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like everything with motorhome there are as many ways of using them as there are models we used to work on nights away lot of cash standing in the drive if you only used it one month in the year 30 nights away which is why ee sold a caravan we had, our requirements 17 years ago when we started...

fine jigsaw blade tape the sheet draw line on tape and cut through tape practise on offcut first

these short i.e. 5 day courses normally have criteria that they are only upskilling an already trained person, the act of parliament that set the gas conditions state in one paragraph 'competent person' the gas regs then take about a dozen pages explaining exactly what qualifications are...

its easy when you know what your doing

The older Hymers use the sort of hydraulic Rams used on car boots and bonnets to assist movement, the newer models easily recognised by the slab shaped front have a spring loaded cantilever system , both would I imagine take a fair bit of development , there are several vans around now with a...

filler cap is bottom left of the first picture that is what I was crapping myself about cutting into the new van , couple of magnets part of my toolkit but they can't tell plastic from alluminium not that I thought to check just assumed!! that it was plastic like the last one, I had a 1.5mtr...

as above first bit of advice when I started as an apprentice measure twice cut once lived by this but when your about to cut into a £60,000 motorhome I must have measured where to put the Gaslo filler twenty times , last time I cut the filler into the plastic skirt on the van so replicating a...

When I purchased my first van on initial viewing there was a roof box that wasn't there at pickup the dealer said it belonged to the original owner who had collected it never gave fixings a thought till the rain came in 6 holes where it had been fixed down , I pumped mastic in seemed fine the...

Mate of mine did casual work at a factory in thurmaston leics where they made flight cases for musical instruments , full strength locks catches etc only problem was weight he made me a toolbox that weighed more than the tools I put in it but it made a superb strongbox in my first van!!

As rob said or just put the loo facing towards a corner enter from room side then slide forward on loo till your sorted.

Like stan I would use ct1 saw it at a demo filled a paper cup cut it with a Stanley from o/s sealed it with ct1 then did it again and sealed the cup from the inside, also had a large heavy concrete block with wood glass plastic ct1 bonded to it and an handle glued on each with ct1 and picked up...