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Hi, Wondering if I share our experience and thinking we may get some observations or experiences from the readership? We are LAT's (Live-apart-together) a modern term for people who are married but live apart for some of the time. Our case it is jobs, but the result is I spend a good proportion of time on Percy and one weekend my good lady visits me and the other I visit her. Now the question.... my wife does suffer from allergies. After a few days aboard her face starts to get itchy and on previous occasions she develops what we consider to be an allergic rash. There are a couple of things it might be... dust from the stove, what we burn on the stove, spores from living so close to the country (we have a linear mooring) or maybe the stored water, we have a stainless steel tank and water filter for drinking. I guess time might help as now we are heading for the warner weather the stove might be put out sometime in the near future....but also the countryside dries up and gets 'green' I have stopped burning wood as we thought the stored wood onboard and as we burn it it may have been releasing spores or the wood smoke may have been aggravating the allergy. We have tried washing the face with boiled water, but difficult when showering. We also only use filtered water in the kettle so we do not mix it with the non filtered. It must be something on the boat as when she is in the cottage (in the country as well) the reaction subsides. On option is to replace the wood burner for a Reflecks, happy to do this but wanted to be sure or as sure as we could be that it is the dust/toxins being released from burning wood and less so coal (Excel). Just wondered if anyone else had had this issue ? Kind regards Nev NB Percy