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HI All

Hope someone can offer some advice, we have recently moved house and one of the advatages of this is that our caravan is now stored at home, therefore we want to take advatage of this and have a few winter weekends away with the children. We don't want to go away in the depths of January or February because we simply don't have the time but we would like to use the caravan right up until the early weeks of December. The advice i'm after is about heating, someone has suggested that we use a lowish wattage oil filled radiator (about 800w) as opposed to a fan heater because of the noise during the night. We only have the basic truma gas heater, which is fine during the day, but I don't want to leave it on all night because of safety. Secondly we are running on Butane, which I know will freeze during really cold weather but do you think we will get away with it during early December. (I do carry a propane pigtail with me just in case). And is there anything else i've missed.

Thanks in advance

Jon

Hi jon

we have caravaned in dec and feb we have used a fan eater on low all night and can not hear it ruuning.

Margaret

Some of the modern fan heaters are very quiet. Ours does not disturb us.

We use a small fan heater & leave it on all night...Dosen't keep us awake...Keeps the van nice & warm and dosen't take too much room...Its also safe..

Jackie...

Hi,

We have now done a fair bit of winter caravanning, always used butane, never insulated the aqua roll, never had a problem.

Clearly if there was a really cold spell you will have to take precautions but in December I simply wouldn't worry. If it is that cold you won't choose to go away that week-end anyway!

If you are really worried about a cold snap you can just empty the aquaroll overnight and put the gas bottle in the car boot or awning.

I personally wouuld be much more concerned about a slight sprinkle of snow which would scupper my chances of getting off a grass pitch.

regards

Mr Ulti-Mate

Hi All

Thanks for your advice, its always reassuring to hear what people have to say from the real world, which as far as i'm concerned carries more weight than so called advice articles. We probaly won't have a problem with water because our Adria has an on board water tank in the front locker so it is well up from the ground. But because it is a basic van we don't have blown air heating, just the basic Truma, hence my questioning about the night time heat. Thanks for all your replys and heres to cosy nights and frosty mornings,

Jon