Motorhome waste point

Converting existing Motorhome waste drains into drive over grille types is not Major drainage work, a couple of hours with a mini digger then 24hours or so while the concrete and tarmac goes hard.

Moreton in Marsh were doing theirs whilst we were there a few weeks ago.

Chirk needs it doing too. extra heavy hatches there.Hold on back....help is coming.

They were doing that when we were there in March ,so it seems to take a bit longer than 24 hours 

 That might explain the terrible drain hatch covers at Chirk...no visible sign of any way to lift them. Hold on those arent rivet heads, but coach bolt heads...which you are supposed to pull out and use as handles !!!! whoever thought of that one ?

Several drained out onto the tops of the covers !

and I do not blame them. Plus they are back breakingly heavy....roll on grilles.

Was it a problem to be care full of that's why when visiting

The site was at bleak Leek .... you didn't need a step ladder to get onto the drain, but the grid did appear to higher than the surrounding road surface. I add that I only observed this as I drove passed in my car on the way back to my caravan 🙄

The description on the web site is a little ambiguous, they all seem to be described as:-

Drive over waste disposal for motorhomes

To me the term suggests the grid type. I don't regard driving over a manhole, which then has to be extracted from under the MH as Drive over.

I presume the phrase is historic, from when not all sites had a manhole system. Now it really needs changing to drive over grid, where these have been installed.

You need to upgrade your inadequate M/C waste outlet to some thing user friendly, 

I can remember a time, when I first started with tents and later caravans, and before the aqua-roll and waste-master had been invented. In those days people used to carry 2 or 5 gallon fresh water and 2 or 5 gallon waste water to and from the taps and disposal points, sometimes using luggage trolleys. In those days the waste drains were sometimes up to knee high, to aid the disposal of a carried waste container. 

Along came the advent of the aqua-roll and waste-master, which required a ground level waste grill. As I recall all the higher level waste disposal points were removed fairly quickly to accommodate these new fangled wheeled waste containers which many caravanners had bought.

The need for drive over waste disposal for modern motor homes is exactly the same, but for MHs rather than caravans.. The point being, that site facilities are changed to suit changing demands, and the quicker things are changed, the happier people are with those provided facilities. I can also remember a time when 240 mains for a caravan was unheard of, and that too was introduced fairly quickly, to meet increasing demand. The problem we have here, is that this club is rather too slow to get things fully sorted on all of their sites. 

I would put it the other way round. It seems very adequate over some I have observed. It's about a 40mm outlet, with only a short run from an insulated tank. Therefore empties quickly and should not have any freezing issues. It even comes with a 1.8 metre flexible extension. Unfortunately none of that helps lift the lids.😉☹️

Is it because its more of  wimpy/older owners that are having problems as since M/Cs owners were  accepted as members in the 1970s the "problem" has only in the last couple of years 

P.s it took a couple of days per MC service point to be installed at Clumber Park as all the waste/water supplies  needed altering