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  1. MtB

    Sofa bed

    MtB replied to Tenzin's topic in Living Afloat

    No they won't...
  2. MtB

    Sofa bed

    MtB replied to Tenzin's topic in Living Afloat

    You or the bed?
  3. MtB
    Excellent news he's back!!! Longest I ever had a cat go missing was three years. We'd given up all hope then once day he burst in through the catflap covered in mud without a WORD of explanation, and slotted straight back into family life.
  4. MtB
    Isn't there an old riveted iron butty ex-hotel boat called Taurus moored on the Shroppie, near Grubb Street Cutting? Or maybe it is Uranus....
  5. MtB
    Give it ten years and CRT will Section 8 it!!
  6. MtB
    I was always taught ACS passes were deemed absolute 'proof of competence'. There may well be other ways to persuade a court of your competence but the court is obliged to accept ACS passes as proof. Once you have the passes you are deemed competent. After that, membership of CORGI (lattery Gas Safe) was only required in order to receive payment.
  7. MtB
    Surely holding the appropriate ACS exam passes would suffice?
  8. MtB
    A half-truth, I'm afraid. The "gas regs" which apply to a residence say you must be "Competent". Gas Safe Registration is only mandatory if you are working on a gas system in return for payment or reward (or words to that effect). And if it is a leisure boat, any incompetent Tom, Dick or Harry can do whatever gas work they like on it. And they often do.
  9. MtB
    I didn't suggest anything! Other than that someone rejecting your 116 possibilities and planning to carry out a conversion checks the appliance is apporved for conversion.
  10. MtB
    They will also, if being diligent want to see "LPG" marked on the data plate as a permissible fuel. Fitting LPG jets to an appliance not approved for conversion to LPG would classify the appliance as "Immediately Dangerous" in my opinion.
  11. MtB
    May I enquire which regulation has changed please? AFAIK the RCR (neé RCD) demands this in a new boat but there is nothing I know of preventing an open-flued water heater being fitted in a used boat. Thanks.
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  13. MtB
    Or just stick-weld your piece of angle iron onto the swim. Welding works fine with the boat in the water.
  14. MtB
    ^^^ This ^^^ My reading of the OP is he is simply seeking to understand. It was Gybby who advised not buying the boat unless the seller provided first class answers to the questions. My advice to the OP is buy the boat if you like it, a lot. Sort out the (probably trivial) heating faults (if any) once he is the owner.
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    If house prices halved overnight there would still be endless people moaning they didn't fall by enough, they are still over-priced and no-one can afford them.
  18. MtB
    I'm afraid not but a search of the forum should turn up a thread from about six months ago where a US resident was trying to get get insurance on a boat he would keep here, and totally failing to find an insurer willing to write him a policy.
  19. MtB
    Assuming you are a real person asking this firstly, you need to live in the UK. This is because to get a license for a boat, the boat has to be insured, and to get boat insurance you have to live here. Where do you live?
  20. MtB
    Oi, practical, common sense observations like this are not welcome here in threads like this, lol! DAMHIK.
  21. MtB
    Your chain is awfully easily yanked, Arthur!!
  22. MtB
    Also a nonsense statement. If true, where to average working people live then, if not in houses?! "Affordable" housing as I understand it, is houses at 80% or less of local market value.
  23. MtB
    I don't know, never looked. But it is never a Good Idea to terminate the flue of a combusting appliance against a combustible material.
  24. MtB
    Those silencers make very little difference to the noise of the exhaust. Very neat hole cover though! Looks like a wooden cabin though, so terminating like that might not pass a BSS
  25. MtB
    Ok then as ditchy says, almost certainly chain steering unless the boat has been updated and hydraulic steering fitted, which is unlikely. So my money is on the chain having a removable link or shackle in it, which has come un-done! Time to start taking panels off etc to expose the path of the chains to the rudder...
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