You make a really good instructional video. Thorough, with nice slow panning video, and all the things we want to know - right down to cost and precise amounts. Easy to watch and I learn a lot! Thanks.

@janeschiller7299

3 жыл бұрын

I second this entire comment! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thank you very much @averysmallcampervan

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Let me know if there are any questions unanswered!

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

you're very welcome!

@FindingMyMuse

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed with other comments - brilliant instructional video...you would make a great teacher. 🤩🤩🤩

@karenclausen6724

3 жыл бұрын

I fourth this video of the month. Very precise and informative. Thanks so much!!

Excellent instructional video. Good camera work, pleasant narration voice, simple and effective. So easy to follow. I liked the pros and cons for each type. I liked the cost summary of each type. Good editing trimming away unnecessary footage or comments. I also liked not having and background music.

When I make my window covers I use cardboard and I paint the edges and outer sides with flat black spray paint. Painting the edges makes the cardboard stay together much longer. I spray the inner side with gloss white paint. The white inside reflects light better. The flat black on the outside makes them invisible to anyone trying to see in, and the combination of the two seals up the cardboard to last longer.

@DazzlingDanaOfficial

Жыл бұрын

The black does not reflect light and will actually make your space much hotter. If you aren't concerned about the heat, the black is great for stealth.

@georgecullen9516

6 ай бұрын

Black will retain heat making the inside hotter.....white reflects heat...(think about very hot countries that paint the outside of the house white ...it,s done for a reason)...😎.

@allentuggle2837

6 ай бұрын

I'm not as concerned with it being a little warmer at night, as I am with being ANONYMOUS.

WOOOWWW omg ingenious!! Sticking the papers on the window and then tracing that way. Smh I gave up before with another method, but I'm gunna try THIS! THANK YOU! 🙏🏾🙌🏾

The way you use paper to get the shape of your window is genius. I've seen other KZreadr trace it with cardboard, use aluminum foil, trace the outside of the window, and it has never made much sense.

Used white coroplast as my privacy coverings on my white Plymouth Voyager minivan back in 1996. Used small zip-ties threaded through 2 slits to act as grab handles for removing covering when necessary for travelling. Didn"t have a need for insulation for cold weather but they kept the heat down in the summer. Lasted great for 12 years until I sold the van.

I’ve watched LOTS of how-to videos on van conversions but yours are the best at giving practical advice with detailed instructions. So glad I discovered your channel! My husband and I just got our van and window coverings are my first task. Thanks for making it easier!

@averysmallcampervan

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

That's pretty good. Another thing you can do is run black electrical tape on and around the outer edge of the window to give you more blockage.

This was such a fantastic video. I've been looking for a straight forward approach to getting my windows covered and this is it. And your video was so easy to follow and watch also. Thank you!

Oh my! Definitely the best video I've seen so far re: window covers! ❤ Going to watch the rest of your videos. 🙌 Subbed!

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you! Thanks for subbing and watching!

Excellent. The first and last video you need to see in order to grasp making your own window covers.

Great idea to use reflective emergency mylar blankets. We used window reflective screens for one of our layers, but I think the blanket gives you much more sizing flexibility and keeps the thickness of the covers to a minimum.

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris and Emilie, I also started out with one of those windshield shades but found it very bulky. The mylar blankets have proven pretty durable too.

This video gave me all the information I need to make these for our 4Runner. Very well done! Thank you for sharing!

Love all of your practical and common-sense instructions. Thank you for your great videos!

Great detail. Love calculating costs. Thanks sooo much!

I really appreciate the three methods you demonstrated plus the cost for each version. Thank you, and good luck stealth camping.

Best campervan window cover video I've found thanks!

Wow! 🤩 You have created such an excellent instructional video on the subject of window coverings! It’s the best I’ve seen yet!😃 I have not seen so many creative ideas on this subject on any other channel. Thank you 💝 for your detailed instructions, especially including the tabs, with all the details that I’m always wondering about. Thank you so very much for not only sharing your creativity, and what works and what doesn’t, but such wonderful videography showing every detail .I will definitely be subscribing and watching all your videos. Keep up the great work! 😃

Awesome video and very helpful!👌 I made and use cardboard covers at the moment. I never thought about coroplast and safety blankets. Thank you so much.

