Good boy! Morning! Morning! Ah, it's a weird day today.
It's messing with my head. Countdown to launch as started
so we're clearing the house, that's why it sounds all echoey in here, doesn't it?
It's nearly empty. Horrible! There used to be a mirror here. Yeah, there used to be a mirror.
So some of it is going to our mates who are buying it. Some of it's going on eBay.
Some of it's going to the boat and some of it to charity shops, and a lot to the tip!
Dillon's trying to... (laughing)
Errr, so yeah, countdown to launch is on. Are you ready? No. Come on then... (Laughing)
Do you ever get that feeling you've forgotten something?
No. It'll be right.
Morning! Morning! I've got a sweat on doing that. Right, that's the car unloaded.
That's actually the second load isn't it of stuff that we've brought through.
What we're trying to do is bring through every time we come through once a week
or so we bringing like a carload of stuff through. So this is the second lot
and we reckon there's going to be about five loads. We've got another couple of
weeks until we launch anyway so plenty of time to get everything on board.
So I think next thing - unpack - yeah try and put all this away.
Right, so we are in the galley. We're just going to show you some of the stuff that we've brought through
and stuff like that. We got these from Next. So it's just tea coffee and sugar pot things.
What we're doing is because we haven't moved on the boat yet is we're just
putting everything in cupboards and in drawers quite low down so
just in case we do get any movement it's not going to break anything. Show them the clock!
The clock! Lovely little clock. So the clock is going - It's going there.
There, and the reason it's going there is that I am going to be sat here doing my
work at the dinette, and so it's easy for me to see what time to clock off.
Five-past-nine... starting at nine (laughing)
We've got we've dr... errr... errr... errr... We've got a... What's the word?
Got a shelf (laughing) So point to the... Right, so we've got shelf going there with the mugs on it.
Yeah, that's errr... They're gonna just sit on there - no, a bit higher than that - About there.
So the mugs are gonna go on the shelf there. We've got the clock above it, and then
just underneath we've got like the tea coffee and sugar malarkey, yeah.
There's a couple of sockets there. So we've got our kettle, our hob kettle.
It's just a basic black hob kettle. The thing here is retraining Shaun not to
fill it to the top. At home he just fills the kettle to the top for himself
so we've got teach him to save water and save gas and stop condensation in the boat
and that's how we're gonna do it. So that's the hob top kettle. We've also got this, is
Shaun's pride and joy - I love this - (laughing) This also helps stopping condensation.
This is a thermal cooker. Explain a thermal cooker, Shaun.
A thermal cooker works exactly like a slow cooker but without power.
Basically, there's your cooking pot.
Cook in this for about... any stews for about 10 minutes or anything like that
All stews, 10 minutes bring it to full heat.
Put the lid on, put it in here, and it's basically a flask. Seal it up,
put that away for 7 hours and it'll be cooked. We actually tried it didn't we,
the other day, we had curry. He did a chicken curry and he just kinda
cooked the chicken through on the stove for about 10 minutes, yeah, and then you put
the whole lot in there and then we just left it. So it was about 10 o'clock and
then we ate it about 4 o'clock, yeah and I tell you what, it was soooo gorgeous!
So tender. It just uses no power, it cuts down - well it eliminates condensation
eliminates it completely because you've not got nothing simmering for hours.
So stews, casseroles, curries, chillies, things like that. We're going to be using that I
would think nearly every day aren't we? Especially in the winter. So that's our thermal cooker.
Okay, you can put that away now. We've seen that. We're trying to kind of
put things away and make it interesting, that's why we're showing you.
So the thermal cooker in there. We're not actually going to use that as space,
we're just using it as safe storage space. As soon as we've moved on board
we're not using that cupboard, obviously because of the hob there.
The lovely chopping board that Rob's made for us - lots of batteries on it - The fridge you've seen.
Dillon's food just down there. What else have we got in the galley?
I think that's it, isn't it? Oh no, show them the drawer!
The drawer. We've been looking for like a utensils tray.
inside the drawer, and we found one, and we measured the drawer before
and this fits it perfectly. If I put my hand in it will not move.
