How To Fit Curtains To Your Van Conversion

How to Fit Curtains to Your Van Conversion is a step-by-step, practical guide showing you how to properly fit curtains in your campervan build. In this video from Just Kampers, you’ll see how to attach and position rear tailgate and side-door curtains on a VW T5 (2003 onward), helping you add privacy, insulation and camper comfort. With clear instructions and close-up shots of the fitting process, this tutorial makes installing camper van curtains simple, even for first-time converters.

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These are curtains for our sliding door, and for the window opposite, they come as a pair in the pack, which is really handy, so we're going to crack on and get these done. They're not black and gray the black is for the outside and the gray's is for the inner, this is just the way they've been wrapped up, it's in our curtain kit if you look on the back of the rail you can see a sticker, now this sticker denotes exactly where this curtain fits and as you can see the layout of our vehicle this is for this window, so we're fitting our rail obviously.

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we're going to position it so it's nice and even and sits lovely as it does there become a little bit inboard from our edge here, oh just allow the curtain to come over past the window here like so but one thing I will mention is when you're trying to drill through these and drill through this carpet it's really difficult, so this carpet will just get wrapped up in your drill and get right around the end of the drill bit and it can blunt drills, if you keep going so what you need to do is obviously once we've got that in place which is where

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We're doing it now, I'm gonna do it with a small, sharp pokey instrument, you can do it with a very small Phillips screwdriver if you want to. I'm actually going to try and poke a hole through the carpet and then wiggle it around to try and get the carpet to move out of the way so when we drill we're just drilling the metal and not wrapping up the carpet around the outside and again it's a good idea to leave the rail there on place so that helps preventing the carpet getting pulled into the drill bit on our drill.

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put it here I'm just going to drill really carefully, make sure it's going the right way there we go I'm just gonna back that out of there because the house got a bit of carpet on it okay so what we're going to do I'm just going to take a blade and just cut that carpet off and go again right let's get a screw in there and get that fixed and then we can do the others these are little brass type screws they're quite soft so 2.5mm

02:10
is exactly the right size you need to be able to screw these in. I'm going to go through again if you feel it's going really tight, then it's probably because the carpet's got bound around it, and you need to back out and start again, because it will snap the head off the screw otherwise. So that's our position. Next thing we're going to do is do the same again to draw the other holes, try and get the carpet out of the way so it doesn't get wrapped around our drill, so both our top and bottom rails are fitted. Next is to slide our curtain so we've

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got our little toggles on our curtain, and we just basically slide those into our rail one at a time, like so, pop them out once they're all on, just slide them out of the way, and I can put my little secure end in to stop them from folding out, and then we'll stretch down to the bottom ones. As you see, the curtain's on really cool. We're just going to put our little end cap on to stop it sliding off, and then we can put our poppers on, that's this one done. We just got to do the other side, so we're going to hold that there

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drill through and get a screw in it. It's going to install our poppers to hold the curtain back. Now, you can do the same trick as we did on the rear end, put a piece of masking tape down, push it in and leave an impression, or you can just do it by eye. I mean, I know that roughly I need to be there, so I can hold my popper there and put it back, keep hold of it and put your drill in it, okay, careful not to over-tighten these because you can end up pulling the screw straight through the popper. They don't have to be mega tight, but just nip it up

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nice, feels good, so as you can see, this one's finished. Looks really cool, got our little tie backs, I'm gonna do these like so, and then we've got proper curtain coverage, excellent, so we can do the sliding door one, it's much the same, but obviously we don't have to worry about drilling through the carpet, so we're all finished on the sliding door side. Really cool, so we have our curtains all the way around now, much the same as the other side. Obviously, it was a lot easier because we didn't have carpet to contend with on the door, so we

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could drill straight into our metal, so all our curtains that we have for our windows are all much the same idea of fitting, so it's a rail top and bottom, slide them on with the toggles and then you fit your ends on to stop the curtain sliding off, very easy process.