Boris7
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- Jan 27, 2020
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- MH
- Auto Sleeper Burford
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- 1 year
We pick up our new MH on Friday and have booked a pitch for Saturday night as a first try out.
When looking for a site we found a couple of issues.
1. Pitch size. We’ve bought a Auto-Sleeper Burford Duo which is 8m long and has a rear mounted storage box bringing it up to near 9m.
many sites seem to only take 7or 8m MHs.
Is there an easy way to search campsites based on HM size?
2. Awning, we have a wind out awning, the site we’ve booked gives us an 8x8m pitch, when booking they ask if we are using a awning, there’s a charge for an awning, but since the pitch is more than big enough do we have to book and pay for the awning?
3. The MH uses a Whale system for water intake, the dealer assures me we will be given training and will have a Whale adaptor, but eveything I’ve seen suggests it uses an external pump from a container, is it possible to connect to a simple hose pipe?
Im sure we can sort this out following picking the MH up, but we are going away the next day for our first outing and I’d like to avoid taking an external tank.
This is particularly important as we intend to use the MH mainly off sites, and I’d like to run the water down, use the on board toilet till full etc to asses how long we can survive off site while touring.
4. The leisure battery is under the front passenger seat, I’d like to connect a second leisure battery and an inverter, it seems any leisure battery needs to be vented to the outside, but I’m thinking the second battery will go under the near side bench seat, which will make venting an issue, but I don’t see how the existing battery is vented anyway.
When looking for a site we found a couple of issues.
1. Pitch size. We’ve bought a Auto-Sleeper Burford Duo which is 8m long and has a rear mounted storage box bringing it up to near 9m.
many sites seem to only take 7or 8m MHs.
Is there an easy way to search campsites based on HM size?
2. Awning, we have a wind out awning, the site we’ve booked gives us an 8x8m pitch, when booking they ask if we are using a awning, there’s a charge for an awning, but since the pitch is more than big enough do we have to book and pay for the awning?
3. The MH uses a Whale system for water intake, the dealer assures me we will be given training and will have a Whale adaptor, but eveything I’ve seen suggests it uses an external pump from a container, is it possible to connect to a simple hose pipe?
Im sure we can sort this out following picking the MH up, but we are going away the next day for our first outing and I’d like to avoid taking an external tank.
This is particularly important as we intend to use the MH mainly off sites, and I’d like to run the water down, use the on board toilet till full etc to asses how long we can survive off site while touring.
4. The leisure battery is under the front passenger seat, I’d like to connect a second leisure battery and an inverter, it seems any leisure battery needs to be vented to the outside, but I’m thinking the second battery will go under the near side bench seat, which will make venting an issue, but I don’t see how the existing battery is vented anyway.