Best Modification

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For me the best modification we have made to our van is adding refillable gas. Not only has it more than paid for itself but it means no more struggling to change bottles in what is a very tight locker.
Anyone else care to share their favourite modifications?
 
Hard to chose one thing :unsure:

Fitted Refillables but don't actually use much gas so after 3 years I doubt it has yet paid for itself (and that is buying second-hand as well). The benefit of not having to lug bottles has got to be good though :)

Probably for me the best mod has been the one that the "real" campers would throw their arms up and say 'you don't need one of them' - that would be having an Inverter to allow me to use AC power off-grid. The sheer convenience of being able to use 'normal' things when away is hard to beat.
 
Wish I could afford to do that & not have to rely on EHU.I know it would probably pay for itself in the long run.
 
Turning the plate rack 90° and putting the cup rack on the wall below the cupboard it was in, getting a cup holder that I can reach with my right hand easily. putting the grill pan on a silicone mat and the rack inside ditto, I hate rattles, we switched from saucepans to frying pans, easier to stack clean and use, and a silicone mat between them and the live on the once rattly oven shelf.
 
Refillable gas
Lithium / Solar with all the works
E & P hydraulic levelling.

All well worth it in my opinion but certainly not cheap (especially the last two)
 
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Pudsey Bear said:
Turning the plate rack 90° and putting the cup rack on the wall below the cupboard it was in, getting a cup holder that I can reach with my right hand easily. putting the grill pan on a silicone mat and the rack inside ditto, I hate rattles, we switched from saucepans to frying pans, easier to stack clean and use, and a silicone mat between them and the live on the once rattly oven shelf.
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Can't be doing with rattles either so try and eliminate as much as possible :)
I took out the plate rack entirely (space-inefficient I thought as well as rattly) and instead I bought a couple of sets of separator pads like these - https://amzn.to/46mUXia. Have one between each bit of crockery and between the various stacking saucepans.

Very pleased with them (and of course, yes you can use old teatowels or cloths instead and not buy things like that. Just pre-empting the 'coulda shoulda' brigade ;) )

Also, handy thing I use is a Drying Mat which lives inside the cooker hob to stop the lid rattling and then comes out to act as a, oddly enough, drying mat for washing up (why do Motorhomes virtually never have any kind of draining board?). Mine is from Lakeland and is quite long and a perfect fit for the hob. Most seem to be a bit shorter?
 
mistericeman said:
Cost us just over £100 for 2 lightly used 6kg gaslow
And pipework ....
Only bits I didn't get were fill pipe and external filler .

Costs me just over £20 to fill both from empty .
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Already have one Refillable Gas plus one Calor Bottle was thinking more on the Electric side.......as Wildebus said Inverter to not to be relying on EHU Points.
 
Burge said:
Already have one Refillable Gas plus one Calor Bottle was thinking more on the Electric side.......as Wildebus said Inverter to not to be relying on EHU Points.
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Ahhh fair enough ...

Yup that Can be expensive ...I did ours bit by bit over time after planning what I wanted to do ..
Some second hand stuff too to save costs
 
wildebus said:
Can't be doing with rattles either so try and eliminate as much as possible :)
I took out the plate rack entirely (space-inefficient I thought as well as rattly) and instead I bought a couple of sets of separator pads like these - https://amzn.to/46mUXia. Have one between each bit of crockery and between the various stacking saucepans.

Very pleased with them (and of course, yes you can use old teatowels or cloths instead and not buy things like that. Just pre-empting the 'coulda shoulda' brigade ;) )

Also, handy thing I use is a Drying Mat which lives inside the cooker hob to stop the lid rattling and then comes out to act as a, oddly enough, drying mat for washing up (why do Motorhomes virtually never have any kind of draining board?). Mine is from Lakeland and is quite long and a perfect fit for the hob. Most seem to be a bit shorter?
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We put paper plates in the rack in-between the Croc plates to stop em rattling around.
 
wildebus said:
Can't be doing with rattles either so try and eliminate as much as possible :)
I took out the plate rack entirely (space-inefficient I thought as well as rattly) and instead I bought a couple of sets of separator pads like these - https://amzn.to/46mUXia. Have one between each bit of crockery and between the various stacking saucepans.

Very pleased with them (and of course, yes you can use old teatowels or cloths instead and not buy things like that. Just pre-empting the 'coulda shoulda' brigade ;) )

Also, handy thing I use is a Drying Mat which lives inside the cooker hob to stop the lid rattling and then comes out to act as a, oddly enough, drying mat for washing up (why do Motorhomes virtually never have any kind of draining board?). Mine is from Lakeland and is quite long and a perfect fit for the hob. Most seem to be a bit shorter?
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Ours came with something like this, it has a slot in the cupboard under the sink, I also have a small drying rack for plates.

www.primaleisure.com

PS4 UN3 AE1 Draining Board Grey

Bespoke draining board designed specifically to fit older Bailey caravans and motorhomes with round sinks.
www.primaleisure.com www.primaleisure.com
 
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