Winter storage of caravan

narborian
narborian Forum Participant Posts: 5
edited September 2019 in Caravans #1

I use a cassoa storage site for winter storage and do not put a cover on my caravan. i keep the battery on the van and it remains fine throughout the winter, being topped up with the solar panel.

The problem I seem to get is large ponds of water on the flat roof. I am not alone with this and have heard it is best to park up with the van sloping slightly from front to rear, to allow the water to run off.

Would parking it over winter with a slope instead of the normal flat level position, cause stresses in any way to the caravan.

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  • lornalou1
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    edited September 2019 #2

    doubt it. I store mine with the front well down for that reason. Never a problem.

  • Whittakerr
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    edited September 2019 #3

    i always store mine with the front down for this very reason and never had a problem.

     

  • JVB66
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    edited September 2019 #4

    Not a problem, we always have  stored nose up in storage with our caravans ,and makes hitching up easier as well,back under coupling with reverse camera,remove hitch lock wind steadies up remove wheel lock wind coupling on to hook connect cables and off,cool

  • Rufs
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    edited September 2019 #5

    always put mine nose up, reason, lots of windows at front so more chance of water ingress, only 1 at rear,

  • Whittakerr
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    edited September 2019 #6

    I put mine nose down. if it was nose up there would be puddleing on the roof due to the shape of the back panel molding.

  • lornalou1
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    edited September 2019 #7

    Don't forget the handbrake. sealed

  • commeyras
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    edited September 2019 #8

    Lonalou means handbrake off!  Always store mine nose up.

  • JVB66
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    edited September 2019 #9

    Hand brake not applied in storage ,when backing it into our space we have two marker slabs that the wheels rest against

  • geoffeales
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    edited October 2019 #10

    Nose up? Surely flat roof slopes down to the front for that very reason so why work against the natural design? We park for the winter with the nose even further down. Chock the wheels and leave brake off to avoid it seizing on.

  • penguinpete
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    edited November 2019 #11

    Slightly different from standing water which by the way I always leave my nose very high for it all to run off, my problem which I have never done before is to get the van ready for storage (outside no cover) and left the master switch on. Went there today and although I have a 100watt solar panel battery was completely flat, I thought with the panel it would still have put juice into the battery.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited November 2019 #12

    Same with our MH, PP. In cloudy weather and with very little sunlight able to reach it, it just doesn’t charge the battery.

  • lornalou1
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    edited November 2019 #13

    mine has been charging battery ok and only 80w solar. best to leave main psu switch turned off as I did notice that when left on the battery discharges quicker over the night time.

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