Project.........

 ......and an unrelated problem.

I’ve been at the Old Wolverton mooring for 6 nights and I am getting that ‘time to move on’ feeling, but not just yet, this afternoon I ran the engine to get hot water and charge the batteries and something did not sound right, the engine sounded ok but the rhythm sounded odd, it sounded similar to what I what I hear when I run the washing machine off the inverter. I looked at my Smartgauge battery monitor and the voltage was low, normally it would build up steadily to show about 14.4volts whilst charging but it was fluctuating between 13.25 and 13.65, not sure what it is and quick investigation didn’t show anything untoward so it’s a job for a fresh head tomorrow... I got a tank full of hot water then switched off, I love the whole battery charging mystery!

Anyway project update, I finished the second angled cupboard.

Quite pleased with that and it’s given me more storage than the two deep drawers offered, so that's all the work in the galley done.

So onto the next phase, the bathroom,this was the layout, vanity unit behind the door  from the galley with the washing machine in a cupboard behind the towel.

Cassette wc squeezed in beside the bath, it’s all pretty tight for space and a sliding door to the room itself. I have decided to make it walk through, so from the galley door straight into the bathroom instead of a tight corridor and then on through the existing door to the bedroom, not ideal but more practical given the lack of space.

The first job was to remove the old vanity unit, once it was out it was clear that water had been finding its way down the inside and back of the unit, probably from the seal against the walls, this has caused discoloration to both the wall panel, I will probably tile over that to lose it, and the floor, so it’s looks like a new floor covering to replace the laminate.

There were 15mm hot,cold and waste pipes beneath the floor and into the vanity unit through that large hole in the floor, it should have been easy to disconnect those and pull them through but unfortunately the plumber had used cables ties to hold them together beneath the ply, it proved to be a bit of a task, I could not lift the ply because that goes under the panel that formed the back of the vanity unit and to where the boiler sits on it, hey ho! Anyway got them out with only a few expletives.

Next move the cassette, and it's wall panel, water and electric supply, easy...mmm.... so that's it for now.

The biggest problem is lack of room to work and having to move half the interior to 'somehwere' before starting work, be glad when it's finished ;-)