Hi Katy
We’ve just arrived home – so the Big Year Out is now starting to feel like a dream that happened to someone else! Once we get our photos sorted we’ll post a few links here if any of you on the forum would like to check out our story
As to the rustproofing – I was impressed with Rustbusters but they definitely weren’t cheap. I think if it had been a straightforward job, the quote was somewhere in the region of £550 – but once they had steam-cleaned underneath our van, they found some areas that needed welding (mainly around the drivers side wheel arch) and that pushed the price just above £1000.
I’m sure I could have got the welding done more cheaply somewhere else – but having made the journey over from Belfast primarily to get the rustproofing done, I was happy to leave the van in Spalding for an extra day and let them do the job properly. I figured it would be a false economy to do a piecemeal job on the repairs before covering them over with the rustproofing gunk.
I’m fully intending to return to Spalding at some stage every year to keep the rustproofing ‘topped-up’ – once you’ve paid the big initial bill, they do a good deal on the price of an annual inspection and touch-up. They recommend doing the whole job again after 5 years and again they give a good discount if you’ve been regular with the inspections.
Hope that helps!
Chris