Caravan & Campervan Cushion Foam

Caravan and campervan cushion foam, cut to your exact measurements. Van and caravan seating is almost never a standard size, and it is rarely a plain rectangle either. Every piece here is cut to order, so an awkward measurement costs no more than a common one.

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Seating that has to be a bed as well

This is what makes van foam different from house foam. A caravan bench is a sofa by day and a mattress by night, and those two jobs pull in opposite directions — a seat wants firm support, a bed wants give.

For a bench that converts, Blue 33 kg/m³ is the right compromise. It holds up as seating, which is the harder duty, and at 10 cm or more it sleeps perfectly well. Going softer for the sake of the bed gives you a bench that flattens within a season.

If the van has a fixed bed that is never sat on, treat it as a mattress instead and see our guidance on foam mattresses cut to size.

Weight matters here, and nowhere else

Worth knowing before you order, because no furniture guide will mention it: foam has weight, and caravans have a payload limit.

Our White foam is 28 kg per cubic metre and Blue is 33. A full set of bench cushions for a four-berth caravan — say six pieces at 100 × 60 × 12 cm — is roughly 0.43 m³, so about 12 kg in White or 14 kg in Blue.

That is not nothing when your payload allowance is 150 kg and you also want an awning and a full water tank. It is rarely a dealbreaker, but if you are near the limit, the 2 kg between densities is a real number rather than a rounding error. Weigh what you take out before you decide.

Fire safety

Our foam is supplied to meet the UK Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988. If your vehicle or vessel is subject to its own requirements — hire fleets and commercial craft usually are — check what specification you need before ordering, and get in touch if you are unsure.

Damp, condensation and what sits under the foam

The problem specific to vans. Warm bodies over a cold van floor or a cold GRP shell produce condensation, and it collects underneath cushions where you cannot see it. Foam left on a damp base grows mould from the bottom up.

Foam itself is open-cell and will dry if air can reach it. What kills it is a sealed base with nowhere for moisture to go. If you are refitting:

  • Use a slatted or drilled base rather than solid ply where you can
  • Lift cushions on their edge when the van is stored, rather than leaving them flat
  • If you have had damp before, a spacer membrane under the foam is worth the small cost

None of this is about foam quality. The best foam on a sealed damp base will still fail.

Thickness for van seating

  • Bench seats that double as beds: 10–15 cm
  • Seating-only benches and dinette seats: 8–12 cm
  • Backrests: 5–10 cm
  • Overcab and fixed bunk mattresses: 10–15 cm

Headroom is the constraint people forget. Measure from the base to the underside of anything above — a locker, an overcab bunk — before choosing thickness, because 5 cm extra foam is 5 cm less sitting-up room.

Awkward shapes

Van seating rarely stops at right angles. Wheel arches cut into benches, seat fronts follow a curve, and corner dinettes need pieces that meet at odd angles.

The calculator prices rectangles. For anything else, two options: order a rectangle that encloses the shape and cut it down yourself with an electric carving knife, which works far better on foam than it sounds — or contact us, since we can cut circles, radius corners and bevelled edges to a drawing.

For a wheel arch, make a paper or cardboard template of the actual space first. Vans are rarely symmetrical and the near side is often not a mirror of the off side.

Sizes we can cut

  • Maximum single piece: 203 cm × 116 cm (80 × 46 inches)
  • Thickness: 1 cm to 100 cm

Long rear-lounge benches beyond 203 cm are made as two pieces butted together inside one cover.

Never roll packed

Foam is cut to order and dispatched uncompressed, so it arrives at full loft. That matters more than usual here — if you are fitting out over a weekend, you do not have days to wait for compressed foam to recover.

Is your foam fire retardant?

Yes. The foam we cut is supplied to meet the UK Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988, at no extra cost and on every grade we sell — white, high-density blue and memory foam.

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