12th February 2009 – How cold is COLD?

The fact that we were toasty warm when we woke showed us that our quilt worked a treat. Two numb and freezing noses alerted us to the fact that the heating wasn’t working a treat - in fact, at all! Ok, what now? Seems like the two gas cylinders provided by our dealer had not actually been full ones(well, I hadn’t actually asked the question) – phew! Or brrr as it actually was!  Oh well, a few problems to sort out and very grateful we had a try out before setting off to France and back ‘home’ to Spain.

Although our supplying dealer was happy to sort out the waste blockage and frost damaged surge damper it was going to cost more to take the Bel-Air back to Devon than to fix the problems ourselves. Anyway being ‘forced’ into doing repairs is a great way to understand the workings of this new machine. Scrabbling around in the freezing cold and a dismantling of the waste pipe from underneath revealed the blockage – yuk! Don’t let anything except water go down the plughole became our first commandment! Anew surge damper was eventually sourced locally and was quite easy to fit.