RV technical and not so technical information.

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I used to sell most items that I mention in my articles, and yes I may well be a little biased towards some of them, and while there may be other products available that do the same or a similar job, the products that I promote are ones that I have hands-on experience & confidence in, and have found them to be both reliable, and good value for money.
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My articles are written in good faith from in-excess of 45 years of practical hands-on experience, learned skills, and industry knowledge, so while I have no formal qualifications, folks often comment that they have found my advice to be both informative and accurate.
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I would ask that 'if' folks do follow my advice on how I would accomplish tasks that I've written about, please do not do anything silly and damage yourselves, or your property 

G'day Folks,  just a brief introduction about me (Val Rigoli) Since my early childhood I've always had a keen interest in the great outdoors, camping etc,  being a member of the Scouting movement for over 15 years probably had a lot to do with this, so I guess a natural progression for me was to extend this camping and outdoors thing to caravanning, motorhoming and boating etc. Work wise I started out in the caravan industry on the Gold Coast back in 1975, working for the original Gold Coast Caravan Repairs, repairing and renovating caravans, after this I had a job building new caravans for a while. In the early 80's  I discovered computers, and then later still the Internet, where I became very involved with the Motorhomes Australia forum (1998), devoting much of my spare time to chatting socially on the forum, and giving advice where I could to people with caravans and motorhomes and the likes, soon after I was handed the reins to the Motorhomes Australia website, I still look after it to this day. Later on in life I opened up my own business building Slide-on Pop Top campers (Stronglight Campers), this business was progressing very well until I had to put on staff, I soon realised that this was not going to work for me! Put bluntly, I simply could not find staff that were keen/passionate enough, or paid enough attention to detail, I guess I'm just too darn picky, so after 6 years I chose to just close the business down. So in 2002 I started the business Fridge & Solar, opening a shop front in Labrador on Queensland's Gold Coast, also building an associated  website, selling goods on-line, also writing information and how-to articles. After a few years this business became too busy for me to handle alone (I knew that staff would NOT be a good option for me) so I closed the shop front, packed up, went home and took the business on-line to the Internet only. But again it became far too busy for me to handle (just not enough hours in the day), so feeling a bit (lot) burnt out, I closed up the on-line selling and hung a "Gone Fishing" sign on the website for a while. However I continued to write and update my information and how-to articles on this website, and I love helping out folks out as much as I can, so I continue to write and update my articles, and still post regularly on some of the motorhoming and camping forums and on FaceBook, please keep an eye out for MrVal  Val & Sue have now retired, Photos of our own campers >>click here<<