Serviced pitch - silly questions from a newbie

Cavalier Caravaners

We have booked our first serviced pitch. Now the silly questions- how do we get the water from the tap to the aqua roller, do we need a special hose or will any old hose pipe with a hose lock connector do the job? How long does the hose need to be?

We have electric hook up cable. Assume that there is a drain on serviced pitch for putting waste water. Is there anything else different about a serviced pitch tthat we need to know or bring more kit?

Thanks for help on silly questions. We are only going for 2 nights so do not want to spend time drivign aroudn trying to find caravan shop for kit we shoudl have brought with us. 

IanBHawkes

You really need food grade hose. My suggestion would be buy the fittings for your aqua roll with yhe hose connected and use the caravan pump.

notite

There is a very good offer price for the hose and aquaroll fittings on Amazon at the moment.

Rob

BeveleyCole1

We very recently did our first serviced pitch. We bought a blue food grade clean water hose with connections and a ball cock valve for £20, it's 10 metres long and only just long enough to reach from the tap to our aquaroll  at the front of our caravan .
Also 3 metres of the grey waste pipe ( that you can cut shorter if required) from our nearest caravan shop.

Be careful  what size waste pipe you buy though, we bought the smallest diameter one but needed the larger size. Fortunately for us a very helpful man on the next pitch to us, had a spare few metres of the correct
size. He wouldn't even accept any money for it. We later bought them a bottle of wine to say thanks.

KeefySher

In respect of drainage, this is a great article:

https://caravanchronicles.com/2013/05/26/connecting-your-drainage-on-serviced-pitches/

We use this for the water connection:

https://www.truma.com/uk/en/water-systems/ultraflow-waterline.php

Both brilliant bits of kit. 

We are in our first year of caravanning. 

SteveL

Aquaroll sell a kit with about 8 / 9 metres of hose, all the connectors and the ball valve for your Aquaroll, plus a bag to coil the hose in. A bit expensive, but a very easy way to get everything you need for the clean water side. The length of hose provided was adequate for all service pitches we stopped on for 9 years. Then we came across one that needed almost twice as much. A second length can be bought on its own, but more expense I'm afraid. For the waste we carry two lengths of  the grey flexible pipe. One 2m and the other 3m, which we can join if required. We have only been on one service pitch where this was not enough, that was in France and the water would have been required to flow uphill anyway, so we used the wastemaster.

Cavalier Caravaners

Thank you_ caravans are so helpful

 

ChemicalJasper

Hi,

For water I use one of these:

http://www.care-avan.co.uk/Mains-Water-AV-WH.html

...but one I made myself from a spare cap and bits from the DIY store, with blue hose similar the the stuff on that website (other web sites available)

I have a couple of lengths of blue hose and some hoselock fittings so that I can join them together (I have been to a coupe of non CC sites where the taps were a long way away.

And I use one of these:

http://www.care-avan.co.uk/Drain-Away.html

...but again, just from the DIY store - standard domestic pipe and fittings fits nicely into the caravan ports. I then carry a number of meter ish lengths of pipe and some smaller bits and a few straight sockets and elbows to run a hard pipe out to the drain
- Its drains brilliantly being smooth and is easy to dry/clean at the end, where the grey hose can sometimes get a bit stinky - its also about the same price as hose per meter if you get it from the DIY store. 

Cavalier Caravaners

Thank you for all the tips, really helped.

We had a good time on the serviced pitch and now appreciate why people book them. its handy not to get water and cuts down time on a short trip so you can have more fun!