Mobile homes: mission impossible?

Ever tried getting a quart into a pint pot? At first glance it appears to be mission impossible, but Box Hill Caravans (BHC), based near the Surrey beauty spot of the same name, specialize in that sort of thing.

They are experts in transporting park and holiday homes, then siting them on their chosen parks.

That may not sound very much until you consider that mobile homes weigh anything up to 12 tonnes, can measure as much as 65ft long by 22ft wide and may be hundreds of miles away from the park where they are to be sited.

Customers of BHC include Stately-Albion, Prestige, Omar, Wyldecrest, Turners… Most of the big names in the park and holiday homes business.

To do the business, BHC have a fleet of off-roaders and 10 tractor units with low-loaders. The off-roaders come into the picture as convoy escort en route and for manoeuvring homes into tight corners on site.

In order to allow a twin-unit home to be transported by road, it is constructed in two equal-size halves. Delivering one home then requires two low-loaders with the police being informed in advance of the journey.

Once on site, there begins the lengthy process of positioning, siting and setting up the home on its concrete base. If space is really tight the home is craned into position.

On twins, the two parts are married together on site, the connection being made by means of a long section of tongue-and-groove running the whole length of the home at floor level.

Looking at the finished item, you would never guess that only a matter of hours earlier it had been in two parts, dozens or even hundreds of miles away.

For more information telephone 01306 712862.

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