Serviced pitches
Having bought our first 'van in March this year, we will be stopping on a serviced pitch for the first time next week. What length of waste pipe will we need to purchase for the drainage?
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Depends on the length of you van / m.home and where the waste outlets are positioned on you outfit
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You can usually buy it on site.
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Before you buy any pipe have a look at this website. It will give you a number of options on connecting a waste pipe.
The lengths some people will go to! Think of all that smelly pipe stored in the van. The whole idea is totally daft. Whatever happened to touring and the freedom of the open road? Might as well just hire a static.
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Most people carry about 8 mts of pipe. Personally I use lengths of rigid pipe and various connection purchased from B&Q. I found this easier to handle and store than convoluted pipe.
Hitchglitch. I am sure your comment was very tongue in cheek given that a motor home carries it's own waste container around with it rather than expelling it through a pipe!
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The lengths some people will go to! Think of all that smelly pipe stored in the van. The whole idea is totally daft. Whatever happened to touring and the freedom of the open road? Might as well just hire a static.
haha!
...but in all seriousness, that is what I use and its brilliant. way better than grey pipe for super pitches!
I use all standard domestic fittings from B&Q and it was cheaper than grey hose. I have a manifold all in hard pipe, right from the van, which I use for both the waste hog and with a number of ~2m lengths of straight pipe (with one halfed and one half halfed again) with some straight push fits and variable angle elbows.
You can always make up a good straight run to the drain, its self supporting so no dead spots to slow the draining down and BEST of all, a quick flick and they are dry for the locker - its never smelt so sweet, better than all the manky food trapped in the convolutions of that stinky grey hose! And (in my locker at least) it takes up less room than a coil!
(unless you are commenting on the use of super pitches for additional comfort?....in that case why are you not using a tent?
)For the OP - have a look here for some ideas of kit you can buy:
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....great minds Simon!
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Well, I had a caravan for 30 years before the motorhome and it would never have occurred to me to pipe the waste although a local tap always came in handy. Of course, on the continent the so-called serviced pitches generally had inadequate drains in strange
locations on the pitch. Also, most caravanners I see just have a bucket under the waste. How they dispose of it is a different matter outside the scope of this thread.I accept that for proper serviced pitches on quality UK sites a drainage system might be helpful but then I never stayed in one place I the UK for more than two days.
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Having bought our first 'van in March this year, we will be stopping on a serviced pitch for the first time next week. What length of waste pipe will we need to purchase for the drainage?
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Generally the water supply and the drain will be about a meter or so from the rear near side of your van. So your hose needs to exceed the distance from your outlets to the rear corner plus another 2 or 3 meters to be confident of it reaching. If you coil your hose in a plastic bin bag for travelling it'll keep your front locker hygienic. I'd wait until you have gained a bit more experience before fabricating some of the inventions described here - corrugated hose works OK and is designed for the job. It's cheap too. Oh, and don't be put off by naysayers re serviced pitches, there's nothing wrong with paying for their convenience when you feel like it. We use all types of pitches, hard and grass, serviced and without EHU. Have you considered your mains water hose/ connection?
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we love serviced pitches, particularly for our main summer break, as with us and three teens is much easier to have showers in the van than queueing up at wash block. Plus I actually like washing up in the van!
however learnt early on that you need to be prepared for being a long way from drain point at times, particularly on european sites Where uk vans are back to front. We have 8m of tube, most of it in rigid sections and a couple of metres of grey pipe. never
been stuck!youre on holiday, who wants to be filling and emptying every day
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we love serviced pitches, particularly for our main summer break, as with us and three teens is much easier to have showers in the van than queueing up at wash block. Plus I actually like washing up in the van!
however learnt early on that you need to be prepared for being a long way from drain point at times, particularly on european sites Where uk vans are back to front. We have 8m of tube, most of it in rigid sections and a couple of metres of grey pipe. never
been stuck!youre on holiday, who wants to be filling and emptying every day
Interesting how differently people do things. Our teens were packed off to the shower block come rain or shine and sent to do the washing up at the facilities provided. All part of the fun And they never complained. Watch the Dutch caravanners, one bucket
or water and one bucket of waste per day - and the wate mysteriously disappears when you are not watching.0 -
Interesting how differently people do things. Our teens were packed off to the shower block come rain or shine and sent to do the washing up at the facilities provided. All part of the fun And they never complained. Watch the Dutch caravanners, one bucket
or water and one bucket of waste per day - and the wate mysteriously disappears when you are not watching.Write your comments here...
