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im talking about a solid plastic waste water pipe, but there is also gas pipes and flexibale pipes and even the outake from the boiler is has a huge gap around it. Its all been done terribly. ha ha but I thgink you are right that i can find skin fittings for each of them. thanks so much. and im glad you liked the heart

hey thanks for the replies everyone. So i am talking about the waste water from the sink. i dont have a pic and im not on the boat just now. but whoever installed it just cut a hole bigger than the pipe then slotted the pipe through and left it at that. I was a bit shocked in a bad way when i saw it. And Alan de Enfield you are totally correct in the concern of what else is done as shoddy as that. I only have mentioned the waste water pipe but it does seem every in/out point through the boat is done to a terrible standard and there are some serious leaks coming from the superstructure too. so any help or advice in dealing with making these joins watertight would be brilliant. I just mentioned the water one cos it is the worst. And the boat belonged to a friend of a friend and he said i could look at the boat and pay him what I think it is worth depending on what condition it is in. So I am not too worreid about finding all this work to do because the more work needing done the less im going to pay for the boat. So its all good. But I appreciate why yous would be concerned for me that I might have been ripped off if that is the standard the work is done to. Thanks for all your help everyone ha ha sorry i missed you for a love heart. just keep being interupted by my cat crawling all over my lap top.

hey thanks ditchcrawler. im having a look at some skin fittings right now. I think that is exactly what I am looking for. I just didnt know the name of them. thanks for your help

hey everyone. I am working on a boat I just bought. And I am amazed to find that where the water outake pipe leaves the boat through the hull is totally unsealed. There is a gap all around the pipe of about a cenitmeter all the way round! So how would you recomend I go about fixing that and making it water tight? Is there anything like some sort of rubber seal to attach over the hole and feed the pipe through? If so what is it called cos I've been looking for something like that on google and not getting much joy. Or any other ideas or advice very welcome!! Thank you so much for any help or advice. Hope your all floating happy out there

Thanks rusty, that's not nothing that some solid gold advice. It's what I thought but wanted to check before I shelled out cash for a polisher. Cheers man, x

Hi everyone, I am going to try to fix up the outside of my grp boat but I have never done this before and could do with a little advice. The previous owner painted it some wrong type of paint that has totally peeled off and is really patchy. I have taken as much off as I can but I think I need to buy some paint stripper any recommendations or guidance on how to do it? Thanks And also once I've stripped the paint would like to polish to a nice finish but I'm not sure what im doing? Any recomendations or advice to help me with my research would be mega appreciated! Like do I nneed to buy a polished? Or can I buy a polishing head for my angle grinder? And what compound would you recommend? Thanks for your help everyone. Any help at all to get s handle on what I'm doing. Thank you thank you thank you you wonderful boaters. X

thanks guys! ill pick the rope apart i think and push it in. really good advice on putting the silicone in in layers! thanks for all your help! x

Hi you lot, I have yet another question about my stove. im almost there. I have everything installed but the increasing adaptor is just sitting in the stove. How do i seal this up. the gap is really small and i bought some fire rope at 6mm thinking i could squeeze it in but it wont fit. Can i just fill it with heat proof silicone? then fire cement round the outside????? or shouldi wait and get smaller gage fire rope? What would yea think/recomend? Thanks for all your help. this forum has been incredible for helping me learn how to install my stove safely. hope you are all staying warm out there x

Hey keeping up! That sounds like a much better solution. Was worried it wouldn't pass a safety inspection. But if yours has passed then i think thats what i'll do! Thanks for your help!! Totally solved my problem and made the job simpler more than more difficult!!!! Thank you you are amazing x

Hey boat folks, I'm installing my stove and according to the guidelines the stove must be FIXED FIRMLY IN PLACE. In CAPS so it must be important. My stove is on legs that just end in a stump and i don't know how to fix that to the fire board and plywood beneath????? Any ideas? The only solution i can think of is L brackets on legs then screwed into the base. But this will require drilling holes into the legs of the cast iron stove. Any advice on how to do this???? What type of drill bit? How difficult it is? People are saying to use cutting oil? but i don't really know what that is? I only have a fairly weak battery drill will i need something more powerful to get through cast iron? Or is it better to take the stove somewhere and get it drilled for me. If so would you know where i could go in london? Thanks for all your help. You people save the day for me on a near daily basis these days. thank you x

thanks for the help you boating beautys. I think your suggestion chewbacka is super more complex than i am needing/capable of. I might try that Isopon filler graham. Thanks for the help yous lot. If anyone has any better /easier solutions or advice on using Isopon filler please let me know. I'm looking for a quick fix because it's not really a big problem anyway. Even fixing it in the first place is maybe a bit of over kill. thank you for your help everyone. x

Hi everyone, Any ideas the best way to plug up a hole on my grp boat? It was previously the outake pipe from the sink, It has a hard plastic casing round it for the hose to connect to so I'm looking for some thing that I can put in there like a type of putty or something that will block it up. I'm building my stove there and don't really want to build a wall over the hole without making sure that it is sealed. Thanks for your suggestions and wisdom. Thank you x

thanks you guys- really great advice there. So helpful. Thank you so much. You are all wonderful x

Hi you lot of fantastic boat freaks, I am finally putting my stove together. Going to tile the surrounding area this week. Do i need any specific type of heat proof tiles? or just regular ceramic tiles do it? Also any heat proof adhesive or anything? I have 25 mm calcium silicate board with 10mm air gap behind.. Any one know if i can affix tiles directly onto calcium silicate? Thanks for any advise you got for me. You people are beautiful x thankyou

thanks blackrose - really helpful! I'm slowly but surely getting there and learning a lot along the way. I found these guys https://www.thestonebakeovencompany.co.uk/shop/additional-insulation-materials/2-x-25mm-calcium-silicate-board/ selling really cheap 25mm calcium silicate but i gots a feeling the boards will be really small cos they dont mention size at all. so i might even be able to upgrade to 25mm masterboard! I cant wait to get this stove in and heating up ma little boat! Thanks for taking the time to help me out. Very very appreciated x