I was told by a Jayco Sales person, that these vans, the earlier model, did not have an insulated roof, that they had to squirt foam into the wiring runs to stop the looms rattling. Does anybody know if this is correct ?, a bit of a poor show if it is. Apparently the new models now on sale have insulated roofs.
iana,
If yours is like my Discovery, you don't want to know! A thin sheet of fibreglass, "some" wooly stuff & a piece of fancy looking ply on the inside.
I'll be painting mine with that "Flash" paint - in a trial before I left work, we painted two roadside cabinets (RCMs) here in Townsville with it. The result - 7 degrees reduction in inside temperature, hopefully saving the expensive optic cards. But to paint them all, Telstra said it was too expensive!!
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Looks like I solved my own query, the Wingard winder came off the other day, and am able to look into the ceiling cavity. I see poly styrene foam, so the salesman is giving incorrect info.
We were camped at a park in Cairns & my wife could see a "flashing" light in the ceiling. I removed an adjacent ceiling light (LED type) - the flashing light was a palm frond moving in the breeze & letting the sun come on the roof/be shaded. I was stunned what I found!
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I was asked to help a fellow traveller about a week ago re install his tv aerial into the hole in the roof after he had done some repairs.
(He left it up while travelling)
Anyway when we fed the assembly through the roof I was on the inside of the van and could see the construction of the roof panel and it certainly appeared to be a composite fibreglass panel that the hole was bored through to fit the aerial.
This van was a SILVERLINE and I recon from memory the owner said it was a 2014 model as he had bought it new in that year.
Because all Silverlines are composite panel construction I would assume that all this model would have a composite panel roof.
I could not vouch for other construction methods when the vans are made from wood and metal panels but I would assume that it would be this method of construction that might lack insulation.
Rattling wires might be stretching the truth a bit as I would imagine that for wires to be rattling inside the roof the van would almost have to be mobile and I would doubt that anyone would travel in the moving van to hear the wires rattling.
Injecting that space invader type foam is a good way to fill uninsulated voids if needed.
Thanks Ivan, ours is a Silverline, and I know they have injected foam up into the wiring channels, because its impossible to pull any wires, of put a "snake through. However it was what the salesman was telling me that made me wonder.
