subject: Getting Caravan Repairs Done Properly Helps to Save You Your Precious Holiday Home [print this page] Getting Caravan Repairs Done Properly Helps to Save You Your Precious Holiday Home
Anyone who has ever owned, stayed in or lived in a caravan will tell you this: caravan repairs are absolutely essential, that too proper repairs and not the 'do it yourself' stuff that British people are usually so misguidedly proud of. Bodge up a caravan repair and you'll be standing under a collapsed roof, trying to hold it up in a thunder storm while someone calls for assistance.
The thing is caravans are really very delicate. It only takes the tiniest little hole in the skin of a caravan to develop the kind of major problem you'd normally associate with, say, a really famous ocean liner hitting an iceberg in a supposedly open sea. Caravans and caravan accessories are designed, as best they can, to be completely waterproof which means, unfortunately, that any time water actually gets into the things you and the things are in dead trouble.
So: if ever a problem develops with your caravan (and at some point it will, you can be assured: that's one of the major joys of caravan ownership) get your caravan repairs done by a workshop. By people who know what they are doing, and who can make the repairs you need with the right tools in the right environment at the right time.
One of the major differences between having a caravan and its caravan accessories repaired in a proper workshop and having it done in situ, or in a leaky barn, is this: a caravan repair shop is completely dry, and it's full of tools that have actually been designed to help fix up the mobile home. Because certain parts of caravans are so fragile, or at least made of some very specific materials, they really need to be treated and tended with specialty tools. You can do it with a spanner and a hammer and so on but you're running the risk of making the initial injury much more serious than it was. Rather like trying to bandage a sprained ankle with a rusty bed spring. The caravan repairs work shop will be full of trained professionals, well used to working with caravans, who have access to a whole heap of specially designed tool kits, each with its own particular task peeling the skin back off the roof; sealing joints; fixing tow hitches, and so on.
Caravan accessories (like the tow hitch lock, for example) are particularly prone to breaking because they tend to stick off the main body of the van: making both the van body at that point, and the accessory itself, in danger of sudden snapping in high winds or due to incorrect hitching procedures. Again: any damage sustained to van or accessories as a result of the placing of accessories, or attempts to hitch the van in high or inclement weather, should absolutely be attended to by caravan repairs professionals. They can make the difference between keeping a small repair small, and making a little breakage into a giant mess.
