Advice

Water systems

Keeping your caravan water system safe

Posted: 05.02.2013

HAVING WORKED IN caravan and motorhome manufacturing businesses for 33 years, I know how much attention is paid by both manufacturers ...

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Awnings and accessories

How to... put up a full awning

Posted: 15.01.2013

ERECTING AN AWNING is a lot like riding a bicycle: once you’ve mastered it you never forget how to do it. ...

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Awnings and accessories

How to... put up a porch awning

Posted: 14.01.2013

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to gain a little more space or want to get even closer to nature when you’re away, get yourself a porch awning. ...

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Electrics

Reverse Polarity - How to cope on tour

Posted: 20.03.2012

Reversed polarity describes the situation where the live and neutral feeds in the hook-up bollard on a continental caravan site are switched. ...

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On the road

Wider caravans: Is your breakdown recovery broken?

Posted: 02.02.2012

THE MAXIMUM WIDTH for trailers was raised nearly two years ago, from 2.3 to 2.55 metres, in line with a European ruling, but breakdown ...

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Water systems

How to use a Truma Ultrastore water heater

Posted: 11.08.2011

DO YOU STRUGGLE to get the best performance out of your Truma Ultrastore water heater?

If you can't make head or tail ...

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Towcars

Convert your towcar to 13-pin electrics

Posted: 11.08.2011

ALL CARAVANS OF 2009 model year and after have 13-pin electrical plugs that will not connect to 12N and 12S car sockets. The solution ...

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Project Vans

Elddis Project: Completing the water installation

Posted: 10.08.2011

THE FINAL STEP in modernising the water system was to fit a Whale Watermaster socket in place of the old foot and electric pumps. I ...

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Project Vans

Elddis Project: Replacing a leaking rooflight

Posted: 10.08.2011

WHEN REMOVING THE defunct space heater from our Elddis project caravan, I noticed that the rooflight was leaking because the mastic had ...

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Project Vans

Elddis Project: Removing the Carver/Truma space heater

Posted: 10.08.2011

OUR 1983 PROJECT caravan had a Carver 1800 space heater – which had stopped working long before Practical Caravan bought it. Truma ...

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