Slipping on the roof,topping up the water tank doing a photo shoot ,dodging the rain you never fail to look very swish and a fashion plate right out of Vogue Mel.I'm not sure when you posted but I missed it .Glad you're back, I like your vlogs a lot. Cheers from Canada
Hi Ralph! Always good to hear from you whenever it is! Thank you for your kind comments💁🏼♀️☺️ we always appreciate your support! Hope you’re keeping well!
Glad to see you guys back. Sorry to see the flooding issues. With Paul away working, I know it’s harder on you. I do have to say though, that having recently watched from the beginning again, the renovation, upgrades, and Mel’s hair growing out.
You definitely have the right mentality and attitude to be able to get through anything, so keep smiling and soon things will be transformed. I know you can do it. You have a great life and you are extraordinary people. Peace and god bless from one of your admirers Tom in Lancashire. Please keep the videos coming they are just great. Ps. Loved that old pub. Cheers 🥂
the mooring posts with the mooring ring be able to travel freely up and down ,shows you how high it could go,the screw in the shower drain should have been a stainless steel screw, so it should not have rusted away
Oh sorry to hear the news about the leak, hope you get it sorted, I think you were right about being on the river, that marina in town looked packed and close to a busy road. It looks much nicer where you are. So good to have you back,. Best wishes Christine x
Nice to see you both, enjoyed the wee pub crawl with you, never a dull moment on land or water, hopefully the shower is an easy fix for you, take care the both of you xx
Great to see you two out and about even in the monsoon weather lol . At least a excuse to do a pub crawl. !! There is always something that requires attention on a narrow boat and always at the wrong time........good luck and keep dry and safe.....chris x
Hang in there you two ! I know that storm was bloomin scary . I lived on a yacht in Dartmouth in the storm of 2014. It got so severe that I slept in the shower block ,at the yacht club for two days . Never again . Mark.
When I was a kid my dad used to tell me ALL the time, owning a home means that there is ALWAYS something to do. Now that I am OLD and have 4 adult children, I tell them all "Owning a home means there is always something to do". LOL My mother owned a tailor and alteration shop for many years so I grew up around hemmers, and a shop full of sewing machinery. She would have enjoyed watching you do your magic. Anyway, glad to see you guys are doing well, take care.
Really glad to see you went to the "Jerusalem". Last time I was in there I was about 23 years old, 46 years ago! From what I could see from your video it hasn't changed much. I believe it was a favourite haunt of the university students back then.
Hey Mel n Paul its so wonderful to see you again. When you painted your roof white, I wondered how long that would last before the sun's reflection cut your eyes out. It didn't even make it that far. Now its B&Q sand and another coat. Interesting British fact #17,451. Ye is printer's shorthand for The. So it is still The Old Trip to Jerusalem pub. Interesting that you were worried about the rain ang the river level. Here in Brisbane Australia we just had a meter of rain in 3 days. That's 39 inches in the old money. The news here is full of people being flooded out and loosing everything they own, along with all sorts of water craft being smashed into jetties and piers and its all quite horrific. Not quite a hundred mph wind, but bad enough. A tuff stretch with the floor waste in the shower. I can't wait to see how you get that one sorted. All the best. Cheers
Hi guys, loved the vlog. Like the way you take the rough with the smooth!! "We have no option" I hear you say❣.love love the wet jackets you and Paul were wearing, can I ask where r they from and what make? Need one badly!!. Take good care if yourselves.🙏🙌.
Hi Margaret thanks so much for the kind comment🙏🏻❤️ Paul’s is from Levis and mine is from Hunter! Just bought them online but over two years ago now xx you take care too!
I really enjoy the way you put the vlog together. As for flooding, I can truly sympathise. We are landlubers and have dealt with our basement flooding 3 times in the past 30 years. Not fun! But I noticed you have the same prescription, Spiritus Fermenti, as needed. Lol
Hi Mel & Paul we're fellow leak buddies 😀 One of our damp detectors (a very recent purchase following our water pump giving up on us) went off on Friday evening & we tracked the leak to a disintegrated seal on the shower drain!! Of course the whole shower is boxed in making access impossible. We've had to take up floor covering & make an access hole in the floor, at least we now have another inspection hatch got to look for the positives! As I type the new drain has been put in & we're now waiting for the sealant to 'go off' so we can check for leaks before putting bathroom back together. Oh the trials & tribulations of narrowboating 😂 Really enjoy your vlogs so it's good to have you back
Ah Fiona! It’s not good news to hear you’ve also got a similar problem, but it does feel good to know we’re not alone!😅😂 ALL boat bathrooms should have a hatch it would be a game changer! Good luck and I hope you’re enjoying your newly sealed shower!🙌🏻✨
Sorry to hear of your misfortunes on the boat but Paul is on the job so I guess you will be up and running very soon must admit I didn't much care for the look of that marina myself was kind of hoping that you would be the same didn't look very good think you are settled where you are even if you have to travel chin up good times are on there way back soon also better weather. S C UK.
