The sound deadening stuff you want is called "Foilastic" and its a
roofing material made by Polyken and sold at roofing supply places---
at least here in Northern CA it is. It has a foil side and a blue
plastic release side and is super tenacious at sticking to stuff. It
does not smell at all and you can either paint or glue down stuff to
the foil (up) side. I buy it in 9" rolls (it comes 1" to 36")  for
$40 for 50ft. I lined both walls of my front doors and the floor and
ceiling in my cab area and it is like night and day sound-wise in
there. My doors "thunk" instead of "bang" when I close them and I can
carry on a conversation without shouting--unless I am mad at my
passenger for some reason. I also did the engine deck behind the rear
seats and inside the wardrobe (too lazy to pull THAT cabinet). As
soon as I pull out the fridge and stove cabinet I will do the rest of
the back of the van including the walls where I can get to them. I
plan to also add some silver bubble wrap radiant insulation (Home
Depot) to the foils side of the Foilastic wherever I can to cut down
the radiant heat coming into the van. The bubble stuff also makes
great window insulator panels if you use a suction cup in each corner
of each panel.

Jeff / 87 Syncro Westy
On Nov 9, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:06:16 -0800
> From:    Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
> Subject: Re: "weather watch" sound deadening material
>
> I installed something I think is similar, progard or something. Had a
> peel away backing exposing a sticky back, front side was blue poly,
> protecting the mastic/asphalt/whatever core.
>
> It did smell on the summer day i cut and installed it, and I was
> worried about the smell inside the van. But there was no problem, no
> smell.
>
> Alistair
>
>
> On 9-Nov-05, at 2:16 PM, jake beaulieu wrote:
>
> I am in the process of installing sound deadening material in my 82 AC
> Westy.  I picked up some roofing material from Home Depot called
> "Weather
> Watch" (http://www.gaf.com/General/GafMain.asp?Silo=RES1&WS=GAF) it is
> much
> like the "ice guard" stuff we have discussed on the list.  One BIG
> difference, it stinks to high heaven!  I picked the stuff up last
> weekend
> and have had it in the back of my car since.  Every time I drive the
> car I
> get high from nasty petroleum smells.  Glad I discovered this before I
> stuck
> it all over my van.
> Have any of you who have installed similar stuff had this particular
> problem?  The smell is strong enough that I don't think it is just
> going to
> go away on its own.
>