Before and After!

Many of you will remember the trouble we have had in our cabin, over the years, with mould. After the shipyard period in 2013 the mould in our cabin exploded. We had mould everywhere-the carpet, shoes, hats, belts, our mattresses, pillows, wooden souvenirs, handbags, laptop bag, any kind of bags, everywhere we looked. We smelt the mildew smell as soon as we came in the door. Our cabin felt "damp" and humid all the time. The Captain measured the humidity in our cabin at around 73%.

We had a ceiling leak just outside our cabin door for over 18 months so the carpet in our entry way was always wet. It just wasn't any fun and Andrew started to develop some allergies and congestion issues as well.

So we took the issue to those in charge and our cabin received the once over in dry dock/shipyard last year in The Canary Islands. I spent the whole sail from the Congo to the Canaries packing up our cabin which was no mean feat, while the ship was rolling from side to side. We stored all our stuff in a classroom in the Academy while we stayed on land in a hotel with the rest of the families not on leave.

Our cabin was cleaned from top to bottom, new lino flooring was installed and the stink, rank carpet was ripped up. New suction vents were installed in both the bedrooms and sound proofing was installed in the large suction vent we already had, in the lounge room.  The air-conditioning vents were cleaned out with a huge vacuum sucker thing and the leak was final fixed outside our cabin door. No more water to slip on when we came out of our cabin!

Our cabin sans carpet!

 

One square of carpet left from under our bed.

Repairing the leaking pipes outside our cabin door with our fridge and other furniture sitting in the hallway

The first strips of lino are laid.

Lounge room/kitchen completed.

Shipyard workers cleaning out the large suction vent in our lounge area. Andrew happened to be there when they first started sucking out the vent and he said it sounded like cornflakes being sucked into the hose!

A big hose sucking out our small bathroom vent.

After six weeks in a hotel during dry dock we came home and had to move our stuff immediately out of the Academy as the staff needed to get ready for the next school year. Needless to say our cabin looked like a cyclone had hit, for quite a few weeks. There was just no room to put anything while we were trying to unpack. No garage or spare room to put the unpacked boxes in!

Just a small area to walk from one end of the cabin to another and out the front door.

Found a place to store some of the boxes while we unpacked. We moved Jess from the bottom to the top bunk and stored the boxes under her bed.

Finally done! Some before and after shots. New linen gave our bedroom a bit of a lift, including a new mattress! We also took the opportunity to get rid of the horrible wooden side on my side of the bed and one for the talented carpenters on board fixed it up for us! Needless to say we have been sleeping  much better these days!

Our bedroom before, looking to the portside and after to the portside.

 

Before-starboard side and after starboard side.

 

Lounge/kitchen looking towards the front door before and after, below. Check out our lovely new couch!

Another angle of lounge/kitchen before and after, below.

 

Lounge/kitchen before looking towards our bedroom and after looking towards our bedroom.

Another view before of the main living area, above and after, below.

The "hallway" before and after, below.

 

The front door, before and below, after.

Jessica's room before, above and after, below. looking less little girl and more teenager!

Before, above and after, below.

I am very happy to say the we haven't found any more mould, our cabin is sweet smelling and Andrews congestion has resolved. Let's not talk about the bed bugs, leaking ceiling and window inside our cabin and blocked toilet that have happened since shipyard, shall we! Let's just say that when deck and engineering crew see cabin 6417 on a work request they put in for a transfer-lol!