As you may recall, we had planned for a sheet metal company to put the roof on the houseboat. But that didn't happen ... The company, which also supplied the scaffolding and welded the railing, suddenly pulled out.
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Getting a PET bottle in the head doesn't sound so bad. But when it is full of water, comes from the roof of our houseboat and lands in my head with the cork first, it is a different matter, apparently. Peter and his brother Dennis were laying the roof, and Dennis got the water bottle with his foot at the same time as I happened to walk past. exactly where the water bottle fell ...
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Now we (read Peter) have built a terrace on the houseboat. Now you can walk straight out from the living room to the terrace, where we will of course have outdoor furniture. At the front is a small elevation with two pillar lamps, where we plan to have a barbecue. We feel very satisfied!
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The remodelling of the houseboat means that we will have a new, larger living room. We focus on finishing the exterior in the first place, but also build the interior when we get the opportunity. The room is 16 square metres, has ten windows and a balcony door.
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The whole houseboat gets new panelling. The new part must of course be panelled, but we are also replacing the panels on the old part. This is a lot of work, I can promise! Four guys are at work constantly, while I take care of ground service and other tasks around.
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You may remember that we were going to demolish the top room of the houseboat (the living room) and build a new one? Step one in such a project is demolition ... This is what it looks like when you demolish part of a houseboat!
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We didn't know much about the history of the houseboat, so when we were recently contacted by a former owner, it was exciting! There's still a lot we don't know, but we've been given another piece of the puzzle ...
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Now that the Midsummer weekend is over, we can't just sit around doing nothing... The houseboat is on land and we've got our hands full. Right now, we're painting the hull. We've got some two-component paint that needs to be applied in a thick layer to protect the hull.
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Lifting a houseboat is not something you can do in the blink of an eye. In fact, it took almost seven hours. And before that, of course, a lot of preparation was required...
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Ever since we moved here, definitions of floating accommodation have been discussed. Who lives in a houseboat and who lives in a floating villa? When is a ship a boat and when is it a ship? It's a jungle and not at all easy to sort out. But here are some basic definitions, as we understand them.
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