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Gas and electrics qualified with the NCC; manufacturer trained with AL-KO, Thetford, Truma and Sargent. Insured and completely mobile for your ease.

Covering the Rossendale Valley and beyond. Message me on Facebook or call/WhatsApp on 07482 308020

11/06/2026

Alright so I'm officially fed up with the rain 😭 I'm soaked to the bone, all my tools are wet and I reckon I could wring an olympic-sized swimming pool amount of water out of my boxers.

Having had my little rant I'll describe my day 😂 starting in Burnley I gave this Coachman a full service. I've done every other caravan on the cul-de-sac so this was the final piece to the puzzle 😁

There's very little to talk about which is always a bonus. There was absolutely no damp, the brakes cleaned up nicely and the tyres were pretty fresh out the box. All it needed was a new pigtail as the original had expired :)

From there I went to look at a T4 camper for an electrics and gas check. It was fairly new to the owners so they wanted some peace of mind as there was no evidence it had ever been done.

What a delight it was to work on this van; as is best said in a strong, Northern accent; 'they don't make them like they used to'. It was so well put together, really nice quality cabinets and a grill/hob combo that I reckon has never been used. A true gem! ☺️

There were a couple of little ni**les as the battery charger had packed in and the fridge would trip the RCD on the electric setting which are all easily sortable, so we should have it back to factory in no time 😎

09/06/2026

The main task of today was to play musical coat with the weather as it was on and off so much I decided it must have been a game 😂

I could have done with a dry day as the first job was to reseal a skylight and carry out a delaminated floor repair underneath a Compass caravan, but I made the decision to call the latter off due to the unpredictability of the weather.

However, the skylight got sorted so that's all good 😊 it has obviously been leaking for some time which has left staining in the bathroom ceiling and walls, and I suspect played a large part in the underfloor damp. So with the old sealant all scraped away and the area cleaned up the new sealant got applied and neatened up 😁

As well as that both marker lights got replaced as the lenses had fallen apart and a new regulator and pigtail were installed as the old ones were very expired ☺️ I'll be back to sort the delamination on a more predictable day...

08/06/2026

Back to the grind today with the first job being a service on this lovely Swift caravan.

I won't lie, I really had to dig deep to find a fault with the van. It was pretty immaculate, both inside and out, so when I say I struggled to find a fault, I really did 😂 so other than a low battery on the smoke alarm (the bu**er kept beeping at me) it was pretty minty.

From there I went to another Swift to extend the car lead as the design of the towhook on the car meant the lead wouldn't reach the socket without being really stretched. I'm probably not alone when I say we've all fallen short an inch or two in all walks of life, but this was literally a couple of inches too short and unfortunately there was no slack to be pulled through so I had to cut the wire completely, add a little junction box and make the new section of lead just that little bit longer :)

05/06/2026

It's been a long one today but a productive and successful day at that 😁

The first task was a trip to Rochdale to service a BBQ trailer (yes, you read that right) and a refrigeration trailer for a catering company. Neither had been serviced in a long time and moving forwards they are to be done every 6 months, so today was a bigger job to get them up to spec :)

Up first was the BBQ trailer which has had 7 years of hard use, so whilst it's unbraked the bearings still need thoroughly cleaning and repacking. So out those came looking like wet tar, stripped them down and packed in new lovely grease ☺️ whilst looking at the trailer I found the side to be coming loose so I got that repaired whilst I was there with a few rivets and a bolt.

Next was the fridge trailer which was built on an old, but very well made chassis. It was the same story again with cleaning out all the bearings and regreasing them. The brakes whilst rusty and grubby were very healthy so just need a bit of spit and polish 😀 I'll see both of these again in 6 months!

04/06/2026

Honestly, I swear it's never sunny in England... 😅

At least I wasn't having to seal up holes in the roof of a campervan or anything... Oh wait, that's exactly what I was doing. The first job was to seal up the holes left behind when an awning got ripped off the side of a campervan. Not good!

A few options were mulled over and in the end we decided to go with stainless steel blanking plates adhered over the holes. So the first step was to scrape off all the sealant. That was also the second, third and fourth step as there was so much and it really didn't want to come off 😂

The exposed metal was treated with a rust converter, flattened and then the new plates were stuck over the top. Not that you'd know, because it seems by this point I was soaked to to the bone and just stopped taking pictures 🙃

After that was a service on an Eriba :) it's been sat for a couple of years as the owner hasd moved house so it needed a good going over. It didn't take long to spot the first issue, which was quite a big one, as the awning was literally falling off! Deja vu anyone? It's been installed incorrectly in the past so the mounts aren't anywhere near how they are supposed to be.

