First time 2023 (part 1) Flare gas coupling

And then, after a wet cold March and April, it is King's Day in the Netherlands with good weather after all. Finally we go to the boat again and enjoy the weather, the boat and each other.

The weekend before, we were also on the boat, but that was still with the purpose of making some preparations. Froukje would be on the boat with friends from Sunday to Tuesday, and there were still some chores. The most important one was that a new gas hose had to be installed. And of course this didn't go completely straightforward. A strange connection is attached to the stove that the water sports stores also had no answer for.

The weekend before we get ready together, I am on the boat to take the hose off. So once off, I did indeed go out with the idea of "just getting" another gas hose. Store 1, no idea, store 2 and store 3 neither.
Ai that will be a problem then. A week later, Froukje goes to the boat and then it will be nice that she can boil water for ready-made pasta or something 😊

I walk on the dock and strike up a conversation with a neighbor who is about to leave to cross the ocean. In the conversation, I tell him what I am working on and what problem I have encountered. He looks at the hose and says, "I know this. This is a flare(flair) connection. I bought that last week for my stove, I have a Force 10 stove". That's quite a coincidence, I have the same stove. It turns out he ordered the hose online. In the evening I go searching and end up on gaswinkel.com. Here I immediately order the right stainless steel hose. A bit more expensive, but then it doesn't have to be replaced for another 10 years.

The tricky thing is, time is running out. If the hose is not home in time, I won't be able to assemble it in time for Froukje's short vacation either, and Froukje will have to order fries every day. Perhaps when gaswinkel.com is still a bit doable by car, I might be able to pick it up. And what turns out, they are in Zelhem, a place I drive by when I go to work, 20 minutes away from our house. Ok, so that's easy again. Halfway through the week the hose will be ready and I can pick it up.

The weekend before Froukje stays on the boat, Carla and I go to Linde to take care of the most important things. Screwing gas hose on stove, putting stove back on, gas on hose.... I smell gas. With some water and soapy water I check all the connections and it turns out to be the now familiar flare(flair) connection. Unfortunately I can't reach it when the stove is hanging in the kitchen unit. That means again lifting out the heavy appliance and tightening the connection. Appliance back, soapy water check, nothing to see. I leave the pressure on the hose for a while and after a while I still don't smell gas. Again suds all over the place and I dare say now that everything is tight.

Another job is to replace the gas alarm. This alarm hangs in the kitchen and will have to sound an alarm when gas is present, carbon monoxide or battery gas. Unfortunately, the old one goes off without us having any idea that anything is wrong. But how do you know if odorless gas is there or if the alarm is malfunctioning. The only solution we could think of is to buy a new alarm. So I installed this one and fortunately it doesn't go off. So no gas. I did test it with lighter gas and it reacted immediately. So we can conclude that the old alarm was indeed broken.

Eventually we got the most important things taken care of, new gas hose...check, new alarm...check.

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