Living in a Caravan Vs Living in a house

Brue,  just a thought, do you have a hairdryer with you? It worked once for me in similar circumstances. Good luck!

Ken

Yes we've got a hair dryer unfortunately we've left the extension at home (previous use of fairy lights blamed on me! ) OH doing another extension search just now. 

Many thanks KofK.

A lot of sympathy to Brue and DSB and anyone else with frozen water.

Had it happen to us twice now, first time when the fresh water bucket froze one Christmas at Meathop. We took home the biggest ice cube you've ever seen. Second was in France near Lac D'Orient not far from Troyes in early March one year. We'd stopped for 3 nights to view the Cranes and Sea Eagles over-wintering. It never got above minus 10° and the waste pipes froze. We used a hairdryer, as suggested by Ken. 

There was one other outfit on site. A very young couple living in a small caravan with a baby. They had a washing machine in their Panel van and a small Belling type cooker. He was there for work. Felt so sorry for them. We gave them some woollies to help them out as they were poor and in need of warm clothing. No fun having to live in a van as opposed to wanting to.

WN,  your  last  sentence  really  does  boil  it  all  up  and  condense  it  down  into  the  hard  centre  of  this  Thread.

And  a  pat  on  the  back  for  the  previous  sentence  too 

As has been suggested in the other thread, a year o a CAMC site could cost around £6700-7000. I've just checked my spreadsheets. Annual house costs for my Band E is half that, so Malcolm suggestion that it's a cheap way to live is a consignment of spherical genitalia.

What about all the household bills on top of that, CY? When you pay to stay on a club site, your electricity, water, waste, freeview tv channels etc. is all covered within those site fees.

Our caravan has a built in onboard tank, brue. We are getting running water from all of our caravan taps through the onboard tank since the outside water is frozen.

I don't think there's any limit to that, brue. Caravans can keep being serviced and maintained indefinitely. I recall seeing classic caravans on the National at Sandringham last year that were from the 1930s. They would be over 80 years old! That means your caravan could you last you for the rest of your life, if you wanted or needed it to do so.

Surely Freeview is, as it says, free?  Ours certainly is.

Our council tax, water, waste, gas and electricity in total comes to just under 60% of my state pension, and much less than £7000!

A seasonal pitch may be a cheap way to live, but using touring pitches certainly is not.

But what will you do when you need a refill, if your Aquaroll is still frozen?