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Congrats on your new van. Getting a van delivered to the US has the advantage of having this deck bolted in rather than welded in if it was delivered to Canada or EU. You have many options for capturing this foot well area for much needed storage in the TC. Use the SEARCH function in the upper right corner of the page and you'll find lots of different solutions discussed over the years. Below are a few links to get you started, which I found by searching "FOOT WELL".

Back in 2015 I built a custom hanging rack inside the van to carry gear to the beach. Recently a forumite PM'd with questions about the rack after seeing a pic of it on a thread. Since I can't PM pics to someone, I'm posting a few pics here to help them along. Below - Rack frame made with 2"x1"x3/4" pine, glued and screwed. the deck is 1/2" plywood. Covered with bulk carpet from HD, same that was used for the cargo flooring. Below - rear bracket - Simpson strong tie from HD bent in a vise with a mallet to hang plumb. Mounting hole was created using an existing reinforced hole and tapping with threads. Below - shows angle of bent bracket. Below - front bracket - may have given that a slight bend as well, can't remember. Mounting hole used an existing hole - bolt/nut - Nut before bracket to hold bolt in place. Below - view of rack from cab area. Below - a view of a gusset that was added to each hanging bracket. Not part of the initial design but the rack had a slight sway front to back and was making a creaking noise. The gusset cinched up the rack nicely. Uses same strong-tie material. Below - Ditched the LED cargo light that I had ordered with the van since the rack obscured it. Plus the light stays on for 10 minutes and I couldn't control it with a switch. The LED bar lights are controlled with two switches: at the left rear and left sliding door. Very convenient to add task lighting.

We used Frost King 1/8" thick duct insulation on the floor and ceiling. Above that we used 2 layers of 1/2" thick closed cell foam board insulation on the floor. The plywood in this shot is just weighing everything down while the glue sets up and dries. As you can also see, we built everything up so that we can still get under the floor extension, if necessary. The next phase was putting down the plywood floor. This was pretty simple, just cut a 4x8' sheet of plywood down to 4x7' or whatever the length of the cargo area is. That gives us the flexibility to screw everything down to that and not put holes in the sheet metal. We took Torton's basic cabinet design and modified it a bit. We have batteries and an electric cooler that we need to accommodate so our front cabinet is a bit bigger. We are still planning to utilize the drawer concept that he came up with, but we aren't finished with that just yet. This is where the cooler will live. It will slide in and out on a 2' long 500lbs capacity set of drawer glides.