Hello Stacie, here's a few to be going on with:
Ice tray dividers. Ice trays tend to nest into one andother and freeze together. Get some food quality choppong sheets (plastic0 from Lakeland etc. and cut them a lttle arger than the tray. Place one on top of tray before standing second tray on top of it. Comes out easily even if freezer compartment is a bit iced-up.
Tables in awnings. The traditional caravan table with folding legs is often used in awning where the ground is not levl and or may be wet. Screw a rubber doorstop under each end of each leg which will raise the square section bar off the ground and give ground contact in only four points instead of along the length of the feet. Drill small hole and use suitable sized SS self tap secre. This will also give slightly more knee room when table is used in caravan.
Toilet fluid dispensers. Using the manufacturers bottles to dispense tolit fluid and rinse aid on site often results in drops getting blown about in the wind with subsequent staining. Take empty plastic bottles which have containted hand wash gell etc. 'Calibrate' by adding successive shots of 120 cc of water and draw a line round the outside of the bottle with black indelible felt tip. (If very fussy, put cap on and invert bottle before drawing lines, as this will allow for head space when in use).
Fill bottle with blue or pink. To use just flip back the cap, put the nozzle down into the pipe of the cassette and squeeze gently until level falls to next line.
End of the 'blue thumb' symdrome.
Zip pullers. Screw a reasonable size cup hook into the end of a length of dowel rod - say about a foot. Use this to hook into the sip pulls on the awning. Make two or three and levee them in place on the zips used most often. (Believe thise are available commercially but easy and chepa to make and you will be surprised how much easier the job becomes, particularly for the high zips.) Do check the end of the cup hook actually fits into the hole on the zip - these may be smaller than you think.
Awning rafters for Caravanstore and similar awnings. The supplied rafters are fine and well made but rely on you having enough grip to lock one part of the tube into the other by turning - not to easy if your wrists are not what they used to be.
Alternative rafters can be made easily from washing line poles from most street markets - pair £1.99 each for mine.
Saw off the nylon hook at one end leaving a snice square end. Drill down into this a pilot hole about 3 mm diameter. Instert and push home a glavanised nail. Get a good contact - say at least an inch, then cut off the head leaving about one inch protruding. File the cut edge to avoid burrs and snagging. On the other end either just wrap round with insulating tape to increase the diameter of the pole to fit the sockets built into the Caravanstore just under the awning rail, or fit a rubber foot meanst for awning poles from W4 and others.
Then you can fit the rafter rail into the holes already provided , tension it a little and tighten the nylon thumbscrew originally desigend to control the hieght of washing line from ground.
Since the washing props are a bit smaller in diameter than the 'proper' poles, fit a langth of 15mm copper pipe insulation to each - decorate to taste !
Hope you like 'em - all tried and tested over several seasons.
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