I'm just trying to calculate the electricity cost. At 20p Kw/h and a 500 watt radiator it would be £1 for 10hrs, so say £1 a day, £30 a month, £120 for 4 months. I would see these as minimum and could easily see the radiator being on 24hrs a day in height of winter when the van would be loosing heat more quickly than you could put it in.
I'd have thought crack windows open so you get a through flow of air, or hermetically seal the van and use a couple of vapour traps. I part tried the later and used the vapour trap bags when our van was stored outside under a car port for one winter. I removed the bags a couple of times over the winter and dried them out in the oven.
I brought in all fabric/bedding and left all cupboards open. You are safe to do this with the top lockers Mike. It's only when the flaps fly open that they put stress on the hinges.

Colin

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...or hermetically seal the van and use a couple of vapour traps.

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Ever since we've owned our van we've stored it outside under a Protec cover. Quite often the field is very frosty and is not sheltered at all from all the weather thrown at it.

We don't leave any vents open and visit the van every few days to have a quick look, especially in bad weather. The only extra thermal protection we give it is a bubble wrap square put into the locker box where the toilet sits. We also now have taken to protecting the inside of the canvas where it hangs over the aluminium rail by using a 4" wide crepe bandage like a John MacEnroe headband.

All locker doors and cupboard doors are left open and the fridge door is also left open. All soft furnishings are moved away from touching the outside walls. It works for us.

Randa

To "hermetically seal the van" was meant to be a tongue in cheek. I don't think I have seen aa bag big enough for the job and would probably puncture it if I tried to use one. That is not to say you could not buy one. I suppose bubble wrap and cling film would be an alternative. I have the remains of a 100m x 1.5m roll of the smaller bubble stuff but I'm running low on tape and my Tesco food wrap is a bit on the narrow side.

Colin

What about this then? A German 530 owner ( Thierry Vankemmel ) stores his van like so. Very good at reversing too

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Randa

I do like that. I'm just imaging the jobs worth at the insurance company. You know how they go through the tick box list, then think about how they got on with the storage questions.

Colin

In? He leaves her in there. Well he needs someone to look out of the back window to tell him when to stop.
R

A fairly fine day today so it was Eriba washday. It was so dirty that i've decided to wash it twice before covering it so all being well, another wash day tomorrow.

I must admit that I've not seen it so dirty before. The roof was brown with green bits growing out of all the gaskets and channels.

Randa