RooF

Yes good point, they are dead

Oh sorry if I didn’t make this clear. This water has come straight from the shore point and is going straight into a kilner jar with a tap, which I get glasses of drinking water from. The water tank on the boat isn’t involved, at least in this case. The reason I think they’re hatching from the water is that I’ve never seen these bugs crawling around in or near the boat, so even if they could some how crawl into the jar, I don’t think they have.

I wanted to share my experience and see if -anybody had similar experience -anyone had an opinion of how the problem is coming about -any solutions they suggest I live in a permanent mooring, and get my water from a water point on the tow path. I believe this is drinking water as you would expect. I have a large kilner jar which I fill for my drinking water (I use my water supply to the tap for everything else, I like the idea of my drinking water being freshly filled every few days and not sitting in my tank for a few weeks. I understand that’s not what everyone does, but I’d ask that we don’t discuss this aspect as that’s not what I want to discuss here, start another thread if you wish). On three occasions over the past year I have found there to be some kind of water louse floating in the water. My theory is that they have hatched in the water as I’ve never seen them crawling around the boat or outside near the water point. Has anybody else had this issue? Do you have a solution? It’s clearly doing me no harm but it is admittedly a bit gross. Thanks all

Yeah absolutely the point where the chimney meets the ceiling, I stood with my ear near it and could hear it clearly coming from that point. distance between them maybe 15 foot?

Haha no rooftop showers no, and though I’ve been known to be a pushover not yet to that extent haha not sure on our insulation to be honest. I suppose I’ll keep an eye from now on and see if it happens most regularly after showers or if showers don’t factor into whether the noise happens or not

Great question. It was not raining. But my partner as I mentioned had recently showered

Again thanks for the help. Was aware of requirements, was clear at all points I intended to meet the requirements, but was misguided and wrongly thought that CO2 could meet those requirements. Must have misread something somewhere. Never going to hurt to talk to the fire service in addition to meeting this requirements. If anybody would like to continue giving any information they might have on the chimney sizzling behaviour I’d love to hear it. Thanks for your time.

Thanks everyone, you know what on double checking you’re right CO2 extinguishers don’t cover the A requirement. For some reason I had gotten it in my head that Powder was ABC and CO2 was ABE. With that in mind I’ll replace with powders after all. All this info is very helpful, thank you

Hi folks totally agreed, but CO2 and powder extinguishers can both comply with the BSS, it’s a choice between the two if I’m not mistaken . Both can give the specified A and B requirements given the right size and combinations. The reason I’m hesitating to use powder is that often fire fighters will tell you powder makes such a cloud of powder when used that you will not be able to navigate around the space and find your way out if it’s small such as a boiler room, basement or indeed a narrowboat. Hence I though CO2 might be better to use for a fire extinguisher that could aid in escape, however it comes with a risk of suffocation by displacing oxygen of course. I’m replacing my fire extinguishers as though I have a BSS they are all quite old, decades old in fact, and I want to make sure I have newer working extinguishers as the new owner I want to be as safe as I can be.

We’d be in danger of going off topic here, but the main reason I want to talk to the fire department is to talk about powder vs CO2 extinguishers in an enclosed space eg restricted sight to get out vs suffocation risk in a closed space. Then I was going to follow guidelines. Pretty sure my chimneys single skin, I don’t think it was a fire because frankly I had a look down the chimney and didn’t see anything. I would get it cleaned but I feel this is unnecessary going into the summer season, I’ll wait till Autumn. I wasn’t burning the stove that hot, it was logs not coal so there’s only so hot it can get. The occasional sizzling, which happened every few minutes and would last one a few seconds exactly like dropping a drop of water in a frying pan, was definitely coming from where the chimney meets the ceiling.

Thanks folks, I’ve got a smoke alarm, CO alarm and heat detector onboard and I’ve requested the fire service come round to check it out and tell me what they’d recommend I get in terms of extinguishers etc. my main concern is that this isn’t a sign of something unsafe, if it’s just something not being totally water tight or the like I’m happy to tackle that when I have some DIY time. Thanks for the warm welcome all!

Thanks LadyG. The boat did sit unused for about 6 months so I’ll have a feel around when I can and report back. However the boat has had a survey and any weakness in the ceiling, roof leaking etc wasn’t picked up which I would have guessed it would have been if it had been present? If it is water in the ceiling, is there a possibility that once the water trapped is boiled off the noise will stop and I can continue as normal?

Hi folks, Im new to life on the cut and new to the forum. I’ve recently moved into a narrowboat and have been noticing a few things that I am unsure about. Last night I had the wood burning stove lit and hot, when a strange noise began to happen. Every 2 or 3 minutes a sizzling hiss would come from where the chimney meets the ceiling. I’m almost certain I was the sound of water boiling away as it sounded exactly like when you drop a little water into a hot frying pan. My partner things it might have something to do with condensation running between the boards on the ceiling to where it’s hottest as she had just had a shower so humidity would have been higher than normal. My immediate was chimney fire, but it didn’t seem to be the crackling or popping sound that is usually associated with that issue. Has anybody else noticed this noise? How can I go about investigating it? Thanks, Roo