Before you start about thinking about fitting your components for your system in your van, you should first make sure that the van is waterproofed. As the constant exposure to pure water can have very harmful corrosive effects on the internal structure of your motor. Meaning if waterproofing the van floor is not done right first time, you could be having costly visits to your local garage. There are many ways of waterproofing these include: Protecta-Kote or Hammerite, Anti-slip Floor Paint, Speedliner or even Fiber glass lining. I've used protecta-kote before and must say relatively happy with the results. Although it can stink up the van a bit, and when you're applying it make sure you wear a mask and gloves as it's nasty stuff if it gets on your hands.
I did two coats of it, and my van has ply-lining as well. You may want to consider Hammerite if you have an older van and want only 2-3 years of protection for your van floor. Anti-slip floor paint, it's best to by the polyurethane one which is about 80 quid for really good results. Or for ease and convenience speedliner comes in spray from. Some people are facouring fiber glass lining for protecting their van floor. How effective this in waterproofing I'm not entirely sure but hear reports of mixed success. However, if the jobs done correctly and no open space is left it can be as good as any other method of waterproofing. Once the water proofing of the van is done. You can concentrate on the fitting the water fed pole system. Which I'll look at next week.
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