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Well guess we shall see what Burcroft after sales and handover care is like very shortly. We were very impressed with their apparent honesty when we were looking and they were happy to point out issues (damp on one for instance) that I may not have seen

Also depends what stock they have in at the time obviously as I know they have sold a fair bit recently - pick ours up tomorrow

By the way you can work on gas equipment providing you are a "competent person" so you don't require any qualifications , but you do require knowledge of the rules and obviously to have necessary equipment. Speculation of peopel dieing in fires due to faulty DIY is in fairness nothing more than sensationalist reporting IMO, not that I condone anyone doing work they are not comfortable or competent to do of course

Good luick with your ongoing search - if you are near Burcroft then try Tony Wilds at Woburn Abbey as won't be too far away either

Never heard of anyone taking their camping stoves and canisters for a service and the caravan/folding camper is not really more than a slightly larger version of that. 

I have yet to hear of a fire in a FC or TT that has not been casued by silly human behaviour, rather than clapped out unserviced systems.   Though I agree some people should never go near electrics, many people are actually perfectly capable of standard tasks.  OH did wire in the pump for the toilet and has wired in a radio too, (something he has done on his own cars many times) and I do not feel that there are any risks. 

It is about knowing your limits really.

PS without other half there are still a lot of things I could do (despite being an academic!) though getting the wheels off would be beyong my strength rather than my understanding!  Using manuals and help on here I usually work out how to sort the various things we need to on the FC and then tell OH what to do lol

I think personally a lot of it comes from the ever growing "nanny state" we now live in.

Risk assessments are every where in life now and problem is that over regulation does remove people's own inbuilt intuition that was once called "common sense".If you don't know how to do something you either research it properly or you get someone who does know how to do it to do it for you

As Andcow correctly says most accidents or incidents are undoubtedly down to "user error" rather than "equipment failiure" There will always be candiate for Darwin awards however you regulate the world - some might say its natural selection at work!

To put that in perspective however there were over 150,000 deaths from Cancer in 2008 - figures can prove nothing or everything I am afraid unles you take figures or stats in context

Ultimately I am sure we agree above anyway that only competent people (however you wish to define that) should undertake work on electrics or gas or vehicle maintenance

Quote: Originally posted by Nadius on 31/5/2011

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I have an awning extension that I use with a basic camping toilet (really just a bucket witha seat and a lid) but you can get really posh cassette type ones. I only use it at night as I always hate the idea of leaving the kids (even though they're now teens) alone while I go off into the night to traipse to the toilet block. The awning extension keeps the toilet away from the main cabin but near enough to use in the dark.

Hope it helps

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