Thursday, 31 March 2016

Shower room 'nearly' done..


Over the Easter weekend we weren't sat at home eating Easter eggs and roast dinners! No, we were down the boat catching up on the fit out. The last 2 weekends were lost due to sickness and we really wanted to get something done.
From Saturday to Easter Monday we continued the shower room. We completed the line out in exterior grade 5.5mm plywood. This acted as a good base for the PVC cladding. We went for clean minimalist glossy white. We have managed to get 2 sides completed. A bit tricky round the porthole but the results were great. Just the shower walls to do.
We also did the plumbing for the shower and sink/vanity unit. 
A few pics but the gloss white is not easy to photograph...
The port hole (or are there 2!). No, just a reflection in the glossy cladding.
The vanity unit. Small and compact.
The 2 pipes ready for the shower. We are going for a Triton thermostatic mixer shower! BUY BRITISH!
More later...cheers.



Friday, 18 March 2016

We're still alive!

Just a quick update. Not much boat build has gone on over the winter months. But with Spring in the air, we need to push on and get this build somewhere near finished. We did have issues with the oak expanding and it did get us down and we had to do a lot of re-work. 
Things we need to achieve are ( not in any order):
1: finish solid oak flooring (60% done).
2: shower room which includes cladding; shower; vanity unit; plumbing; sump pump.
3: cushions to buy/ cover.
4: still a bit of wood to do.
5: there are a lot of 'little' jobs to do!
6: calorifier.
7: inverter.
8: horn 
9: weld some angle iron onto side hatch to support oak cladding.
10: anything else that I gave forgotten!

One really good thing, the boat past it's BSS waterways safety in early March! Good for 4 years! Cool....