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Thank you Jen and saved some money just proves that this site works!!! after being told to get a bigger heater. Tut! col

I’m about to make a desision on a liquid heater 5kw or 9 kw but would like to know what will be best I have been using a webasto 5k, but I’ve given up, I’ve added another rad so i have now I have 1 x colarifier 2 x double rads 600 x 1.4 lenght 3 x 600 x 500 singles I’ve heard that there are calculations, I’ve tried to find somthing on google please help me if anyone can? Thank you in advance

Thank you Tonka, your a star!!

Hi there please help, all I want is to switch the heater on or off I have 2 reds that go to + and A1 these are linked have a black going toA2 and a brown going to — if I just wanted a on off switch what would I need to do? what wire needs to be joined etc

Hi have a question re Heatmiser control we've had the Webasto thermotop 3 years now, the controller we’ve had 8 months or so and although we’ve read the manual, you tubed it. But you can have this temp controlled or timer controlled. and yes we have the heating on, sometimes it runs for just a hour, or as we want all day. Sometimes it runs continuelesly, somtimes 1 or 6 hours. we’ve carried on like this, because we keep playing with the thing. what we would like is to turn on leaving it on till we want to switch the heater off. anyone help us out by writing a post bit by bit giving us easy baby steps. or do other people have the same issues that us 2 oldies have. what happened to the days of a on and off button??

Having just paid the next years licence, heard on the radio, that CRT have removed all the bins. I don’t know if this is nationwide, but defo on the local news covering bucks and hearts. are they talking about the small bins for general public, or the big bins for boaters? Seems crazy to me, this rubish is going to end up stacked next to trees, or rammed in the smaller bins surely this can’t be true, what are boaters going to do with their rubish? costs licence going up on top of cut backs! col

I imagine Mr Parry, is pondering over brochures for his next company car, holiday, and new home. so out of touch. it’s going to cause a lot of hardship for all boaters especialy wide-beams what evidence are they going provide re the amount of extra revenue there going to get next year, and of course how it’s spent, wasted. pay increases all round then fellas! and new bonus rates to be discussed. col

So narrowboats no increase with mooring wide-beams with home mooring 26% increase 31% without another load of money for CRT to waste as per normal 75% increase in 2028!!!!

Ive just had this emailed to us through a m8t carnt be true is it ??

They used the stun boat just a couple of months back, there.

It’s funny, how different things , brings up different meanings, for different people. I’ve never moaned about having a Widebeam, or not being able to use the whole system. my point is that is a key argument about putting prices up more so on widebeams. Why? Because all the Garbage about needing to put prices up again next year, was again same reason they put prices up last year, and the year before that. Infrastructural this and infrastructural that.and last year, and the year before. I have not seen any works done, on this part of the system. NEVER! and I will put more explanation marks behind the NEVER,why because I can, and yes I did want to hammer the point home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! very much it’s got arround I’ve got a small dick, my answer to that is, but I have 17.4 stone to hammer it home with! I know I go off on a tandrant, I know my spelling isn’t that good, or my punctuation. but putting extra explanation marks in, is because I can, and yes indeed sir, I wanted to bang the point home. there will be a day, soon enough, that Narrowboats will not be able to access the whole system how many of you now are passing a moored boat, Widebeam on your right starboard side but you can’t really due to the vegetation that’s be allowed to grow, or trees leaning over the waterway so you can’t pass because vegetation has taken over. at the moment, it’s somthing we’ve learnt to deal with, a saw on board, etc pruning shears, its one of those things. but soon enough it will be !!! Col

Hi ya again i have been here in the same place since 2009, in Milton Keynes freinds of ours Rob and Julie on their narrow boat, been in Milton keynes longer. I know as a FACT, THERES BEEN NO DREDGING AT ALL EVER SINCE WEVE BEEN HERE ROB Smith, use to be somthing to do with the canal group, in Milton Keynes. boaters will know the vegetation is very very bad in places, with this and the depth situation opposite us, boats have problems getting close to, or have problem getting off. what I can say categorically confirm, is No dredging has be done here from 2009, before that ive been told by other Moorers here, that no dredging has been done for years before then.` ps I had photos of the stretch of water, from google and it showed the shallows, all along this section of water. boats are always getting stuck on the other side Hi ya again i have been here in the same place since 2009, in Milton Keynes freinds of ours Rob and Julie on their narrow boat, been in Milton keynes longer. I know as a FACT, THERES BEEN NO DREDGING AT ALL EVER SINCE WEVE BEEN HERE ROB Smith, use to be somthing to do with the canal group, in Milton Keynes. boaters will know the vegetation is very very bad in places, with this and the depth situation opposite us, boats have problems getting close to, or have problem getting off. what I can say categorically confirm, is No dredging has be done here from 2009, before that ive been told by other Moorers here, that no dredging has been done for years before.

Hi Tonka how are you, zooooommmmmmm it went right over my head that, and far far away 😂 What is it you would like me to repost? what ever it is, it will be done m8ty col

The 1790s saw ‘canal mania’, a period of feverish canal building. A total of 34 canals were approved between 1791 and 1793 alone, though not all those canals were completed and some were never even started. However, this was the golden age of British canals, offering around 4,000 miles of navigable waterways. We then enter what many refer to as the Golden Age of British canals—the 60-year period from 1770 to 1830. More specifically, the period between 1790 and 1810 was even dubbed Canal Mania. During this period, in particular, the UK canal system was subject to a substantial rise in building work.

Did you know? The whole british Canal network Buildings, tunnels bridges etc etc the canal it self, dug out by hand took 60 years in total!!! picks axes and of course Bread!! But it took from 1759 to the early 1770's and from 1789 to almost the end of the eighteenth century. CRT hasn’t dredged 1/2 a mile!! In 15 years In fact does make CRT management look stupid don’t you think? Reading the above as I wrote it, I do understand that my grammar and spelling makes heavy reading i do apologize for this. Some people from this site know the reasons. But the main excuse is I failed my 11+ 😂