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Bullet2012
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Several about but not cheap, example
http://www.passionforpaint.co.uk/MoistureMetersGlassFibre.htm
http://www.passionforpaint.co.uk/MoistureMetersGlassFibre.htm
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Ye i just found the Sovereign type, bit much even though there are cheaper ones still a lot to pay for this job.
wish i knew a bot surveyor now.
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I know of Graham Thornton he lives donw the road from me and has a moorings up near Chorley. and used him in the past to do the BSS on my boat. I am didnt know he was a surveyor also.
Trouble is the cost to get him to do what i need will be as much as the test meter i bet, will take a few visits to get to the bottom of my problem.
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What is your problem ?
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£40. To hire a tramex meter for ten days
Tramex Skipper Hire Package:£40.00 Inclusive for ten days (£34.58 + VAT)
Tramex Skipper Hire Package:£40.00 Inclusive for ten days (£34.58 + VAT)
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this bleeding thing.
I am at the end of my tether i think. I am a calm chap most the time. But now i am getting my tits off.
The boat has little seeage still. I thought i had sorted it months ago but it has come back and after weeks of racking my brain as to where it is coming in i have near give up.
It was dripping in, VERY slightly from here ( wheer is marked it with a small hole so easier to see ) last year and i found that i had missed a very small area that needed to be filled about 4 foot up the cabin top.
It was the left hand side just in front of the insulation.
It started AGAIN in roughly the same place but maybe 8 mm higher.
It only drips very slightly after a lot of rain but still it leaks.
I did this about 3 few week ago to the hatch housing ( hatch has been removed as it knackered ) and it didnt stop so then i did the rear section and it stopped and i thought i had got it as it had stopped. Just a matter to topcoat the rear section or laminate over it.
BUT NO
the other day it strated again and i am now lost as to wheer the water is getting in as i have been all around the cabin top with a fine tooth comb to see any cracks ect i have missed.
I know a bit about capillary action etc but FFS if the top is full of ater this boat is going to have its **** showing as soon as it hits water.
Come guys give me a bit of sanity back, loosing the plot with it as it is holding me up on the fit and i am loosing incentive.
I am going to do the dam around any sus areas, have aload of blue tac and go from thetre, just wish it would stop raining to make it easier.
I will need to get a trap i guess to keep it dry.
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Get a smoke machine stick it inside seal the door and any vents and fill it with smoke you'll see the smoke escape 
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Get a smoke machine stick it inside seal the door and any vents and fill it with smoke you'll see the smoke escape
Would that be with petrol
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That would cure the leakWould that be with petrol
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that will not work though, the hole could be feet away from the internal leak and i need to search it over square foot at a time.
Have you checked them rails? I'd be aiming a hose pipe at them, it's more likely to be leaking at a thru hull/deck point than anywhere else.
With any thru hull/deck fitting we plaster it with marine grade sikaflex like it's going out of style and then tidy up later when it's cured. It might be a sod to remove later but it's better than a leak.
With any thru hull/deck fitting we plaster it with marine grade sikaflex like it's going out of style and then tidy up later when it's cured. It might be a sod to remove later but it's better than a leak.
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can you not use the drain dye in a watering can
https://www.bes.co.uk/drain-tracing-dye-yellow-200-g?gclid=CI6avK_jrdICFYUV0wodvuAKJg
https://www.bes.co.uk/drain-tracing-dye-yellow-200-g?gclid=CI6avK_jrdICFYUV0wodvuAKJg
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I fitted the rails mid last year and actually used Sikalfex 291 and plenty of it.
I will be checking them again though as soon a sit stops raining, will have to fill the rail foot with water again using blue tac to dam it up.
Not sure how would work ?
I know where the water is getting out the shell into the cabin but not getting in, it can be getting in from anywhere.
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Why wont it. If you are sparying water 3feet away from where the drip is showing inside then thats where its getting in
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sorry i didnt mean it will not work by hosing it down, more i need to pin point it.
It will work as this is what happens when it rains but it takes a while to build up. It can take a day of rain to start dripping on the inside.
Tell you want i will go out now and run the hose over an area and try it again but leave it on for a few hours, the more water i can run over an area it will build up and then drip faster.
At least that will narrow the area down to pinpoint it.
