Back after 10 years

Hi Annette.  Welcome back...   Great to hear from you, and all the best with the Trigano.  Do let us know how you get on with it all.

David

Welcome Home, Annette !!

Delighted for the Club to get a refreshing young mind to post on here    --  we really do need a few  more folks with differing views, if only to stop me posting my nonsense of humour at every opportunity  

Welcome back from me too. Your personal story is very similar to my own (and probably many others) and hope for you it is  much better second time around, as it was for me! Exciting times and new memories to be made. Enjoy!

btw Does anyone else see a grumpy looking cat in your hitch cover? 😂😂😂👍

New towcar is here. Garage is prepared with new door and almost empty. Just need to seal the concrete floor in garage. Importer is going to France and bringing caravan back to the UK on Tuesday. What a journey this has been, from an idea nearly 2 years ago, to a huge planning project, to being nearly there!

Your Garage is almost empty, Annette   I'm Utterly Flabbergasted ~~ I had to provide proof that both my garages were full of { expletive  Deleted User }  before I was allowed on here  !!

I wish we'd taken before and after photos. It was totally rammed with stuff, virtually impossible to walk through. It has been a massive project and has taken about a year to empty. A very gradual process involving a new bigger shed, additional storage in the house, giving things to friends and neighbours, numerous trips to the tip and a new roller garage door. I've even put sealant on the concrete floor to try and limit the dust in there. Various neighbours have been looking at it in amazement having seen it before. It was the only way we were ever going to get a caravan without moving house. Now heard our Silver Mini 290 is being delivered this Sunday!

Good luck with it all, you will certainly deserve your first outing. Hope everything goes well for you all👍😁

It's here and we got it in the garage. Now hooked up in garage and charging leisure battery. Everything seems to work. A question, right now we have the handbrake on and all 4 corner steadies down, which we were amazed we could manage to reach. It would be impossible to drive onto the ramps with chocks in the garage. Is it better to keep the handbrake on in there or wedge something under the wheels (it seems to slope very slighly and roll towards the door on its own)? If so, what could we use, campervan type chocks we could roll it onto, or something else? Or keep the handbrake on?

People have different opinions but most folk do not store their van with the handbrake on as it’s possible for the handbrake to seize and be very difficult to take off again.

Instead, securely chock the wheels with bricks, blocks or similar - you don’t need levelling ramps as you’re not staying in it - and make sure you don't have strain on the cornersteadies to avoid undue stresses.

Lastly - enjoy!

Agree with TW. Put a note on the van door to remind yourself to check things before you step into van in garage. Better to be safe and ensure chocks are still in place. It’s stored under cover, you won’t get most of the issues others do when keeping outfits outside. Just ventilate it a bit, and don’t leave any food stuffs in there! 😁