robtheplod

You can see the new David Attenborough arctic survey ship ...... and presumably the Boaty McBoatFace remote craft should be on it somewhere??? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54597767

If that's your garden its lovely.....

Now all clear, thanks all!!

might be the answer.... saves our sanity and i don't have much to lose!

This is confusing... so what I've been calling a plug is actually a socket and visa-versa? SOCKET: PLUG:

Thanks Alan The socket does get water in it when i unplug from the boat - maybe I'm just very unfortunate? Hopefully this will work anyway...

This is my coke bottle solution, thanks to the forum for pointing out i needed to protect it as its the wrong way up!

I suppose in essence the object when it comes to water/pipes etc is allow water to expand/contract without any restrictions, so if the pump is off and taps open then all water in the system should in theory be able to do this and hence not crack pipes unless you have water freeze in a joint somewhere? If this is done and the temp doesn't go to freezing or below at the waterline, are those that have heaters doing it to air the boat rather than prevent freezing? I had heaters on last year but not sure how effective they were?

just introduce moles on the towpath, that'll slow cyclist down?

I'd suggest you don't put this on your advertisement for your welding services...

I'd love to get feedback from all brokers to see what the buyers requirements usually are, and what they end up with!

Do CRT own all the moorings in London?

The boats aren't really 'using' the waterways, they are just homes that happen to float. I'd assume most have no interest in the water they are just looking for affordable housing, so the problem is as a result of other issues which CRT have no control. It would take something drastic to control this - maybe only permit long term mooring in marinas?

Really interesting thread ... nothing to add but just saying ....