I came back to the boat after new year to find water rising over the floorboards in the lounge. The situation is worse than before. I don’t know where the leak is so I’m ripping up the entire floor.
A chap from the local boatyard brought a pump round and left it running for 25 minutes but that only emptied half the water. He pointed out that the main water pipe runs underneath the floorboards the length of the boat but it should really run along the side. That’s why I didn’t realise I had a problem for weeks.
Got a feeling there’s going to be a big plumbing bill soon. And it could take many weeks to dry the boat out.
good luck with your water leakage.!!!!!!!!!
I’m thinking of buying a boat, so your blog has been most interesting. I’l look forward to hearing more…
Sorry to hear about the leaky boat. If it’s any consolation, my heating (diesel stove) went up the swanny two days before Christmas and still isn’t working. Such is canal life I’m afraid! I’m in the Uxbridge area and have a ‘hippo’ submersible bilge pump if you need to borrow one at any point. Should clear the water out a bit quicker…
Good luck!
Hi Jason,
greast blogsite. I found it a year ago, when I was first thinking on living afloat on a narrowboat. Seriously still thinking that way, so maybe now is the time.
Can I ask you a couple of questions:
How have you adapted to the confines of a narrow boat, and do you ever wish you had a widebam or a dutch barge?
I’ve lived a year of my life in a tent (when travellinbg), so I know I could adapt, I’m just trying to weigh th eadvantaged of a widebeam against a narrow boat (not sure how much my travelling would be curtailed with a widebeam).
cheers, and happy bilging, err.. blogging I mean.
Ken.