Want to be full timer (1 Viewer)

[Dru30]

Looking in to going full time in the near future .i have many questions if anyone could help :
Due to licence what 3500kg has enough payload for 1 person full time with a budget of £20000 I like the Hymer b544 but pay load seems poor.i know I will need refillable gas tanks but how good does solar work in the uk I you don’t really want to go on sites .would 6-700 watt be enough .newbie so if some of these are silly questions forgive me .thanks

 

[The Dotties]

There is a great deal of info on here for full timers, in the resources section and also in the forums. You may need to subscribe to gain access to it all, but at £15 a year it’s a no brainer

 

[pappajohn]

My opinion......
Spend a thousand quid of your twenty thousand and take your C1 test, you usually do it in a week. .
You're going to struggle to manage comfortably at 3500kg.

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[DBK]

I think you'll struggle to put that much solar on a 3.5t MH. The only way might be to convert a van yourself and have only minimal rooflights.

300W should be doable supplemented by a battery to battery charger (B2B). Plus of course minimising power consumption with LED lights, USB chargers for gadgets, gas not diesel heating.

 

[Northernraider]

I know people who fulltime In a standard size ford transit so anything is possible.
Depending what you are carting around with you I don't see why you can't manage under 3500kg

I full time in my hymer 654 , you wouldn't believe what I'm carrying with me all the time and although mine is 3900kg max
I came in at 3740kg just last week on weighbridge and that was full diesel, full fresh water, 2x 11kg gas both full , and cupboards freshly stocked so not much over 3500kg and it's a bit bigger than a 544

You will find once fulltiming you slowly get rid of all the stuff you carry and don't use

P.s I have 200 watts of solar at the minute and in the UK it isn't enough over winter. I've room to add more if I choose.
I also purchased the van for less than your budget and when I did it was rated at 3500kg
That said it needed work doing which I've done so it's worth more than that now
But you could pick up a slightly older one under budget I think