I have been watching spare tyre covers on e-bay for some time now and with the postage charges I thought they were over priced. I stumbled across some the other day in a local spare parts shop on special for $19.95, down from $35. Obviously I snapped one of these up. I was going to get our website put on it but was advised against it because of heat and cold causing stretching and shrinking. Might just put it on the back window instead.
We also purchase a melamine dinner set from a local camping store, once again cheaper than e-bay. We have also purchased some cutlery, and other nick knacks which we needed.
I managed to find our old barbecue we had for our original caravan which had been packed away for quite a few years, the gas bottle is out of date but I have another one which will suffice. I toyed with the idea that I might be able to hook it up to the gas bottle on the van, however it was brought to my attention by a gas expert that the b-b-q is a high pressure type and can only be used legally with the short hose provided with the barbecue. It cleaned up like new so we should get a few more years out of yet.
My wife has added the female touch with a new doona cover and some scatter cushions.
The extension lead that came with the caravan had been modified, the 15Amp plug top had been replaced by a 10Amp one obviously to allow connection to a domestic power point. This is common practice, however not sure what the insurance implications would be if your caravan or garage went up in smoke. I have purchased a new 15A 15M extension lead from (for those of you in Aus) Bunnings, they keep an extensive range of good quality Utilux extension leads. (now there’s a free plug for Bunnings and Utilux)
We purposely went for any older, but newer style caravan that we can modernize and ad some of the items mentioned on our website www.caravanersfriend.com.
Please return to view future blogs that we will be listing as we pimp our caravan.
