Winterising seasonal machines: a trade with two deadlines nobody can move
Caravan, motorbike and mower owners don't want to lose a weekend to contradictory advice — you lay the machine up properly and hand it back running in spring.
Laying seasonal machines up for winter and recommissioning them in spring, with optional storage over the cold months. One customer pays twice a year, and the weather sets both dates rather than the owner. The hard part for a beginner is that each type of machine needs a different, sometimes opposite procedure — and that taking someone else's vehicle into your care means taking on the liability that comes with it.
Anyone who owns a caravan, a motorbike or a mower knows the machine needs something doing to it before winter. Nobody agrees on what. The advice online contradicts itself, and the steps that matter most are the ones that feel wrong: a waterproof cover does more harm than no cover at all, starting the bike up on a cold morning pushes condensation through the engine, and tipping a mower the wrong way lets oil run into the cylinder. None of it shows up in autumn. It shows up in spring, when the thing refuses to start.
💡 Why it works
🔁One customer, two jobs a year
Laying up and recommissioning are two separate jobs on the same machine for the same owner. Someone who trusts you in autumn has little reason to look elsewhere in spring, and booking the spring slot at handover is the cheapest retention you will ever do.
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