Hi all,
We're very excited to be researching our first caravan purchase. There have been so many things to consider in terms of what we would like that it's been a bit of an oversight to date in terms of whether what we'd like, will fit on our driveway.
We've got an L-shaped drive. Ideally the caravan would be parked up the side of the house as its the longest part of the drive and would save us parking behind one and other. However that section of the drive is most narrow. We've got approximately 240cm width at the narrowest point (between our house guttering and the fence/brick pier on our neighbours side. It does widen to 250cm but the caravan we'd like is 225cm wide... so it's very tight! That said, there is an additional 10cm or so between the guttering and our house wall to aid with accessing between the house and the caravan.
We would like a motor mover so I initially thought that it wont be an issue as we can remotely drive it in forwards (I thought that would be best for safety) but I'm now wondering exactly how you engage a motor mover system and whether you'd need access to both side of the van or whether you engage it on one side only?
I assume the MM runs off of the leisure battery as I'm also wondering if that dies, how we go about charging it up as id imagine the side storage compartments where the battery would be located would be tight to access due to the limited width between the caravan and the house wall. I'd imagine we'd need a good 50cm or so of clearance to open the side compartment of the caravan.
If the caravan was 50cm shorter, it would be able to comfortably fit across the front of the house, but that extra 50cm of extra length would encroach too far over the entrance of the drive. What a polava!
We're very excited to be researching our first caravan purchase. There have been so many things to consider in terms of what we would like that it's been a bit of an oversight to date in terms of whether what we'd like, will fit on our driveway.
We've got an L-shaped drive. Ideally the caravan would be parked up the side of the house as its the longest part of the drive and would save us parking behind one and other. However that section of the drive is most narrow. We've got approximately 240cm width at the narrowest point (between our house guttering and the fence/brick pier on our neighbours side. It does widen to 250cm but the caravan we'd like is 225cm wide... so it's very tight! That said, there is an additional 10cm or so between the guttering and our house wall to aid with accessing between the house and the caravan.
We would like a motor mover so I initially thought that it wont be an issue as we can remotely drive it in forwards (I thought that would be best for safety) but I'm now wondering exactly how you engage a motor mover system and whether you'd need access to both side of the van or whether you engage it on one side only?
I assume the MM runs off of the leisure battery as I'm also wondering if that dies, how we go about charging it up as id imagine the side storage compartments where the battery would be located would be tight to access due to the limited width between the caravan and the house wall. I'd imagine we'd need a good 50cm or so of clearance to open the side compartment of the caravan.
If the caravan was 50cm shorter, it would be able to comfortably fit across the front of the house, but that extra 50cm of extra length would encroach too far over the entrance of the drive. What a polava!