Posts Tagged ‘diy’

Wow, time flies when your having fun I have not updated my blog for ages it seems and lost has happened since my last update!Sirius has been moored in London for most of the summer continuously cruising along the Regents canal, staying at places like Little Venice, Camden Town and Victory Park to mention just a few Current she is moored at a boatyard and having a decent diesel fueled central

I have spent the last 3 weeks living on board Sirius, it’s the first time I’ve really lived on board for any really length of time, and I am really enjoying it. What I have found is that by living on board, a lot of the little things that don’t really matter if you are only using the narrowboat occassionally at weekends, suddenly become more important.Like for example the amount of electricity

As you may have seen from a previous Narrowboat Wardrobe post one of my many DIY jobs to do on Sirius was to mend the wardrobe doors, well you’ll be glad to hear that I have finally finished and the repaired doors are now hanging The only problem which you will notice if you look at the photo below is I have some how managed to loose three of the slats, so there is a small gap at the bottom of

The next phase of my DIY on Sirius is to repair the wardrobe door and give the wardrobe a good clean! As you can see from the photo I took yesterday, it really needs both The left hand wardrobe door fell apart a couple of years ago, but I have all the bits and a couple of clamps and some wood glue, so hopefully I will be able to put it all back together again. Then the cupboard will need a

I have been meaning to upload a couple of photos for over a week now! I have been busy as my younger brother decided to beat me to it and he married Linda over the bank holiday weekend, they were very lucky with the weather!A friend Dave and I ripped up the very rotten flooring in the bedroom on Sirius and built a new supporting structure which is fixed down onto the Narrowboat steel. Most of the