Cold Weather Camping
I got upset with some of the information that I was reading and hearing about cold weather camping so I wrote out my experiences for those that are interested. AS mentioned this is my experience an...
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Well, if Rick 4x4x4 replied to this well written article, then I must also.
Mike, this is a fine piece re: cold weather camping. After retrofitting our ancient ill-insulated, one-season, wood framed Lance with insulation into and on every place possible, I still learned a lot from your piece about traveling and living in cold storage. I never thought about the stove top vent insulation or a thick insulating pad under our carpeting. I used 2 inch thick, foil covered, both sides, R-11, closed cell foam blocks cut to size and glued to inner walls and right over the pass through window, and all 3 front windows with some fiberglass batts and Reflectix in non flat locales like around plumbing and stuffed into drafty openings. I glued these cut blocks on 2 sides of the fridge box, a notoriously air leaky environment. I left one low opening door to the truck bed uninsulated and openable to let in cyclonic fresh air in for exhausting the moisture up through the roof vents.
jefe
Mike, this is a fine piece re: cold weather camping. After retrofitting our ancient ill-insulated, one-season, wood framed Lance with insulation into and on every place possible, I still learned a lot from your piece about traveling and living in cold storage. I never thought about the stove top vent insulation or a thick insulating pad under our carpeting. I used 2 inch thick, foil covered, both sides, R-11, closed cell foam blocks cut to size and glued to inner walls and right over the pass through window, and all 3 front windows with some fiberglass batts and Reflectix in non flat locales like around plumbing and stuffed into drafty openings. I glued these cut blocks on 2 sides of the fridge box, a notoriously air leaky environment. I left one low opening door to the truck bed uninsulated and openable to let in cyclonic fresh air in for exhausting the moisture up through the roof vents.
jefe
