The washing machine salesman wondered how we would fit the machine in the car. In the car! That was the least of the problems, so to speak ... We had calculated that the washing machine would fit in the boiler room, but hadn't really thought about how to get it there.
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You wouldn't have thought that you could suffer more misery now, but lo and behold you did. This morning I woke up and went to the toilet and then I heard Peter shouting in panic from the bedroom on the lower deck: "Switch off the water!". Then our nice new sewage pump had broken ... again!
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We worked a marathon yesterday evening and night to get all the old stuff out of the boiler room before the plumber and electrician would come, which meant that we were without water and sewage yesterday. This morning the electrician and plumber came to our houseboat.
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We were having a leisurely dinner on Friday, drinking a glass of wine, when suddenly we noticed a smell... very bad. That's when we realised that the sewage tank was not properly sealed, so to speak. It has to be emptied at regular intervals (by pulling a lever). We had never really thought about what could happen if it was overfilled, but we realised that.
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Now it's time to fix the boiler room, also called "the old engine room" or our "crawl-in closet". It contains everything that controls electricity, heating and water in the houseboat. You can also use this room for storage. The "funny thing" is that every time someone has decided to install something new, they have left the old one in place. And this has been going on since the early 190s ...
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We've come a long way with our work on decorating the lower deck of the houseboat, where we have a bedroom, exercise room and walk-in closet. And now you can find out what we were going to do with all the laminate flooring we bought. We covered the walls with it! Then Peter bought hand-forged nails (!) that he put up to give it a solid old boat feel.
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The first month of autumn is here and we are in the cold north. And yet, this feeling of summer by the Mediterranean. The marina is bustling with activity: children in life jackets on the piers and parties sipping bubbly at Sjökrogen.
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There is nothing wrong with imagination when my husband is on the move. What is going on here then? Well, you might wonder ... Peter likes lighting and there are many places to light up a boat, not only the roof and walls but also various small nooks and crannies. We are currently in the process of replacing all the lights with LEDs to save energy.
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Here in the marina where we live there are many different houseboats. There are aquavillas and villa voyager, which we've talked about before, but also a bunch of more "classic" houseboats. So what do I mean by that? Well, I mean all sorts of boats and barges that have been converted into permanent accommodation on water.
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We have now been living in a houseboat for just over a month. When we tell new people, we usually get some questions of a practical nature. So we thought we'd answer them here too!
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