Hi Steve! Yes better weather for sure! Hope you’ve enjoyed the recent sun we’ve had! Makes me long for summer, although we’re almost there - we can taste it!🙌🏻 you’re right, it’s nice to feel settled really, where we are does feel like home and it’s lovely to have found that base.. take care now!
A trip back 40 odd years for me as you passed Albion House [23:45], once home to the second largest gay club..... 'La Chic' which later became 'Part Two'........ Oh how I miss those long lost days.... Many a star could be found there propping up the bar... and many a Queen found a pleather of 'Price Charming's'
Hmm, that is annoying ref the shower drain and lack of easy access. It might be a shrewd motion to look at every other drain and waste pipe aboard and check to see if you have any joints not immediately accessible. Naturally you have considered this already. Plus might be a notion to pour some antibac' into the bilge in case of putative nasty niffs ... I ended up installing a vent pipe from bilges to handy roof vent and fitting a chimney to help with passive ventilation. Put a bilge fan in the trunking as well "just in case" sort of thing. It might be venting any LPG which found its way into the bilges over the years. Presume the shower refurbishment project will include easily removable inspection panels? And, as others posters have mentioned, automatic bilge pumps might be worth installing. Would suggest too that cobbling in a buzzer or bell into the circuit would let you know instantly the pump(s) operates if you were asleep at the time. I would suggest that once all the water is gone and refurb finished you mark on the bow and stern a sort of Plimsoll Line so you can keep an eye on the trim. One line for a full water tank and one when water tank is empty. Fun Fact: for a sixty foot hull a narrow boat displaces, approximately, an inch depth of water for every ton. This means that if you had a ton of "weight" in the bilges the boat would sit an inch lower in the water. However that is theory ... water doesn't stay "flat", it flows, and you may find the hull sits a lot deeper at one end or one side. "Free surface area" is worth a quick Google ... if only to mesmerise your fellow drinkers down the pub and demonstrate you're a regular Archimedes as well as excellent clothes designer. The danger in some boats is the drains through the hull are rather near the waterline. You can see the implications on this issue. I believe the BSS info gives heights the hull fittings should sit above the water line. (Worth remembering too that the BSS regs change all the time. For example a few folks, including me, have had to add extra pipe clamps to gas lines. The fact my boat is nigh on thirty years old and had no problems with gas lines hitherto still meant I had to secure a length of copper pipe in the has locker with rubber covered P clips. An easy job as it happened. Ergo if you're doing a refurb anywhere near an "inspectable" gas line then bung on a few P clips ... saves you having to do the job later and waiting for the reinspection. As you implied you live and learn ... especially if you're keen on staying afloat ...
Absolutely Ross, all the time a new thing to fix and slowly but surely no doubt we’ll make many a round of the boat upgrading and checking as we go! Never great news but always worth it.. 😎👌🏻✌🏻
Sorry to hear of the shower leaking, I’ve never heard of a shower pipe rusting, unusual indeed. No doubt plenty of resto work coming up! Showers at work?
I gathered it was a clamping screw securing the drainer to the rest of the waste pipe trap assembly. I speculate it could have been a replacement screw fitted by the original "plumber manque" after it had got "lost" during the initial install. Probably fell down the plug hole and the installer couldn't be arsed to fish it out. There again all good info and something for others to watch out for. I don't suppose it was the only time that has happened.
