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jammin1620

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    lift engineer
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    CÉRÉS
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    norton canes

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  1. I work in the water tank and water systems cleaning and sterilising field. There are potable 2 pack products we use to do tanks. In fact we did a narrowboat a couple of weeks ago. It's not cheap by any means. But it's the same stuff we use on large older steel tanks in business premises to refurbish them. On the point of spores in your plastic tanks. You will get a tainting to it if you over disinfect it. Make sure your levels are spot on. In a 25% sodium hypochlorite solution 500ml is enough to treat 1000litres. You must hold this in a full tank I mean a brimming tank for 1 hour. This is because it takes that time to break down the protective coatings. (Spores if I remember right) in order to kill the bacteria. ) Please also note it is illegal to discharge chlorinated water. Even if its neutralised into the canal. You can use another product which is safe to discharge as it is potable but highly expensive. Note.. You aren't sterilising it... that would only happen if you put it in an autoclave. If I can help give me a shout.
  2. We travelled the w&e down through rushall Sunday without too much issue regards water levels. Wednesday however showing just below 100 on gauge by rushall top lock and hard going round to brownhills. Levels at the grove have dropped a fair bit since last week. Wonder if they've turned off chasewater?
  3. I was with springy up the flight Sunday and concurr the lads were no bother at all. Even the crt guys on rushall that morning said there would be a group of lads but not to be concerned as they're a lovely bunch. And commented that the oiks doing the damage gave them a bad name. It's too easy to judge a book by its cover and tarnish everyone with the same brush. The trip back down was smooth with no damage yesterday morning and levels all ok. Note to others using the flight there was a piece of metal railing the galvanised type sticking out of the bridge before asda. Vicious piece and attached to something below water (probably another piece). We tried to remove it but failed.
  4. So. Some interesting developments. I can't give you the official line until I have it in writing. However. I've had my boat out for its 30yr survey. The examiner happened to be on the technical committee of the bss and went thru the rules the overshadow this issue. As soon a single have the official line I will post on here. But hasten to add that it's good news..
  5. Travelled through rushall on sunday and came across some crt lads. One thing he did say was that they had caught one person for the damage on ryders green.. clearly not the right one or the main perpetrators as they are still at it. Myself and springy will be travelling ryders green first thing tomorrow. Just hope they don't hit again tonight. Or we're in for a the long slog back up to the cannock extension. Hope they catch the Little sods soon. And hats off to crt for dealing with the damage promptly.
  6. Might I pose a question back to the original poster. One other thing the examiner picked up on was low level ventilation and suggested rather than nasty vents in the door look at vents in the front cant which didnt seem unreasonable. Also if your setup is like mine i found it had two gas runs and therefore two gas regulators. More alarmingly I found the two were linked under the tug deck. Thus meaning if one gas line inside the boat failed it would empty both bottles given the lack of nrv. Or one way valve. Both gas runs were hidden behind the woodwork and I found the one side had a coupler half way down behind the sofa which was leaking. I'm working towards getting gas on board and have as such removed the one gas line and secondary regulator. Removed the link between. Replaced the pipe down to the cooker therefore doing away with coupler.
  7. I think maybe I wrote my earlier post poorly or your misunderstanding. There is no way around doing it safely. And no reason to as you point out. My reference to how he gets around it was aimed at his fix and if it allowed him to keep the lockers without altering there makeup too radically from the original design. I also like you abhor gas and have removed an alde heater and gas fridge similarly as the less it's needed the better. Hope this clears my post up.
  8. I'm pleased to see they've lifted the restriction on rushall locks now. Water level is currently stable here at the grove.
  9. I am reading your thread and thinking this is all very familiar. I own a ted spencer tug 'ceres' and yours looks like another?? I last year had to get an unfamiliar examiner to look over the boat and safety it before purchase and he wasn't keen on it. (He was that type to probably take his bss rule book to bed for light reading tho.) However It's never failed in the past (under previous owner) he failed her saying that gas could go back into the cabin through the main doors.. I should point out i have exactly the layout of your gas lockers. And I'm guessing the cants on your tug deck have a 6 inch gap for run off by the cabin. Also allowing gas to flow off.. His thoughts were to weld it up and have a side entrance off the gunnel. I wasn't happy with that idea as it ruins the layout. His other option was to weld tabs on the back of the doors that would seal closest to the main cabin doors. So any gas would be forced down and out. But was still quite adamant about a side vent. I'm still yet to solve this problem and personally when you look.at the lockers they're designed with a camber to the front lip to aid the gas escape. I'd be interested to know what your thoughts or outcomes are..
  10. I refer to my post earlier. Crt. The guys themselves that found the leak said expressly that the water was going into a storm drain whic
  11. Crt have just visited to say that teeces bridge Bloxwich has a breach in the culvert. Dams are being put in over the next few days. No evidence was apparent as the water was going down a storm drain. Also theyre pumping from Bradley and using chasewater to try keep it at current level.
  12. It does seem to make sense. However my understanding was that we don't get a supply from chasewater since they repaired the dodgy valve a few years ago (video on you tube somewhere I believe).
  13. Grove basin on the cannock extension is just over 8inch down. On Sunday after the deluge we were nearly 3inches over so we've lost nearly a foot in the space of a week. Speaking to crt this morning they said they were aware of issues and investigating claiming a possible breach.. So far today the levels seem to have stayed the same. I dId see one boat struggling up the extension earlier but I'd suggest he was pushing more silt than water. Chasewater is also very low I'm told the levels are to the bottom of the slip. Yet only three weeks earlier it was topping the overflow. Curious
  14. Many thanks for your responses. In response to rusty 69. Quite right regarding your temperatures. It is important to point out that legionella will thrive in conditions with rust, and scale. The worst culprit is the shower head and hose leading up to it. That little loop of hose and shower head itself holds water in. This is then cooled and the heated and cooled etc. All this time sat high up in the boat which as we know is the warmest part. And shower heads accumulate scale so legionaires and other pneumoia familied bugs thrive. These bugs are in our water and soil no matter what we do its purely the 'breeding' conditions affecting the occurrence on my opinion. The other cases in our hospitals have been down to showers rather than taps or cooling towers. After talking with a friend of mine on the subject tonight we both came to the conclusion that most would take bottled water as common practice. And or boil water as required.
  15. Some very kind comments. Thankyou. I'm looking to give her a repaint beginning of next year keeping her to the original scheme of course. I'm just in two minds as to the lettering on the rear panel. I'm tempted to keep Mr Barkleys name there as an ode to Tom who I sadly never met but whom I hope would tip his hat to see her all resplendent again.
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