Hooking up at home.

[skyetripper]

Just out of interest, what do most people do to hook up at home (as, when and if needed)?

Going to get an electrician to put an outside socket on the side of the garage, but wondering whether to just fit a normal domestic socket and use a fly lead, or fit an EHU type of socket while he’s on.

 

[donkey]

What's this super water heater have you got?
A Truma Combi only keeps the water warm for a couple of hours

Totally agree. Truma actually have the cheek to refer to the plastic case as thermal insulation. I think in this age of conservation and energy efficiency Truma should do much better with this aspect of their heaters.
Apart from the wasted energy it makes my bed too hot, as it is directly above the boiler. I turn it off at night, then back on first thing.

Geoff

 

[cyberyacht]

Mine is positioned under the fridge. How helpful is that?

 

[SpeedyDux]

Like others I use the ordinary 3 pin mains socket inside the garage plus an adapter, and run the EHU cable past the locked door.

I also put a 1.8m cable protector with a hi-viz yellow stripe over the EHU cable because I don't want a trip claim for compo from the Postie or any of the various leaflet distributers who take a shortcut between van and garage. About £22 from Amazon.

 

[Madcaravanner]

My garage supply has a dedicated set of trips - one of which is 16amp
connectted to this trip is an external IEE Socket (standard hook up socket) then I use one of my short cables to hook up (I have a 25m a 12m anda 10m cable )

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[Derek’soldvan]

Kinda jealous of you lot with a drive, if I can park my van in my street (residents parking) I rarely can outside the house (2hour parking restriction), if I get that lucky it’s a hookup out the upstairs bedroom window thru the roof vent (to stop the pedestrians tripping on the cable &/or it getting stolen, by the time I’ve rigged it up I can just about get the hoovering done & it’s time to move it again

 

[donkey]

Kinda jealous of you lot with a drive, if I can park my van in my street (residents parking) I rarely can outside the house (2hour parking restriction), if I get that lucky it’s a hookup out the upstairs bedroom window thru the roof vent (to stop the pedestrians tripping on the cable &/or it getting stolen, by the time I’ve rigged it up I can just about get the hoovering done & it’s time to move it again

How are you going to get on when we all go to electric vehicles?

Geoff

 

[Driventemple]

Belt and Braces - spurred off a point in the Living Room through the wall.

 

[Derek’soldvan]

How are you going to get on when we all go to electric vehicles?

Geoff

Sell the bloody house, the van is a money pit I want to get something back out of it!!

 

[Odd-no-more]

I fitted an external socket using an earth rod, not the bungalow's PME earth which is not recommended for vehicles. I switch off the onboard charger and connect a smart charger, it is on all the time to keep the battery in good condition. It is ok for when we use it as an bedroom as well.

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[GirlyVanGirly]

We only put the van on EHU at home the afternoon before a trip away so I can get the fridge down to temperature and can fill it up with a few frozen meals etc. We plug it into the garage (with an adaptor) the wire fits under the garage door, we don't have to worry about anyone tripping over it as we park right up to the garage doors and its in a private parking area. Just parked up we find the solar panel does a good job at keeping both batteries topped up.

 

[skyetripper]

Wow. Been away for day and there’s a lot of replies.. Cheers
I think common sense suggests using a fly lead adapter off the domestic supply, but I’ll check with my leccy and see what he thinks.

 

[Andy Stephens]

I had an outside socket fitted at the side of my house. It's permanently hooked up when at home, I keep a full size dehumidifier running all the time, it pulls out a couple of litres of water a day and keeps the motorhome much drier than it would have otherwise been.

 

[Tonks]

I just made up a dedicated lead, domestic plug one end and camper plug the other end with 10m of spare flex. Cost me about £10.

That's exactly what I've got too, plugged into an outside socket I had fitted, which is switched from inside the house. I originally planned to have a camper socket, but changed my mind and fitted a twin three-pin socket as it's more flexible. The van is plugged in whenever I'm home, but it's only 'switched on' once a week, unless I'm going away and am cooling the fridge in advance. Having a dedicated lead for home use saves messing about with my regular hook up cable.

 

[bexleyjohn]

I put an external double socket on wall outside the house. Drilled into the porch and fed power cable in. Standard 13 amp plug on end and plugged into the switched power socket in the porch. Handy for plugging MH into external socket (with adaptor) and useful for lawn mower and pressure washer….. sorted. Can also isolate power to external socket by switching off in the porch so no sneaky b****r can plug in when I’m away.

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[JaG]

16amp blue socket fitted to side of garage wall. Allows me to plug my site lead into it to connect direct to motorhome.

connected to 2 way distribution box with RCCD in garage.

and when I want to use normal tools I have made up an adapter from 16amp plug and two way socket.

Works a treat and very safe in all aspects.

 

[charliesgrandad]

HOW MUCH !!!!!

Totally off topic but we have just had a sunday lunch with a bottle of wine (the wine was £16.60) at the Wanderer bistro on Knaresborough CMC and a couple sat near us and ordered a bottle of wine and when the waiter said £16.60 he in a loud voice uttered HOW MUCH ,must have been a yorkie

 

[Trevor Wbm]

I took the opportunity to change the single spur off the sheds distribution board for a ring main with internal double socket and external EHU type connector.

An extension lead with EHU to three pin domestic plug converter would have been just as good, but I'm retired and sometimes bored ...

 

[VXman]

Kinda jealous of you lot with a drive, if I can park my van in my street (residents parking) I rarely can outside the house (2hour parking restriction), if I get that lucky it’s a hookup out the upstairs bedroom window thru the roof vent (to stop the pedestrians tripping on the cable &/or it getting stolen, by the time I’ve rigged it up I can just about get the hoovering done & it’s time to move it again

Move!

 

[Blaydon]

Hi there. Whatever you use at the end of the cable in the garden, I would make sure you an isolate the socket so no one can use it when you don’t want them to. I put a standard plug on the “inside” of the cable and plugged it into a socket in the garage. That way I can switch off or disconnect the outside power point when we go away or if I want to ensure no one taps into my power. It might seem a bit much but I have heard of folks finding an extension lead in their outside socket running to who knows what. Just a thought.

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[CazPaul]

Totally off topic but we have just had a sunday lunch with a bottle of wine (the wine was £16.60) at the Wanderer bistro on Knaresborough CMC and a couple sat near us and ordered a bottle of wine and when the waiter said £16.60 he in a loud voice uttered HOW MUCH ,must have been a yorkie

The fish and chips are nice from there we took them back to the van, lovely quality just not enough.
But that’s from a greedy Yorkshireman.