I’ve finally got a van!! But I need some advice

[BWC]

I Protectakota coated by son's first Peugeot Partner van when he first started window cleaning.

As with most car derived vans the rear passenger footwells and rear seat mounting areas are covered with a metal plate to extend the cargo floor to the back of the front seats.

Unfortunately this plate isn't water proof and on numerous occasions when I overfilled his tank I filled the footwells with water. His van always smelt musty and damp.

He now has a Citroen Berlingo. I fiberglassed the floor completely and a little up the sides. Now if either of us over fill his tank the only exit of split water is out the rear doors. His foot wells are completely dry and his van doesn't smell musty or damp.

How much roughly would fibre glassing the van be @spruce

 

[spruce]

How much roughly would fibre glassing the van be @spruce

I haven't got a costing here as that van belongs to my lad and he bought it, paid for it and collected it. It was 3 or 4 years ago now and my memory doesn't go back that far.

It was a case of contacting a fiberglass specialist (this one was in Newcastle Upon Tyne) and asking for the correct fiberglass mat, the resin (I 'm 90% sure it was polyester resin) acetone thinners and the right top coat. We opted for blue non slip. We also ordered a few tools as well.

The only thing is that it has to be done in summer. We did it in late autumn and we battled to get the resin to cure because of low temperatures that caught us out, even doubling the amount of hardener suggested.

We used 450g chop strand matting.

https://www.ecfibreglasssupplies.co.uk/

There are quite a number of windies who have fiberglassed their vans. Hopefully some will come on. I remember one purchased a kit off Ebay. @Mark Munrohas a Youtube video up on his van he did. He used general purpose resin. We didn't fiberglass over the wood; we fiberglassed directly onto the metal floor.

 

[BWC]

On 06/08/2020 at 21:15, spruce said:

I haven't got a costing here as that van belongs to my lad and he bought it, paid for it and collected it. It was 3 or 4 years ago now and my memory doesn't go back that far.

It was a case of contacting a fiberglass specialist (this one was in Newcastle Upon Tyne) and asking for the correct fiberglass mat, the resin (I 'm 90% sure it was polyester resin) acetone thinners and the right top coat. We opted for blue non slip. We also ordered a few tools as well.

The only thing is that it has to be done in summer. We did it in late autumn and we battled to get the resin to cure because of low temperatures that caught us out, even doubling the amount of hardener suggested.

We used 450g chop strand matting.

https://www.ecfibreglasssupplies.co.uk/

There are quite a number of windies who have fiberglassed their vans. Hopefully some will come on. I remember one purchased a kit off Ebay. @Mark Munrohas a Youtube video up on his van he did. He used general purpose resin. We didn't fiberglass over the wood; we fiberglassed directly onto the metal floor.

Thanks @spruce for your detailed reply! I’ll give the videos a watch