Static Caravan Lean To

[LA3222]

It was mentioned in another thread that others may be interested in what I built next to the Caravan and why.

 

I started off intending to build a sheltered area where we could dekit without traipsing mud etc into the static. This grew into me adding walls so that we had some additional space.  The father in law had an old door kicking about so we put that in and then he asked his builder mate to grab some windows being scrapped when he could so it also has a window in too.

 

The floor deck, I built a frame out of a load of timber and then put a load of pallet wood (scrounged from work over that). Wasnt the best so I bought some OSB and put that over and got a stiff decent floor surface.  The platform I built 2.4 x 4.8m so it fit the size of 2.4x1.2m OSB sheets.  Used some timbers for the frame of the roof and covered that with OSB. To keep the 'inner' skin dry I chucked up some battens and then some cheapo feathered boarding over it for the walls.  The roof is just the cheapest corrugated stuff i could find.

 

Inside i put lino down for a floor.  The racking from our old garage is in there along with our old fridge freezer, washing machine, tumble dryer, draws from our old bedroom for the kids clothes, shoe racks, old kitchen table.  The space is like a utility room now and gives us loads of extra storage space and somewhere to transition from outside to inside without trashing the van.

 

I chucked a load of old rugs down where I could so it's not cold for the kids feet.  It gets dirty in there with mud etc but doesn't take long to set right again. It's not particularly airtight (I sealed any big gaps with cut up memory foam mattress) but it is weather tight.

 

I got a sparky to install electric sockets in there for the white goods and a fluorescent tube light.

 

I think the missus would find it very difficult without that additional space, I'll have a look at costs but I seem to think I spent around £800 altogether, very much worth it though.

 

I'll upload pics once I have had a chance to look at my laptop.

Edited March 17, 2020 by LA3222

[SuperJohnG]

Big man....any pics? Just bought a caravan and selling house...reckon I have 3-6 months come August ina caravan. 

[LA3222]

Bloody hell...this is a thread resurrection. I will dig some pics out, makes a big difference having the spill over space, we would have been buggered without it. It was originally just going to be a deck and roof so can keeps dirty shoes etc outside, chucking some walls up were a no brainer once I thought about it. Then a light and sockets!

 

I'm no joiner, lots of screws, then a few more!

[SuperJohnG]

5 minutes ago, LA3222 said:

Bloody hell...this is a thread resurrection

Making goodness of the existing posts.

 

The wife was looking at getting a wee green storage bin for the washing machine...but I said I'd seen a pic and this would be better with big porch..