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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!

Hope all is ok with you.

Ali

I really need to speak to you Welshlady, will put up my email address until this evening.

I hope you see this

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You will probably need to type it into your email as the at comes outy as at to prevent spam.

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.

Ali

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.....

Ali

Great Stuff Ali

Good luck with the towing.

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!

Ali

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?

Ali

Hi Welshlady

I have your email amd will reply a bit later this evening.

Hi Welsh Lady,

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.

Tina