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Bloody Haywood, I woke up on breeze blocks with missing Anodes their and a Trolley rapped around my rudder.
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On Tue Feb 28 2017 at 09:10, Saffi said:
NB we are buying has pump out toilet is it worth spending approx £300 on pump out kit or just visit marinas?
No get rid of the smelly tank and buy 3 Elsan Cassettes, then enjoy moving your boat all year around while traveling to Elsan Holes.
Pump out tanks Stink of sh1t and sick.
I feel very rewarded when my cassettes are empty. (But am kinda strange)
Enjoy your boating :-)
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4 minutes ago, catweasel said:
Especially true if generating one's own electricity.
Definitely avoided !
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15 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
Ive said it for donkeys years and will reiterate it again. Living in a house is cheaper than living on a boat. I live on a boat as I prefer it, nothing to do with finance luckily for me although I am a pauper.
Am skint too, but I will never go back into a house if I can help it.
They will have to drag me out of the boat dribbling.
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14 minutes ago, bastion said:
The hire boats at the wharf where I work have Ebers fitted and I am surprised at how long they take to put heat through the radiators compared to my Webasto.
Yes it takes a good 25-30 minutes to get hot.
I only use it when it's really cold.
Someone told me they use 1 litre of diesel every hour.
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47 minutes ago, canals are us? said:
The biggest waste of energy is having the ash pan door open and fire roaring as the air drawn into the fire is sending the heat up the chimney, so I close the ashpan door once fire established.
James
Thanks James, I do the same as you.
Thanks everyone for your advice.
Much appreciated.
I have the flu today so sorry for my late reply.
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10 hours ago, mrsmelly said:
Do you have decent insulation? Just as a for instance our first boat was a 60s built and had zero insulation. We burnt a bag a day and burnt a grate out every twelve months just to keep the front half habitable. Insulation is a main contributer to comfort. I looked at a new shell being solid as a sailaway which included so called spray foam insulation at a well known marina a few short years ago and the foam could be seen through in several places and whole panels were at about a quarter of an inch thickness!!
Yes I have spray foam insulation and the boat is only a few years old.
I have eberspacher as well but I can't afford to keep it on all day. The back of the boat is freezing without the three radiators on.
8 hours ago, TheBiscuits said:We like using supertherm on our boat, even though it makes loads of ash, it stays in and toasty for 16 hours or so.
A friend who also has a Morso Squirrel can't stand the stuff as he can never get it hot enough to start burning properly on his stove.
We even shared a bag with him to see if he was on a bad batch of supertherm, but it was fine on our boat and dire on his.
About backboilers: they use more fuel, because you are heating all the pipes and radiators too, but they send the heat to the other end of the boat so instead of having a sauna at one end and a freezer at the other you get more even heat throughout.
I don't think you are getting too hot near the stove though!
Yes I use Supettherm as well, it's good coal I think.
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33 minutes ago, zenataomm said:
Strewth ...... You're worrying yourself about what might be.
Yer but it might be. Lol
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13 minutes ago, zenataomm said:
If things have really gone 'orrid for OP in such a short time I wonder if perhaps he had an inaccurate view of it all before he got involved.
No on the contrary, I love every bit of living aboard my narrowboat, its been a positive move in every way and thats why I posted my concern.
I don't want it to end. I love it....
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1 minute ago, Peter X said:
You said yours equalled 7 bags of coal, I (perhaps mistakenly) assumed you meant the weight.
I don't have an eco fan. I don't have a boat. I have once seen an eco fan in operation, which I think weighed maybe 2kg, and felt that it was having little effect.
No I meant I would rather buy 7 bags of coal than buy another Eco Fan Peter.
Sorry for any confusion. Lol
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9 minutes ago, Peter X said:
If an ecofan weighs 175kg no amount of vibration will make it creep.
175kg ?
How big is yours ?
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5 hours ago, Laurie.Booth said:
Yep, farmers field.
Roses not daffs though.
It might be difficult digging Roses up every 14 days.
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19 minutes ago, LadyG said:
You are a stakeholder: ergo you can influence, and even change.
I new I've seen Alan before!
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10 minutes ago, Phil Ambrose said:
60ft boat, both retired so on board all the time and we use 2 bags a week, 3 when it turns biting cold. Normal dress is T shirt and just a 4 tog duvet.
Phil
I don't know how you do it Phil.
I wear t shirts and have a 15 tog cover.
3 1/2 bags a week easy with curtain shut..
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Their are some very nice boat hirers.
Most people look at me with worry when i say hello on the street.
Two worlds colliding maybe I've lost touch with reality of suspicion and fear.
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Enjoy :-)
Exciting stuff.
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3 minutes ago, canals are us? said:
I'm using 2 bags of coal a week on my 50ft trad narrowboat with backboiler heating 2 rads. Mostly burning 24/7.
I also sometimes use the webasto ttc for an hour some days.
James
Hmmm maybe I need a back boiler fitting.
That good going 2 bags a week.
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1 minute ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
Excellent advice from Alan in post 2. Standard business skool stuff sadlyt not taught in ourt state skools.
But to answer your question, nothing ever stays the same but no you don't need to beach your boat in a field now. You need to stay out and about enjoying the canals while you can. I reckon there is a good ten years to go before we start seeing significant losses in the cruising infrastructure, before the C&RT begin to get overwhelmed by maintenance and locks here and there begin to break and stay broken. Possibly 20 years even.
In the meantime use and enjoy them, for one day they will all be linear duck ponds. Just not yet.
I hope so Mike I really do.
I still enjoy mucking about randomly at will.
Maybe were the lucky ones that get to have seen it.
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9 minutes ago, zenataomm said:
When I went on my first boating holiday in my teens (1967) I fell in love with every aspect of it.
If I'd known how it was going to be in fifty years time would I have stayed around to watch it? Probably not.
Am I glad I did? Yes, but I am disappointed the way it went.
It's gone pear shaped even in the short time I've been floating. :-(
Not the same now.
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3 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
One thing I learnt (it stuck with me) from a very expensive Management Course was :
"Don't worry about anything you cannot change or influence"
"Co-Operate with the inevitable - there are some things you cannot control. Accept them and plan how to deal with them so you can move on".
The canals as we know them are probably not going to exist much longer - It is going to happen so why worry about it, get on and worry about things that you can have some effect on.
I guess your right Alan but am pretty new to boating and only 2 years into it.
A lot of money invested and all that, like a lot of people on the cut.
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What do you think?
Sub Contracter's charging CRT big bucks.
Do I need to park my Boat in a farmer's field and plant Dafodils.?
Being serious I do worry it's all going a bit down hill. :-genuinely.
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11 minutes ago, cereal tiller said:
Ecofanites are obviously Headbangers?
I found burning the box it came in added more heat to the middle of my boat. :-/
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33 minutes ago, cereal tiller said:
They Walk ,does that mean they have a Modicum of Energy after all?
Such a shame they do not move Air!
Yer they creep off the edge of my stove with vibration.
That's all it did really.
Ecofan = 7 bags of coal.
Are the Canals going to Last?
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Hmmm Prabrably a Lidl Cider Dasher.