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53 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Helpless.
Just like this comment. Why are you here??? Go and be obnoxious somewhere else and take your clique with you.
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Basically if you need to access underneath the floor for whatever reason, and there are plenty of reasons you might need to go under the floor in a boat, then yes you will have take up the floor. The first narrowboat I had, a 30 footer called Keb, had removable panels all over the place and I was able to access the underfloor areas fairly easily. The second boat, again a 30 foot narrowboat, had a one piece floor from front to back, I had to cut access holes as there was a lot of water under the floor from a, historical, leaky water pump. Whether I got it all out I do not know I could only cut three hatches in the center as I did not want to remove all the fittings to access other parts. The bits I could see were dry eventually.
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For £50.000 I would want a much better boat than that.
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I thought it had to be closed cell foam tape. I was told that a good few years ago now when I did my windows on Keb (which I no longer have). I can't remember why I was told the whys and wherefores of why I should use closed cell foam tape but my alluminium windows never leaked after in the 7 or so years that I had Keb.
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Sounds about right to me although in my ten years on the canals I was never a livaboard nor would I have wanted to be. Bricks and mortar are way more secure and infinetly more comfortable and quite possibly a tad cheaper for me and I don't have to move, although we did move house nearly two years ago but this is where I will now die. And yeah firelighting was never a problem.
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If the canals are renationalised I cannot see anything being any different. If DEFRA are backtracking on any help now and the level of support for any help is dwindling then things will only get much worse if the government are in charge of things. Selling off property is a one off income thing. Once that property is gone it's gone.
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I'm sure Putin will sort it all out sooner or later.
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Shotblast if you are going to use two pack epoxy coating
but high pressure wash if you are using bitumin blacking.
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16 hours ago, Graham Davis said:
I'm intrigued why LadyG thinks she needs such a thing.
None of your business.
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It's highly unlikely that you would smell your own smell. When I was a smoker, over 12 years ago now, I couldn't smell the ciggy stink on me or anyone else. Now I can smell a cigarette yards away and when smokers walk past me they stink. Same with a diesel stink. When I had my boats, and I was a smoker back then, I couldn't smell diesel but now when my son in law visits, who is a smoker and gets involved with diesel and petrol, I can smell him half way down the drive. I probably have my own stenches as well but I don't notice them and I suppose other people are too polite to tell me.
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Well he got as much advertising as he will ever need on this forum.
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11 minutes ago, magnetman said:
I think there is a chance canals could become Sites of Special Seriously Stupid Idiots.
If and when the dumbing down priorities take over things will go bad very quickly for anyone interested in boats.
This I agree with and it is something I have been saying one way or another for a long time.
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5 hours ago, matty40s said:
It has never gone above the top of the No Entry sign since I have been monitoring it in the last 10 years. It's been level with the top of the white bar twice, 2012 and 2015 when it was 5.2m above normal Summer levels.
The only higher level in recent history was 2000 which was 5.4m
Anorak post.
It has at least twice in the 30 years we lived there so you are wrong again but I'm not arguing with you. Anyone who lowers themselves to insults, and there are a few on this forum.Just isn't worth my time.
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When we lived just down the road from York last year (Selby) I saw the level over the top of that no entry sign on a number of occasions over the years (30) we were there. we monitored it using this webcam.......https://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/locations/york
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40 minutes ago, booke23 said:
Which picture is the before and which picture is the after?
Good grief!
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I had a bar thermostatic shower in my old house that lasted ten years before we moved. It was still okay when we moved out, that was a 39 quid jobby off Ebay. I also fitted one to my last boat, which I have now sold. That had only been in a year or so but was still working when I sold the boat. The only difference I can see between the expensive ones and the cheap ones is that the expensive ones have a known maker's name on them. They are all made in China. Those exposed shower mixer valves shown should fit but they are not bar mixers.
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17 minutes ago, Jerra said:
Could you give a reference for that please? As far as I know the British Trust for Ornithology who carry out all sorts of ornithology research have found no scientific evidence that the cats have reduced bird populations, so I would be interested to read the research on which you base that statement.
Which is precisely what that link says. There is no scientific evidence that cats are causing a decline in bird populations.
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Bottom line is that it is a leak and it shouldn't be leaking. A leak in a house is bad enough but a leak on a boat means that that water can get into all sorts of places that you cannot see. It can do all sorts of damage that you cannot see. It needs fixing and you need to see if it has caused any problems especially in the bilges.
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I cannot see why any "comfortably rich" or "well off" boater would want to run their gin palaces up and down a muddy and not always very navigable ditch for the increasing amount money required to do that. Far nicer for them to take their expensive deep drafted boats to a nice little marina/harbour on the sea shore where they can boat for less money in much pleasenter surroundings. I think that's the sort of thing Alan de Enfield did. I ditched owning my own boats round about the same time as Naughty Cal and M_JG. I'm still of the opinion that the ultimate aim of CRT is to get rid of boats all together.
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You people are living in cloud cuckoo land. I bet you all drive or will drive electric cars, oh no you wont because you wont be able to charge them because the grid wont be able to cope. As for "ask your local authority and if not why not" what an absolutely laughable suggestion. Most of the people in local authority don't give a damn. Most recycling goes into the land and what doesn't go into the land is either fly tipped or sent abroad to places like Phillipines etc. Dedicated sorting and recycling centers are very very few and far between in this country. Thousands of tons of plastic waste has washed on some obscure island. this waste is from all over the world including UK. What I can't get rid of ,because the tip is too far away or my son in law who is a registered waste carrier is too idle to come to me, goes straight in the bin.
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3 minutes ago, 1st ade said:
I hope (but am not optimistic) that anyone who bought post July 2021 is told "you bought a home next to a pub, what do you expect?"
I'm pretty sure that if you, or me, lived next to a noisy pub you wouldn't be happy about it either. I have frequented pubs all my life on and off and none have been so noisy that neighbours have had to complain about the noise. It's drunken rabble that cannot hold their ale that causes problems and these people should be banned outright for ever.
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I would have a look behind that panel as well if you can. There is a run stain on the flooring below that stain it COULD mean that there is a leak behind the panel.
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I met you once when you were at Selby river lock. I brought you something but I cannot remember what. Anyway it comes to us all at some point, I gave up boating a couple of years ago mainly because I moved away from the canals. Godd luck where ever your life takes you in the future.
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8 minutes ago, nicknorman said:
He doesn’t mention the probable cause, which is profligately-used chemical fertilisers leaching into the rivers.
Absolutely correct. He also doesn't suggest a mode of action. I realise that ultimately it is the responsibilty of C&RT or EA but this problem needs a co-ordinated approach by everyone concerned including boaters.
What to do about aggressive cyclists
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According to this CRT website........https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/cycling/cycling-faqs . pedestrians do have priority which in my book means that pedestrians on the towpath are the most important users and cyclists must slow down for them. That doesn't mean that pedestrians have right of way as the vast majority of towpaths are not public rights of way. Bottom line is that there are some totally ignorant cyclists on the towpaths as there totally ignorant pedestrians, joggers etc. I cannot see CRT doing anything about bad cyclists, or anyone else bad on the towpaths, apart from flagging the rules as they have done on the website that I linked....... This link is from the CRT website "Stay Kind Slow Down." https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/donate/our-campaigns/stay-kind-slow-down/faqs