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| Ianb Member Since: 25 Oct 2023 Location: Devon Posts: 218  
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Hi all,
On the continuation of our journey for a nordic adventure toasty defender we've insulated a huge amount, but of course one area that cannot be insulated is the windows - I've been searching for double glazed "blindspot windows", but realistically we still have the single glazed driver and passenger windows, windscreen and rear windows, so perhaps a fools errand to double glaze 2 out of 8...oh 10...I forgot the pita alpine windows! I've heard however that external covers can reduce the condensation aspect, has anyone had any experience with this? or know of any options? Cheers all. The Yeti - 110 Camper https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic90308.html https://www.youtube.com/@YetitheDefender |
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20th Dec 2023 11:07pm |
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| macfrank Member Since: 05 Nov 2015 Location: somewhere in the north Posts: 996  
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Yes, I keep asking myself why there is no double glazing in cars. Don't need self-driving gimmicks
As for external covers there was a discussion in a German forum about pop-top insulation. Some have an external hood, made from truck tarps or thermomats and both seem to work well because of the air buffer they create. However, some say the thermomats work equally well on the inside, like these: https://www.blidimax.de/blidimax-35/blidimax-roof.html For the windows we use internal thermomats (https://www.project-camper.de/shop/magnet-thermomatten-land-rover-defender). They are great, but don't reduce condensation. After all, the water you exhale/sweat has to go somewhere. When air is cold it can't store much water. We have curtains all around and I noticed they buffer some of the moisture. https://www.kraxlr.de/making_curtains.html |
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20th Dec 2023 11:39pm |
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| landy andy Member Since: 15 Feb 2009 Location: Ware, Herts Posts: 5425 
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External covers help massively over no covers or internal covers. Everybody who winter camps in vans/campers/Motorhomes uses them. You can get them made to size for you by companies such as polar, Taylor, minster. Or another option is to buy motorhome external screen covers and chop them down in size.
Mud stuff also do some insulated covers but think they are internal. https://www.mudstuff.co.uk/collections/exp...dow-blinds Another option, or extra is to use the Karcher window vac, to clear the glass. Again something else us motorhomers do |
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21st Dec 2023 12:31am |
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| macfrank Member Since: 05 Nov 2015 Location: somewhere in the north Posts: 996
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Good point. The one in the video is fitted with a combination of channel rails and suction cups (we have channel rails all round for the tarps anyway; our internal covers have magnets sewed in, which is great but wont work on the outside). (trigger warning: this video may contain a lot of grey  )
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21st Dec 2023 10:16am |
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