Washing the van when wild camping.

[Tezza33]

Where did you get that info from? I am Yorkshire Water and hose pipe bans do not apply to blue badge holders, the other company I checked was Southern Water and blue badge holders are exempt there as well ( Southern Water )

I heard about it originally on BBC News earlier this year

I am exempt with Severn Trent Water, I didn't know about this until I read your post so I checked, so thanks to you I need another excuse to avoid washing the van and watering the garden

Trevs on fire tonight

I am not going to pi$$ on him

 

[Wooie1958]

One of our neighbours back in Penwortham was also exempt under that scheme but the other neighbours gave him that much grief and abuse when he was using the hosepipe he stopped using it.

 

[RichardHelen262]

One of our neighbours back in Penwortham was also exempt under that scheme but the other neighbours gave him that much grief and abuse when he was using the hosepipe he stopped using it.

Helen is a blue badge holder, but it just wouldn’t feel right using the hose pipe, whilst there is a hosepipe ban

 

[myvanwy]

Your not allowed to wash your vehicle at home where our place is in Spain, but, just down the road there is a non attended pressure wash station. They have thought of everything. One of the bays has a raised platform so I can pressure wash the roof of the van.

 

[Nabsim]

One of our neighbours back in Penwortham was also exempt under that scheme but the other neighbours gave him that much grief and abuse when he was using the hosepipe he stopped using it.

All 3 of us at the house are exempt but we hardly use the hosepipe. Don't think it has been used while the ban has been on here. I may use it later today/tomorrow to put water in the van but that is allowed for anyone anyway as far as I am aware

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Is it? I thought it was a place to share opinions?

I argue cos I am an argumentative sod with no sense of humour, (according to Caz)

Share yes, fine, but not to argue, spoils it for every one, PM if you need to argue.

 

[Val54]

Oh I do miss Wintonian .....

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Who was that?

 

[Val54]

Who was that?

David (Wintonian) (sadly no longer with us) would keep a thread going forever with his acerbic wit and tendency to correct any misuse of the english language. Lived in France with an extensive knowledge of Hymers etc and aires, someone else will be along to add something no doubt.

 

[alcam]

David (Wintonian) (sadly no longer with us) would keep a thread going forever with his acerbic wit and tendency to correct any misuse of the english language. Lived in France with an extensive knowledge of Hymers etc and aires, someone else will be along to add something no doubt.

Never uncertain , seldom correct.

 

[Tezza33]

Never uncertain , seldom correct.

But sadly, missed

 

[Robmac]

But sadly, missed

He certainly made the forum interesting Terry, not to mention lively at times.

 

[trevskoda]

Takes the Irish to start a good twisted argument, if you dont agree with me then p-ss off.

 

[alcam]

But sadly, missed

Bizarrely yes

 

[mark61]

Stopped at his local town other day. Had a coffee in local tobac for him.

 

[gabby82]

I recall many many years ago when I first started caravanning, by someone in south of France, one never cleans their unit while on holiday. Although I don’t like that idea, I must say that I have adopted it ever since except for when a pigeons nest fell on my unit in a storm. The birds had been eating red berries that created huge bad red stains all over my ‘van.

 

[TeamRienza]

Pretty much every evening after driving for an hour or so in France (spring and Autumn) I need to be out washing the dead mouches and mustiques off the windscreen and bonnet etc.
I don't know if it is the fairly upright screen and frontal shape that doesn't allow them to be slipstreamed past the van, and mind you I am not a boy racer so I give them a chance to escape.
Fortunately as we get older, we tend to stay on the each aire for several days, reducing the need for deflying the front end.
The rest of the van gets ignored unless a bird craps or similar.

Davy

What is the last thing to enter a fly's head when it hits a moving windscreen?



Its ass!!

 

[Pudsey Bear]

We try to never park under trees, but in France this year we did for shade and had the heki open, we woke to an army of ants on the ceiling, all in on place though, it took us a couple of days to get rid of them all.

 

[Sharon the Cat]

Your not allowed to wash your vehicle at home where our place is in Spain, but, just down the road there is a non attended pressure wash station. They have thought of everything. One of the bays has a raised platform so I can pressure wash the roof of the van.

I was very tempted by those in France. When I say I was tempted, what I meant is that I was tempted to suggest using one to Phill. I would have stayed in the van reading my Kindle and putting the kettle on.
However, I didn't give in. Van was clean before we left, and Phill cleaned it again when we got home 3,000 miles later.
He did clean the screen a couple of times though.

 

[mark61]

Tempted to use one over here today before getting ferry. Leave the mud here, rather than leave it in my local jet wash. Not sure I can be bothered.