was I did not stand off from the steel ribs. So they act like a conduit for cold and heat. If I had to do it again I would leave a gap over the steel frame or insulate it too.
Yep. The video has progressed and I see you made the same mistake I made with the insulation. I did the exact same thing. If I do this again I will do as you did then a sheet of 1/2" insulation over the entire wall and then refit the wood. You will be sitting by the wall in the summer and it will have red hot spots and in the winter cold spots. All caused by the steel beams not being insulated and conducting the heat in or out. My wall gets hot to the touch.
@@ambmh5535 Its really annoying. The heat is worse I think. Each steel rib is a heat sink straight inside. Sort of like a single pane of glass window. The inside is the same temp as the outside.
Ive only used it once in extreme heat, and I think because it's white, it didn't seem to bad. With the breeze from opening windows and being in the shade it was noticeably cooler when I'd get in.
You got my attention. I built out a 12 x 6 V nose in 2019/20. I live in it full time and am making improvements CONSTANTLY. At the moment I am making a soffit for the ramp spring. This is also morphing into a wall and drawers. Then a window. Then a new drawer / bed slide for the truck. I feel your pain both with labor and money. The thing that caught my attention was the OSB. I have always felt that this was a bad material due to it falling apart like MDF or chipboard. However I built shelves in my kitchen with it and it is holding up.
The AC sits on one shelf of OSB. My walls are the original incredibly shitty 3/8ths ply and covered with a 1/8" ply.
My biggest problem with the walls was I did not stand off from the steel ribs. So they act like a conduit for cold and heat. If I had to do it again I would leave a gap over the steel frame or insulate it too.
That's awesome! Your setup sounds dope. I never thought about that with leaving a gap over the steel, that's quite smart.
@@ambmh5535 I learned the hard way. A rip out and fix will be nearly impossible.
Thanks for taking us along, this is such an awesome project looks like so much fun nice work man!
Thanks a ton Dan! Glad you enjoyed it!
thx, got some good ideas just from this video
Glad I could help!! What are you working on?
cargo van
Nice fitting, I'll be doing the same but putting wiring inside for access with office conduit.
Great Job!!
Thank you!
Yep. The video has progressed and I see you made the same mistake I made with the insulation. I did the exact same thing. If I do this again I will do as you did then a sheet of 1/2" insulation over the entire wall and then refit the wood. You will be sitting by the wall in the summer and it will have red hot spots and in the winter cold spots. All caused by the steel beams not being insulated and conducting the heat in or out. My wall gets hot to the touch.
Damn, that's nuts!
@@ambmh5535 Its really annoying. The heat is worse I think. Each steel rib is a heat sink straight inside. Sort of like a single pane of glass window. The inside is the same temp as the outside.
Ive only used it once in extreme heat, and I think because it's white, it didn't seem to bad. With the breeze from opening windows and being in the shade it was noticeably cooler when I'd get in.
Was it 1.5? on roof and 2" on walls or also 1.5"? I have same trailer doing the same. Thanks.
It was 3/4 inch in the walls, and inch and a half in the ceiling
No moisture barrier?
I did not and had no issues. Wouldn't hurt though
How many sheet of insulation on side walls and ceiling
Oh goodness, this was a year ago, so I don't really remember, but I think I got 8 for the walls and 3 for the ceiling and it was more than enough
Don't forget to punch youor time card.