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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 20:24:03 GMT
I just stepped onto the boat an hour ago,haven't lit the fire for a couple of days having been away on business and one thing and another. Its not very cold at all,just a light smattering of rain,I have two bags of coal out front and a little in the bunker by the fire,if this mildness keeps up I don't think I shall buy much more coal,I have given into temptation and lit it and I am already sweating. I was wondering if any of you have put the fire out now its Spring,too early yet surely?
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Post by loafer on Apr 4, 2016 20:29:57 GMT
Too early for me, although I might let it die out during the day, soon.
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Post by Delta9 on Apr 4, 2016 20:36:50 GMT
I've been on electric heating because my stove keeps trying to kill me, I haven't needed it on much in the last few days though. When I got home yesterday evening the boat was too warm just from the sun's heat and I had to open the door for a bit. There was still smoke coming from my neighbours chimney though, he must have been roasting.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 20:41:22 GMT
I remember a few years back I was buying coal in May,can't see it this year
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Post by loafer on Apr 4, 2016 20:43:57 GMT
I'm just about to whack 6 bags on the roof. That should do, shunt it?
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 4, 2016 21:17:02 GMT
Well, if we come over by car it will be easy to be able to take coal to the boat. I'm still laughing about our first trip on our boat (which was not ours then) in June 2013 on the Stratford Canal. I had a little glass of whisky on the sliding hatch and as the Witch was walking along the towpath approaching locks I kept popping in to give the fire a good ol' poking so that loads of blue coaly smoke was pouring out of the chimney. She shouted "You're drunk!" but the truth is I like the smell of smoke and I think narrowboats look great with smoke bellowing out of them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 21:21:40 GMT
Well, if we come over by car it will be easy to be able to take coal to the boat. I'm still laughing about our first trip on our boat (which was not ours then) in June 2013 on the Stratford Canal. I had a little glass of whisky on the sliding hatch and as the Witch was walking along the towpath approaching locks I kept popping in to give the fire a good ol' poking so that loads of blue coaly smoke was pouring out of the chimney. She shouted "You're drunk!" but the truth is I like the smell of smoke and I think narrowboats look great with smoke bellowing out of them. Yeah it looks great doesn't it? When I am really in the Party Mood I light the boatman's stove as well,I end up in my baggy Y fronts and string vest like Rab C Nesbitt lol
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Post by phil70 on Apr 10, 2016 22:03:28 GMT
Baggy Y fronts? String vest? Not a good look eh
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Post by JohnV on Apr 11, 2016 7:40:41 GMT
I started to think about it......but quickly stopped
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 8:01:23 GMT
Well I have one bag on the deck which will be joined by another three when Jules Fuels reaches Cosgrove this afternoon. Then absolutely,definitely,maybe NO MORE
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Post by Saltysplash on Apr 11, 2016 8:17:45 GMT
The weather has been very up and down these last couple of weeks, Sometimes its lovely during the day and no stove needed, then the next day its bloody chiily and stove is lit, and then its too warm again...tut!
Ive added a couple of house bricks inside the stove to reduce the size of the fire as its a big 11kw jobby. Currently buying coal from B&M which sells 10Kg Blaze smokeless for £3.99 and 10Kg housecoal for £2.99
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Post by peterboat on Apr 12, 2016 11:20:17 GMT
I still have 2/3 thirds of a coal bunker of anthracite left for the rayburn so will use that up through the year when its cold or I want to cook
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Post by JohnV on Apr 12, 2016 11:36:32 GMT
My Rayburn has only been lit once this winter, and that was to test the automatic interlock system with the oilfired central heating system. If the Rayburn is warm it overrides the thermostats and switches off the central heating system and starts the circulating pump for the Rayburn (which runs part of the system in the opposite direction) odd I know, but it was necessary if I was to keep both systems without totally re-plumbing the boat. (I needed to keep the work to the minimum as I was recovering from an operation at the time)
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Post by peterboat on Apr 12, 2016 12:18:16 GMT
I have the same problem with the wispergen it operates different to the rayburn my big heatstore tank sorts it out in my case
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 12, 2016 17:08:00 GMT
The rivers here are still full of ice. Now a lot of it has broken up and is flowing downstream. That's one thing I like about this area, I have to keep crossing rivers and following them. The Viirre, The Lohtaja, The Lestijoki, The Pöntiö, The Kalajoki, The Siipo. All running parallel and into the Gulf of Bothnia, much the same as the rivers the other side do, in eastern Sweden. Still snow in the shadowy parts here. And now the 'Midsummer Madness' phenomenon has begun up here, where it's daylight all night. 4 months of daylight. I have gotten used to it - but it's still weird.
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