Washing van On-site
How often do you spend hours cleaning the van before a trip away to find you hit a stretch of road used by a tractor or experience rain on a dirty road then to appear on site with a filthy caravan. I keep a sponge handy to wash the van on arrival but the problem is being able to rinse the shampoo and water marks off. I have found a useful gadget. If your go on to a well know online supplier (a river in South America) and enter in "12 v submersible pump" it will show a pump from a company called Dynatech at £22.99
This has a pump which will fit through the neck of an Aquaroll, has a pipe with metal end and a good length of cable with croc. clips on. I bought a fused gigar lighter plug from Halfords @£3.99 so I can connect to caravan or car sockets. It supplies up to 18 Lts/Min with a good pressure where you can place a finger over the end and squirt down the length of the van to rinse it off. Thought my fellow members would be interested in this, saves throwing endless bowls of water over and soaking the pitch and conserves water
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I thought van washing on sites wasn't allowed now.?
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I think the ban was brought in because of potentially harmful chemicals going into the pitch. Although sounding a bit extreme, when you think of the number of vans that will use that pitch and how many would be washed, perhaps not so. We use a bowl of soapy
water with a micro fibre cloth wrung out, and then the same with clean. At worst a few drops escape onto the pitch, and to date nobody has seemed to mind. Even talked to one warden while cleaning. Our van is coated which means it comes up sparkling following
this procedure. This plus a full wash every service is all it gets, but it generally looks clean.0 -
Just to qualify the detail of my post, cleaning of the van is generally just the front where road dirt is prolific. I do not prescribe to complete washing on site and certainly not the use of dangerous chemicals. I was not aware that car shampoo has such
chemicals or it would cause any damage to grass. The whole point here is when sponging off dirt there is always dirty run marks which with the aid of this equipment can be easily removed with a minimum ammount of water, surly better than endless buckets of
water. on balance I would not even use anything else than clean water. One comment above " use soapy water" typically your fairy liquid has a detergent in it which will remove dirt AND any wax coating provided by a car shampoo.0 -
I thought van washing on sites wasn't allowed now.?
So did I until I watched a TV programme that was intended to recruit new people to caravans and I saw a senior official of this Club involved in an activity that promoted washing caravans.
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One comment above " use soapy water" typically your fairy liquid has a detergent in it which will remove dirt AND any wax coating provided by a car shampoo.
Try Stardrops (if you can find it!). There's no salt in it, so unlike most detergents, it doesn't remove the polish. I've been using it for years on boats and now use nothing else to clean the van. It removes any streaks as if by magic and the polish lasts for ages.
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Yes, I use a towing cover. They are brilliant. I will always spend a very enjoyable morning wiping the van down as that's all it needs having been heavily waxed and polished on a fairly regular basis. I am with the OP regarding arriving on site looking about
right. Can't stand a dirty rig myself.0