Thank you for sharing your videos. You do a magnificent job of showing and explaining all of your ideas. I have probably watched a hundred or more van builds and your creativity and attention to detail is amazing.

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Lynne! I'm just trying to make the kind of videos I would want to see - thanks for watching and I hope it is helpful to you

You thought of everything. Excellent job 👍🏽😍

To try to get the wrinkles out of the silver blanket as you stick it down, try using the edge of a credit card to push out the bubbles and/or one of the little rollers for smoothing the edges of wallpaper - or even just a bottle or a rolling pin!

Such a fab video, and the best ones I've seen demonstrated. I thought there must be a woman here on youtube that has made better ones than the men have, and its true! They look nicest and three types too. Brilliant! Thankyou i know how best to do it now and what to use. Fantastic x

Excellent video. Thankyou so much for sharing. Cheers from Australia 🤗

Thank you so much esp. for tips. I looked at vid again for the pull tabs suggestion and got more than expected. I really appreciate the back window part; I should have watched vid. again before I cut mine only to find out it’s asymmetrical. 😀 but I can alter using your dual flap technique. 👌Thanks again

This was an amazing tutorial! Thank you for sharing your experience with us!!!

@averysmallcampervan

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

You are genius. Thank you for sharing all 3 options 😊

You are a great teacher.

You are great! I have made my shopping list! Thanks.

I just scored a fridge size box for to make cardboard inserts to test out on my trip this week. I never thought about felt but I will be in my van in cooler weather in Northwestern Ontario (And by that I don't mean about 5-6 hours north of thunder Bay... Lol) so... Thanks!!

@averysmallcampervan

Жыл бұрын

That's a great idea! Good luck!

Just saw this video and really appreciate the time and effort it took you to film it to share with us. It is done very professionally and your running commentary is very succinct. I learned so much from your experiences. I already have a roll of reflectix so I'll try that with some blackout curtains I also have. Thank you. 👍

Hello from a fellow Canadian! I'm just getting my van set up for a 10 day trip--blocking out the early morning sun is priority number one, lol, so here I am. Subscribed, looking forward to more of these clear, helpful how-to's. Cheers.

@averysmallcampervan

Жыл бұрын

Thanks - more coming... slowly

Great explanation, fantastic innovative fine tuning, great video. Thank you

Great job on this video! You're so well spoken and show a lot of attention to detail in making the covers.

I am so grateful this video showed up in my recommendations feed, I just used an old roll of craft/butchers paper I’ve owned for at least 10 years lol, to make the templates, but I haven’t gotten past that. I never thought to make different materials for the different times of year, but this video was so clearly explained I now have the confidence to get on with it. The tabs are a brilliant idea. Thank you for sharing your process with us!

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

So glad the video was helpful.

Such a brilliant and comprehensive video. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. I will mostly use the choroplast ones in my env200.

Thank you so much for sharing. It has all the detail I need to start with. It looks easy enough for me to start the conversion of my van.

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

So glad this is helpful for you! Good luck with your van build

Very well done! Thank you very much.

Thanks for sharing the video

Thank you Ma’am. Great video. 👍

Great explanation of your three versions! This is a good video. Thanks for posting!

Well done!

The best video by far that I have seen on this topic.

Brilliant! I like how you explain the silver/black sides

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it Keranna and thanks for subscribing!

Great job. 👍🏾

Terrific video. This will be such a help for me and my Element window coverings. Thanks so much

@averysmallcampervan

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Brilliant. Thank you for UK

Very useful. Thank you very much!

Best idea I have seen yet for a DIY.

Informative, thank you for sharing this video

This was a great video, thank you. Now I can start making my covers.

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Great!

THANK YOU!!!! Outstanding video and I can't thank you enough for not filling the video with useless, endless chatter. This is by FAR the best video I have seen.

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! I try to keep things to the point - glad you liked the video.

Thank you for the video. I went with sleeping camping mats that have a reflective side. Super cheap and works out of the box just had to cut them

@bkgdnoize111

2 жыл бұрын

Are they on amazon? Interested in this idea

@meekoferg6469

2 жыл бұрын

@@bkgdnoize111 those mats are cheaper than the reflectix insulation - would have used that instead.

Very good! Clean job!

