One Step Closer to Buying!

[Sapper520]

Comparatively little personal stuff, but yes, 40kg allowed for 2 bikes [weighed last year for caravan trip] incl saddlebags for shopping. 120kg for water, 77kg for diesel, 50kg for food & crockery, 42kg for Gas bottles plus driver and passenger who can prove that obesity is a lot of good food gone to waist ...

I've worked on the basis of worst case outcomes, and with a margin of about 20%, I can relax rather than worry about the back axle giving up the ghost half way down the M6 or similar. I am a total anal retentive and do fret over stuff that others wouldn't give a second thought to, but if I could change my character and mindset to be more laissez-faire, it would have happened before now!

Me: 'Elaine, you sure you've got the passports?'
Elaine: 'Yes; and I also had them the 4 previous occasions on which you asked in the last hour or so ...'
Me: 'Just checking ...' Muted screams drown out satnav instructions

Steve

You could save a load of weight by not travelling with full water.

 

[deleted79651]

Well it sounds like you have done the deal, good for you. If so you need to change the Avatar

Thanks! At the moment, the Avatar would be a picture of me checking what colour adrenalin is. My first mortgage to purchase a 2 bed bungalow was for £6,000 and cost me £23.71pm over 30 years; the m/home represents a somewhat larger commitment ...

Steve & Elaine

 

[PJGWiltshire]

Thanks! At the moment, the Avatar would be a picture of me checking what colour adrenalin is. My first mortgage to purchase a 2 bed bungalow was for £6,000 and cost me £23.71pm over 30 years; the m/home represents a somewhat larger commitment ...

Steve & Elaine

Indeed bought our first house in 1980, £22500, second house 1981 £32500 bought our first motorhome in 2009, £63000 bought our second MH in 2016 £85,000. We can't take it with us.

 

[irnbru]

Thanks! At the moment, the Avatar would be a picture of me checking what colour adrenalin is. My first mortgage to purchase a 2 bed bungalow was for £6,000 and cost me £23.71pm over 30 years; the m/home represents a somewhat larger commitment ...

Steve & Elaine

But back then you earned much less per hour and everything was cheaper.

 

[PJGWiltshire]

Thanks! At the moment, the Avatar would be a picture of me checking what colour adrenalin is. My first mortgage to purchase a 2 bed bungalow was for £6,000 and cost me £23.71pm over 30 years; the m/home represents a somewhat larger commitment ...

Steve & Elaine

Try this….. What have I done?

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[deleted79651]

But back then you earned much less per hour and everything was cheaper.

True. £60pm housekeeping, and about 1/2 spent on monthly restock that just about filled 2 Sainsbury's trollies! Some of us really know how to enjoy themselves on a Friday night!

Steve & Elaine

 

[BouncyBoatFolk]

You've allowed a figure of 120 ltrs for water, which equals 120kg, would you travel with that much water? I would have that 20ltrs would cover most emergency's till you were able to fill the water tank after parking up?
Mike

 

[Grummyb]

I keep reading threads about weight and wonder how often do people get pulled over by VOSA or DVSA or whatever bloody bunch of initials they are using this week and I'm not condoning overloading but most vans will have a design weight well in excess of the 3500kgs plated weight so if you go over by 10% your certainly not going to do any damage to the van and in this thread the op has made calculations for z full tank of fuel and j reckon your will have to have my sort of luck (If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck) to get stopped just as you pull out of the fuel station and on a lighter note as the op has described himself as a telly tubby save weight by taking less food and then soon be a tellyslim instead

 

[deleted79651]

You could save a load of weight by not travelling with full water.

We don't intend to travel with a full tank of water; most of the time it will be 20 litres, but we want to be able to cope with a full tank for when we are parked up and for times when/if we go wild camping. We don't want to be left with a 'Love to do that, but the m/home won't cope/hasn't got enough payload'.

Steve & Elaine

 

[deleted79651]

You've allowed a figure of 120 ltrs for water, which equals 120kg, would you travel with that much water? I would have that 20ltrs would cover most emergency's till you were able to fill the water tank after parking up?
Mike

Hi Mike,

We just want the capacity to be able to carry a full tank without causing a problem. Don't want to be forced to trade, say, full diesel for reduced fresh water , or vice versa. We have no experience but we hope to be able to relax the tight processes as we learn. Idealism descending to pragmatism!

Steve & Elaine

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