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Location: Ohio | what type of material would be the best to use to insulate the horse area of the horse trailer? |
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Location: western PA | Rigid foam insulation works well. You can make scoring cuts on the backside, to effect bending to fit within the curves. It can be applied with a fast tacking polyurethene construction adhesive. Gard |
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Location: Farmville, VA | I used a ridgid foam insulation with a foil back rather than the traditional pink or blue stuff. I gluded it, then I used 4" foil tape like you use for heating and cooling applications, and taped over the joints as well. Left a really nice finish and brighter than the blue and pink. It was purchased from Lowes. It's an easy project, my 10 year old son and I did our entire trailer, front and back with ease. Good luck! |
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Location: Western WA | I was just thinking about this very topic! Saw a trailer a few years ago with spray in insulation. Any thoughts? |
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Location: Minnesota | I have a friend who had his entire trailer sprayed with foam insulation. It's very difficult to get a smooth surface on the inside, so he had to go back and scrape it level with the ribs. VERY MESSY! Horses also chewed on it before he got it covered. |
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Location: GA | we used 1" styrofoam from home depot. tape it up then cover it with aluminum skin or you can use fiberglass sheets. |
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Location: Bella Vista, AR | What type of glue did you use? My husband tried to do this to our trailer and the stuff fell down. He used the foil tape, and a spray on adhesive. |
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Location: Hutto, TX | We were told to not use adhesive and we used the AC tape. It's worked fine. We cut the pieces so that you had to cram them into the spaces between the roof beams. |
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Location: western PA | Originally written by CTR Rider on 2008-09-14 7:06 AM
What type of glue did you use? My husband tried to do this to our trailer and the stuff fell down. He used the foil tape, and a spray on adhesive. Rigid foam insulation works well. You can make scoring cuts on the backside, to effect bending to fit within the curves. It can be applied with a fast tacking polyurethene construction adhesive. |
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