Keeping inside of lorry warm

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We are staying in our lorry in 2 weeks overnight and it has no living! There is a living area etc but nothing in it just empty shell with no curtains etc!

Anyone got any tips of keeping warm? Thought maybe we could run the lorry for half hour with the heating on before we go to sleep...

Any ideas?
 
If it's just overnight I would take something to keep you off the floor (eg airbed, or mattress) and plenty of warm sleeping bags/duvets etc. Get some hot water bottles and put them in your 'beds' before you get in. Wear long sleeved/trousered pjs - or even a tracksuit - and a put a woolly hat on to keep body heat in What you will need to watch out for is condensation as it may get a bit damp with you breathing out in an unheated space - same with any propane gas heaters, they produce a lot of water and need good ventilation. Can you tell I've spent years living in building sites???
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Running the lorry is an option but it will affect anyone else around you - ie exhaust fumes, noise etc. I remember it well from festivals!!!
 
Good socks!!!!!
Ive slept in the back of cattle truck style lorries with no living in Australia where day temps were 35 degress plus and night went down to 4 or 5 degrees.. HELL!!! Me and the other Polo Groom were on a glorified padded sunbed, with thermal sleeping bags, complete with a couple of NZ rugs on top! ( oh to be 19 and stupid again! )

if you can bare to to keep the window open a gap that will stop the condensation. sounds daft but a flask of something warming is good news, failing that lots of booze!
Paper or cardboard is good to put under an air bed as keeps some insulation in (theres a reason homeless folk are often camped up on it!)
 
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If it's just overnight I would take something to keep you off the floor (eg airbed, or mattress) and plenty of warm sleeping bags/duvets etc. Get some hot water bottles and put them in your 'beds' before you get in. Wear long sleeved/trousered pjs - or even a tracksuit - and a put a woolly hat on to keep body heat in

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All excellent advice! My 'holiday' every year is a few nights in the horsebox in October at a 3DE so I'm well practiced - I usually sleep in the horse bit instead of the 'living' (which sounds a bit like yours, OP). I also take my horse's HW combo stable rug (cleaned!!
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) and have that on top of my sleeping bag. She can sleep in her TO rug
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We used to do it with foam mattresses to provide comfort and insulation, sleeping bags and extra blankets or horse rugs if necessary. We were sleeping in the horse area as we didn't have any separate living so the ventilators were always open. My luxury was to have a portaloo in one of the partitions to save getting out of the lorry for a pee in the middle of the night. We had lots of fun camping like that.

Nowadays we have upgraded but although we have heating we have yet to use it.
 
We did an overnight in October in our "shell" - had blow up mattress and duvets. Defo re the woolly hat and beware the condensation. My blouse had a distinct damp air to it. I seem to remember the first time we overnighted in the shell our curtains were bin liners. Is all fitted out now and snug and nice not to have condensated clothes first thing. Hope you enjoy it where ever you are competing.
 
some of the blow up matresses have their own pump, and as others have said, you need to get as high up as poss. Plenty of layers, making sure each layer is nice and long and will cover adequately with no draughty gaps.
 
Another tip is to put the clothes you are going to wear in the morning between the layers on your bed. They will be warm and dry when you get dressed in the morning.
 
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