Undercoats and Chilli Penguins

I felt I could be trusted to put the undercoat on the walls that would be painted - even if I might not be good enough to put the top coats on.





So this is view from galley/bathroom door showing the wall in the corridor. The panel in the bathroom will still be white when finished but the panel that starts near where the wires for the light switches will be the same as the bedroom/office.





Now I wanted that colour to be Satin Bow (Dulux) but they do not do that colour in paint for wood. The nearest I could get is by Crown and is Whisper of Pashmina. I couldn't be bothered to get any taster pots this time as all the previous ones I had liked were not for wood so I have lost heart somewhat.





I have decided that the ceiling in the bathroom and bedroom/office will be oiled as the wood is rather beautiful and it will make a contrast. Then in the bathroom/galley doorway things will change and the ceiling in the galley, saloon and engine room will be painted white to match the walls in the bathroom. You still with me?























Things have moved on the loo compartment. My basin is in which means we can work out the plumbing situation and how high my waste pipe will be on its way overboard. All the pipework will be in the bathroom but accessed from this side. It will all make sense in the end. Trust me.





The box behind the loo is for loo roll storage and the main reason for it being there is to support the top of the loo when you want to remove and empty the compost in the bottom part. The lid slopes slightly backwards so hopefully when someone moves from starboard to port whilst you are doing clever things in here the top of the loo wont come crashing down on you and crush your fingers.




Finally got my Chilli Penguin on board and now have to work out how to make sure it doesn't burn anything it shouldn't.

Howarth Heating have lent me one of their all in one hearths to see if it would fit my stove.

Well it does - just.

If I move the stove forward to stand at the very front of the hearth then the back two corners are far enough away from the two sides (they have to be minimum of 25mm and I get 30plusmm).

I will still have to modify it a bit by making it taller so that the frame is higher than the stove and the same height as the work top and the gunwales. I will then find someone to make me a sheet that attaches to one side of this frame and goes up to ceiling height to protect the walls from the heat off the top of the stove and the flue.

I then plan to put Quarry Tiles full width of the boat at this point and continue down the galley in a sort of T shape. This means that anything falling out of the stove does not land on anything flammable.

That is the plan anyway.