Shade for fridge vents

Heavy shadecloth run along a sail track works very well for us. Ours is long enough to shade that side of the van as well as the fridge. We can put it up quickly. We don't use poles - just angle it out past open windows and secure it with pegs so we can use it without requiring a huge amount of space. We had it made by a tentmaker and took his advice about type of cloth etc and have been very pleased with the result. Lynne

Lynne, Ive seen that set up in Toowoomba a while ago. It looked realy neat and tidy.
Sharon

I think I'll that option to my repertoire as well.

May I enquire as to why you'd want to do this in the first place?

Hello Leigh
As the first enquiry on this thread suggested, if you are camped in very hot conditions extra shade on the fridge side helps it a lot (so long as you still allow good air circulation across the vents). It also makes a great difference to the internal temperature in the van to have a shade awning on two sides. Ideally we all like to camp in a lovely shady spot with a pleasant sea breeze etc but the reality is, once you get up north, it is often impossible to get real shade on both sides of the van!
We are also often in places where we can't run the airconditioner constantly.
Cooler temperatures inside the van help keep lots of things in better condition, especially foodstuffs, even if you aren't sitting in it!
So for our purposes we found it well worth the modest amount of money to have an extra offside awning made as I described. Cheers Lynne

Thanks Lynne, I now understand what you are trying to achieve. If the fridge is lacking you may also want to consider a computer type fan to exhaust the hot air and keep the fridge running cooler?

Cheers

Later this arvo a van went past with a roll out awning on both sides. I had to look twice to see what it was. Different I suppose.

and thank you for bringing that up...some good feedback there.