Tony-B
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:24am
Post Subject:
Bathroom heating
Dear Moira, Unless you have a generator then any form of electrical heating will simply destroy batteries. That leaves you with a pipework problem or fitting a vent, high up on the wall and using something like a computer fan to blow the hot air that has risen to the ceiling outside into the bathroom. It's an option, but I have doubts about it being totally effective. This leaves us with pipework Td into the existing diesel system (I am assuming its not a hot air blower) and/or if there is a pumped system on the stove the stove system. They may both be the same system or perhaps the stove does not heat central heating water - you give no information about that. I expect the existing central heating pipes are just above the floor and the Ebespacher is in the engine compartment with a corridor between the pipes and bathroom. I think you have two options, neither easy. One is to run a pair of pipes across the back of the boat and up the other side into the bathroom. You will have to drill bulkheads and cupboard sides but I am sure most of the pipework will be hidden and plastic pipe is fairly easy to thread through holes and bend. The other option, after ensuring there is a gap under the floorboards is to remove the floor covering and the use a router to cut a slot in the floor so you can fit pipes across and under the corridor. Then route a rebate into the side of the slot and fit a metal plate flush with the floor. I am sorry neither is an easy option, but I can not think of any others. Tony Brooks
