Our caravan is 19 years old, and whilst it appears to have been looked after and stored well throughout it's life so far, it needed a bit of TLC and a spruce up.
One of the great little jobs we did to our caravan last summer, was to replace the aluminium awning rail infill strips. Our caravan still had the original ones and they appeared to be growing boils and warts and I feared they were mutating! We decided to take most of the vinyl stickers off our caravan because they were all cracked and were ageing her (if you choose to do this be prepared for vaxatious picking), but we liked the neat burgundy stripes down the side and though it would look great to match the infills in colour.
It cost us around £40 to do the whole caravan, with some left over, from Ebay.
Very easy to remove the original, just pick the end up with a swiss army knife and pull it out. We discovered quite a few insects who had been born, made a home and died underneath - the perfect opportunity to give our caravan a little bath!
Pretty easy to insert the new infills when you get the hang of it. My technique was to insert a few inches of infill under one side of the rail, then use a screwdriver to run along the other edge of the infill, pushing it under the rail as you go, then run over it with your thumb to make sure it's pushed down and you've not missed anywhere. The corners are the trickiest part but I managed them using the same technique.
The end result was great. Our caravan looked cleaner, neater and younger!
Happy Caravanning!
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