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Only because the installations are rubbish. 2 large bore vent pipes, one at each end of the tank, plus an enclosure with a decent fan in one. Still works when the electrics fail and can be flushed with a bucket of canal water if need be.

Trying to be objective about this: Yes all liveaboards should be able to claim the fuel allowance, subject to the same caveats applying to house dwellers. But, all liveaboards are benefitting from the proceeds of council tax, whether they like it or not. Bleating about not benefitting from bin collection is frankly ridiculous. The fairest thing to do here is to find a way to pay all liveaboards the fuel allowance but also to have a mechanism by which continuous cruisers and people living on leisure moorings can contribute to council tax. It does feel a bit like boaters are wanting the best of both worlds here.

Torpedoes are on warm-up.

Oh, I get a mention here, though I see I'm binary, lol, might be a Hebden Bridge thing, lol Indeed it was PS I'm only seventy six!

Hes quite mad you know.

Sorry, but the diagram suggests that you are yet to understand both the domestic (taps & shower) hot water systems, calorifiers, and the central heating. The central heating and domestic hot water NEVER mix. You need four connections on the calorifier: One cold DOMESTIC water IN and the bottom and a DOMESTIC water OUT at the top. A coil in connection FROM the stove to the top of the COIL and a return to the stove from the bottom of the coil. You might have a twin coil calorifier where the second is heated by the engine coolant. I suggest that you draw out the domestic water system and the heating system as two separate diagrams. Pumped central heating systems with stoves are a bad idea, too much opportunity for pump failure with the stove alight. That will lead to lost of steam and scalding water exiting the header tank and possibly an explosion. Try to use gravity circulation. Have a look and try to FULLY understand this resource for the DOMESTIC system: Domestic water system Here is just one version of a gravity central heating system. The vent could go into the header tank or through the cabin side/bulkhead to outside. Edited to add: stove at back of the boat, so the bow up trim assists rather than fights against gravity circulation. Gravity systems do work with the stove elsewhere but getting nice looking pipe runs and circulation becomes more difficult.

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Lol ... I prefer the dust tbh 😉

The implication to me was that they were CC and not moving much, or living on leisure moorings of some kind. Also that they were pretty broke and, like everyone who is skint and scraping by, finding the surge in the cost of living hard to cope with. I don't think that's really wanting to have and eat cake, probably just wanting to eat. I'm not sure that a lot of people on here know what it's like to simply not have enough money to get through a week, but there are a lot of people currently in that position and, having spent quite a lot of time there, I sympathise. You try to live to your means, but when costs double, what you've got doesn't.

Why felt back? One way or another, a boat carpet is likely to get both wet and dirty, I fear the felt back will just hold any water against the floor. I used polypropylene jell back. That is a sort of plasticy/rubbery compound that does not absorb water, neither does the pile. You can take it out and literally hose it down and let it drip-dry. It is also very hard wearing. However, They all seem to be single colour and more towards the brown/grey end of colour. I think I have seen a darker blue.

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It was full when I found it. Fullers was written on it so it was discharged into the River. It is now fuller summit else.

The main issue is a lack of dilution due to restrictions on carrying water in the boat and also tank size and cost of using pumpout services. "Self pumpout" is frowned upon although it does happen. of course if one were to dilute the waste significantly this allows transfer down a much smaller diameter pipe. Usually pumpout hoses are 1.5 inch diameter because the consistency of the material is not closely approximating a liquid. Put a lot of water with it and you can push it through a 1 inch hose with a chopper (macerator) pump. I have not tried but I think one could shift the waste through a normal garden hose which makes self pump out via elsan a lot more feasible especially if it is in the same area as the fresh water tap. Just don't get the 'oses mixed up. There are more ways to skin a cat than one may first assume. If one were to add to this the ability to remove the top of the holding tank and dig out the sludge every year or two this could all work swimmingly. It is remarkable how much of a song and dance people make about a daily output which is so tiny.

It is much better crapping into a wok which is lined with ash from the fire than one which isn't.

Take a video which clearly shows the boat and the seller and yourself and records a discussion of the terms of the deal including the date of the transaction.