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Frightening, utterly frightening. Regulars will have noticed that I very rarely engage in such threads. They know pack drill and others like MTBM have already said it here before - engage a competent person to undertake the works. Gas systems cannot afford to be bodged. Gas systems should not be installed to chit-chat standards (there will be no defence in court when the proverbial hits the fan) Gas systems should not be installed to BSS requirements - our requirements are not installation standards, they are indicators that the navigation authorities wish to see for the minimum acceptable condition of a system post-construction. Gas systems absolutely must be installed, fully compliant with either the latest versions of ISO 10239 or PD 5482:3 (previously known as BS5482:3). These are expensive standards to buy so why not follow the advice of Chris Py, copies of British Standards can sometimes be obtained from some public libraries or some other limited options, but it will take a lot of effort. However again as MTBM wisely and succinctly pointed out, the properly registered, professional gas fitter has invested in training and assessments and copies of standards and retaining and reassessment and updates and proper tools, so that the average boat owner does not have to. From memory, and although I am the BSS incident statistics compiler I may have forgotten some incidents, all the bar two of the last few years of gas explosions from installed gas systems and where the cause was identified, have been because incompetent people have fiddled around and bodged. Again from memory, without going back into the depth of the files, all gas explosions on boats where there was someone aboard, have resulted in death or injury. So far this year, two people have been hospitalised by gas explosions. LPG installation is not an area to experiment with or one can be treated lightly. It is a deadly serious matter, there is no room for error.Nearly getting it right is a too dangerous place to be. So Dean, do you plan to put your family's safety (and the safety of nearby people) in what you admit to be your less than expert hands, or will you have a rethink about what in this world is really worth investing in? My hat and coat is very firmly on, I have a report to write about the 5 carbon monoxide incidents and 31 fires on inland boats so far this year. Rob

Here's a handy tip - if you don't want to choke on other peoples engine fumes, make sure you're the first boat in the queue going northbound or the last boat going southbound. If more than one forum member who's read this turns up at the same time, you'll have to fight it out amongst yourselves. (A friend of ours was once told off by the tunnelkeeper for speeding - he belted through on full bore in 20 minutes)

If your bathroom is next to your galley and separated from it by a bulkhead it is usually beneficial to mount the Morco on the galley side of this bulkhead. The hot water would then have the shortest distance to travel to the bathroom hot tap and shower and galleys hot tap and so has the least distance to travel cooling down on the way, a little extra saving on gas because of this too.

Hi Circe, Sorry you had such a bad experience with RCR. I have just their basic deal. We broke down on the Thames opposite a large marine company,I had explained to them that we needed a cotton reel filter so it was silly of us to contact RCR as the engineer's were only a few hundred feet away from us. Wrong!! it took them over 24 hours to get to us, they then towed us across the river to their base. They then said they didn't have the spare part!! I wish I had just 'phoned RCR in the first place.

This thread is bizarre. Ron, as a fellow Aussie who actually lives on the canals of the UK with a cat, you are barking up the wrong tree mate. It's a different eco-system without the quantity of endangered marsupials and birds which we have in Australia. The reason why cats are a major threat to Australian wildlife is that our natives haven't evolved with a natural preditor; the British wildlife has. There has always been foxes, pine martens, weasels, stoats etc. You can't come in bombastically threatening people and pets on the basis of what happens in your backyard. There are virtually NO feral cats here in the UK compared to the population in Australia because the British people are intense animal lovers and there are socities and protection centres set up. Plus, referring to the woodlands and hedgerows of the towpath as 'the bush' has made me laugh out loud. Belling your cat and locking it in overnight help with wildlife in whatever country you are in as cats and their prey are usually nocturnal hunters. Welcome to the house of fun :-) The simple answer is that the territorial nature of cats works well for boats because the boat is their territory. They are unlikely to wander too far in the two week period you are allowed to spend anywhere because they aren't hugely familiar with that area. His reaction is fairly typical for an Australian. The eco-system in Aus is delicate because when Australia broke away from the mainland, it didn't take any preditory mammals with it. We are (or were) awash with tiny nocturnal marsupials which are fairly unique in the world; not to mention the birds. Cats turn feral very easily then rampage about slaughtering everything they can find. It's two very different situations and scenarios but Ron is just espousing views he thinks are popular among wildlife and nature lovers. So not a troll, just a passionate wildlife lover who hasn't understood the difference between his country and someone elses.

Care to put a photo of yourself up and a time and place of your visit. I would like to know if you were anywhere near my boat. Don't get all shitty when someone challenges you on what is a ridiculously weird comment. 'Let's go on holiday and kill things that are pests in our country' I for one would rather not see a penny of yours go towards the system if you believe that is anyway in which to act.