Frank,
Funny (or not) that you should ask. We just brought our Uniflite down to SC from OH. Enroute, we developed a leak in the same area. Couldn't do much about it until we arrived here and got settled in. Opened the "door" on the wall at the end of the couch and found water there. Then, I opened the storage area under the couch and found more water where it was then running aft and onto the carpet. I couldn't find where it was coming from and the area was so tight that had I found it, I doubt I could have done anything about it. I noticed under the floor beneath the couch a cavity that was fiberglass lined and had a limber hole in one end. I figured the limber hole had to be there for a reason (drainage), so I drilled a hole in the floor where the water was coming in behind the couch from the wall (had to remove the back of the storage area under the couch.) I then built a "dike" to channel the flow of water to the hole I had drilled using MarineTex. It's an ugly solution, I know, but after literally weeks of searching for the leak, it was the only solution I could come up with. It's quite a slow leak and I'm assuming it eventually finds its way to the bilge and eventually gets pumped overboard. A couple weeks later, I found water coming from the closet into the office on the other end of the room. This I quickly discovered came from the AC drain pan. The drain hose had become plugged and backed up the drain pan until it overflowed. I don't think this was related to the aforementioned leak, but who knows about leaks? I'd suggest you check the drain pan first (easy from the closet) before drilling holes in the floor. Since it had been going on for nearly six weeks of our trip, I tore up the carpet. I have a floor guy coming in to lay teak/holly hardwood floor in the office and closet. If the drain pan issue turns out to be the source of your leak, please let me know. I'm a little nervous about laying the hardwood floor not knowing for sure where the leak is coming from, even though it appears to be "fixed" with my drain hole and channel in the floor. Doug From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 4:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UnifliteWorld] Re: tank capacity Doug, My tank is not near that big. I'm having another problem. I'm getting water under the carpeting in the office and can't find out where it's coming from. Any thoughts. frank _____ From: Doug <[email protected]> To: UnifliteWorld <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 2:26 PM Subject: [UnifliteWorld] Re: tank capacity The results are in. I measured the tank at 1' x 2' x 5'. Per Bernie's formula, that comes out to (12 x 24 x 60) /231 = 74.8 or ~ 75 gallons. Talking to the pumpout people, I discovered my vent pipe is plugged, which accounted for the overly full holding tank. Hence, they haven't been emptying the tank each week due to vacuum created during the pumpout process. I also discovered something else you saltwater-types may be interested in. I have two heads - stateroom and guest area. We rarely use the guest head unless we have overnight guests - not all that often. I was just informed that the guest head should be used every so often, because salt crystals form in the hose, dry, causing pitting and hence break down of the hose allowing odors to escape. Then the entire hose needs to be replaced. Just a heads-up for y'all. On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 2:33:51 PM UTC-5, Doug wrote: Anyone know the blackwater holding tank capacity on a 1984 46' Uniflite? I'm getting several different numbers from non-Uniflite boaters. Thanks, Doug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
