A nice easy slow start.

For a pleasant change I woke up this morning at 7:45am, a leisurely hour or two getting ready for my day before going into town and then back to Tesco to replenish the perishables, before leaving the boat I texted Phil on fuel boat Hyperion and as luck would have it he was due here today.

I pondered making a start on the bedroom and decided I would.

This is a picture of the bedroom from the sale brochure, I think the boat was actually new at this stage, a bit cheeky using it it the brochure, it certainly didn’t look like that when I viewed it, the old wardrobe is on the left.

This is as it was this morning, a bit more weathered and the wardrobe and bed have gone.

I started by taking down everything to enable me to get the ceiling panel down to get access to the old roof TV ariel.

This is what happens when you use MDF around windows and have condensation leaking onto/into it, it started as 12mm thick but by now is about 24mm, so all the window ‘architraves’ will have to be renewed.

Bottom left corner of the window frame, the two screws were my early attempt
to reduce the swelling temporarily.

With the cupboard out and wall panels down I was able to remove the first ceiling panel.

My suspicions were born out, the ariel had been leaking and rust was forming along with damp/damage to the back of the ceiling panel. I treated the rust with Owatrol oil and will fill the holes in the roof tomorrow.

Looking up at the roof, the hole where the ariel cable entered the bedroom.

I have also put two coats of primer/undercoat on the back of the ceiling panel in an attempt to prevent damp from condensation being absorbed into the wood.

The three small holes are ceiling lights and the large one is a speaker, the condensation will have to go somewhere, hopefully just evaporate but I suspect it may appear around these holes, I cannot see a solution to that, hopefully it won’t!

Phil turned up late afternoon and I took on some diesel and just one bag of smokeless, I am trying to persuade the summer to arrive J

I am staying here tomorrow to get some of this refixed before making a decision on moving.