I had to do some looking around the inside of my OFF-ROAD POPUP and seal up some rather large holes for those cold nights.
First thing I do is get a bunch of these 2X2x20 something home window unit foam strips that you slide down into the opened window crack. Looks like this from WALMART...
I place these between the tent bed flaps and the walls andthis seals up real good where the fabric meets the floors...
Another place I have a large open hole is where the pulled out tent ends ends meet the inside of the trailer wall. My trailer has a flimsy seal there but doesn't work very good... I can bend over and look out on both ends from the inside and see daylight... I fixed this with a better design rubber seal like this cut and glued on the top of the inside end wall under the tent bed wood platform. After i installed it I had to cut away a couple of places where the bed floor rails moved in and out... This was also a major area for night bugs to crawl when they could see the inside lights burning haha... I forget where I got this from Probably LOWES or maybe I ordered it from AMAZON..
Also since my trailer does not have the underbelly material I can see lights coming through hole under my trailer where the manf (and me) have run cables etc through the floor area. A coupe of these holes are pretty big. Looking up from underneath at night with inside lights on shows alot of light coming through. I sealed all of those up rubber sealent...
We also use a tarp over the top of our tent ends sort of my cheap Popup Gizmos... I use a 9X12 tarp from WALMART and it is straed in place using stretch ropes... Really helps keeping the tent bed cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter... Also cuts down on the outside light in the tent bed area...
We also carry a couple of the low profile OIL FILLED heaters for when we camp at electric sites. These are great and are very quiet to operate. Our propane furnace literally runs us out of our trailer heat wise and is also VERY loud blower. Also consumed alot of DC power when running the 12VDC blower it has... We just use the propane furnace for backup heater.
Momabear loves to sit watching HDTV with a lap heated blanket. Those are not real Power Hungary and our Battery Bank supports them just fine when camping off the power grid.
We have the MR BUDDY heater as well but I'm not all that liken to use it in the trailer. My tent trailer is pretty sealed up good now and the MR Buddy will use up all of the oyxgen inside the trailer and produces bad fumes and water haha... I used the Mr Buddy all the time in my tent camping days. When I have used the MR BUDDY in our tent trailer I sit it under the Fantastic Fan in the ceiling and just crack the vent open abit... Not really very efficient when you have to open vents on both sides of the trailer to use one haha... Only use it when we are awake. No way would I run it after we all went to sleep...
Just a few things we have dealt with since 2008 when we started using our OFF-ROAD Tent trailer.
We usually keep camping up into the winter months around the high country here in Virginia...
Roy Ken
