Sailaway needs lining.

[knelly]

Hi

I have recently purchased a sailaway narrowboat from burscough boats.

Does any know where is best for me to buy the boards for lining and bulk heads.

Cheers

Neil

[matty40s]

A wood merchants,  if you use B&q or Wickes you will pay through the nose for substandard boards. 

You haven't thought this through properly have you.......

[Alan de Enfield]

7 hours ago, knelly said:

Does any know where is best for me to buy the boards for lining and bulk heads.

Close to where you are fitting out.

Fitting out a boat leaves little space for working AND storage - you cannot store 8' x 4' boards (and probably won't even be able to get them thru' the doors) so will need to buy one-at-a-time, cut, fit and then buy another.

[Sea Dog]

26 minutes ago, matty40s said:

 

 

Duplicate post.

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[Sea Dog]

23 minutes ago, matty40s said:

You haven't thought this through properly have you.......

Oh, pick - eee!  He might have thought of absolutely everything else.  Crikey, there's just one little he hasn't thought through before taking on the project (ok, it's probably the first thing and it's quite a big one) and someone just has to point it out...

 

Lets hope the Burscough have already insulated it, or it might all be coming off again!

 

Welcome back to the forum though Knelly.  You will find folk are much more helpful when you ask stuff like this before buying the hull, so fight through the banter!  There must be an interesting story between your first 2 posts where you were looking at a second hand Les Allen boat two and a half years ago and your third post where you've bought a sailaway! That's a lot of time for research - what happened?

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[Bee]

Timber merchants and even then phone around for prices. Also for the rest of the stuff, boat jumbles, E bay etc., Screwfix and other similar places, online plumbers, hydraulic engineering places for copper tube and fittings, In fact only use canal chandlers as a last resort, they are awfully expensive. B&Q etc is ok for odds and ends. Fitting out a boat will take 2 or 3 years and it will give you time to source stuff over that time, Oh and before you build stuff all over the floor try and cut lift out panels in it to check the state of the baseplate. Good luck.

[knelly]

Ha Ha Matty no flies on you mate lol.Kne11y can take any banter.

 

Yep me and my wife have been looking at boats for a very long time trying to decide which was the best route to take.I have had plenty time as you have gathered to think things through. Iam now just wondering if there is a specialist supplier that makes good quality boards as I struggle to buy as much as a roll of masking tape from the likes of  B n Q with the poor quality lol; Infact Iam considering going ultra modern and using plastic cladding.

 

[Boater Sam]

Not near but Stalybridge Board do lots of ply finished boards. Near Ashton.

[Rob-M]

You could try Lawcris in Leeds if you are up that way as they do all sorts of panels including the cladding you mentioned. They also provide a cutting service.

[Arthur Marshall]

B&Q wood is awful. It's warped and usually full of cracks & splits. If you buy a pack you need to check every piece. Any reputable timber yard will usually be a bit more expensive, though that isn't always the case, but the wood will last. As above, buy screws in bulk from Screwfix. And an electric screwdriver! 

[Sea Dog]

13 hours ago, knelly said:

Infact Iam considering going ultra modern and using plastic cladding

Narrowboat interiors go through quite a heat range.  I wonder whether the expansion and contraction of plastic cladding would be compatible?