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  1. I'm in the bunker too - never seen anyone use one that didn't look to be making things worse!
  2. Their diesel was £1.00 per litre this Sunday (08.09.24) when we passed.
  3. All as above, but note that the opening times and days are restricted in the winter months when the same lock keeper will travel to see you through multiple locks. Ring Gloucester Lock for bookings and info.
  4. You may well be right, but the serious mistreatment amounted to it being exterior woodwork exposed to UV and foul weather. Of course, you could say I should've revarnished it more regularly, but then my 'ease of application' bit kicks in. This may well be it, although it doesn't seem to stain per se, perhaps because I used the very pale light oak. However, the Ronseal does the job required which is to weatherproof the exterior woodwork with a nice aesthetic finish. Worked nicely on the internal woodwork around my rear slide too. This sums up perfectly the direction I've taken. I'm not sure about varnish looking 'much' better, but if an expert was doing my woodwork for me for a similar outlay, I'd happily let them use it! They could even use the Le Tonkinoise I bought for the job before I realised I'd rather use the additional time to be out boating!
  5. Not my experience with Ronseal's 10 year Woodstain Stain. I'd agree that the 10 year bit is somewhat fanciful, but it's so much easier to get a decent finish with the recommended 3 coats, and so much easier to 'refresh' than yacht varnish or similar, that it's not an issue to revisit every 3-5. Certainly seen no evidence of raising the grain when I took my formerly solvent varnished cratch boards back to the wood.
  6. Always read the label.
  7. I'd add a 2 foot space for the fairies to live in. Now I'm still stuck with the same useable boat space on the inside, but it's 2 feet longer on the outside! If I could have another wish, I'd wish I hadn't been persuaded to believe in fairies...
  8. Elsan do "fresh water tank cleaner". With such a name, it's almost like its made for the job! About tenner for a bottle, which nominally does a 250 litre tank iirc.
  9. You definitely wouldn't be saying that if you had a 55-60 ft boat!
  10. Moored in Castlefield Basin for 2 nights a month ago. Stuck our nose in expecting there to be no room and It to still be an unpleasant mooring. It doesn't look much different in itself, but the transformation as a decent place to moor was huge. Perhaps it's the proliferation of new apartment buildings around it, but key I think was that the once public car park is now private and has barriers, so it's not a magnet at night. No anti-social behaviour, just a relatively peaceful place with plenty of foot traffic to stop it being the dimly lit dodgy backwater it was a couple of years ago. I'd happily moor there again, which i didn't expect to be something I'd say.
  11. This. I think you'll have change from 2 5 litre cans per coat. Either buy on a sale or return basis, or black it somewhere you can buy as you go along. Don't delay booking it in somewhere though - it seems to be harder to find a suitable slot every time.
  12. It says it has a slipway in the description. (But then, of course, an estate agent wrote that!)
  13. You'd be hard pressed to find a car with it's sunroof open this "summer"!
  14. 517066? Really easy!
  15. On purpose or are you reaping the benefits of being a messy cook?
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