Very good video and little more done 👍👍👍👍👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Digging the fire place 👍👍👍👍👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿and a lovely sound to fall asleep too 👍

do your cutting out side? really nasty stuff that dust

i'd hate to see you lose the pocket door. i love pocket doors, but have never met one that remained unbroken its entire life. for that reason, the pocket-door section of the exterior bathroom wall should be re-made now so that it is fully or partially removable in future. as you pointed out, there will be zero access from the shower side later on. so yeah, there are plenty of ways to do this and still make that pocket-door wall rigid enough to do its job as a bathroom wall. think of a Dutch barge's wheel house... piano hinges and a series of latches make its "walls" foldable/modular as well as strong when put back in place. just a thought. also, if you plan to keep the pocket door and a removable wall is too daunting, at least take time now to build small 15x30cm hatches at top and bottom to be able to later work on both the upper and lower slider mechanisms inside the wall. upper and lower hatches in the passageway that are just big enough to get your hands in with some tools will do you a treat down the road. luckily your interior frame is a series of horizontal wood beams that would allow a quick retrofit of hatches above and below. if you do hatches, you could make hinged doors for them. also you'll want to cut the silver, bubble-insulation on three sides (not four) so that it stays connected to the rest as a flap that can be clamped out of the way during slider maintenance. anyway, a fully removable wall would be ideal but small maintenance hatches might to the trick. even just to grease the sliders after every 5,000 uses. as you might recall from our previous conversations, i have been a homebuilder and tradesman for many decades. so i know all too well the pain of redoing things like this. i am only making the suggestion because i also know that not redoing it now will cause twice the pain later... when every surface in the boat is covered with trim, tile and other finishes. the build is looking great btw. great idea on the using the old fly-tipped cassette toilet to size up the layout. brilliant!

Hello Oli, sorry for the delaying in commenting but I've been in Canada in a motorhome on holiday. The boat and the hearth in particular are looking great. How about dark grey tiles with a lighter grey grout, I think sometimes black tiles can be a little harsh and the fire will stand out against a lighter backdrop, I feel against black tiles it will all 'disappear', just my opinion. The bathroom is feeling quite spacious, looking forward to seeing it come together. Best wishes Christine x

Is there enough room in the corridor to pull out the toilet cassette ?

Next, is it possible to make the side of the door (door panel) towards the shower water proof, and the existing wall behind it water proof, so that you would not need to have the extra wall?

You are scoring & snapping the tile board wrong. You are making it a little too hard. My father-in-law was a tile setter. The way he taught me was, score it, going over it with the Stanley utility knife (or equivalent) at least 3 times. Pick the board up, with an edge on the floor, so that the score mark is vertical. Then, from the un-scored side, bend it towards you. He would use his knee at the area opposite the score line. The tile board should fold, and then use the knife to finish the cut. Makes a rather clean break. Basically the same way you would cut Drywall (sheet-rock?). And less other stuff needed to do the job. Oh yea, the boat is starting to look really nice. Good work!!!!

Your Harth for fire should be 300mm past the front of log burner for safety regulations. To catch any bit falling when opening door. Also your chimney pipe will get hot so have you got to board wall were flue is.

Hey Oli. Nice to see your renewed enthusiasm. Glad you are cracking on with the stove, it will make it feel really cosy. When I did mine, I cut out the wood floor and put breeze blocks down on the base plate. Then tiled over those with slate. Get the good quality flexible adhesive. I also put the slate tiles straight onto the cal-cil primed with pva and never had any problems with it (glad you figured out the easy way to cut that sort of board). Don't forget - all you need is a jig saw and a little patience for the flue hole - saves getting hot metal grinds in your paintwork. Hope to see more of the cat!

Suggest that you rebuild the bathroom wall in the position where the door currently is and hang the door outside the bathroom so that you always have access to the fittings.

Cutting silica board with a power saw and taking your mask off straight after wasn’t your best idea mate…that’s really nasty stuff🤦

Looking great Oli. Space to the side of the shower could have shelves for towels and chemicals for toilet etc

Coming along nicely now. I used a low profile pumped shower waste from Heat and plumb. Around £15. It has a 19mm push fit JG style so you can pipe the first bit in poly then if you warm the 19mm re-enforced hose it is a good tight fit over it, secured with a couple of stainless jubilee clips. The install instructions on shower wastes usually tells you not to use any silicone on the seals, ignore that with a composite shower tray, use just a bit.😂 Your hearth looks fine, better than most I have seen. The front edge might benefit from a small upstand rather than extending. That will stop bits of ember rolling onto your new rug/ flooring.

The fireplace looks good. I would use the fire board all the way up the wall as I'd rather be safe than sorry. I like the idea of black tiles with grey grout that somebody else suggested I think your cat was having a look in the bathroom to see where the litter tray will go 😅. On my first boat the bathroom had a standard hinged door, not a sliding door. The bathroom was small and the door was a nuisance. In the end I got rid of it. To me a sliding door makes more sense, but I'm not the one who will have to live with it As for progress, the thinking and planning is as important as the doing!

I agree with Julie, black tiles with grey grout 😊

Great Video , But sorry I don't like the sliding door.

Black tiles with grey grout.

I got silicate boards from a bloke on marketplace 15 quid each, try shopping around.

Lee and Ali told me about your cat ah ah ah

Can the bathroom door go on the hallway side with different hardware? Also the hearth, maybe splay that corner. Shin killer. Always enjoy the videos.

