Kelpie is parked in another free aire on the side of peaceful parkland outside the town of Rennes in France (48.11845, -1.59105). Arriving in Rennes – after dark of course as the winter days are so short – we drove through an industrial estate directed by our two satnavs, Sally the Chinese satnav (Dorry is […]
Having had our new refillable gas cylinders fitted, I took the motorhome to our local petrol station the next day to fill them at the LPG pump. Result – £26 of LPG filled both cylinders, less than the price of a single replaceable cylinder from Calor. I switched on the fridge to start cooling it […]
During the gas appliance check, we couldn’t get the water heater to work unless we hired a professional AC technician. It was disconnected, checked over, re-installed before declaring it “life extinct”. The water heater in the van when we bought it didn’t work. It was an American RV water heater. I had replaced it with […]
As we will be living full-time in our motorhome and want to make life as easy and comfortable as possible, we’ve had our eye on a few upgrades and improvements after reading many blogs on existing full-timers experiences. With only 2 weeks to go until our departure, we were under pressure to get all the […]
NEW LEISURE BATTERIES AND BATTERY LOCKER WIRING TIDY UP I mentioned in my earlier post on how to select a solar panel that I was going to change the leisure batteries to new larger capacity units. I was restricted by space in the battery locker as to the maximum dimension batteries I could install, so with […]
RE-UPHOLSTERY OF OUR MOTORHOME SEATING The largest single project to date we have undertaken in our motorhome re-fit is the re-upholstery of the van seating. Not only was it a case of re-covering the existing seating, but we wanted to change the seating configuration. It was not laid out very well to begin with, so […]
MOTORHOME SOLAR PANEL INSTALLATION – NOT AS DIFFICULT AS YOU MIGHT THINK In my last article I explained how I came about acquiring a 250w solar panel for the motorhome. After a year of trepidation I had considered many times having the panel installed by a professional, but the prices quoted were very high. I would point […]