Caravan in Garden

JKJ

This may sound completely insane, but I would love to install a small caravan in our back garden to use as a "me" room, somewhere I can decorate to suit just me, and where I can get some alone time. BUT, we have no access to our back garden other than a passageway between our house and next door. So, how hard would it be to dismember a caravan on our front garden and carry it piece by piece into the back garden to rebuild? Can it be done ?

Buzby

Pointless, as you would compromise its integrity and it would degrade quickly. You might be able to crane it over, depending on obstructions etc, and the bigger the crane, the higher the cost.

Is the ground yours? If not, there may be restrictions preventing this that might not be aparrent until you do the deed!

JKJ

Buzby wrote: »

Pointless, as you would compromise its integrity and it would degrade quickly. You might be able to crane it over, depending on obstructions etc, and the bigger the crane, the higher the cost.

Is the ground yours? If not, there may be restrictions preventing this that might not be aparrent until you do the deed!

Sad, but I suspected that might be the case. Yes we own our house and the land it stands upon. DH willing to erect a shed but that seems so ordinary damn it!

Stooby2

A shed will remain in good nick long after a caravan has turned green and nasty and be leaking like a sieve. And much easier to repair. Even if you could dismantle a caravan which as Mr Buzby says, is extremely hard and even harder to put back together in any kind of leakproof form.

or get a small brick shed built that you can render and paint the inside to suit, install electrics, carpet, heater, beer fridge, telly.

Ebe_Scrooge

You also need to watch out for planning permission, daft as it sounds. I had a friend who did this, and he had to get permission from the council as it was classed as a "habitable dwelling". Different councils have different rules, but worth checking beforehand. And "sheds and summerhouses" come under different rules to "caravans" !

keystone

Log cabin.

Cheers

zzzLazyDaisy

How about a nice summer house? I have a small octagonal one in the back garden, which I got in an end of summer sale - no dearer than a shed but much nicer. It is draped inside with voiles and cushions, and it even has an electric socket). I have a bit of decking outside it and can sit and watch the birds and read undisturbed. Bliss

paddedjohn

Strip the caravan interior and fit it into a wooden shed

macman

The neighbours are sooo going to love looking out at a rusting caravan in the years to come...
And your LA are bound to assume that it's being used as permanent living accomodation.

Stooby2

caravans are aluminium and don't rust..

Avoriaz

JKJ wrote: »

This may sound completely insane, but I would love to install a small caravan in our back garden to use as a "me" room, somewhere I can decorate to suit just me, and where I can get some alone time. BUT, we have no access to our back garden other than a passageway between our house and next door. So, how hard would it be to dismember a caravan on our front garden and carry it piece by piece into the back garden to rebuild? Can it be done ?

It does.

Well, perhaps not insane but not really very sensible when there are plenty of other options that are cheaper, better, nicer looking, more useful, less liable to upset neighbours, less likely to need planning permission etc.

Caravans are the work of the devil. Summerhouses, sheds and wooden out building can be very nice.

A retired friend of mine has taken up sculpture as a serious hobby. She has had a studio built in her back garden. It is a wooden frame clad in white PVC panels. It is weatherproof and reasonably well insulated for winter use.

It is ideal for all her sculpture work and it looks very nice.