It's absolutely solid in there. It's like an expandable one, so this grey bit is
one size and then this dark grey bit kind of expands outwards and we've got
it to fit the dimensions of the drawer perfectly. We haven't brought our cutlery yet,
but we're quite pleased with that. Little things please little minds, they say.
We nicked a couple of ideas from other boaters. So Pat and Eileen from
'Dunworkin' are to blame for these. These are water detector alarms, and what we do is
I'll unwrap one and show you how it works. So that I don't stress out about leaks and
things on the boat we've bought these, and what you do is you put these where
there's a risk of water leaks. In our first boat our calorifier leaked within
like the first week of getting it, so I'm a bit paranoid about water leaks.
So we've got three of these. One of them is going... guess where? Under the calorifier!
The other one is going under where the shower pump is, and the third one is
going under the pump at the water tank, right at the front of the boat.
So all you do is you put this whatever you're putting it. You put the detector where you
think the water could leak and then you turn it on, like that, and then if any
water leaks it makes a sound (VERY LOUD ALARM) Aaaaggghhh! Like that. Oh dear, turn that off.
So that's one of the things we've got. Can you imagine that going off at three o'clock in the morning?
Panic! Aaaggghhh!
Spare duvet. We're gonna store that in here under the dinette because it's gonna be the spare
duvet for if we have guests. We've got some of these. These are vacuum storage bags.
you know that stuff where you just put all your clothes in and then suck all the
air out and it's like that big instead of that big, that's what those are.
Bargain by the way! £6 for six from Amazon. If I remember I'll put a link down below.
Got our clothes airer, there. That's gonna go down at the front at the bow.
So we can do all the washing.
So we've got our sofa at last! We've got our sofa! We were looking for ages and ages for a decent sofa
and there's a couple of websites that do like fitted ones for narrowboats.
Sites like Nabru, and a couple of the
other Bickerstaffe boats have got their sofas and they're really nice,
but, I don't know, it's just... We just didn't like them, and we were walking around Ikea
a couple of weeks ago and we just kind of saw this and the measurements are
absolutely perfect. The colour is what we wanted, so we had to sit down on it and
it was ace. It was really comfy. So we've just got a slight alteration to make.
If you come down and in a little bit you can see this huge gap at the back.
Now what we can do is where the legs are underneath, we can move them. We've checked
the frame underneath and the frame is solid all the way around, so we're just
going to move the legs at the back slightly just so that this sofa will
push back by about... Well if I move this forward you can see it's about six or seven inches.
We've checked that we won't bang our heads on the side of the gunwales there.
We've checked that... and owl cushion from Wayfair, love that! So that's the sofa!
The rug, again we've got that from Ikea. £20. It's alright. It's just nice and
cozy isn't it? It looks nice with the lights.
In this corner, we've got our
Apple HomePod, so if you want to ask Siri anything... It's not switched on or it
would have done it. We'll just use that for our music as well. We've got a shelf
going in the middle here, and then on the top, you saw this a couple weeks ago, this
is our Wi-Fi router. We're just making some alterations to this.
We've got a 12 volt adapter to power it, but because sometimes depending
on how full the batteries are charged or if we've got the engine on or hooked up
you get more than 12 volts. It can be like 13.7 volts and we don't want to
risk damaging the equipment so we did some tests just to see what the voltage
drop was and it was hardly anything we were still getting like 13.3 volts
through that socket so we're having a little
thing fitted to the back of the distribution board which is going to
kind of level out the voltage no matter what it is 13 or 14 volts it will come out
into the DC sockets circuit at 12 volts. So we'll do a separate vlog on that in a
few weeks when we've got that fitted. So that's why the Wi-Fi is not on at the moment.
We're in the bedroom this is probably gonna look quite a bit
different to when you last saw it, which it was just the base and everything
wasn't it? We had nothing in here. As you can see it's all done ready to be made.
This is a mattress with an infill. King-size mattress, so I'm not gonna do
it, you've seen it before. It pulls right out. This is a memory foam mattress.
I'll tell you what, it is gorgeous! I've only slept on memory foam once or
twice, usually on holiday, and it's really nice, so we spent a little bit extra to
get a memory foam mattress but it feels absolutely gorgeous. If you come in you
can just see the infill at the back here. So when we pull the bed out this infill
drops in to that side bit and it makes the king-sized bed. I just like feeling it.
