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11 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
I wonder if I can read 'between the lines' ..........
- The FA3313 detector holds a CE & UKCA mark and has been designed to conform to the standards - BS EN 50291-1: 2008 and EN 50291-2: 2019
It has been DESIGNED to comply with the standards, but, has it been tested to the standards and been approved ?
The FA3313 is certified, including the optional boaty part of EN50291-2. Documents here: https://www.fireangel.co.uk/home/product/fa3313/The BSS website recommends CO detectors certified to EN50291-2 (but doesn’t mention that certification for boats is an option 🙄), but the BSS checking procedures document currently requires only that a detector is certified to some version of EN50291, without further qualification or limitation (other than number, placement, passing self test, etc).
If an examiner failed a boat solely on the grounds that a CO detector which was certified to some version of EN50291 was not certified specifically with the boat option of EN50291-2, then IMHO under the current published BSS documentation they would be in error.- 1
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On 09/10/2022 at 21:11, bill brown said:
Our Vanette hob gave gave up the ghost last year and I when looking for a replacement this Thetford was the nearest in size I could find https://www.midlandchandlers.co.uk/products/thetford-8-series-lpg-hob-unit-n480 I only had to make minor adjustments to the work surface to make it fit.
That’s the type I used to replace my ancient (so old it had no FFDs) Vanette hob. I had to enlarge the worktop hole a little. The Thetford one is a bit “tinny” in comparison, but works OK.
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Waiting for an order, by any chance?
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8 hours ago, nicknorman said:
Did you report it all, especially being held against your will in a lock? If you didn’t, it will continue to happen.Not yet - I’m not clear who to report it to?
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So the causes of my original exasperated post…
Week before last, Grindley Brook, going up. The volockies were quite definitely not there to assist, they were there to be In Charge, checked in with, and their instructions followed - the signs say so, so it must be true. Anyway, first rule of a leaky staircase is not to hang about, and the bottom gates at GB leak like a sieve, so on entering the bottom lock I gave SWMBO on the middle paddles the usual “straight up” hand signal. “Half a turn! Half a turn only!” shouted the volockie, and insisted the paddle was wound down almost all the way again. And so it went on, the paddles being opened a crack at a time, so that by the time the first set of intermediate gates opened, the level was more than a foot below the markers and I was seriously concerned that we would get caught on the cill. Repeat procedure middle-to-top chamber, thankfully with less leakage. And one of the volockies remarked at the top, that they had to be really careful, because boats were getting stuck on the bottom… 🤦♂️
Last week, GB going down. Arrived at the top just as the last-of-three was had cleared the top chamber, and the staircase was to be reversed for boats to come up. We would then be next first-of-three going down after that. Volockie had cracked open one top paddle half way to refill the top chamber, so I wandered up and opened the other one. Ordered to “wind that paddle down, please!”. Pointed out that the top chamber had to be refilled, but no, “wind it down, sir, we’re regulating the water!”. Wound it down, gave up and went to make a cup of tea and admire the view while they faffed.
And then Hurleston, last week, going down. Two volockies on. The first one refused to let me out of the top lock until she said so, deliberately holding one bottom gate closed against me. Now we’ve done probably thousands of locks over the years, but the idea of being stuck in the bottom of a narrow lock, usually with water pouring round/through/under the leaky top gate, still gives me the willies, and I like to get out of there, or know that I can, with some alacrity. Deliberately obstructing my exit for no good reason was in my book completely out of order. Further down, the other volockie was blithely lifting bottom paddles without waiting for a thumbs up: That really annoys me, and I’m always slightly wary of random boaters ready with windlasses poised when entering a lock, but this year almost all the other boaters we met at locks checked before winding, even the hirers, but not this volockie.
But anyway, otherwise pleasant trip up to Llangollen, and plenty of water
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Info from a boater we were chatting to this week was that only The Bridge was open, but I don’t know about the food situation, sorry.
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43 minutes ago, Wanderer Vagabond said:
That's the old Middlewich Narrowboats site, isn't it? It looks as though it is being operated as a co-operative after Paul Donnelly acquired the vacant site, it doesn't say when it re-opened for business though. I'm pretty sure last time I passed through there was only one narrow boat hire company operating in Middlewich, and it wasn't them.
