Not much done on the van this week but I have hit a milestone and broken through a major procrastination wall. With the insulation finally complete, I now need to move on to the thing i’ve been dreading even more… covering it.
The plan all along has been to install stretch carpet over all of the insulated panels. I’ve been dreading it, as it requires cutting everything neatly to shape and applying spray adhesive to both the carpet and the panels.
I also bought a bunch of knockoff tesa tape to tape edges and joins if necessary…
I cut one bit of carpet and contemplated putting it on for all of about 30 seconds before I knew that this approach was not going to happen. I listed the carpet and spray adhesive on marketplace and pondered what it would be like to just apply tesa tape to the entirety of the inside….
Turns out the tesa tape wasn’t too bad to install, although i have serious doubts about any sort of longevity, i don’t trust that the adhesive is going to hold up to the temperature swings inside the van… i wasted 3 rolls of tape on the sliding door, although its not exactly a waste because it taught me that this was not the way either…
In despair, I whined to the telegram community about my shortcomings and @ShutterShock suggested that i might use adhesive felt… i looked it up and found that the local hardware had this product in stock, so I went and got enough of that to do one of the back doors.
It has zero stretch whatsoever, but the price is reasonable, the rolls are a good size to work with and the backing paper is gridded so it makes cutting it to size hassle free. Most importantly, it sticks like shit to a blanket, doesn’t want to lift at all, even when stuck around complex corners and it’s really nice and thin, so it makes seams barely noticeable.
I got most of one of the back doors done before running out of daylight. But i got enough done to know that this is definitely the way to proceed with the rest of the van, i just hope i can sell the carpet and spray adhesive to at least make some of that cost back, that shit wasn’t cheap. But whatever. Even if i can’t sell it, the adhesive felt is still the answer.
So that was the procrastination wall. I did NOT want to do the carpeting and i have been only making baby steps with everything leading up to it as a result. But now with a much more feasible approach in hand, i feel rejuvenated.
I would like to build the final cabinets before felting the entire inside, but that is also going to require some procrastination busting 
thats for next weekend…
i really did hibernate through winter!!
