As I hinted last month, I had grown bored with the fiddly plumbing work (I know I have to suck it up and get on with it sooner or later but I can do little bits at a time in between more interesting work) so I moved onto the saloon furniture. As I now have […]
I am getting a bit bogged down (no pun intended) in the ensuite plumbing, and losing a bit of motivation to go into the hot shed and fiddle around for hours and not have much to show for it so I have decided to reinvigorate myself by getting some high visual impact work done by […]
The ensuite is almost plumbed, the through hull tank exits are the last physical fitting to be fitted and the vanity cabinet glassed in. So I marked the doorway in the shaped vanity front and cut the door out. I had already faired the front as well as I could and also some of the […]
I had already decided on a size and position for the shaving cabinet, and cut out the opening from the D panel it will sit in. The panel closes off the foredeck of the boat from the ensuite, but has plumbing and electric wiring go through it and therefore I felt it necessary to ensure […]
Having decided after much research on water delivery methods, on a cistern I studied the float switch options. Most toilets have bottom fill vertical float switches with a float that climbs a vertical tube when filled to close the tap, and as the name suggests, they fill from the bottom. I wanted a top filler […]
The weather for the past 6-8 weeks has been strange. Not so much hotter than other summers though it certainly feels that way, but more humid. I sweat from the simplest of tasks. It fogs my glasses and makes working difficult and uncomfortable. It is the kind of weather I would expect to encounter in […]
I am getting pretty bored with the endless plumbing of the ensuite but fortunately I am almost finished with it. I still have to glass in the furniture as for now it just sits in place while I secure all of the pipe work that must service it, but now that is complete I can […]
I had last weekend off, Jo and I went to Melbourne for a long weekend, we left on Thursday and got back Monday night so I did not get any work done on that weekend, and the Tuesday was Australia day, but again I did not get any work done that day because of a […]
I have had it confirmed by the supplier that the pumps dont have to be above the toilet rim as the manual suggests. This is only true to prevent siphon back but I have already made a siphon safe system via my pump up gravity out tank system. So with that resolved I can continue […]
With the port sump lid done I move back to the starboard hull to glue and glass the sump top in so that I could build the furniture above it and glass that all in. It was a fairly simple process as I had already done the mirror of this furniture in the port hull […]