This is why I love KZread. Great ideas here

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing!

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Such a great, informative video!

Thank you so much for awesome video!

Good video. U showed everything.

Thank you!

Great video! Thanks!

Really good video. Thanks.

Great video and great tutorials. I used cardboard covered with black vinyl wall self-stick wallpaper on both sides. I left about 3/4" lip of wallpaper all the way around. This helps to hold them in, and also pull them out. I also folded the bottom edge of the side window covers to make them easier to pop in and out. Thanks again for a great video.

This is the most helpful and informative video I have seen for window covers. Thank you!

@averysmallcampervan

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

BEST window cover video, and I have been searching...

@averysmallcampervan

Жыл бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

Very helpful

And, your video is a nice, and helpful one! Appreciate it!

fantastic video. Starting a 2016 Subaru Forester car camping build. going with the colorplast idea.

Thank you for your information

Thank you very helpful.

Incredibly good video, thanks!

@averysmallcampervan

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Best tutorial for this on KZread ❤

Great informative video. It is appreciated. Thank you!

this is a great instructional

I enjoy your creative abilities.

This is an excellent instructional video, because if you talk about it, you cut to an insert closeup of it. Great work! Please keep making for videos for the hobby.

@averysmallcampervan

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Thanks for this excellent video! Starting with the cardboard and keeping them as a template is a great idea.

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Fabulous video, easy to follow instructions and you get to the point quickly!!! I’ve just finished my covers with the coroplast and although the Mylar is a bit crinkled (I did it on my own!!) I’m really pleased and looking forward to my first car camp this weekend. I’m in the UK so not such extreme temperatures as you get in Canada!! Thank you so much for a really informative video. Happy camping x

Thank you. Your videos are very helpful and well done. And your ideas are fantastic!

@averysmallcampervan

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Really great ideas! Shamon!

Super helpful and great narration to make these great ideas and instructions easy to follow. Thank you!

I'm currently homeless between apartments and this is very helpful. I've been using the large construction papers from dollar tree and it works, kind of.

This is right on time. thank you!!!!!!

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to help!

Brilliant! You are quite an inventor. I love each set you did and how you did it.

Very nice, well thought out work. Thank you.

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

This is awesome!!!!

Brilliant. Thanks

You are one of the smart girls, you must be proud of your job. Well done my friend

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nice video ! Thanks

ma'am, you are amazing. great information. thank you.

I realize your instructions are a couple years old but I’m about to begin my adventure and I love your tutorial! My Vanpackers conversion kit has already shipped so I’ve got to get on it! I just can’t justify dropping $159 on the WeatherTech ones. Thanks so much!

Love the template idea...

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

Very well made and done ! Thank a lot for the very well explained video ! Exactly what I needed !

@averysmallcampervan

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Great ideas here and super well explained. No fluff. All good content.

That was informative, educational, interesting and fun to watch.

I’ve watched several of your videos and I’m so impressed with your creativity, ingenuity, and skills. You’re my go-to for camper van ideas. Do you have a solution for combining window covers with screens? I have deflectors so I can crack the windows without rain getting in but still haven’t figured out how to get screens and window covers together.

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Bud, thanks for the kind words - I'm flattered that my channel is your go-to for van ideas :-) I have figured out how to have the back window screens in at the same time as the covers but my middle sliding door windows don't open and if I am being really stealth I don't use the front side window covers - I leave the clear and use the curtain to hide the sleeping area. That way, I can have the mosquito screens in, the window cracked and it just looks like an empty car. Are you thinking of one piece dual cover/screens? Sound like a challenge! I saw a good example on this channel: Chris And Emilie kzread.info/dash/bejne/iaOYmdGwZ9Ozg7A.html

You did a fantastic job of conveying your information. I was very impressed with your style of communication... Your voice lends itself well to.your videos. I will be looking for more of your videos. Thank you.

Jiffy foam wrap. Maybe too flimsy though! but could spray glue sheets together to required thickness?! Is excellent for under a sleeping bag keeps warmth in. Excellent ideas for what you are sharing. Brilliant!

@averysmallcampervan

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Wendy, I'm not familiar with Jiffy foam, I'll look it up

OMG, the paper is such a great idea!!!!!!

Great video Thank you.

@averysmallcampervan

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!