Keep it going Oli there's a lot of us wanting you in our lives!!!

Hey Oli. Good to see you back on it. Totally get the dip in motivation - it's a huge project. Pick something easy/rewarding to tackle next (how about getting the fireplace running for winter?) just to get your enthusiasm back up. Shower, plastic panels definitely - easier, quicker, more suitable. Hardest way isn't always best way. Sliding doors - maybe see what James did? Think he used electrical bus bars or something? Flue hole is easy - slowly with a jigsaw - no grinding required! Good luck. EDIT: James has just ditched his sliding doors! Best, Johny

Good to see another video - enjoyable as ever. On the sliding door - it would be a shame to encroach on what is a decent size bathroom with the shower in middle of the boat giving max headroom. Maybe install the door on the outside of the bathroom for now which you can cover later with false wall - it will make your corridor skinnier though, but you would retain the space in the bathroom. Also hang the door from the ceiling using a proper sliding door mechanism to carry the weight. Then use the one unbroken door slider near the bottom to keep it on the right alignment. This means you would not have to have anything sticking out of the floor to guide the door. Whatever you decide, I will be eagerly awaiting the next video.

Don’t like your steps they look dangerous

Mate if you are anything like me, my boat build is miles behind yours due to having to rip it all out and start from fresh, and I look at the boats around me and think "mine will never be that good" but it will, and as you say about the cost of items, I am in your league i don't have money to throw around, but little by little we will get our dream sorted, I am nearly ready to line my boat out, I have had pits welded up on the hull, and now it is all blacked, I have bought some second hand windows, they are good and gold , it's a long hard road, but please do not get depressed, see you around BUD.

I have seen a youtuber (maybe nanny and gramps) use an acrylic mirror which they could cut to size themselves which may be an idea. Central steps is the way to go IMO so happy you are thinking that way. The fire looks good in that position with space for a coal scuttle and some fire tools and logs maybe under it. Think maybe write a to do list, your mental health is important so you do what you need to do to get over this hurdle. It will get better as you find focus. Looks great so far Oli.

I called over one Sunday and met Lee and Ali, I asked where you had vanished too? glad to see you are back mate.

Thanks for the vid, it's good to see you! Burnout is inevitable in a project this big, giving yourself time off every now and then is necessary. It's amazing how much you have accomplished so far, and how well you've done, she's really built to last! Well done you!

It’s nice to have a catch up! 🙂 I think shower panels are the way to go. They will flex with the boat, which seems like a big win. But, even more important, good-quality shower panels are so much easier to clean than tiles & grout!! (Just a recommendation from a person who’s lived long enough to have done a LOT of housework.)

Missed you.

dude your pocket door is what james is trying to achieve, dont give up on it. it was a really cool short you made revealing it too

Enjoy watching your videos 👌 everyone have lack of motivation sometimes we have all been there, enjoy your hobby and don’t rush it 😊

Glad to see you back 👍

So glad to see you back. You’ve been missed

Hello Oli, good to see you back and see you making some progress. You are really good at what you are doing, I thought you had some kind of trade in your background, most impressed. I can understand you have felt a bit down about all the work but good to hear you are getting enthusiastic about it again as long as you have the finance, everything is so expensive these days. Wishing you well and of course I will stick with you. Best wishes Christine x

You've already got a long way, crack on your at your own pace m8..it's looking great so far, even that bit of plumbing is another step...talking of which central stairs seems like the best idea..one room at a time, start and finish..job done..👍👍

I know how you feel with the lack of motivation - I'm the same with my boat refit at the moment, and like with you, car repairs haven't helped. It's good to have a break from a project like this from time to time. It's better to take your time and get things right, than to rush it and things go wrong - that's what I'm telling myself 😊

Everybody looses their mojo on a build you will bounce back mate.

Also straight steps and sliding door for the bathroom

Was thinking about how you're getting on with the boat the other day. It's came on massively dude! Proper impressed I know it's not easy but so far you've done a cracking job! Take it easy mate!

You’re doing very well, and if I remember at the beginning, you said that there was no reason to rush to do it, but one thing you’ll get there see you on the next one 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Have you given up on the boat? I was at North Kilworth, and met that couple doing a boat blog, Black Swan, nice people. I asked about you and they said not seen you around.

It’s been a while, hope you’re ok

Coming on nicely Ollie. You seem well happy.

Hopefully see you at Crick on the Saturday. I think you're right about the vertical calorifier, physics says they should work better, and everyone I spoke to says they work better in reality too... (There are 'super insulated' ones out there too if you want to keep the water hotter for longer)

Stairs looks good maybe you could hinged the last to steps in front for more storage 😅 is the kitchen going on the opposite side of everything else? I was thinking about weight distribution, or is the ballast,Fuel-water tank even it out? For the roof use a colour that don’t need so much cleaning not to dark or to bright 😅

Red for the roof for sure!

Looking good and the steps will be fine when you’re used them , it’s just like when you started driving with the pedals you now do without thinking the same go for the steps ,👍👍👍👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Hello Oli, I think I prefer the central steps, but what do I know. Thank you for the recommendation of Lee and Ali's vlog I shall go and watch that on catch up. Not going to Crick this year, I shall be in Scotland in a motorhome. Thank you for the continued vlogs, I can imagine how much work they are. Best wishes Christine x