Old Spot

[W+T]

I'll need to buy a lathe before I can make either of you a round tuit.

 

Tony

 

 

OMG i just clicked LOL

[OldPeculier]

Unfortunately, my lovely worktop has suffered from the heat of the fire and has opened up along one of the joints. I have been wondering how to fix this for a while. The difficult part being how to clamp it now that it is fixed in place. Last night I came up with the idea of using a ratchet strap anchored to a bolt screwed into a hole drilled in the underside of the work top. I have filled the gap with Gorilla glue and hopefully when I release the strap in two or three days time, everything will stay where it should be.

 

 

 

[W+T]

Did it hold kida.

[OldPeculier]

Yes it did! Took the straps off this morning and it all stayed put.

 

I needed somewhere to put my mug / glass while contemplating life infront of the fire. I don't want anything fixed so I knocked up this little table that hooks over the boxed section that runs along the floor. Just a couple of old pine drawer fronts that the G/F was throwing out, with a piece of leather inlayed in the top. Its a handy place to store my PS2 games too.

 

 

 

[pipistrelle]

Love the plate rack in particular! I have a shoe-rack that is extra to purpose and was going to give it back to the skip from whence it came. Might try to nick your idea now.

[OldPeculier]

Love the plate rack in particular! I have a shoe-rack that is extra to purpose and was going to give it back to the skip from whence it came. Might try to nick your idea now.

 

 

Give it a go. You can always use it as kindling if it doesnt work.

[David Mack]

Unfortunately, my lovely worktop has suffered from the heat of the fire and has opened up along one of the joints. I have been wondering how to fix this for a while. The difficult part being how to clamp it now that it is fixed in place. Last night I came up with the idea of using a ratchet strap anchored to a bolt screwed into a hole drilled in the underside of the work top. I have filled the gap with Gorilla glue and hopefully when I release the strap in two or three days time, everything will stay where it should be.

 

 

 

 

You could have used worktop connector bolts:

 

http://www.hendersons.co.uk/template/Worktop_connector_bolts.html

[Dyertribe]

When I was a little girl on my first canal holidays we used to have a cool box on the hire boat and we used to exchange the warm cooling blocks for frozen ones to be found us the freezers of the canal side shops.

[OldPeculier]

I did think about using connector bolts but the join is inaccessible from underneath.

[W+T]

Hows the cool box/fridge doing, as funds are tight for me i mite just built one myself in place of where the fridge will be.

Has the worktop held out now?

[OldPeculier]

Work top is fine now and the cool box works really well. A frozen 2 pints of milk takes about two days to defrost.

 

Used an off cut of the work top to make a fold out table.

 

 

 

[OldPeculier]

Last night I removed the hand basin in the bathroom in preparation for getting rid of my nemesis otherwise known as the stinky leaky poo tank.

 

 

[boat fan]

What a fine job you are doing here !

 

Some of this will be very useful to me .

 

Keep up the great work.

 

Very good pictures .

[OldPeculier]

Thanks boat fan. Hardly on your scale but I'm enjoying myself.

[OldPeculier]

I have been wondering how to remove the old poo tank for ages but very occasionally, things turn out to be easier than expected. I just gaffer taped up all the holes, up ended it and 'walked' it out of the bathroom. As it happened, this made it just the right height to slide it out of the side hatch and into a wheel barrow which was also the right height to slide it into the back of the car which was just long enough to take it to the recycling center where I pushed it out into the hard plastics bin and drove off before anyone noticed.

 

I then tidied up the plumbing, put the floor down and started paneling the walls with the plastic left over from the shower.

 

 

 

I am using a 50mm kitchen cupboard for the vanity unit. This was cut down to about 440mm deep and cut and shut around the pipework.

 

 

 

My compost toilet kit should be arriving this week so I can get on with putting that together in place of the chemical next.

 

Edit - sorry the pics are big. Not sure why that happened.

Edited May 4, 2016 by OldPeculier

[OldPeculier]

As the weather was kind this weekend, I took time off from the bathroom to start the painting. All the rust and flaky paint was dispatched with the grinder, Vactan was applied to any rusty bits followed by a high build primer. Most of the topsides were in good condition so they were just rubbed down, any bad bits being spot primed. We managed to get two coats of gloss black on below the gunnel and started getting some cream gloss on the topsides.

 

 

 

[Mendip-Locks]

Coming on lovely a good interseting thread.

[OldPeculier]

Started tiling in the bathroom last night.

 

 

[OldPeculier]

Got the toilet finished. Still got to finish the tiling and do a bit of painting here and there, but its all up and running.

 

 

 

And for those interested, here is what is inside. Dont worry, I took this pic before it was used!

 

[OldPeculier]

We were very lucky with the weather this weekend and managed to get some more paint on. Only the back, front and hatches to do now.

 

 

 

[boat fan]

Wow !

 

What a transformation !

 

I like the colors , but I would not get away with black with our summer heat.

 

 

These cabinets look really good.

 

Nice looking boat !

Edited May 31, 2016 by boat fan

[ditchcrawler]

Last night I removed the hand basin in the bathroom in preparation for getting rid of my nemesis otherwise known as the stinky leaky poo tank.

 

 

Well the green pipe probably didn't help the stink.

[OldPeculier]

Well the green pipe probably didn't help the stink.

 

 

Yup, the pumpout pipe was perished, the vent pipe was split and the top of the tank was cracked. No wonder it smelled a bit ripe.

 

Incidentally, The GF and myself spent the long weekend using the new waterless toilet arrangement and I can honestly say there isn't the slightest bad smell, only a feint smell of the wood chip we used as a covering material.

 

Wow !

 

What a transformation !

 

I like the colors , but I would not get away with black with our summer heat.

 

 

These cabinets look really good.

 

Nice looking boat !

 

Thanks, I'm not much good at carpentry so I cheated and used a kitchen cupboard and a drawer front under the toilet.

[W+T]

Got the toilet finished. Still got to finish the tiling and do a bit of painting here and there, but its all up and running.

 

 

 

And for those interested, here is what is inside. Dont worry, I took this pic before it was used!

 

 

 

I love this idea, you have done a cracking job, And i do like that set out,looks great, i wish i had tiling to do on mine as i enjoy doing it.

[OldPeculier]

Been away on my hols but before I went I managed to get the name on one side.