Hiya Mel Paul ,like the fashion show Mel wish I could get changed as quick as you ,looks like you had plenty of rain as well how did you cope with the storms the wind was terrible 😢 are you still working hard Paul what is it you do sham your license for airplane is not valid in this country still the way Russia is going won’t be no plane ✈️ left to work on stupid man I see some Russian guy has but I million pounds on his head hoping some General will arrest him for war crimes think that might be a job as he has 3000 security guards, Mel are you starting a business doing them jackets etc ,always something happens on a narrowboat more expense good job you spotted it before Mel flooded the boat poor Mel no shower till it gets fixed ,most enjoyable,till next time take care keep safe hopefully keep dry as well ,John 🌹🌹🙏👍👏😂😂🏆😞😃🤔👁🩸👁🩸
Hi John, thanks so much for always coming back to comment.. yes a strange state of affairs all round is say, in reality we have very little to complain about we are blessed and lucky.. keep well John!
Chin up guys. You will solve it. You always do
Thanks Simon!🙏🏻☺️
Slipping on the roof,topping up the water tank doing a photo shoot ,dodging the rain you never fail to look very swish and a fashion plate right out of Vogue Mel.I'm not sure when you posted but I missed it .Glad you're back, I like your vlogs a lot.
Cheers from Canada
Hi Ralph! Always good to hear from you whenever it is! Thank you for your kind comments💁🏼♀️☺️ we always appreciate your support! Hope you’re keeping well!
Hope you got everything
sorted 👍
Beautiful place very relaxing mam
I hope by now you are through the worst and able to shower again. Take care. x
Yes! Back to showers on the boat and grateful 🙏🏻
GLAD TO SEE YOU BOTH BACK AGAIN........ :-))) MISSED YOU..... :-))) CCHHEERRSSSSS
Thanks so much!
Keep safe
Glad to see you guys back. Sorry to see the flooding issues. With Paul away working, I know it’s harder on you. I do have to say though, that having recently watched from the beginning again, the renovation, upgrades, and Mel’s hair growing out.
Thank so much, we are so glad you’ve stuck with us through it all!☺️😎
You definitely have the right mentality and attitude to be able to get through anything, so keep smiling and soon things will be transformed. I know you can do it. You have a great life and you are extraordinary people. Peace and god bless from one of your admirers Tom in Lancashire. Please keep the videos coming they are just great. Ps. Loved that old pub. Cheers 🥂
Oh cheers Tom! Thanks so much for this message and for always tuning in - we definitely feel the spirit of your support! Thank you🙏🏻☺️
the mooring posts with the mooring ring be able to travel freely up and down ,shows you how high it could go,the screw in the shower drain should have been a stainless steel screw, so it should not have rusted away
Bugger comes to mind. A portable bilge pump could be handy. At least you were aware pretty quickly f the dilemma. Thanks, good luck, and take care.
Thanks Phillip! Appreciate it🙏🏻
Enjoyed, hope you are all well.
Thanks Sharon as good as can be😎🙌🏻
Yikes! Glad you two are safe and that you caught that failure! I’m so sorry though. Know it’s not what you had planned.
Yikes exactly!! 😂😅❤️
Oh sorry to hear the news about the leak, hope you get it sorted, I think you were right about being on the river, that marina in town looked packed and close to a busy road. It looks much nicer where you are. So good to have you back,. Best wishes Christine x
Thanks so much Christine! All in agreement xx
Hi Mel n Paul lovely to see you been thinking of you both in the cold weather the bad storms we been having.I’m glad your both ok .take care
Thanks so much Elaine☺️🙏🏻
Nice to see you both, enjoyed the wee pub crawl with you, never a dull moment on land or water, hopefully the shower is an easy fix for you, take care the both of you xx
Thanks so much Sandra! Glad you enjoyed xx
Hope all works out for you and the water issue is resolved. Take care and thanks for sharing.
Hope everything goes well with your repairs there’s always something great vlog glad you survived the storms
Thanks so much Caroline!
Bugger! Bring Out Another Thousand!
You know the story!😂😣😟
Great to see you two out and about even in the monsoon weather lol . At least a excuse to do a pub crawl. !! There is always something that requires attention on a narrow boat and always at the wrong time........good luck and keep dry and safe.....chris x
Thanks Chris and yes absolutely - boat problems never match up with our schedule😂 you take care now! Xx
Always rooting for you. I loved the filming, music and seeing you guys have fun. However I am sorry about the impending reno, Mel and Paul.
Thanks Kelli! And I know😣 we know to expect these things but it never makes it any easier!😅
Hang in there you two !
I know that storm was bloomin scary . I lived on a yacht in Dartmouth in the storm of 2014. It got so severe that I slept in the shower block ,at the yacht club for two days . Never again . Mark.
