Interior door and rear penel patterns

[ScubaChief60]

Sorry for the delayed response... I was on another project.

RE: 'I think the next question will be: How do you know how much excess to leave, along the outside of the plastic, to accommodate the material and padding? Did you wrap the material over the sheet or fold it tack it on the outside of the plastic?'

I wrapped the material over the sheet and folded it back on the backside which covers the corrugated plastic sheeting edges very well.

I did not have any templates to work from at all so I just placed some heavy card stock cardboard against the inside of the doors and sketched and cut until I had a workable template. Each door took a couple of tries but I soon had what I needed. This, I then used as my template for marking up the corrugated plastic sheeting. That sheeting was easy to cut with a sharp box cutter. I placed the the corrugated plastic sheeting onto a plywood base up on my work table and just cut slowly after marking it up with a Sharpie marker.

Another trick I used was after marking all of the spots for the door panel clips in each of the corrugated plastic sheeting panels... (I chose to use nylon clips vs the original metal clips...) and placed them thru each corrugated plastic sheeting panel hole. I then used toolbox drawer liner foam rubber over the corrugated plastic sheeting which covered the nylon clip heads very well so they would be well hidden and not shown thru the fabric covering. This foam rubber sheeting is between the corrugated plastic sheeting and the fabric material covering. It also added another layer of insulation and sound proofing.

All this to say that about two years out it has held up very well for me.

[pbsdaddy]

Originally Posted by ScubaChief60

Sorry for the delayed response... I was on another project.

RE: 'I think the next question will be: How do you know how much excess to leave, along the outside of the plastic, to accommodate the material and padding? Did you wrap the material over the sheet or fold it tack it on the outside of the plastic?'

I wrapped the material over the sheet and folded it back on the backside which covers the corrugated plastic sheeting edges very well.

I did not have any templates to work from at all so I just placed some heavy card stock cardboard against the inside of the doors and sketched and cut until I had a workable template. Each door took a couple of tries but I soon had what I needed. This, I then used as my template for marking up the corrugated plastic sheeting. That sheeting was easy to cut with a sharp box cutter. I placed the the corrugated plastic sheeting onto a plywood base up on my work table and just cut slowly after marking it up with a Sharpie marker.

Another trick I used was after marking all of the spots for the door panel clips in each of the corrugated plastic sheeting panels... (I chose to use nylon clips vs the original metal clips...) and placed them thru each corrugated plastic sheeting panel hole. I then used toolbox drawer liner foam rubber over the corrugated plastic sheeting which covered the nylon clip heads very well so they would be well hidden and not shown thru the fabric covering. This foam rubber sheeting is between the corrugated plastic sheeting and the fabric material covering. It also added another layer of insulation and sound proofing.

All this to say that about two years out it has held up very well for me.

I, for one, would love to see your end results. I have thought about the cardstock idea, but wasn't settled on exactly what to transfer it to. Post up a couple pics!