• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    John’s workshop

    Thanks, Mike. Next stop on my build journey: researching gulleys, soakaways, etc. I still haven’t actually done any building yet… And, fear not, I won’t be leaving a dangerous drop anywhere. In fact, a potential silver lining to the retaining wall cloud is that I could have a fence and garden...
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    John’s workshop

    Re moving things around: I was assuming - perhaps wrongly! - that, if you end up smaller than the design PP was granted for, but essentially the same design, it wouldn’t be a problem… But happy if I’m wrong to be put right! (I can’t go any further into the garden - for a couple of reasons - so...
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    John’s workshop

    Mike, thanks - as always - for your input. I feared that may be the case. If I move the the workshop away from the alley, what would be the minimum ‘safe’ distance to leave between the alley’s higher ground (with the new retaining wall I’d have to construct) and the rear elevation, would you say?
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    Worrier's Workshop

    Hey, Weekend Worrier! I’ve just asked a similar question to yours re retaining wall / avoiding soil contact with base of workshop on my thread. Obviously wait for someone who knows more about the subject than me - like Mike - to chime in, but from my research on the topic, what you propose...
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    John’s workshop

    I should also point out (in case it’s not clear) that the alley is the other side of our property’s boundary, so not my land to mess about with. As such, and although the neighbours I’ve spoken to are fine about me working on it, I need to maintain the slope of it pretty much as is. Not least as...
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    John’s workshop

    Morning all. Firstly, good news: Planning Permission granted. My lovely neighbours were supportive and it went through with no objections. Now I’ve got the green light, I’m doing a bit of head scratching about the rear of the planned workshop. I’m planning on building it right up to the rear...
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    The quest for T-slot brackets

    Yes, no further justification needed!
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    The quest for T-slot brackets

    I’ve got loads of bits ‘n’ bobs sitting about with the justification of “it’ll come in handy one day”. And often it does, albeit sometimes after a number of years (just ask my long-suffering missus!). So if there’s anything you need, just ask: you never know, I might have it gathering dust...
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    The quest for T-slot brackets

    Wow, result! Thanks so much, Andy - very kind of you. I knew this was the place to come to; I love this forum! Happy to give you a few quid for them, plus p&p, of course - or donation to a charity of your choice - just let me know. Anyway, I’ll PM you my address 👍
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    The quest for T-slot brackets

    Hi all, this is a long shot but does anyone have any unwanted T-slot brackets they’d sell me? The ones pictured are ones I already have - which are, I think, from the 1970s or 80s, and are made of aluminium. Ideally looking for some (as little as three) under 20cm long; 15cm would be ideal. But...
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    John’s workshop

    Thanks, Mike. Yes, maybe lifting the paving slabs and replacing with hardcore is the way forward. As far as the new concrete bonding with the old - good to know you don’t think it’d be a problem. But, as you pointed out, I’ll need the DPM in between the new and old to contain the pour - as I’m...
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    John’s workshop

    Thanks, appreciate your input. I did consider the loss of wall space but - fear not - I’m sure I’ll be hanging some stuff on the back of the doors!
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    John’s workshop

    Got two of the three sleepers out yesterday and started digging out the section in front of the slab & patio. Good to be making a start, albeit a modest one. (Pots are from where my 6 year-old was collecting the centipedes I was unearthing, and re-homing some mystery bulbs.) The nascent spoil...
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    John’s workshop

    Thanks, Roger. I’ll look into that. Thinking about it, though, I’ll need a DPM anyway for those parts of the footprint outside of the old slab & patio area (ie where it’s just hardcore on top of the soil), so might as well cover the whole footprint with the DPM. As Mike pointed out, it’ll be...
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    John’s workshop

    Hmmm, hadn’t thought about the DPM actually trapping moisture. I can see how that might happen. Maybe there’s some product I can paint onto the old concrete instead that’ll stop the new concrete bonding. Or maybe I shouldn’t worry about it too much - I dunno… You’re right that this design is a...
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