A FEW YEARS back, a journalist friend of mine bought an old Elddis two-berth, for fun weekends away with her husband. “It's a bargain,” she said, “just £800!”
To be fair, it looked quite smart, with no signs of damage or decay. But while I wasn't going to say anything negative, I was a little sceptical that a van so old would not have a few hidden gremlins, just waiting to devour her savings.
In the end, though, that caravan never left her driveway. Crestfallen, she soon revealed that her cute tourer was riddled with invisible damp. Having sneaked in through failed seals, the moisture was lurking between its sidewalls and internal panelling, gnawing away at its wooden structure, creating a trail of decay and unjustifiable expenditure.
Dangers of damp…
