On the Road Again!

Before we go away for the the trip to Chatsworth House for the Christmas Market, we needed to get the van tidied. One of the jobs was to remove all the stuff we wouldn't need from the garage and then remove the "mezzanine" floor. Removing the mezz means I can access the Truma hatch. I had to check. The frost protection valve is supposed to open automatically at 3°C to empty the water out. When the blue button (at the top) has popped out and the blue "tap" is like the above, the valve is open. Except, despite several days where the thermometer in the Nissan showing 1° or 2°, it was still closed. I opened and shut it a few times and then closed the hatch...

The job is done. Thanks again to Invicta Caravans mobile engineer who came and did the fitting. It needed the internal gas line inside the wardrobe and next to the gas locker to be disconnected. It has its own tap to turn off the supply. The bottles are also off when not using gas.  Plus. There's another tap in the external bit too!! You can never be too careful with gas! It took awhile and I doubt whether I had the tools nor the skills to do the job. Hopefully, this one will last longer than 5 years. We never use it anyway! I did stick the 30 mbar sticker on... Whilst he was here I got him to sort the fresh water drain tap out.  That's done. We now have the bracket secured with two longer screws. Not the 1/2 inch ones used by Elddis. Or rather the one they actually used. The bracket needs a bit of scrubbing with a wire brush, some rust cure and a spot of black paint.  So we are all systems go for the next two weekends away!

After five years the flap has failed.  Plastic gets brittle over time so it seems doubly amazing that Truma make this part without any metal pins for the hinges.  I saw it flapping about and when stopped pressed the bottom to kick it and it fell off. The "locking" part at the bottom was worn away. We never use it..... My solution would be to super glue it and forget it... But it needs to work if we come to sell Molly. We don't have a gas BBQ nor a Cadac of other eternal gas equipment and probably never will. So today Invicta Caravans mobile service guy is here. The whole unit needs replacing. Aarrghh.