It is the old Middlewich Narrowboats site, and they do have an Elsan point, but whether they charge I don’t know. I’ve seen it open once or twice at festival time. Although when we came through late morning today, everything was shut up.
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Don’t think there was ever an Elsan at Barbridge. The tap and bins have long gone, but there are nice new signs limiting mooring to 30 mins “for access to the services”.
Elsan at Plants Lock went when the Red Bull service block opened. Tyrley seems unlikely to reopen, Hurleston has gone (there was an “aspiration” to open a new one before Grindley Brook), and the drainage at Anderton is unreliable.
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3 hours ago, David Mack said:
Has 6.35mm radius, or they also do a 4.8mm version. To get the depth of rebate take off the guide bearing and use the router fence instead (assuming you are moulding a straight edge).
Many Axminster cutters come with two bearings, to cut with or without the lower “step”.
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3 hours ago, Tony1 said:
Apologies Andrew, I didnt really intend to cast aspersions on the folks there.
As I said, I met a couple of them and they were really nice people. I made that rather ill-judged comment with those people in mind who prefer the boats around them to be shiny, and the boaters to be more well-heeled, but in retrospect I had no business saying it at all.
No umbrage taken!
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The people at Uplands are fine (I would say that, I’m one of them - non-liveaboard). The operation has recently been acquired by ABC and is in the process of transitioning to their systems.
I believe Oakwood is full, and Orchard is still a hole in the ground.
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There is also a winding hole just above Tyrley top lock, and a bit of Googling reveals that one of the adjacent properties is The Coach House, Tyrley Road, TF9 2AQ.
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The “two means of escape” BSS check (6.3.1) is an advisory on privately owned and managed boats, it’s only a mandatory requirement on hire boats.
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11 minutes ago, Higgs said:
It wouldn't be mahogany. More likely, sapele. But I could see the cost going north of £500.
I made my own last year. Sapele, single glazed window (Perspex not glass). The materials came to somewhere around £200, and a couple of large router cutters that I didn’t already have about another £60. I was also replacing an existing rotten ply board and wanting to keep the existing cover, and that made the construction of the board significantly more time consuming (and therefore expensive, had I been paying someone to do it) than if I had had free reign.
That was in mid-2021, so I imagine the material costs will now be significantly more expensive, and with labour costs you could easily be looking at more than £500.
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4 hours ago, David Mack said:
And also Preston Brook, Saltersford and Barnton Tunnels and Dutton Stop Lock.
Sort of. The question was about “not locks”, and if you can get through Dutton Stop then you can get through the tunnels. Barnton Tunnel would be the first not-a-lock pinch point if you had come up the lift.
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Croxton aqueduct
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21 minutes ago, Victor Vectis said:
(and bu99er those who are on the water!)
And the fish in the water!
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1 minute ago, Tony Brooks said:
The only thing that makes me less inclined to blame hydrogen is that it should be up under the roof and not where they advise you fit CO alarms. No idea about the density of H2S though.
Yeah, H2 doesn’t hang about.
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24 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
As far as my knowledge extends, only hydrogen and oxygen are released when a charging lead acid sell is gassing. Hence it loses water.
Neither of these will actuate a carbon monoxide detector.
A quick Google turns up a number of sources which disagree with you, and assert the CO detectors can have cross-sensitivity for hydrogen. Some of them are even reputable
But you are right about the H2S, and detectors can be cross-sensitive to that as well.
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That’s a fairly liberal interpretation of “repaired”
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If they don’t leak then don’t bu&&er about with them! Whatever framing you make, make it removable so you can get at the clamps in future, and insulate round the windows properly or you will get condensation on the steel (and worry that they are leaking).
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A BP in Liverpool was 179.9 for diesel on Friday night, and the one just around the corner from home has been coming down steadily to 180.9.
Choosing a separate LPG oven/grill
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Some of the Thetford ones are sold with 230V ignition units (but no other fans, timers or other electrics), but can be converted to 12V ignition.