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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Now we (read Peter) have laid new flooring in the big room on the lower deck, which means that we have parquet flooring in the summer room. At least it's almost done - just a small corner left as it turned out that we need one more package. Peter has laid many many floors in his life, but he says this was by far the worst.
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After the weekend's construction in the houseboat, you might want to see some results? We have, among other things, modernised the bathroom. The old sink was so narrow that it was difficult to reach to wash. We have now installed new bathroom furniture with a new sink and a new mixer tap. We also bought a new toilet seat.
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Peter is working extra this weekend, from 7am to 3pm on both Saturday and Sunday. But that doesn't stop him from working on the boat when he gets home! "We are rebuilding the large room on the lower deck, where we have a bedroom, exercise room and wardrobe. The idea is to make it both attractive (with a bit of a ship's feel) and more functional.
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Yesterday we met the couple who are buying our apartment in the flat to ask if they wanted things that we were prepared to leave behind. We have already promised them the antique dining table, but now we wanted to ask for some smaller things: shoe racks, lamps, mirrors, curtains, a guest bed ... They are a young couple living in a small studio apartment now, so they were very happy both for the move and all the stuff we left.
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What do we do on a sunny Saturday? Well, we are building a wardrobe. As you may remember, we have a "crawl-in closet" in the houseboat, that is, a large wardrobe where you can't stand straight. It's a bit hard on the back to stand crooked all the time when choosing clothes and getting dressed.
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Thank you for all the nice comments about our apartment! We are very happy about that! Now that we have talked about all the work we put in, I came to think about what it looked like from the beginning, and during the construction.
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