Our Favorite Van Ceiling | Slatted Hardwood
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Video on how we mill, finish and install a slatted hardwood ceiling in a van.
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We're Lisa & Jeff Warnick and we've been repping Thrive freeze-dried foods for over 10 years. It's been a dream of ours to have a van to travel the country, supporting our team and sharing the Thrive love. After we built our first van, we realized how much we love the creative process of designing and building vans...so now we're building and selling our own custom vans. We also do conversions on client-owned vans. In this video
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How to do a slatted ceiling you a van conversion. We mill the lumber for our ceilings using ash. In this video we explain each step of the process.
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What an elegant professional solution to what seems to the novice like me to be a very difficult task in a van build. Thank you for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
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Thank you for your kind words. Best of luck with your van conversion.
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The ceiling looks great! I was wondering if you coat both sides or just one side of the slats. With it being so thin I thought that maybe just the outside would need to be finished.
Great video. You do a great job, and show & tell so clearly!
I appreciate that!
In the video you mentioned the use of a trim screw that is 1”
In length, however, the link you have provided to Amazon includes a 1-1/4” screw. I could not find where GRK made a 1” screw. Which raises the question below. If you have a 1/2” board for your furring strips and the final slats are 1/2”, it makes sense that you would want 1” screws.
Thanks
Sorry. They are 1-1\4”. We use 5/8” for furring. The screws poke through the backside of the furring strips slightly.
Great ceiling look! What length trim head screws do you use to not go through your furring strips & into the van metal?
We use 1-1/4”. That’s the shortest we’ve found. We screw them into the furring strip where it overhangs the metal so it doesn’t hit it.
Great advice - thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I like your Duck cloth/ canvas solution…I have used this material before, very good material with good properties and It saves using a thin board too. And I would say duck cloth is preferable over using board too, for water-proofness, and easy to fix. I made some window blinds out duck cloth when car camping ( with a sandwich layer of thin silver thermal stuff)
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Thanks for sharing.
12:59 in the back, what did you screw those into?
Not trying to 2nd guest your work which is brilliant, but when you are starting with 12’ boards they are 6/8” thick you are wasting a lot of material when you are running the boards through the table saw on edge to get rid of 3/8” of the 6/8” thickness. I’m guessing that they don’t sell 4/8” (1/2”) 12’ boards? Then you would have less waist. Did you ever try ripping the boards into two boards that are a little less than 3/8” each and then run them through the planner? My guess is that the table saw won’t cut 3.5” deep (1/2 of the 7” depth) in order to do this.
12’ long boards are hard to find. We start with 4/4” boards that are 6-1/2” to 7” wide, so we get 4 slats out of each board.
Solid wood at 3/8" tends too cup.
In marine applications you’d typically apply the finish to both sides of the wood to limit the moisture ingress/egress that would cause cupping.