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02/9/2024 at 2:02pm
Location: London
Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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Not a lot of good news to bring from me either I'm afraid! Others have really said it already.
Damp damage in caravans is like the proverbial iceberg, what you see on the surface is inevitably only 10% of what you find when looking deeper and stripping down panels!
A van of that age has quite limited open market value, even if pristine, but significantly depressed value if major damp repairs have been necessary (and it would appear to be pretty much as major as it gets!). It'd be difficult to justify the material costs and labour hours to repair as a DIY project with expectations of selling on at any point and covering those costs. As a professional/paid for repair, just out of the question, a van half that age would probably be close to a write off for professional repair!
Those sorts of projects are done as solely DIY enterprises with the satisfaction of resurrecting it as the only reward, and expecting to put many, many, man hours, and some sizeable money into materials, to achieved an end result that is only as good as your renovation skills! People do do it successfully, and it's not impossible, but is a big task and requires some good skills.
As a use it as-is/bodge it up and scrap later use, some consideration should be given to health aspects. With damp, usually comes mould, and mould spores can be seriously hazardous to health when inhaled!
Difficult decision time, probably worth spending a little time pondering viability and cost of DIY repair, IF you have the skills/time/motivation/workspace (you'll likely need undercover dry workspace to replace/repair the end moulding!), otherwise sell on as a project for someone else (if cabinets/fittings/appliances in very good order, there is a market for them with people doing renovations/DIY custom camper builds), or just scrap it!
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