I thought i would share a few Pictures of a project i did a few years ago.
After years of camping in a tent and the problems with air beds going down in the middle of the night and having to worry about cooking outside (sometimes in the rain) My wife and myself decided to buy a caravan.
Not knowing if we were going to enjoy caravanning we decided to buy something cheap, So onto Ebay we went and found a caravan about 30 miles away with a "Buy it Now" price of £200. After emailing the seller i took the plunge and bought it, went to view the van the next day and wished i had'nt
bought it but thought that for £200 what else could you get.
The following weekend the seller delivered it to me as i had no tow bar fitted to the car at that point and i was now the proud owner of a 1986 Lunar Micron,
That very evening things started to look very bleak for this little van finding major damp at the front and sides with rotten timbers, The next day i managed to unscrew all the furniture and cut the old rotten timbers out and get a dehumidifier in and switched on.
After a few weeks of drying out i started to renew the timbers at the front of the van and around the window, i would at this point like to let you all know that the cause of all this damp was not only the window rubber but the front panel on the outside was split.
after i sorted the timbers out i ordered a sheet of alluminium and replaced the front panel, resealed the awning rail and extrusion rails etc as you can see in the next pictures.
Now all the time i was doing this i found that the rear internal timbers and floor just inside the door was rotten so this posed a bit of a problem as i couldnt replace the whole floor so managed to cut the peice out that was rotten and replaced it bracing it underneath with timbers bolts and stainless screws.
After years of camping in a tent and the problems with air beds going down in the middle of the night and having to worry about cooking outside (sometimes in the rain) My wife and myself decided to buy a caravan.
Not knowing if we were going to enjoy caravanning we decided to buy something cheap, So onto Ebay we went and found a caravan about 30 miles away with a "Buy it Now" price of £200. After emailing the seller i took the plunge and bought it, went to view the van the next day and wished i had'nt
The following weekend the seller delivered it to me as i had no tow bar fitted to the car at that point and i was now the proud owner of a 1986 Lunar Micron,
That very evening things started to look very bleak for this little van finding major damp at the front and sides with rotten timbers, The next day i managed to unscrew all the furniture and cut the old rotten timbers out and get a dehumidifier in and switched on.
After a few weeks of drying out i started to renew the timbers at the front of the van and around the window, i would at this point like to let you all know that the cause of all this damp was not only the window rubber but the front panel on the outside was split.
after i sorted the timbers out i ordered a sheet of alluminium and replaced the front panel, resealed the awning rail and extrusion rails etc as you can see in the next pictures.
Now all the time i was doing this i found that the rear internal timbers and floor just inside the door was rotten so this posed a bit of a problem as i couldnt replace the whole floor so managed to cut the peice out that was rotten and replaced it bracing it underneath with timbers bolts and stainless screws.