When I went to drop the spare I found the wheel carrier to have rusted and snapped, so I removed the wheel entirely and left it inside as if this was to come off on the motorway it would leave a tremendous amount of damage 😭 other than that though it was all good, with just the odd thing out of date.

03/06/2026

Today I went to meet Abbey... I mean, service an Abbey. The owner had very kindly moved it to a back road so I could work on it without being run over which is always a relief 😂

For an older caravan it was doing quite well with just the odd ni**le. It had some damp on the back wall which was found to be the rear window hinge, which was quite literally falling off. So I reckon that needs sorting!

After that I went to look at a campervan with a pump which would run constantly. A couple of minutes of investigation found a leak, which means the pump is constantly trying to pressurise the system which is obviously impossible, so the endless cycle continues 😅 I'll return to that as the only way to access the pipework is entirely removed the seat panels.

And from there I fitted a new tap to an Elddis as the owner had tried themselves but got the wrong tap so gave up, and got a heater up and running in a Hobby 😁

02/06/2026

Apparently today was 'tear out your appliance Tuesday' as both jobs involved completely pulling out electronic goods 😂

The first job was to replace a grill thermocouple on a Thetford oven inside an Elddis motorhome. In Thetford's infinite wisdom these can't be done in situ like the older models; they now need completely removing to get access 🫠 so out it came, and in went the new part 😁

The second job of the day was to replace the electric heating element on an old fridge that had packed in, as well as look at the gas as on my last service it wouldn't stay lit. So out came the fridge, in went the new element and whilst there I cleaned up the connections for the gas and put it all back together :) the gas stays lit as it should now and the element is actually getting hot!

On the same caravan I also removed and resealed the skylight. On the last service it was found to be leaking so required a refresh. Off it came, but absolutely smothered in horrible sealant which took hours to remove, but we got there in the end. Now it's back in and watertight as it should be 😊

01/06/2026

Today's mission took me to Lymm to give this Eriba a full service. You might be thinking 'what Eriba?' because I obviously took no photos from the outside, that would make life too easy... 🫠

Anywho, the owner mentioned some issues with the 12v System not working. I thought it'd be a matter of the 12v master switch not being turned on, but on inspection, it didn't have one! After some digging and frustrated chin scratching I found that all the fuses were a tad loose in the consumer unit so when you wiggled them things randomly started working. So glad I got to the bottom of that one 😂

After that I went to a horsebox to give the gas and electrics in the habitation space a check over. The owner has had it a year or so but not really used it so it wanted a proper inspection :)

I'll be the first to admit I don't remember every gas regulation, but there's a number of key ones I do remember; one being there mustn't be any electrical connections or devices in a gas locker. So how about a whole battery? So yeah, that's naughty 😅 I see this type of thing a lot though as some horsebox builders like to make their own interpretations of regulations 😭

28/05/2026

It's another day of triple trailers today on a livery yard in the scorching sun 😎

The first two were Equitreks of vastly different sizes, but both were well looked after with just the odd ni**le. One of which being the tack cupboard which the horse clearly didn't appreciate and decided to kick it to pieces 😂

Lastly was an Ifor Williams which was sat out in the field. It requires a set of bearings to be right again but nothing I can't sort 😁

27/05/2026

Today's day was cut a tad short as on arrival to the first job to rewire the rear lights on a cattle trailer, the trailer wasn't there... 😂 Kind of difficult to fix the lights in that situation.

So with everything moved forwards, I went to replace the toilet pump and PCB on a toilet in a motorhome, as well as replace the badly leaking tap.

All went smoothly until I cut the wires off the old tap and the wiring loom disappeared into the cavity of the toilet 🫠 as child labour is now illegal I had to deploy the next best thing; a coathook. I'm no fisherman, but after some waggling and bobbing out it came!

From there I went to look at a camper conversion with a leaking skylight which was found to be due to a dipping roof where the conversion company took the supports out of the panel.

And I didn't post yesterday as I got home and melted into the carpet. It was too hot 😂 but in summary I rebuilt the brakes and installed new bearings on an Elddis caravan, put a plan together for a catering company's trailer servicing requirements and replaced the circulation fan motor on a Truma combi 😊

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