Alan de Enfield

Maybe just on this forum - there seems to be a lot of backbiting !

Experience of folks in 'high places'.

It looks good on your CV and suggests you have been involved in 'things'.

It appears to require 16 amps. Is it a 'domestic' heater element ? A boat heater element is normally 1000 ( about 4.5 amps) If intending to run it off a land-line you will need to ensure nothing else is using 230v, If planning to run it off your batteries don't.

C&RT already do very well out of 'water' (with both discharge and extraction licences), in fact this contributes very close to the same income as all boater activities (licences, moorings etc)

Tripe is best served with a bowl of fried Onions.

But land prices are not relevant for a pipeline as they 'pay a rent for a year'(or so) dig a trench, drop the pipe in, cover it back up and the Farmer gets his land back. No loss in land and no (hopefully) ongoing maintenance costs. who pays the maintenance costs of the canal - C&RT ? I'd have thoght that the water losses (evaporation and leaks) in an open ditch would be greatly in excess of a closed pipeline. Maybe 'water in vs water out' is of litle consideration.

So very little difference in cost per Km GU = £3.7m/km Anglian = £3.6m/Km

(I assume that Anglian water did the analysis you suggest and came to the same conclusion as @dixi188 ). Anglian water have planned, and have proceeded with a monsterous new 'large pipeline' project from the top end of Lincolnshire to Essex. It has been interesting to watch it develop. Total length is ~500Km of which over 170 Km have already been installed (For comparison the GU proposal is only 135Km) We’re creating a new drinking water grid for the East of England. It is one of Europe’s biggest environmental projects and the most important in Anglian Water's history. Once complete, hundreds of kilometres of underground, large-diameter, interconnecting pipelines will stretch from North Lincolnshire to Essex. They will be supported by new infrastructure such as pumping stations and storage reservoirs along the route to bring water to customer’s taps.

Keep your 'grab bag' well stocked and close to your primary exit.

Yes its surprising, the odd little 'tricks' that experience teaches you. Crack the door and wait a couple of seconds - very slowly ease the door open and you won't have any smoke escape.

I thought you were talking about coal-dust. How is soot getting into the boat ?

Yes, but Rob's hearth is the full width of the boat and 25 feet 'deep'

Thats one heck of a large hearth - must be most of the boat !

Thats a bit norty - maximum number of wires allowed on a stud is 4. This appears to have 6, or, it maybe even 7. (That number of wires should be fed from a busbar, not a single stud.) Presuming you removed the terminal covers to take the picture ?