Securing furniture..

[Belly]

I need to secure this u shaped seating/bed to the floor and side walls, . Had a new 12mm ply floor with Altro covering. Any recommendations please..

 

[jimc91]

That looks great, are they bespoke units or did you get them somewhere?

 

[Wills]

I’ve used modesty blocks, which tend to be popular.

 

[Qnapper]

Velcro

 

[Belly]

That looks great, are they bespoke units or did you get them somewhere?

Van Project 77, Luton Based..

 

[Belly]

Velcro

You taking the P or do you mean the cushions ?

 

[Belly]

I’ve used modesty blocks, which tend to be popular.

That's what I had in mind or similar..

 

[Qnapper]

You taking the P or do you mean the cushions ?

No, not taking the piss - use Velcro to secure seating/bed to the floor and side walls. Good quality stuff will work a treat.

 

[Belly]

Cheers mate I'll check it out..

 

[paddy26]

Whatever you use make sure it's strong enough to keep the furniture + the contents of the presses in place in the event of an accident.
To secure to the sidewalls rivnuts might be an option. And for the floor securing to the OEM tie-down locations.

 

[DXX]

As @paddy26 pointed out make sure it’s secured with suitable fasteners, an item weighing 20Kg will act with a force well in excess of 100Kg when decelerating to a stop over 0.5 sec from 60MPH as you might experience in a collision.
It’s an exponential relationship so doubling the speed quadruples the force….

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[drinfinity]

I’ve just had some of these arrive to fix to the floor. They recess into the panel, then take a screw into the floor. For the walls, I’m planning rivnuts and angle brackets.

 

[Adam Lucas]

Pop the rear panel off and fit some rivet nuts , also there’s a threaded fixing point near the wheel arch (guessing that’s for a seat belt if you had a mini bus) , use tie downs points and you could fit some l shape brackets in the ply even better if you know where you put your packers as that would give you a better fixing.