You know when you get things and you just like feeling it. It's like a cat
when it's doing that kind of pawing and I just love it. Right, this thing is a...
It's called a Dry Mat. It's an anti-condensation underlay. Now this is really good.
This is a tip we got off people on social media. So basically what we do is
you can see this picture here, is we cut, it's already cut to shape it sits
underneath the mattress and all it does is it gives you like an
extra layer of air between the bed base and the mattress, so it's like
ventilation under the mattress and it just cuts back on mould setting in and
condensation things like that. It's more ventilation which is what you need. So that will go
under the bed and we're also having a separate piece of this which will come
up the side because the side, this side, is actually quite a cold corner of the
boat altogether so we're going to have another piece of this coming up just to
give it that little bit more ventilation, hopefully stop some of the condensation.
Got the duvet ready. We're not going to bring the bedding until we actually move onboard.
It is new bedding but I want to wash it.
You know if you wash it in your own detergent and conditioner, and it kind of
smells like home, like new bedding at home. Does that sound weird? Anyway that's what
we're doing. So king-sized duvet which is going to go on the bed.
We've got a throw a little faux fur throw. Again lovely and soft. Some duck feather
pillows here and the TV's ready. If Shaun comes right in... It's just an excuse to
sit on this lovely mattress. So with the TV we've done it exactly like we did it in the saloon.
So it's on a bracket and don't forget we're sat this way on.
Our heads will be back there where you are, and this will pull out, you know just in case
we want to see anything close up. I'm not telling you the kind of movies Shaun watches.
But it pulls out like that, so if I'm working in the dinette Shaun can
come in here, stick his USB stick in and watch a movie. Push that back.
How smart is that? I really love that! That's brilliant. Two 12-volt sockets and
some USB sockets under here, so we can charge our phones up on a night, and
we've got a spare 230 volt socket just behind this lip, which is actually where
we're going to plug these in with. These are just some LED strips that we're just
going to run under the lip of this cupboard and we're going to put the
switch down at that side so it's like a little nightlight. Yeah, we're going to
put those in in a week or two after we've launched.
(Sighs) Knackered now!
Because this part of the boat gets quite cold in the winter when it's cold, especially this
area, it's prone to condensation, and we spoke to a few boaters who said that under the
bed, the side of the bed, kind of in the wardrobe, that's the worst areas for them.
So what we've decided to do is get some extra ventilation. If Shaun just comes
down we're going to have an extra ventilation plate just in this side of the bed.
Further in we're gonna have another ventilation plate at the back of bed, just down here.
And right at the very back of the bed near the bow doors
there's another ventilation plate into the bed, and then if we open the wardrobe
door, it's a bit dark in there, but we're gonna have another ventilation plate
between the wardrobe and under the bed in there. So altogether
four lots of ventilation under the bed.
Moving on to a boat in some ways is
easier than moving house. Once you've got rid of all the stuff that you don't want
to take with you. There's not that many boxes to back up.
What we've been doing is kind of putting it all in a corner in the spare room and
then bringing it over a kind of a car load at a time once a week, and any new
stuff we've had delivered straight here. That's it, so it's in a way it is a bit easier.
It is hard letting go of a lot of stuff though, yeah, and it is tough
because she leaving a lot of stuff behind and taking stuff to charity shops
and taking stuff to the tip, and the car boot. That's it. And it might be stuff
that you've not used in years that's just been under the bed but it still
kind of gets you a little bit. But then again it's exciting getting the new
stuff for the boat and as you've seen today kind of putting things in the new
places on the boat is kind of exciting and a bit of a buzz, and we've got some
more of that to do before the launch. If you want to stay updated make sure that
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(Surprised) Ooooh! What? (Laughing)
Ooooooh, close! It's not close... Yaaaaaah!
(Colin in background) Ouch! It just ripped through my finger (Shaun laughing)
(Slap!)
I can't believe you farted on the boat already. We haven't even moved on to it yet. (Shaun laughing)
We are going to show you our airer. What is it with me and laundry? Love it!
(Alarm going off in background) Alarm! Alarm!