I'm getting a tad wary of my leaning towards sensibility when it comes to planning and doing jobs. A few times recently I've caught myself not doing something or re scheduling due to material, time and tiredness.
In a small way such was the thinking around emptying the forecabin and back cabin blogged about last time. The evening was lovely and we were tired so rather than the planned drive home in the late afternoon to offload the tat I fished instead ( caught some nice Bream on sweetcorn )
The forecast was correct and we got the heavy rain into the morning so it was a lazy start. By late morning it was dry so I then set off to Norbury to empty the cassette and leave books and fixable inverters (?) at the lobby of the shower block at orbury .... and was thinking of composting loo's all the way there! As an aside I ventured into the hornets nest that is Canalnet forums to see about composting loo's... as expected it was vitriolic !!
Stuff dumped at home and back to the boat, Rachel had done a great job of packing so we had tea, taken by me on the bow feeling like I didn't want to leave but I had a issue at home* to deal with.
For the blog record on lighting the fire in the wet morning I noted the hole Tony had sealed up when he replace the top of the stove as part of out buying was 'open' again. I'm of an age now where I try and be stoical about such things ands as I was headed home to sort out similar* it will not be an issue.
A lovely afternoon ....hard to leave Percy when it is like this
* this was my challenge, the outside oil boiler at home was emitting soot where it should not be! So the next day it was on with the overalls and gloves and out with the workshop vacuum. I always watch the plumbers so know quite a lot of the workings of the boiler... I've replace the circulation pump and the control box for the two way valve as well as the hot water switch. The plumber did the hot water heat exchanger last year ! I've done the magic eye and replaced the nozzle before. The plumber replaced the expansion vessel, yes it's a bit like Triggers broom!
One thing thing irk'd me was the primary baffle box had a cross threaded door bolt. All plumbers so far have most probably rightly refused to open it up so only cleaning the baffles in the condenser. I bit the bullet and removed the bolt pleasingly without snapping it. As expected after 10 years of no cleaning the baffles were well and truly sooted up. More vacuuming and cleaning, sorted the cross thread and then cleaned the other baffles
Work in progress on the condenser baffles
The exposed and still to be cleaned combustion chamber
All back and there was still some venting from where there should not be. Further investigation found a buster condensation pipe !! A bike trip was planned .... see next blog as we also meet some fellow boaters and friends friends who have exciting plans and news !!
The end of this day was a much need deep bath and rest !!
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