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Here are the photos of how my caravan is. Getting to enjoy the work, but problem is due to ill wife and 3 year old daughters its causing me a problem, wont cost more than £300 to repair, but it will take alot fo time to do, and with spending alot of time on this website i know i can do it and also enjoy it even though their would be some frustrations, so i have decided to let fate decide for me I have put it on ebay as it is for £1100 if i get it accept it, if not I must repair it, so lets see what happens

well it didnt sell.

So i can borrow a transit van on saturday, so heres my plan -

1 - got to olerays in beverley near hull get everything i need.

2 - Get back and re seal it all.

3 - go to b and q and g get the insulation

4 -stick insulation to roof.

5 - cut out boards for ceiling and stick and put in to place and then do walls.

6- put cabinets back in place with some extra brackets and no nails

7 - sand everything down , white spirit and then paint and grain and fit new carpet.

No kids or wife this weekend so hopefully at leat get it re selaed and do ceiling and walls.

I read this back and it sounds simple but i am sure it wont be

Update

Resealed one of the awning rails on thursday.

Could not re seal anything due to the rain, but rewired some of the electrics.

Went to olreays got everything i needed except the ceiling board which they will have more of next week, but of on holiday on wednesday for 2 weeks so everything will have to wait now till i get back

update

Caravan now resealed and dry.

Insulation put on roof, just waiting for delivery of the roof boards.

Cut out the wall boards and fixed in to place.

Re wiring done.

Started to sand all the units, found out that a small section of the wood shelf at the front had rot, so cut it out and filled with wood filler. Then to sand down all units and use the paint and grain stuff

Keep plodding on, you will be so frilled with the end result plus you won't know what to do with all the spare time you have on your hands, unless you fill it with weekends away

Hi Jimmy

we have to repair the damp around our front windows and would like to ask your advise on what to use on the interior around the windows and where do we buy it from.

many thanks

I got some treated wood from B and Q and matched it all up, used some insulation also from B and Q.

Then I got the new wall boards from Olearys in Hull.

On difficult sections of the walling instead of measuring and then cutting, I would make a paper template first then draw round the template on to boards, i think stuck the boards in to place and then behind the window seals that no one can see i stapled it as well. Also staplling were once everything was back in place you would not see the staples

Thanks colin, really dont know where to start... we have been told to take the windows out, if we use wood to replace the existing rotting mass do we need to put anything in between like jablite (or insulating board). what tools do we need

Thanks Will

I used insulation boards and cut them down, my view is that even a small space every bit of insulation helps.

I did not take windows out I found bending the seals back as I worked gave me enough space.

Tools , quite simple =

Screwdriver

stanley knife

staple gun

chisel

hammer

I think thats about it

Quote: Originally posted by Will-99 on 19/10/2011

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Thanks colin, really dont know where to start... we have been told to take the windows out, if we use wood to replace the existing rotting mass do we need to put anything in between like jablite (or insulating board). what tools do we need

Thanks Will

 

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