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Wednesday, 8 June 2016

Too much heat in the bedroom, none in the bathroom!

In our bedroom we have a Morso Squirrel with a back boiler, this gravity fed one radiator, right next to the bed. If it turned cold and we lit the Squirrel, within 30-40 minutes we'd be roasting. But in the bathroom there was no heating, could we move the radiator into the bathroom and would it still work OK? Here is the light patch where we removed the radiator.
So we had to remove the bulkhead, wardrobe, flue and move the Morso. It was the first time that I had worked with 28mm compression fittings.

I dropped the radiator under the side hatch and behind the captain's chest
The floor under this section was chipboard, which had got very wet at some stage. Underneath they have used chippings as ballast!
I was wary cutting it out, just as well, just missed the water pipe.



The tiles under the Morso were cracked and laid on chipboard with no support under it!


Aaron, one of neighbours is a tiler, he kindly cut one of the two porcelain tiles that the Morso will now sit on, I replaced the chipboard with marine ply and added more wooden supports  under the stove. Glenda decided that she doesn't want the wardrobe and instead we will convert an old drawer unit into a narrow Welsh dresser. I bought some vintage mahogany yacht doors from a mate in Cardiff, these will replace the banana shaped plywood ones that we have at the moment.                                      

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