lately life became quite hectic in the past few weeks we had our diy hats on and reframed
eight windows installed a new water pump and spend a long time organizing various repairs
now it's getting to the end of the year and the nights are getting longer
naturally we are settling into a slower pace of life taking a deserved break from
working every day and enjoying the new place we've just arrived at hang of it
we've had a completely new experience this morning on the boat
we have run out of water with our brand new water pump so the sounds that the pipes and the pump
was making were very unfamiliar i didn't know what was going on but it was just like a water
not sure why because we generally last two weeks without any problems
especially we haven't done any laundry on board for the last two weeks
obviously no proper showers so not quite sure what happened there
um
so
oh what was that right stop running okay
it's amazing how much lower she sits now she's full of water
much higher um yesterday yeah we're in hungerford stayed here the night under this tree that boat
was clean yesterday as you'll not see because we didn't do any filming because it was raining
and we forgot so it's very messy and we're going to go for a little walk just to see if there's a
better spot which we know there are better spots we arrived here in the dark so we just got the
first spot um so you can get a better spot and see if we can bump into mark and julie but as
you know they're they're always on the move the wiz um but yeah we're in sunny sunny hungerford
what happened to your shoes um i always like a pair of hi sort of big trainers for muddy topaz
and stuff but over the last few months i've had quite a few old pairs of trainers that use that
kind of work die and move on unfortunately so i'm now on the last pair of trainers that i've had
over a decade in fact the night of my trainers i don't even know who they belong to they've come
into my ownership and they're about to leave because i went for a walk just now and there's
just holes in them and i need a new pair of socks so we found a mooring that we would like to move
to um we are on the one day stretch so we've got to do a few things today and move the boat also we
are in the trees and there's no solar so this is not ideal i found a farm shop nearby which looks
quite interesting hopefully they've got some nice fresh food so we're going to go and check that out
we've moved um just 100 meters forward maybe 200 yeah we finally got solar and
we are in the zone where we can stay for two weeks i've got a lovely view we've got church there yeah
beautiful view i've got a lock swing bridge over there so yeah beautiful and we are off to explore
the area and we went to visit the nearby farm shop we've had it's a lovely walk and that's good
the wind last night was a lot stronger than we thought it broke a huge tree near the church
imagine this would fall on the boat
oh gosh not only would it probably go through the roof they actually like sink
the boat as well this is why you don't want to moor up under trees if you can avoid it
massive
honey yeah
i've not really seen package-free frozen food in the uk yet this is such a brilliant idea
oh that's a heavy bowl got quite a few there
i think it's time we uh paint the wall
that's a piece of art really that is time captured by a clock tell me if you think
that's a piece of art but we'll get rid of that yes okay what's the time for 22.
it's halloween tonight i already bought a pumpkin so i am determined to carve it last
year we bought a pumpkin and as far as we only drew a face on it that's as far as we went so i
really really want to have a nice like make a nice light out of it although we have had
this for like two weeks so not the best um efficiency here let's see what happens
oh wow forgot how to do this
okay
sorry nice did a donkey you're a donkey it's a cat's on the moon yeah that looks wicked
oh my god
the winter is here
there's frost everywhere
i'm so happy we've just had an engineer on and he fixed our gas we've got hot water and
i've just i just i'm i'm going i'm gonna go have a shower i'm gonna have a hot shower it's
been it's been over two months it's been probably three months i don't know it's
too long yeah i'm gonna go okay guys it's so good so good i'm so happy oh he fixed everything
no one should have cold showers in november
that was easily one of the best shows of my life so so refreshing so nice the boat
feels a lot more like home when we can have shower in it i feel like a brand new person
i just wanted to speak to you about our hot water system and what actually went wrong um for some of
you who might have a similar system or just want to know so this is our water heater it runs on gas
and we've been living on a boat for about three years and it has been working absolutely perfectly
up to about three months ago we don't have it on at all times and we only turn the gas on here
the heater when we need to use it to save gas to activate it you've got to turn the switch and the
pilot light comes on and then anytime you turn the tap on the hot water magically appears
but what was happening is the pallet light would not stay on so you get in the shower and within
15 seconds the water goes cold and the second thing is even when the light ignites it wasn't
big enough so the showers were basically cold very cold especially now it's getting colder and colder
we needed to fix it immediately it wasn't very easy to identify this problem though because at
the same time as luck would have it our water pump was also on its last legs making weird noises and
we didn't know whether it was just a water pump broken and the pressure wasn't working with that
or something else therefore we decided to go through all this water pump fixing thing first
and then get in touch with the person marcus who fixed the whole thing it ended up being the gas
in the end he checked the whole gas system and realized that at the front in the bow in the gas
locker where the switch is we have a switch that allows us to keep two gas bottles attached at the
same time that thing wasn't working properly the gas pressure in the whole system was low
that's why the pilot light didn't stay on and we also couldn't have a shower on and a cooker on at
the same time that's not normally how it works normally you can have a cup of tea and a shower
so once he fixed the gas pressure everything worked well he checked inside it so we actually
got a certificate of gas safety i wanted to know a few things about this gas though i thought these
are a little bit controversial apparently um these are only allowed on boats on older boats
something like up to a year of 2000 and after that everyone should get a calorifier
the other option for newer boats is to get this gas water heater but it would need to be
covered in certain way insulated or something like that and it would need to be switched on
from the inverter so that's probably why most new boats don't have these
i did immediately asked him whether this is safe these things are very safe as long as you
look after them and in his own words he said it's as safe as having a candle in your house
and the only issues that could arise from it if when you turn it on the gas changes color
and that's where you need to get someone in to check it otherwise it's really safe our friend
has a newer boat they featured this system on the outside of the boat and this way i guess
that complies with rules and regulations and this thing is so useful we can have hot water
on top at any point it's absolutely amazing yes calorifier could be a more efficient option
for some people but we don't have one and um for us it just makes sense to use this and
it's very convenient that's all i wanted to say about it finally after months and months
and months of coach hours we have the working gas heater we have the working pump and we can
safely securely and relaxingly cruise into the winter everything's back to normal it's
just an amazing relief as you probably know it takes a while to organize for someone to
get to the boat to fix it even if you know the problem and so now we're very very happy
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