In the summer of 2014, we lifted the entire houseboat on land and did a complete renovation that included new construction of the entire upper floor, new panelling everywhere and a new balcony floor on the deck. But of course a houseboat requires maintenance! We've decided that it's best to do a little each year, and this year it was time to paint the deck and lining.
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If you've been following our blog lately, you'll know that Peter is spending two weeks helping our friends Lennart and Beata build a log cabin on Ringsö in Lake Mälaren. Lennart and Beata have finished the exterior of the summer house themselves, but there is virtually nothing inside. I (Helena) am at home and working these weeks, but of course wanted to come out and visit for the weekend ...!
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You have to maintain a houseboat just like you maintain a house. We raised the boat on land in 2014 and rebuilt and renovated most of it then, but there will always be things that need to be fixed. Right now we actually had not thought to fix with the boat, considering that we are busy getting the motorhome ready for departure at midsummer. But then there was one thing that absolutely must fixed ...
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A houseboat is like a house. Or maybe like a boat. It requires maintenance. We lifted and renovated the entire boat in the summer of 2014. But of course there are still things that need to be fixed, continuously. Now it was time to change some things that we did not change last time, and to fix various water leaks. The toilet leaked water, the kitchen tap leaked water and then we found water ... in the hull!
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Ok, here we go. In 2007 our family went to the adventure country of New Zealand and adventured with a rented campervan. Helena and I had my two sons (Robin and Billie) with us. We had planned the trip from home for every kilometre and with an adventure every day, on both islands for over three weeks.
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Ok, here we go and Peter is in charge. When we bought our motorhome eight years ago, I made 70 different drawings of what I wanted the motorhome to look like, and of course it should have its own design!
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Ok, here we go and it's Peter writing again. After 8 months me and my new girlfriend got married on the Åland boat, and we were a party of about 40 people with friends and family. The wedding dance on the big dance floor with two guards watching us was pretty cool.
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Yesterday you could read our post about the first renovation of the houseboat - what we did while the boat was still in the water. Today is the continuation. Here's what happened when we lifted the boat onto land and started to work on the real challenges.
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If you've been following our blog for a few years, you probably remember when we bought and renovated our houseboat. It was an absolutely hysterical job we embarked on, and in retrospect it seems almost unlikely that we managed to complete it. Here's a little summary of the first part of the renovation - the one we did while the boat was still in the water.
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One of the papers we have just submitted to the municipality is about how we have dealt with all the demolition material. Seriously, I wonder how many barrel waste we spent during the construction of the houseboat? We filled the car again and again and again and never thought we would run out ...
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