'One bucket'! Luxury! When I were a child we had to wash out of a cracked teacup and scrub the dishes in the river.
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Interesting how differently people do things. Our teens were packed off to the shower block come rain or shine and sent to do the washing up at the facilities provided. All part of the fun And they never complained. Watch the Dutch caravanners, one bucket
or water and one bucket of waste per day - and the wate mysteriously disappears when you are not watching.Write your comments here...
'One bucket'! Luxury! When I were a child we had to wash out of a cracked teacup and scrub the dishes in the river.
Write your comments here...I have a classic photo of me and my brother and sister cleaning our teeth in a horse trough in Brittany on my first camping trip!
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Interesting how differently people do things. Our teens were packed off to the shower block come rain or shine and sent to do the washing up at the facilities provided. All part of the fun And they never complained. Watch the Dutch caravanners, one bucket
or water and one bucket of waste per day - and the wate mysteriously disappears when you are not watching.Write your comments here...
'One bucket'! Luxury! When I were a child we had to wash out of a cracked teacup and scrub the dishes in the river.
Write your comments here...I have a classic photo of me and my brother and sister cleaning our teeth in a horse trough in Brittany on my first camping trip!
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I hope you didn't spit in the trough! It sounds like you had an enlightened upbringing.
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I think that trip whetted my appetite for caravanning but my parents never went again! I was 7 years old and remember being sent to the local shop with a shopping list written by my mother in French - and the shopowner couldn't read her writing! I think
I brought everything home - but I also remember being taught to say "Je ne comprends pas - je suis anglaise" which I guess I used at that shop!0 -
Funny how if you have a tent you can still wash up and have a wash but the waste mysteriously disappears yet caravanners have Wastemasters and worry endlessly about disposal.
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we love serviced pitches, particularly for our main summer break, as with us and three teens is much easier to have showers in the van than queueing up at wash block. Plus I actually like washing up in the van!
however learnt early on that you need to be prepared for being a long way from drain point at times, particularly on european sites Where uk vans are back to front. We have 8m of tube, most of it in rigid sections and a couple of metres of grey pipe. never
been stuck!youre on holiday, who wants to be filling and emptying every day
It would not matter how much tube you had on some French service pitches. Unless of course you also had a pump in the system. On one pitch the drain was about 30 cm higher than the caravan outlets. So a service pitch meant that it was only about 5 metres
to wheel the wastemaster. I presume the idea was that if your waste outlets were on the back, you would take the van right back on the sloping pitch, and would be able to connect up. Ours were half way along on the side.0 -
I carry nothing extra to what I would use on a non serviced pitch, if I happened upon a serviced pitch it would just mean not walking as far. I'm happy with that
and certainly wouldn't pay for one, but I can see reasons why others would.0 -
Happy to have a serviced pitch any day. Why carry water and waste when there's no need!
David
Not on club sites £3.50 a day a non starter for me.
It went up to £3.90 this year, but still worth every penny. However, don't tell the CC they will put it up even more.
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We booked a serviced pitch for two weeks away last Christmas. No point otherwise when we move every 5 nights and use site showers if available and suitably locatated. We are away for 15 nights this Christmas but as the serviced pitches are not on a part
of the site that we wish to choose will not book serviced. We didn't hook up however it just made topping up water and emptying waste a doddle0 -
We booked a serviced pitch for two weeks away last Christmas. No point otherwise when we move every 5 nights and use site showers if available and suitably locatated. We are away for 15 nights this Christmas but as the serviced pitches are not on a part
of the site that we wish to choose will not book serviced. We didn't hook up however it just made topping up water and emptying waste a doddleWe've booked serviced pitches for 5 nights but I wouldn't bother for 2 nights..
David
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If we are using site facilities that requires only one fill and empty. Seems rather an expensive for one fill and empty on a 5 might stay at almost £40.
We must use more water than you Alan.
If we are on water hook up we would consider using the shower in the 'van too, whereas
we wouldn't if we didn't have hook up.David
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Like many things - is whatever suits - personally I'll happily pay extra for the serviced pitch. It's a very small percentage of the total cost of a holiday for 5 for us and is worth it.
Take the point about some French sites and have had to come up with some ingenius solutions in the past. Part of the reason why we have lengths of pipe now as easier to get a flow out the van which will go over small rises.
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