I caught your awesome foamie camper instructables last week and I'm pumped to start a similar project. I'm in the Deep South, so I'm thinking of skipping wood altogether. Have you posted any updates on your foamie campers lately? Any issues with delamination, moisture intrusion, or anything else? Also, looking back, is there anything you'd have done differently with your builds? Thanks a lot!
@Steve-cn5up definitely skip the wood anywhere you can. I haven't used it in a few years now due to family growing up and my wife preferring airbnb to camping. It's sitting in the backyard storing camping and beach stuff. I plan on ripping the roof off and making it into a standing height camper with a bathroom, but that's for the future when our kids are a bit more spread out and we're traveling to visit, if ever. I would definitely use cellular pvc lumber for any door frames, and have the roof be 2" xps as well if I was doing it over. If I used lumber, roof spars would be the only place I would keep them.
@@rowerwet Haha, that totally reminds me of my wife! You mentioned wanting to raise the height of your camper and it got me thinking. If I set up the 4x8 canvased sheets vertically, put them into some heavy-duty base channels, and added sturdy exterior corner trim, do you think that could make them taller? Pretty interesting idea!
@Steve-cn5up I would set the foam panels vertically, glued together using my butterfly scarph joint method and once it was complete, wrap it with fabric just like a smaller camper
I caught your awesome foamie camper instructables last week and I'm pumped to start a similar project. I'm in the Deep South, so I'm thinking of skipping wood altogether. Have you posted any updates on your foamie campers lately? Any issues with delamination, moisture intrusion, or anything else? Also, looking back, is there anything you'd have done differently with your builds? Thanks a lot!
@Steve-cn5up definitely skip the wood anywhere you can. I haven't used it in a few years now due to family growing up and my wife preferring airbnb to camping. It's sitting in the backyard storing camping and beach stuff.
I plan on ripping the roof off and making it into a standing height camper with a bathroom, but that's for the future when our kids are a bit more spread out and we're traveling to visit, if ever.
I would definitely use cellular pvc lumber for any door frames, and have the roof be 2" xps as well if I was doing it over. If I used lumber, roof spars would be the only place I would keep them.
@@rowerwet Haha, that totally reminds me of my wife! You mentioned wanting to raise the height of your camper and it got me thinking. If I set up the 4x8 canvased sheets vertically, put them into some heavy-duty base channels, and added sturdy exterior corner trim, do you think that could make them taller? Pretty interesting idea!
@Steve-cn5up I would set the foam panels vertically, glued together using my butterfly scarph joint method and once it was complete, wrap it with fabric just like a smaller camper