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Norm55

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  1. Back on line again and yes plumbing is a mess.    Anyhow hot water aplenty now it was just airlock but that electric cable has had its blue sheath cut too short. Potentially it could burn out against hot pipework. Am having this rectified.    Apologies for jumping into someone elses thread but thought it was relevant.   Yes Eton Mess boats are C**p and would not reccomend to anyone. 

  2. Its a good point.  There is an immersion heater wired and i will check next time am there if it is within sheathing en route to the consumer board.  Originally it was switched via the rcd on consumer board until i demanded a separate switch / timer.   Such is the standard of an Eton Mess boat 

  3. Its fixed !!!  Many thanks to all who contributed.  Bled off screws on 3 expansion pipes ( hot  cold and C heater )  and screwed / unscrewed 2 gate valves alongside calorifier.   Guess they must have stuck or grit in them having run out of water.  Run engine and central heating and all working 

    Thanks again.  

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  4. Thanks Tony.  Yes whirring sound. Did not drain calorifier as could not see a draw of tap. 

    Its a no pump noise from kitchen taps which is strange.  This is last on line from water tank so am thinking air lock between bathroom and rear kitchen ?    When running bath sink taps water does flow from kitchen. Turn off bath sink abd water stops.  Running kitchen taps on their own does not switch on pump 

  5. I challenged this today and spoke to another " member of the team " . Much more helpful and ecplained uplift was due to higher risk as am now out of marina.  Plus small admin fee.  If i move into marina for winter i will get a £9 refund...admin fee again   but reduction in cost due to more secure mooring 

  6. 10 minutes ago, nicknorman said:

    If you are primarily CCing but occasionally choose to go into a marina, this is not something you need to tell your insurers.

    But i am the other way round. Leisure boater who moves marinas / moorings to give me more cruising options .

     

    And its Insure4Boats.   

  7. No, its an admin charge.   It took 2 minutes to send me new PDF with new mooring detail on it.  So a little unreasonable.   Yes i can understand the risk factor is higher but, i then said i would be shortly moving it to Tattenhall marina for winter and told that would be another £47 admin fee!!!

  8. Possibly a bit green here but when my boat was insured I had to nominate home marina.  Have since moved to linear mooring and there is an admin charge of £47 just to have this detail changed.

    Few weeks back we left boat on towpath on 14 day mooring and went home for few days.   As boat was not left in home marina, i was not insured.    Given the nature of our lifestyle, i find this odd.  Anytime we are not sleeping on our boat, unless it is at home mooring then we are not insured.  This also goes goes to those that are C C  ing 

    Is this normal for all policies ? 

  9. Uneventful 3 hour cruise. Moored up now at Great Heywood. 

    Yes terminals are tight, engineer from boat builder came out this morning and refixed fuse holder to bulkhead under stern doors. 

    Fingers crossed onwards up the Shroppie to Nantwich 

  10. Update:  bought couple of spare mega fuses  fitted one and all is well!   

    Still unanswered is why is this 3rd fuse ? Last one lasted 23 hours, however the nuts holding it were not tight.    Fingers crossed we are off 

     

    Thanks for all advice 

  11. Thanks for all replies so far.  You have cheered me up with your willingness to help an electric numpty like me.!  The lack of service and quality of a new build is seriously lacking in my boat. 

    Anyhow change the mega fuse tomorrow ( i can manage that ) and let you know. 

    Thanks again 

  12. With the shoreline disconnected and emmersion off, even switched off at consumer board ( as it has an old analogue timer ) there are no lights on inverter at all. Which leads me to mega fuse.  But would this allow combi to work on shoreline? 

  13. With shoreline on, the switch is in charge only ( centre position )  as advised by boat builder. 

    Lights above it say float charge mode . Which i think is correct? 

    With shoreline off and inverter switched to power saver off mode as advised it dies .

    I have watched yout tube tutorial from stirling and these are correct settings .

    No multi meter onboard sadly but int control panel says domestic batteries are giving 13 amps . Same on starter 

  14. I now have similar issue on my 14 month old boat.  Batteries ok, date stamp says nov 21 All ok when on shoreline but when disconnected and about to leave, inverter dead. 12 volt only

    Hook up shoreline again and all working . Its a combi type .    Mega fuse had previously melted with 600 amp fuse in !   Now changed to 300 amp . All since been well till today.

    So am thinking fuse has blown ( no spare onboard ) but why has it gone again? 

     

  15. 1 hour ago, gatekrash said:

    So we got back to the boat today after 2 weeks back home. We'd left one small greenhouse heater placed next to the calorifier and running on a stat set to low, one oil rad in the middle of the boat also set to low, all the pipework was run empty and then the taps blown down to get as much water out as possible and taps left open, but water tank was left about half full with the main stopcock closed.

     

    The marina is frozen solid and the ice is about 2 inches thick. Inside the boat the temperature was sat at 1 degree C. All pipes were clear apart from the kitchen cold supply - I suspect this was the inline filter after the pump which has frozen up as it's attached at the back of a kitchen cupboard right on the waterline. The water tank was clear of ice.

     

    Took about 2 minutes to 'recommission' in general but about 2 hours before we got water out of the kitchen tap. I was quite relieved as it's the first properly cold spell we've had since we've owned the boat and I wasn't sure whether we'd done enough.

     

    Now all we have to do is pay the £25 electric bill the heaters have used in the last few days....

    Exactly same here.   But pipes solid, washing up bowl solid with ice  and icicles hanging off every tap.

    Put heating on and boiled kettle using steam to de frost waste pipes under each sink. 

    Pump frozen and tripping on circuit breaker, eventually thawed out and water began to circulate.    Warm water eventually coming through.

    Had put tubular heater in engine compartment to keep calorifier thawed and 1 in bathroom.  Wc had a few mm of ice in bowl however.  Now has antifreeze in the bowl.  Left the boat now with gate valve from near empty water tank closed, pump off , heaters on and all taps open.  Electric bill for last 8 days about £9.  Marina is on a 30p / kw rate.

     

     

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