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ACCESSORIES ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT WHAT DO WE WANT TO SPEND?

Glossop is a one-stop-shop where you can buy everything you Toilet chemicals
need for caravanning. We take you on a guided tour of the Gas cylinders (one, preferably two)
amazing accessories superstore… Fresh water container
Waste water container
Glossop Caravans has one of the largest caravan be imagining yourselves on a caravan park, Step
accessory shops in the UK. You’ll find everything enjoying your new leisure lifestyle. Leisure battery
you need to start out in caravanning, plus a whole Car extension mirrors
lot more; that’s equipment that can enhance your HOW TO DECIDE WHAT YOU NEED Number plate
caravanning lifestyle over a period of time – the Corner steady winding handle
niceties, such as barbecues and outdoor furniture. Caravan accessories can be broadly divided into Mains electricity cable
two categories: Equipment that’s essential, and
Glossop’s shop is a lovely, spacious place in stuff you might like to consider later. WATER CONTAINERS
which to browse, and in a few minutes you’ll
You can opt for a small, simple water
ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT container that you carry to and
from a tap but, with a number
These essential items include water FOR TOILET CHEMICALS of wheeled water containers
containers, a gas cylinder and a leisure STARTERS to choose from, our advice
battery. All new caravans now come Waste tank chemicals prevent odour; is to look closely at these
with steps, mains hook-up cables and Glossop top tank additives are slightly fragrant because you don’t have
corner steady winding handles. If you’re Caravans’ and help keep the toilet mechanism to carry the water! And
buying a used caravan, these may not special Starter lubricated and working well. they’re much bigger, which
be present; they are essential, but they Pack, available means you’ll only have to refill
don’t cost a lot of money. with every There’s a good it about once a day.
caravan sold, choice at Glossop. We’d go for an Aquaroll
In this section, we guide you of any age, As example and a Wastemaster, in
through the list of items that you gives you: we picked smart silver or grey. Each is
will need to get on the road. Then out Thetford £51.99.
we take a look at the vast array of An Aquaroll Aqua Kem
equipment that, while enhancing fresh water Blue, in various LEISURE BATTERIES
your holiday lifestyle, isn’t essential container sizes. It’s £10.45
just when you are starting out. Stuff for a two litre Why you need a battery: Mains power
to budget for later, perhaps. Reasons A bottle and goes through a converter in your
to come back to Glossop for another Wastemaster £9.99 for one caravan, to supply 12-volt power. So
browse around the store… wheeled litre. the caravan’s lighting and water pump
waste water can be operated on battery power
GAS CYLINDERS container Thetford alone, without the need for a mains
Aqua Rinse Plus electric hook-up. Caravans have in-built
There are A waste is £8.90 for 1.5
two types of water litres, and Aqua Rinse
gas used by connection Spray (ideal for cleaning the toilet
caravanners, hose bowl) is £4.50 for 500 ml
propane
and butane. A mains Glossop Caravans’ own label
Propane comes electricity lead Perfumed Toilet Fluid is £6.99 for 2.5
in red cylinders; litres and Top Tank Rinse is also £6.99.
butane is in A gas
blue ones. regulator and Thetford Bathroom Cleaner, ideal
connection for all plastic surfaces, is £3.99 for a
If you pipe 500ml spray container.
intend to
use your A leisure
caravan in battery
frosty weather
you will A number
need to choose propane, because plate
butane doesn’t vaporise in sub-zero
temperatures. Worth £200

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