Getting a PET bottle in the head doesn't sound so bad. But when it is full of water, comes from the roof of our houseboat and lands in my head with the cork first, it is a different matter, apparently. Peter and his brother Dennis were laying the roof, and Dennis got the water bottle with his foot at the same time as I happened to walk past. exactly where the water bottle fell ...
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When you start a huge project like rebuilding an old houseboat, the road ahead is not straightforward. Every time we take a few steps forward, there are also a few steps back...
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How is that possible? Those of you who have been around for a while may remember that we had a lot of trouble with the sewage system last autumn. Now we have a brand new sewage pump. Everything is installed by plumbers and we have chosen the stuff that was recommended. But what happened last night?
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In which cities are you most likely to be affected by natural disasters? The insurance company Swiss Re has found out, according to Dagens Industri. After studying 616 cities, Swiss Re came up with the following top list.
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The other night we woke up to find the bilge pump running. When water enters the hull, it starts automatically and pumps the water out through a pipe. However, the last splash of water flows back through the pipe because the slope is quite strong, and so the pump starts again ...
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When it rains heavily (like today) it rains into the houseboat. It runs along one wall of the boiler room and continues down into the hull. There is a submersible pump that pumps the water out. But it is of course not good that it gets wet inside the boat ...
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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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Motorhome life is almost always super cosy, but sometimes things don't turn out the way you expect them to ... One of our first trips was to Trosa, and that trip didn't turn out at all like we had imagined.
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