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Curtains!! Help needed

Postby Landylady » Sat Jul 15, 2017 2:10 pm

Hello :) new to the group , we have a MK5 we have converted to a camper van , I'm wondering what everyone has used for the doors and windscreen to block out light /privacy?

The side windows are ok as can run curtain wire along the top , but not sure how to fasten on the front windows!

I've looked at the wrap around thermal covers , but I'm a typical yorkshire lass and want to save the £

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Re: Curtains!! Help needed

Postby vampirequeen » Sat Jul 15, 2017 6:12 pm

I used some left over silver insulation stuff. I bought some suction hooks and pushed them through the silver stuff (held in place by duct tape). The suction cups hold it onto the windscreen.
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Postby vampirequeen » Sat Jul 15, 2017 6:13 pm

I'd be interested if you find another way of doing it.
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Postby RustWidow » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:01 pm

What about just a normal van sunshade that goes inside the windscreen? Or take the idea from caravans and run tracks at top and bottom of windscreen, the curtains have plastic studs which run in the tracks, can remove the curtains when driving?
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Re: Curtains!! Help needed

Postby Beaker » Sun Jul 16, 2017 12:07 pm

My wife is making blackout "pads" for our side and rear door windows using left over thermal insulation sheet bonded to wax tablecloth material. Cut exactly to size they just push in place and pull out again - no need for any fixings at all. Cheap and funky looking.

I have a curtain rail to fit to the front of the overcab storage shelf, and the wife is making some blackout curtains for it. This should stop any light coming in from the cab. We have a really good fabric warehouse place in town that sells materials spectacularly cheap for roll ends.
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Re: Curtains!! Help needed

Postby Landylady » Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:24 pm

Beaker wrote:My wife is making blackout "pads" for our side and rear door windows using left over thermal insulation sheet bonded to wax tablecloth material. Cut exactly to size they just push in place and pull out again - no need for any fixings at all. Cheap and funky looking.

I have a curtain rail to fit to the front of the overcab storage shelf, and the wife is making some blackout curtains for it. This should stop any light coming in from the cab. We have a really good fabric warehouse place in town that sells materials spectacularly cheap for roll ends.

That sounds like a good idea! Just need some thing that can get put up and down quickly while not been to bulky !

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Postby Beaker » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:12 pm

Landylady wrote:
Beaker wrote:My wife is making blackout "pads" for our side and rear door windows using left over thermal insulation sheet bonded to wax tablecloth material. Cut exactly to size they just push in place and pull out again - no need for any fixings at all. Cheap and funky looking.

I have a curtain rail to fit to the front of the overcab storage shelf, and the wife is making some blackout curtains for it. This should stop any light coming in from the cab. We have a really good fabric warehouse place in town that sells materials spectacularly cheap for roll ends.



That sounds like a good idea! Just need some thing that can get put up and down quickly while not been to bulky !

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Our thoughts exactly. They are thin, very light and fit over the cab taking hardly any space at all. The tablecloth material is ideal as it is completely waterproof, so no problems with any condensation on the windows. Best of all, it does not need any kind of edging or binding - if you use a sharp knife to cut it, the edges don't fray.
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Postby JayKay3000 » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:31 pm

Why don't you just mount a rail or similar where the bulkhead would be and mount blackout curtains on this. It's what my van has an no one can see in. Got poppers to put them together in the middle and don't keep nothing visible in the cab area. I've also got a curtain on my side window and it's tinted. Tint good for the day, curtain works at night.

I've found the central curtains blocks out plenty of light and no one can see me even with all the lights on back there. Privacy (for everyone else) was one of my biggest concerns.

I know they can look into the cab. I had thought about putting a sign reading 'if you can read this you're being too nosy'
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Postby Landylady » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:34 pm

The front seats swivel and we use them on an evening and these would be blocked if we mounted curtains of the bulkhead :)

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Postby Campervan Handyman » Sat Jul 22, 2017 8:40 pm

Cut some blackout curtains to the same size as the window and seem the edges and use velcro to attach and remove quickly :-)

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Re: Curtains!! Help needed

Postby dumper » Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:12 am

I have had the thermal ones that hold on with suckers but sometimes difficult to get to stop on get up in the morning and sometimes one or to had fell off tryed the outside ones but not good to fit when raining and wet to store somewhere on the form someone pointed out that you can use them on the inside othe van so tryed that and they do work well I do that in winter but in summer I use a home made curtains hole up by popper studs I have also fitted popper studs to the sliver screen but for my nexted van I will look at fitting curtain rails to the cab or them fancy built in ones the professionals fit depending on how my build budget gets on I've had my current van 8.5 years and it is still no finished as they say a home built camper van is only finished when you sell it as once it is useable it will get used and not finished
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Re: Curtains!! Help needed

Postby vampirequeen » Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:10 am

Just been talking to someone with a van. They have a long piece of blackout/thermal fabric that they round the cab using bull dog clips. Worked really well. May change to that method.
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Re: Curtains!! Help needed

Postby Noctule » Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:21 pm

Instead of going to the expense of silver foil how about using foam camping mat? Cut it right and it will hold itself in behind the a-pillar trims and sun visors. The sucky hooks can be had from pound shop for the side windows.
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