matty40s

Someone has to grout the lock bricks back in.......

You are buying something that has been worked on for 7 years to a finish maybe not achieving any particular standard other than the owners personal budget demands or skills. You may have to strip back almost everything to achieve RCD status, indeed , do you really know what is behind those panels, or what has made the kitchen worktop look so quirky after such a short lifespan?? Even the stove flue suggests that the hole in the roof was cut before they decided where the best place for the stove was. Budget hull with owner unfinished fitout, 40k is an ambitious attempt to recover spent money.......how wisely was it spent...

I'm with Collidge, just over £270 fully comp to CC with £20k personal belongings plus £500 bikes plus legal cover is pretty damn good in my eyes, I have searched for negative reviews, never found one. They have people you can understand on the other end of the phone and the entire T&C is very clear, legible and simple. You are also covered to the Thames Barrier, Portishead-Sharpness Severn with a pilot and the whole Trent including falls to Hull.

Sorry Tim...☺not

Indeed, here's the sidepond paddle at Atherstone. ... Only to be used for water control by people with a key now....

Maintenance, or mainteance, dredging and vegetation works are done only as a grand publicity splash, (expect an exculsive soon on how they have cut back all the offside vegetation from Rugby to Braunston......hillmorton to Braunston probably just to keep the fatboats happy). Ongoing necessary works are being neglected or not done at all. The dredging of the north end of the Coventry is long overdue, there is no way a radar survey cannot have picked this up. Barton Turns lock has been leaking onto the towpath for 2 years now, it was barriers off for repair 12 months ago. ..it continues to leak, how soon before the side of the lock collapses.

The problem as I see it, all over is that outsourcing repairs and maintenance may cut costs, but it is leading to more work needing to be done. For example, a CRT survey is done of bricks in a lock that need rebricking and grouting. The survey shows a critical area of 100 bricks. The job sheet is outsourced. By the time the actual works take place, 127 bricks are needing repair. The contractor does the specified 100 bricks, the other 27 are left for the next survey.......even though BW , and CRT would have done the whole lot in years gone by.

Chris Williams of Ovation boat services will probably come over there, he is based on the river Soar at Mountsorrel but I know he is prepared to travel an hour to boats.

looks very smart, you were very brave to do it this late in the year. one tip, why not tie your front and back end from the fenders until the paint has had time to harden off on the edge

Found some more in Loughborough Lock....

I picked Kathy up from work at Bishops Meadow bridge and we arrived at the Loughborough moorings at dusk last night. Couldn't see anyone else around, is it too early for a pre-banter drink....

See the Knostrop Locks thread

I think the warm winters are a possible reason too. You tend to leave the stove on tickover during the day and never really ramp it up with a good blaze as it's never cold enough outside to need it. The flue gases then settle far lower down the flue.

CRT are fully aware of boat location and are very appreciative of forum support. They can obviously not give much info out due to due legal processes.

I do all sorts of stews and cassy rolls in the winter on the Squirrel, along with baking things, soups and jacket spuddlylies. As I might be away for most of the day if working, I will not leave anything on all day, but will cook from scratch on it if at home all day.

So is the Soar...

Is he bragging.....

That's better, water.

I do think it trades under the JD Narrowboats name now though.

On the historic engine thread, it's also the wrong green

I was still st Stowe Hill Friday lunchtime, didn't get to Whittington until Sunday morning. This is what this morning looked like.