Oh my gosh that sounds horrific!😣😅
When I was a kid my dad used to tell me ALL the time, owning a home means that there is ALWAYS something to do. Now that I am OLD and have 4 adult children, I tell them all "Owning a home means there is always something to do". LOL My mother owned a tailor and alteration shop for many years so I grew up around hemmers, and a shop full of sewing machinery. She would have enjoyed watching you do your magic. Anyway, glad to see you guys are doing well, take care.
Thanks Dave, so true! Always something that needs a fixin’! Thanks for sharing that, see you again soon!
Really glad to see you went to the "Jerusalem". Last time I was in there I was about 23 years old, 46 years ago! From what I could see from your video it hasn't changed much. I believe it was a favourite haunt of the university students back then.
Wow! Yeah, it seems to be a mix of locals of all ages, definitely quite a novel experience!
Great to see you two again, I don't usually comment but I have to say that having your hair up really suits you. Mooi
Ag dankie Dean! Appreciate you popping into the comments🙌🏻
Hey Mel n Paul its so wonderful to see you again. When you painted your roof white, I wondered how long that would last before the sun's reflection cut your eyes out. It didn't even make it that far. Now its B&Q sand and another coat. Interesting British fact #17,451. Ye is printer's shorthand for The. So it is still The Old Trip to Jerusalem pub. Interesting that you were worried about the rain ang the river level. Here in Brisbane Australia we just had a meter of rain in 3 days. That's 39 inches in the old money. The news here is full of people being flooded out and loosing everything they own, along with all sorts of water craft being smashed into jetties and piers and its all quite horrific. Not quite a hundred mph wind, but bad enough. A tuff stretch with the floor waste in the shower. I can't wait to see how you get that one sorted. All the best. Cheers
Wow thanks for this Greg, and yes stay tuned I myself and interested to see what we make of all this!😣😅
Hi guys, loved the vlog. Like the way you take the rough with the smooth!! "We have no option" I hear you say❣.love love the wet jackets you and Paul were wearing, can I ask where r they from and what make? Need one badly!!. Take good care if yourselves.🙏🙌.
Hi Margaret thanks so much for the kind comment🙏🏻❤️ Paul’s is from Levis and mine is from Hunter! Just bought them online but over two years ago now xx you take care too!
Hi guys! Thank you soooooo much for your lovely reply.... 🥰👍🙏.
I really enjoy the way you put the vlog together. As for flooding, I can truly sympathise. We are landlubers and have dealt with our basement flooding 3 times in the past 30 years. Not fun! But I noticed you have the same prescription, Spiritus Fermenti, as needed. Lol
😂absolutely! The cure for anything 🙌🏻
Hi Mel & Paul we're fellow leak buddies 😀 One of our damp detectors (a very recent purchase following our water pump giving up on us) went off on Friday evening & we tracked the leak to a disintegrated seal on the shower drain!! Of course the whole shower is boxed in making access impossible. We've had to take up floor covering & make an access hole in the floor, at least we now have another inspection hatch got to look for the positives! As I type the new drain has been put in & we're now waiting for the sealant to 'go off' so we can check for leaks before putting bathroom back together. Oh the trials & tribulations of narrowboating 😂 Really enjoy your vlogs so it's good to have you back
Ah Fiona! It’s not good news to hear you’ve also got a similar problem, but it does feel good to know we’re not alone!😅😂 ALL boat bathrooms should have a hatch it would be a game changer! Good luck and I hope you’re enjoying your newly sealed shower!🙌🏻✨
Lovely water colour as Paul hasn't been home I suggest you shower more often 🤣😂🤣😜 easy fix for Paul when he's got time
Hahahaha - not funny!🙄😉
@@MelandPaulMunro it was really 🤣😂🤣😜😁👍
Sorry to hear of your misfortunes on the boat but Paul is on the job so I guess you will be up and running very soon must admit I didn't much care for the look of that marina myself was kind of hoping that you would be the same didn't look very good think you are settled where you are even if you have to travel chin up good times are on there way back soon also better weather.
S C UK.
Hi Steve! Yes better weather for sure! Hope you’ve enjoyed the recent sun we’ve had! Makes me long for summer, although we’re almost there - we can taste it!🙌🏻 you’re right, it’s nice to feel settled really, where we are does feel like home and it’s lovely to have found that base.. take care now!
