Offside Doors
Is it me or do other members dislike having your neighbours on the next pitch with a Unit which has the entrance door on the off side facing you. Maybe I’m not the most sociable person but I don’t want to hear what my neighbors are having for tea (even worse when they have friends round and you feel like your invading their party)when I’m trying to read book, or have them looking straight at me when they sit outside their unit, or is that what caravaning is all about.
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I suspect it is you, dave27. How about saying a cheery "hello" to your neighbours?
Pitching either way is allowed and we have frequently pitched nose in with a n/s hab door.🤷🏻♂️
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Generally doesn’t bother me, but I have come across sites (not CMC) that insist you pitch in order to avoid the situation you describe. A cursory assessment of the neighbours applying all my prejudices is usually all I need to decide. 😉
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Doesn't bother me at all. It's still going to be 6m away from you. There might well be a car or awning in-between anyway.
What makes you think they are looking at you? Expecting a lot of privacy outside your outfit is probably a bit too much on a caravan site.
PS If anyone wants to look at me and mine, please feel free.
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My door is on the "wrong side". On the very seldom occasion I'm on a C&MC site I park nose in. I don't do this out of thought for my neighbours but so my front seating area is away from the main road that runs around the site. If I'm lucky I park across the pitch.
Colin
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Our door is on the wrong side but 80% of the time parking nose in makes for a better levelling, due to the nose down attitude of our MH and the dip of the pitch. 20% of times we reverse in to get it level, it’s much easier than using ramps and it doesn’t bother us facing the other unit.😀 Or them facing us if the situation is reversed.
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There’s nothing stopping the OP turning his van around, and pitching the other way😉😁
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Well Dave, as you ask a question then list a few things you don’t like it’s possible the answer is that yes, it is you.
Wherever possible we go across the pitch, and while many seem to think this is forbidden it’s not but you need to ask.
Being sociable means different things at different times-I can make a trip to the facilities block with no more than a “hello” or morning” as I go however, Jean seems up to come back with a full life history of people she has come across.
As for pitching we want to have the best view of our surroundings, vanning is, to us ,a sociable pastime, and not feel like we are in a tunnel with mere glimpses of passing folk.
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This same thread came up less than a year ago.
It started with almost the same words ...............
Is it just me or anyone else find it unwelcoming when you have reversed onto site and then someone with an offside door also reversed on, you are now door to door with no privacy, so the grass in front becomes shared. Do you feel that the club should make it a rule that all nearside door vehicles reverse and offside door vehicles front on. Currently have people and others from site sitting in front of my awning.
The replies followed a similar pattern - the OP has a point or the OP is not entering into the spirit of things.
I made the point that whilst I do not see it as a "massive problem" it was certinaly an issue that arose now and then and, because of it, I certainly put "door on the near side/British layout" top of my criteria list for my current van when I went looking. But the British layout was for more reasons than just the door.
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Some say this is the answer to the privacy question. What do others think?
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The position of the hab door is largely irrelevant in my view as it depends which way you park. As I said, I have a n/s habit door but have frequently pitched nose in as do many Sevel based MHs in order to achieve a level stance. Do you not do this, Gray?
Yes, like almost all topics on CT, this one does the rounds on a regular basis but it gives newcomers a chance to air their views.
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Not a lot, actually. It's too dark and shut in for my liking.
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Yes, perfect. 😊
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On your second point - yes, I completely agree, I was not complaining about the fact that it had come up before. The reason I made the point, though, was because I was so struck at how remarkably similar the OPs were, not just in the words, but also in the style. I had recalled the earlier post and a Google search on similar words quickly found it!
On your first point, I am not so sure. So many other factors play into how I pitch and I very, very rarely pitch nose in in this van (although I more often did in my previous continental van). I agree about the Sevel lean of course, but I rely on blocks. Most often it is because I like to have the view through my front windows and more often than not the back of the pitch is trees, or hedging. Funnily enough, on my very last trip I pitched nose in for the first time in recent memory. This was because I was at Abbey Wood on the top of the hill where you get a nice outlook. Ironically, although most motorhomes parked nose in, the guy beside me (the other side was clear ground) did not pitch nose in and, with a British van, ended up with his door facing mine. But it was not at all an issue because they were friendly and quiet people. It's when you get the noisy revellers that these kind of things can become more of an issue.
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Well……..it’s better than a Club Site, but, pitches still not large enough, the hedges are a tad too high, and unless you like greenery, I am guessing the view is across to someone else’s outfit. But, nicer than a Club Site😁
You did ask😁
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Yes, very typical of continental sites. Has the benefit of providing shade and shelter.
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I have to say that I am not particularly keen on being door to door with the neighbouring unit. Whilst the picture posted by ET is quite common in Europe it is less so here. There could well be a half way house with shrubs planted between pitches just to give a little privacy. Perhaps the CMC feel it goes against "Club" ethos?
David
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Yes……….and no! Better than the often sterile CMC offering but too high for us.
Windbreak height is what we prefer, you get exactly that, some privacy should you wish but a clear enough view for social interaction.
Once had a very long but narrow pitch in France where you had to pitch right at the back to get level and it was like a tunnel, yes very green but still a tunnel.
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