Can a caravan be re-plated to improve the payload?

Pippin
Pippin Forum Participant Posts: 24
edited June 2015 in Caravans #1

Being new to caravaning and having spent years with a motorhome, the significance of Payload had not registered.   I gaily put in a 100amp/hr battery, 2 gas cylinders, fitted a mover, an awning and put on a satalite dome for the TV only to find that the
Payload virtually all been used.   Is it practical to re-plate the van, if so what is invollved say from 1287 to 1350kg