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by Canoe » Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:39 pm
I've had good luck with goodbuyguys.com.
If you're going to have your reflectix on the inside, then for covering the outside frames (you really really really need to cover frames that get sun), using white gaffer's is easier than using green painters with foil over top. The foil-on-painter's will reflect significantly more heat away - your call. If you don't get around to making the cooler, use the foil. With a cooler available: if the frames weren't black you wouldn't need to cover them (but it would be worthwhile), and white gaffer's would be a good improvement on heat gain.
Make sure you cover the frames wide enough to do the job without having to worry. If there's black frame exposed behind the glass (likely), then get tape wide enough to cover beyond the frame out onto the glass so that all of the frame, outside and behind glass, is protected from the sun, or add an extra strip on the glass to do that job!
Painter's tape is fine for inside. Strong enough to hold, adhesive is no cleanup and doesn't damage surfaces.
Foil tape (the thick aluminum kind; some box stores, all trade stores) is great for joining scraps of reflectix.
If you're covering a large window, rather than have a large piece of reflectix that may try to flap around in the varying positive and negative pressures of wind blowing on and around the trailer, considering covering a window in two or more pieces (depending on size) so the cover is also held in the middle. In your case, cover one half with one piece of reflectix using gaffer's. Slightly overlap a second piece of reflextix to cover the rest. To save on cost, the tape joint of reflectix to reflectix can use foil tape.
As to securing the swamp-cooler, take that question over to the cooling-your-tent-or-van thread. See how others have done the connection through a window, elevated a bucket-cooler and secured all in place.
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From what you are saying it sounds like the swamp cooler sits outside the trailer and blows cool air in. How do people prevent it from blowing away in the winds which I've read can get pretty strong? Build a box around it? Or is the end product heavy enough that you don't need to worry about that?