15/12/2023 0 Comments December 15thIt's a week since I last went to Crick so here's a quick update. The gas locker is done apart from some paint on the bulkhead behind and some safety stickers. The water heater works but the thermostat is dodgy. The water was 15°C when I arrived, which is better than freezing but means I'm wasting electricity. I turned it down a little so we'll see how it goes. I ripped some more floor out but there's still quite a lot to do.
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3/12/2023 0 Comments December 03rd, 2023I last stayed on Seren at Crick 21st - 23rd November which seems an age ago. It was cold and damp but I managed to get some work done on the gas locker, HW system and pulled up some rotten floor boards in the cabin. I went back for a single day last Tuesday 28th and removed a lot more floor. Seren is pretty much uninhabitable at the moment so day trips it is until I get some flooring down. I was planning to go for another single day trip today to remove the rest of the floor and finish the gas locker but it's cold and I'm not fit enough. Going to be a busy week this week, Linda and I both have hospital appointments and other stuff, so maybe next weekend. Meanwhile here's some snaps of recent work. The little immersion heater in the calorifier works but the thermostat is inaccurate. When I first fitted it and refilled the system the water temp according to my dashboard was about 15°C but the thermostat clicked on at about 35°. So I set it to 30° hoping that would put it on if the water temp got to about 5-10°. A few days later though when I went back the indicated temp was around 4° and the heater wasn't on. It clicked on at about 35°, again. Which is odd. I left it on all day while I was working and the temp rose from 4° to over 15° which is good enough. I left the thermostat set at just below the click on point in the hope it will work. It's been cold the last week so I need to get back and check! I suspect my Ebay thermostat might be a reject, possibly wrongly calibrated. It's marked in °C but maybe it's working in °F?
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AuthorPhil, owner, captain, chief engineer, electrician, carpenter, cook and comms manager of Seren Archives
April 2024
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