How to Clad a Static Caravan - Timber Cladding and Insulation of our Off Grid Home

We are super proud of how our static caravan has come out, with timber cladding and foam insulation we not only love how it looks but it is noticeably warmer too.

Here is an in-depth video on how to clad a static caravan with timber and insulate it with 50mm foam insulation sheets.

We have transformed our off-grid caravan / offgrid home to look more natural in it's surroundings with feather edge board timber, the same principles will apply with any timber though and similar for any other types of cladding too.

This is a longer video on exactly how we tackled all the obstacles we came across when cladding and insulation the static.

Further Details:

Materials:
Battens to screw to caravan:
Treated Sawn Timber - 38Mm X 47Mm X 2.4M

Battens for corners, windows/doors, and butting up to:
Treated Sawn Timber - 19 X 38 X 2400Mm

Cladding:
Sawn Treated Feather Edge Board 11 x 150mm x 2.4m

Insulation:
50mm Foam Insulation

Screws for battens to caravan:
Optimaxx Pz 4.0 x 70mm Countersunk Zinc & Yellow Passivated Double Reinforced Screw

Screws for cladding:
Optimaxx Pz Countersunk Zinc & Yellow Passivated Woodscrew - 3.5 X 40mm

Tools Used:
A good impact driver with a few Pz1 and Pz2 Heads
A hand saw
A chop saw saves a lot of time (One with a mitre helps with angles for battens)
Long Level
Pencil
Tape Measure


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