South Lakeland Parks (SLP) Forum

My first visit since July! and I noted thr following

1. Very quite! assume the rush will start tomorrow for the New Year festivities

2. The long stay tourers have gone .. the fees went up and the owners cleared off

3. Super pitch area will have 19 new green caravans

Must say it's been a hassle fee year and the new Park Owners have made a positive start. What will 2009 bring ?

1. Improvements to the Haybarn ?

2. Significantly more day/week tourers?

3. More owners renting and rates being driven down ?

4. A NEW CONTRACT AGREED WITH THE OWNERS AND SIGNED ???

The report commenting on the draft SLP contract went back to SLP just before Christmas. They have passed our comments back to their solicitors for consideration. I guess the progress has slowed over the Christmas break. Hopefully we will get a new contract sorted in the New Year.

Regards

Kevin

Problems again with frozen pipes on Applethwaite - anyone else affected. Guests rang us yesterday to say no water - Trish assured us all pipes were frozen but usually defrost by midday!! She reckons if it drops below -5 c it freeze + monday night it was -6 (+ looks a good deal colder over the next few nights. Is there anything we (or SLC) should be doing to prevent it - I presume it is the main pipes that freeze (unless it is the individual stop tap pipes)
Any comments??
Steve

PS Happy New Year to all

wansfell lodge wrote:Problems again with frozen pipes on Applethwaite - anyone else affected. Guests rang us yesterday to say no water - Trish assured us all pipes were frozen but usually defrost by midday!! She reckons if it drops below -5 c it freeze + monday night it was -6 (+ looks a good deal colder over the next few nights. Is there anything we (or SLC) should be doing to prevent it - I presume it is the main pipes that freeze (unless it is the individual stop tap pipes)
Any comments??
Steve

PS Happy New Year to all

I called into Fallbarrow today to close up for the Winter. The maintenance guys were being run ragged trying to defrost mains feeds to caravans. Apparently it is the same at WXB (and of course Limefitt). My lodge was fine as I believe SLP have insulated the mains water feed.

Hope everybody had a good time over New Year, would be interested to hear about the atmosphere at any of the Parks.

FB

I had problems wirh frozen water pipes a few weeks before Christmas, but Pat & John next door where ok so assumed it was actually my external stop tap that had frozen. G uests poured hot water on it and that did seem to do the trick. I had an extrenal stop tap put in by Andy our friendly plumber because if the one froze under the sink and burst you would still get a flood in the lodge - can't win eh!!

Extreme winter conditions ( below -5) appear to make the lodges unusable. We have decided to follow the strategy of some owners of draining down in late Nov and forgetting about renting over the Xams and New Period