Hi there, I posted for you months ago as you hadn't been on the forum for ages. How are you? I enjoyed following your story last year as you decided on what to buy and took the plunge, then you just disappeared!
Hello there. Yes well problems again I am afraid. When I switched my water pump on the Paloma boiler leaked like mad all over the worktop and I am terrified of water ingress in to any plywood panelling etc. How can I stop the leak or does it mean the boiler is damaged?
Sorry Snowy can you remind me who you are please? Yes it is a long long time since I have been on here. Is Ali, Alison or Alistair?
------------- Divorced woman, self employed. Children flown the nest. Pet owner. Loves walking and scenery. Recently purchased a motorhome to use as base for walks and expand my social life. Need loads of advice so help me out folks!
Fear not Welshlady, I am not some sort of bunny boiler I just noticed you hadn't been around for ages and hoped you were ok. I am an Alison, we are currently campers but have bought a caravan which we pick up next weekend, yippee!! I admired your courage last year when you came on here and was talking through your options and the vans you had seen and then you took the plunge. I was so pleased for you and then when you disappeared I feared that you had hated vanning and given up or had just stopped posting.
Glad to hear you are ok and I hope you sort your water leak out soon.
Hi Lava Lamp, I am all excited this evening because we went to Highbridge today and they had the same van as we are buying for £2200 more, albeit it is 2 years younger but it is in worse condition than ours and we have everything included and I mean everything!! Full awning, cutlery, gas the works.
Just got to get the hitch lock sorted out now to meet the insurance terms and confirm the insurance and we are ready to roll. We are siting it in South Devon as my car whilst just about within the 85% I don't feel is quite meaty enough. I have found my dad's towing mirrors though and it comes with a stabiliser too so I might be tempted next year.....
I was dreading the towing when I bought my caravan, but it hardly feels like I have anything on the back. I find it so less restrictive than a Motorhome.
Thanks. The current owners are taking it to the site for us as they live 7 miles away in the middle of dartmoor down narrow lanes.......... not for the faint hearted I can tell you. I have towed before. I had a Thomson Mini Glen and then a Bailey Clifton in the 1990's so not a total towing virgin. OH is a new driver so the thought petrifies him!
Have made a note of your email and will be in touch. I have just returned from my first outing this year. Loved it but the boiler is still leaking like heck and I don't know what to do. Had to use site's pot washing facilities and showers as I would have anyway. I still feel very green but the excitment of just going away for a few days is a real buzz.
------------- Divorced woman, self employed. Children flown the nest. Pet owner. Loves walking and scenery. Recently purchased a motorhome to use as base for walks and expand my social life. Need loads of advice so help me out folks!
Hi Welshlady, we are gutted that we don't have our new caravan this weekend but the peeps were too busy so we have to wait until next weekend. We took OHs son to Weymouth and sat on the beach for a couple of hours instead.
Glad you are enjoying it, can't help with the boiler prob I am afraid, guess you may need to drop it into a dealers and let them have a butchers to see if they can find out what is going on. Failing that, know any local plumbers? Perhaps they can help, after all I guess it can't be that different to a domestic boiler huh?
Reading your post brings back a memory of our 1st van's boiler, being new to motorhomes we didnt know to totally drain the system and leave the taps open in the winter to prevent frost damage, and when we came to use it for the first time in the spring, water was pouring out of it. Hubby took it apart and the heat exchanger had burst, he managed to fix it up with some solder, only after that chatting to another van owner on a camp not long after we found she had done the same too.... Now we drain everything down and leave taps open even if we think we might still use it, just in case.
Hope you get yours fixed and can get out and about often, we love the freedom of just throwing some clean clothes in the cupboard, milk and stuff in the fridge and driving off when ever we can, even if just over night.
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