What's the very worst thing about caravanning?
What do you all find the worst thing about caravanning and Motorhoming?
For me, there is one thing that looms above everything else. It has to be cleaning the van on the outside - especially the roof. No contest!
David
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For us with the caravan it was the last 200 metres getting the van reversed down a very narrow street, and up onto our drive, no motor mover! Now van is safely stored at Mums and MH is so easy to drive in and out. Still don't enjoy cleaning out though after
a trip, inside and out.Biggest drawback when out touring? Restrictive arrival and departure times on Club Sites, hence we love CLs, much more accommodating.
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Definitely getting the van out of and back into storage. I have this dread of turning up and finding the mover's not working, then we'd have no chance of shifting it!
Can't think of anything else, even the ritual washing and polishing!
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I think its the realisation that its all starting to get a bit too much, -- rigging the awning especially. Can't get down to peg out any more, - & dont want to peg out trying! Can hopefully manage for a couple more years because we'd miss it too much I think. I wish now we hadn't bought another heavy Coachman, because a lighter van would have permitted a smaller lighter `car!
TF
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Think it has to be cleaning the van after a trip away, getting rid of all the dogs hairs!
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I have alway kept my van close to the house when not using it.
Worst thing was making sure the van was not scratched as the width of our drive has just enough room to pass a wheelie bin or wheelbarrow on the nearside between the van and next door's garage and just enough room between the house and the van to open the
Battery locker door and plug in the Electric hookup cable.If we now go down the Motorcaravan route. care will have to be taken in any choice to ensure plenty of room on our drive.
K
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Packing clothes and food when it's cold and raining!
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I have alway kept my van close to the house when not using it.
Worst thing was making sure the van was not scratched as the width of our drive has just enough room to pass a wheelie bin or wheelbarrow on the nearside between the van and next door's garage and just enough room between the house and the van to open the
Battery locker door and plug in the Electric hookup cable.If we now go down the Motorcaravan route. care will have to be taken in any choice to ensure plenty of room on our drive.
K
..If you go for a PVC you can usualy get out via the rear doors if it is tight
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I miss some home comforts, in particular, our big roll top bath that I can lie flat out in, and the "always on" Aga (I can't get use to preheating the oven). But neither of those detract from a mini house we can take away with us. No pressure. No timetables.
No cows. Only two to cook for. No alarm clock. Eat when we are hungry. Get up when we want. Do nothing and not feel guilty.0 -
I think its the realisation that its all starting to get a bit too much, -- rigging the awning especially. Can't get down to peg out any more, - & dont want to peg out trying! Can hopefully manage for a couple more years because we'd miss it too much I
think. I wish now we hadn't bought another heavy Coachman, because a lighter van would have permitted a smaller lighter `car!TF
I know what you mean about pegging, Tigerfish. I now take a garden kneeler with me, but now thee are only two of us, we are less likely to need the awning. Certainly won't put it up for short stays.
David
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After reading a recent thread I would think that possibly 'Jockey Wheels' are near the top of a Caravanner's list.
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...... I now take a garden kneeler with me, ... ....
I have done the same for a while now & suspect you have a few years on me too ...kneeling is easy(ish) ..... getting back up is the hard bit and then suffering for a week or three with a sore right knee
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...... I now take a garden kneeler with me, ... ....
I have done the same for a while now & suspect you have a few years on me too ...kneeling is easy(ish) ..... getting back up is the hard bit and then suffering for a week or three with a sore right knee
......one knee replacement done, but the other one seriously needs doing. I'm putting it off as I'm not 100% happy with the first one. Kneeling is just not the same after a replacement job!
David
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....Washing them with a brush takes around 30 minutes and 5 mins to squeegee the windows.
It seems there are easier ways to wash a bus than with a brush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwD7gmTghI0 -
Volvoman Sorry washing a m/h or caravan is nothing like washing a bus - unless its 12 or 15 metres long as they now are.
Washing them with a brush takes around 30 minutes and 5 mins to squeegee the windows.
...We took a trip to where we store our van today,the cc have just installed a new wash down area and the wardeness was trying not to look at a man who was standing on the roof of his big m/van scrubbing the roof
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Finding a CL is overcrowded on arrival - we love these for the peace and quiet.
Only put up the awning now for stays of 4 or more nights and the weather is due to be good. Between Sept and April it doesn't go up at all if we are out and about.
Daft one - bending down to locate the electric drill to find the nut for the rear steadies - its well under the van on our Bailey.
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....Washing them with a brush takes around 30 minutes and 5 mins to squeegee the windows.
It seems there are easier ways to wash a bus than with a brush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwD7gmTghIPart of me says I'd like to take the caravan through one of these things, but the majority of me values the sealant on the 'van. I wouldn't want water ingress....
David
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Having got a 'van with the layout we want and the interior and services to our liking as well, the greatest dislike is the fear of something happening that would render it unusable.
This summer we came close in Glencoe as we were nearly struck by a French registered motorhome going in the opposite direction, the driver of which was looking over his shoulder at the ski centre and not at the oncoming traffic.
Measuring from the dent in the arm of the destroyed wing mirror showed it missed the caravan by 1/2 an inch. (They did not bother to stop either.)
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Having got a 'van with the layout we want and the interior and services to our liking as well, the greatest dislike is the fear of something happening that would render it unusable.
This summer we came close in Glencoe as we were nearly struck by a French registered motorhome going in the opposite direction, the driver of which was looking over his shoulder at the ski centre and not at the oncoming traffic.
Measuring from the dent in the arm of the destroyed wing mirror showed it missed the caravan by 1/2 an inch. (They did not bother to stop either.)
...We had a french car do that to us with our last m/van,they did stop as the extra "colour coded covers" on our wing mirror that took out both their off sde windows ,was inside the car ,no other damage to us
Ps it happend in the Cotswolds
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though not emptying it 
and yes i tow too but i let them all trundle past 