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Lizzy Lou

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  1. I’ve recently fitted 18mm Hexaboard on my boat. The companies that provide pre-cut pieces charge an arm and a leg for the cutting. I just bought two 8’ x 4’ boards at £115 each. I cut them initially using a circular saw and a metal guide. Took them to the boat and trimmed them to size using a new handsaw. Finished the curved bits with a jigsaw, using masking tape on the Hexa surface to both draw the precise shape (I had the old boards for reference) and also to prevent fretting of the seen surface. sealed all edges with epoxy resin. All worked a treat. Just get on with it. PS, I chose hexaboard because my boat is black. Buffalo board only seems to be available in dark brown?!
  2. Time to replace my deck boards, and seating areas over two boxes at the stern and two in the well deck. Buffalo board and rigatex seems to come exclusively in dark brown and my boat is black. Hexa board is black, but I don’t like the hexagonal pattern! Any top ideas of products or suppliers who might be able to help sourcing black basketweave pattern (or similar) in 18ml anti-slip phenolic birch ply? many thanks.
  3. Some very interesting contributions which I really do appreciate. Funnily enough talking of horrible balls of rust, I have noticed that the white plastic elbow in the pipe run is stained a very nice rusty red on the inside! 😳 Whilst I am well aware that, all I have really achieved is to blow any blockage back into my water tank, what I can say is that Jonathan’s very clever idea worked a treat. My water flow is (currently) back to normal. For who knows quite how long is of course anyone’s guess!! 🥺 Very many thanks to all. For now! 😁
  4. Hi Jonathan, very much appreciated. I’ve no access to the tank other than through the filler neck. I’ve pushed a pencil past the level sensor and there’s no blockage as far as the stopcock/ball valve. I think what you are seeing as jointing paste may be just fluff, as this assembly usually sits inside a small cupboard which I have removed. Genius! I will give that a try and report back. many thanks. LL
  5. I see discussions have drifted a little from narrow boat plumbing, however this still seems like the obvious place to ask my question. I have tracked down my plumbing problem to a ‘restriction/blockage’ between my 800L fresh water tank under the well deck and the inlet to my water pump. (The inlet filter is clean!) That’s a run of pipe work approximately 12” long. As well as eliminating filter blockage, I also can only achieve a trickle of water out of the tank even with the tank cap off, so I imagine I don’t have a vent blockage? So my question is, do any of you chaps have any good ideas how I might clear such a blockage? I have thought about compressed air, but I guess that would only blow any blockage back into the tank? otherwise I wonder if I’ll be asking a boatyard to chop out my (allegedly stainless) fresh water tank? Many thanks for your kind assistance.
  6. Having paid (slightly) in advance, we are now proud owners, on board our own boat.? as I said previously. Very many thanks for all the replies. It has been very helpful. Lizzy Lou
  7. blackrose and Arthur Marshall. we’re singing from the same songsheet. Other contributors, perhaps less so? Very many thanks for all the replies. It has been very helpful. Lizzy Lou
  8. Hi Haven’t even introduced myself yet. Sorry. Sure I’ll get round to that soon. Here’s my question. I’m just about to complete the purchase of a boat. Paid 10% deposit a few weeks ago to the brokerage. (A very well known small(ish) broker around the Tamworth/Lichfield area.) Full survey went great. I’m happy to proceed with purchase, but can’t physically be present for a little while. So how safe am I to transfer the money to the (very genuine and very well established, well known) brokerage, who are selling on behalf of the owner? Will I own the boat at the point of money transfer? What might happen in the highly unlikely event of the brokerage ceasing trading before I can take receipt of the keys to the boat. Appreciate any advice, as it’s obviously a sizeable wedge of money, and I’ve never done this before. Very many thanks.
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