A trip back 40 odd years for me as you passed Albion House [23:45], once home to the second largest gay club..... 'La Chic' which later became 'Part Two'........ Oh how I miss those long lost days.... Many a star could be found there propping up the bar... and many a Queen found a pleather of 'Price Charming's'
Oh wow thanks for that little tidbit ✨🙌🏻
Hmm, that is annoying ref the shower drain and lack of easy access.
It might be a shrewd motion to look at every other drain and waste pipe aboard and check to see if you have any joints not immediately accessible. Naturally you have considered this already.
Plus might be a notion to pour some antibac' into the bilge in case of putative nasty niffs ...
I ended up installing a vent pipe from bilges to handy roof vent and fitting a chimney to help with passive ventilation. Put a bilge fan in the trunking as well "just in case" sort of thing.
It might be venting any LPG which found its way into the bilges over the years.
Presume the shower refurbishment project will include easily removable inspection panels?
And, as others posters have mentioned, automatic bilge pumps might be worth installing. Would suggest too that cobbling in a buzzer or bell into the circuit would let you know instantly the pump(s) operates if you were asleep at the time.
I would suggest that once all the water is gone and refurb finished you mark on the bow and stern a sort of Plimsoll Line so you can keep an eye on the trim. One line for a full water tank and one when water tank is empty.
Fun Fact: for a sixty foot hull a narrow boat displaces, approximately, an inch depth of water for every ton.
This means that if you had a ton of "weight" in the bilges the boat would sit an inch lower in the water. However that is theory ... water doesn't stay "flat", it flows, and you may find the hull sits a lot deeper at one end or one side.
"Free surface area" is worth a quick Google ... if only to mesmerise your fellow drinkers down the pub and demonstrate you're a regular Archimedes as well as excellent clothes designer.
The danger in some boats is the drains through the hull are rather near the waterline. You can see the implications on this issue.
I believe the BSS info gives heights the hull fittings should sit above the water line.
(Worth remembering too that the BSS regs change all the time. For example a few folks, including me, have had to add extra pipe clamps to gas lines. The fact my boat is nigh on thirty years old and had no problems with gas lines hitherto still meant I had to secure a length of copper pipe in the has locker with rubber covered P clips. An easy job as it happened.
Ergo if you're doing a refurb anywhere near an "inspectable" gas line then bung on a few P clips ... saves you having to do the job later and waiting for the reinspection.
As you implied you live and learn ... especially if you're keen on staying afloat ...
Absolutely Ross, all the time a new thing to fix and slowly but surely no doubt we’ll make many a round of the boat upgrading and checking as we go! Never great news but always worth it.. 😎👌🏻✌🏻
@@MelandPaulMunro 👍
Sorry to hear of the shower leaking, I’ve never heard of a shower pipe rusting, unusual indeed. No doubt plenty of resto work coming up! Showers at work?
I gathered it was a clamping screw securing the drainer to the rest of the waste pipe trap assembly.
I speculate it could have been a replacement screw fitted by the original "plumber manque" after it had got "lost" during the initial install.
Probably fell down the plug hole and the installer couldn't be arsed to fish it out.
There again all good info and something for others to watch out for.
I don't suppose it was the only time that has happened.
How many pairs of sunglasses do you actually own?
ALOT! You could call collecting them a bit of a hobby😉 also - they’re smaller to store than clothes🙌🏻
Thats not great, I checked my plug bolt and its stainless. Guess you were just unlucky to get a steel one. More wine.
🍷🙌🏻
Hiya Mel Paul ,like the fashion show Mel wish I could get changed as quick as you ,looks like you had plenty of rain as well how did you cope with the storms the wind was terrible 😢 are you still working hard Paul what is it you do sham your license for airplane is not valid in this country still the way Russia is going won’t be no plane ✈️ left to work on stupid man I see some Russian guy has but I million pounds on his head hoping some General will arrest him for war crimes think that might be a job as he has 3000 security guards, Mel are you starting a business doing them jackets etc ,always something happens on a narrowboat more expense good job you spotted it before Mel flooded the boat poor Mel no shower till it gets fixed ,most enjoyable,till next time take care keep safe hopefully keep dry as well ,John 🌹🌹🙏👍👏😂😂🏆😞😃🤔👁🩸👁🩸
Hi John, thanks so much for always coming back to comment.. yes a strange state of affairs all round is say, in reality we have very little to complain about we are blessed and lucky.. keep well John!