Insulating under cab-over bed
We're finding the bed in our camper quite cold and I was thinking of adding some rigid insulation under it to try and make it less chilled. has anyone else tried this or have a better idea?
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- Have a piece of 3/4" foam under the bed and it made a little improvement. What made more of a difference was putting 1/2" foam board in the windows and 3/4 foam board in the roof vent. Still cold in the cab-over, but more tolerable. We also use a 0* oversized sleeping bag as a comforter and that was a HUGE improvement. Now I'm very warm during the night even when we let the camper go down to 55*.
- Thanks everyone! I already have enough of the interlocking mats to cover the mattress area so I'm going to try them first on our next camping trip.
- A lot of places sell these interlocking "floor pads". For example:
interlocking foam mats
I bought a pack and easily installed them under the bed. They have worked well. - Reflectix ~~ Many years ~~ Tent trailers ~ ClassC ~~ ClassA ~~ TCPopUp. Learned it from using a heat reflecting mattress pad about 40 years ago.
JM2ยข ~~ YMMV Camper8251 wrote:
I put 1" foam board under the mattress on mine. Seemed to help quite a bit also added a 12v heating blanket on it as well.
Used to do a lot of ski / camping up at Manning Park in BC till they raised the prices thru the roof.........
X2- Reflectix x 4. Thin and effective. Still have headroom. Memory foam mattress in addition makes an efficient combination.
- Reflextix x3. I just added it last month and it made a huge difference. only 26 bucks for a roll big enough to cover the whole bed area under the mattress.
- 1" foam board did the trick for us Plus i cut some to fit the windows in the bed area. This worked really well for us and we camp a lot in the winter.
- I used Reflectix as well. We wrapped up the sides where the mattress sits and also lined the nearby cabinets.
- I have a sheet of refletix under my mattress, it .works well and it is thin
