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All fixed and working - Happy Happy Hobbit!

Awesomeness!!!! I now have 4x useable bolt heads and 4x useable lugs - how excellent - just a of tightening and a soaking of plusgas and voila! Just a bit of stoveropeing and bolt in the glass and fingers crossed the naff and expensive leccy heater can go back in the cupboard for the next emergency..... Gosh, i could even forgive you for being the owner of a fat boat! (i so so wanted to fix this myself!)

Now then, now then! And THIS laydeez and gennulmen in why this forum is proper excellent!

Glass is out, can't move lugs without feeling like I'm gonna snap the b*ggers....

Thanks for suggestions all, is a bit small at something less than 8mm to get an impact driver on tho.... Bl#%$dy things are stuck solid!

Will investigate this further tomorrow - many thanks SD!

Cool - did you then re-tap the thread? Did you use any graphite grease stuff to keep it free? Thanks Stagedamager... can barely hear to type as other 'arf has decided that playing "sixteen tons" rather loudly may be the answer.! Bless.....

Cheers Tiggs, will grab some plusgas tomorrow - i fort they were all the same tbh!

As above really - stove glass broke (somehow overnight two nights ago.. no idea why!). I have ordered new glass (x2 - one as spare!). The 8mm lug retaining bolts are, of course seized and rounded and certainly not 8mm anymore.... i need to loosen them enough to turn the retaining lugs 45 degrees (and back) in order to fit the new glass. I have new rope and am happy doing that - but how to get the nuts un-seized? Have tried wd40 and heat - am thinking of trying to find someone who can drill them out and replace the nuts so if it breaks again we'd have half a chance of twisting the lugs. According to the "how to" video on the Hobbit website, the nuts should only be "just tighter than finger tight".. Should i manage to get new nuts on, what should i use to try and keep them useable, what would withstand the heat of a stove door? Copper-slip? Any help gratefully recieved! I should add that one of the lugs is already turned 45 degrees - and siezed also! ETA; We're at Trinity Marina on the Ashby!

Dunnit... ?

Oh yes, fire lit - we're deffo softie southerners.. Also having arthritis can make the damp weather absolutely miserable.. Installed one of these http://www.practicalsurfaceware.com/anti-moisture-mattress-underlay-airmat.html under the bed and haven't been woken by achey hips since!

Nowt of much use to add - apart from - hello neighbors! Altho if you DO go t'other way for a while - it's all rather lovely up to the Birmingham and Fazely junction, and indeed we loved it all the way to Great Haywood up the T&M.. Atherstone came as a rather nice surprise.... Embarrassingly, we've not yet been down to Marston Junction and turned left yet.. Hope you didn't get too too wet this avo....

We have two big fluffy dressing gowns with hoods which are our winter "indulgence" - put 'em in one of these bags and they're pretty big - the Dyson Animal, together with the OH's cobbled together "hose" (kitchen towel roll + gaffer tape "a La Appollo 13"!) reduced them to a small (and pretty solid!) parcel... Unpacked this week from under the bed in the boat and no damp smell at all.. highly recommended. Will be getting some more of them next week

Sorry to butt in - but as i know that this is on out "to do" list - can i ask, do these "fixing clips" have to be integral or can i use the sticky "thread a small cable tie through" type? (am currently riding the wave of confidence engendered by the successful replacement of my stove door rope seal thingy!)

Edited for numpty doublepost...

Whilst that may be entirely possible- I do recall having the same issue when I lived in a house! Thinking of handy gadgets, the OH's daughter recently gave us a rather nifty Rado solar charger. It's round and suctions to the porthole by the bed, has a usb socket and gains enough power during the day to charge my phone overnight - nifty, as there's no sockets near the bed and my battery is always flat come bedtime!

+1 for the 3M strips - it's also easy to do the final "fine adjustments" when you realise youve hung your picture slightly wonky - like every time in my case! ?

Excellent post - we too are looking at our first winter aboard, not sure yet if we will be in a marina or out on a linear mooring with no leccy! Will be following this post closely! we got our boat in March so we DID get a bit of very cold weather (sno + hail!) just to give us a warning of what to expect.. Our hobbit stove is mid-boat but the (bow) bedroom still got cold. Need more floor covering as a lot of the cold seemed to be floor-based... We're thinking of putting down cork floor tiles - opinions? I too think the Nicholson look is not a good one!

Wot Betty said! No need for a big dawg.. Nice little pooch who'll keep you company and growl/bark if anyone tries to enter.. If we weren't both working and I were on my own on the boat at all - I'd be straight down the dogs home and rehouse some poor hound like a shot! Dogs are great....

D'oh......!

Ta! Got 10 x massive (6cm) wooden centre buttons from Ebay for £5! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301508741250?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2648&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Just resurrecting this old thread to post a pic of our new sofa - we went for Opener's "Bensons for Beds" jobbie... and i really can't recommend this sofa highly enough - comfy, robust, good company to deal with, good delivery blokes! so if anyone's looking for a sofa for a narrowboat - this one not only fitted through the bow doors but went through the bedroom AND bathroom (rev. layout - walk thro bathroom) with minimal trauma.. http://www.bensonsforbeds.co.uk/texas-sofa-bed?variantSku=NISTEX001 ETA No idea why every photo i post is on it's blimmin' side...