George94

Perhaps you would like to rephrase your question. If two people have given unhelpful answers, it suggests that it is the question that needs addressing.

There's this stuff called wire, AKA electrical cable. It doesn't matter if everything is working as it should. But if it catches fire...

To cover up the fact that they are selling you a patched-up wreck.

That is the perfect scenario, and is what I would do if I had a houseboat and a safe place to mount the IT.

I confirm it is waterproof. "The most common gelcoats are based on epoxy or unsaturated polyester resin chemistry" Wiki

You're tired of life, Loaf.

It may well. Carbon build-up is a consequence of imperfect combustion.

What varies is the amount of water in it. Buy from somebody who sells a lot.

They are waterproof only because they have an outer layer of gel-coat. Damage to gel-coat leads to water getting into the glass-fibre reinforced polyester resin, resulting in osmosis.

The advice of Bizz is the biz, as usual. But there is an alternative.... 1 Recognise that simply being alive causes condensation, so concentrate on cure, rather than prevention. 2 Install an always-on (in winter) solid fuel stove. 3 Buy a dehumidifier for when the always-on stove isn't.

Quite right. In my experience, boat plumbing seldom fails in a house.

Rather a lot of canal boats seem to be built by jumped-up welders with no knowledge of boats at all.

Very true, plus there's an additional cause of failure - the 230v inverter.

Leeeounge? A boat has a saloon.

Indeed. But the point is that the spray from the iron would then provide a means for the iron-man to ingest the Legionella.

Decent and Sterling. When I read "I've decided to spend a bit more" I was expecting to see the words Mastervolt or Victron. My fault, obviously. I should have attributed greater significance to "bit", and less to "more".

Your first and second sentences constitute something of an oxymoron.

From the HSE website on Legionella: "Any water system, with the right environmental conditions, could be a source for legionella bacteria growth. There is a reasonably foreseeable legionella risk if your water system: has a water temperature between 20–45 °C creates and/or spreads breathable droplets, e.g. aerosol created by a cooling tower, or water outlets"

"A Good Thing" refers to Essex girls as a category. I wasn't suggesting that each or any one of them was a "thing".

I think Essex girls are a Good Thing. They have added greatly to the gaiety of nations. They have kept impoverished newspaper tycoons in business, and, by being rather indiscriminating in their choice of bed-fellows, they have struck a blow against discrimination. Those of us who are not in any great danger of being snapped up by Hollywood have reason to be grateful to those girls from Essex and their similar sisters who have happily embraced the plainer male.

Perhaps he did mean that, but it's not clear from what he wrote.

You are using your batteries to heat your water? Hmmm.

Yes, but I was quoting an authoritative source. Not some random guy on t'internet.