• 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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    Hello, good morning and welcome...

    The problem is just that there isn't a system. Over the years various people and companies have come up with new ways of doing mobile data connections, each with various advantages over the previous ones. Each one gets given a name, some more descriptive than others, when it's in the...
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    Hello, good morning and welcome...

    H+ is significantly better than 3G, but less than 4G; think of it as 3.75G if that's more useful. The progression goes, roughly, 2G/GPRS, E, 3G, H, H+, 4G/LTE, 5G.
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    Sausages

    The status of various meats in Hinduism is an interesting and complex topic. Since none of it (even beef) is directly based in any sort of scripture, it's all culture and tradition and varies hugely by region and caste. If you have to generalise, though, there's a fairly clear progression that...
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    The technique used in industry for safely serving raw meat is 'sear and shave'. You take a large whole cut of meat, so that bacteria can only exist on the outside. You sear it all over with a blowtorch, raising the exposed surfaces to a temperature that will kill those bacteria. Then you cut off...
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    Yes and no. Fatty cuts of meat with lots of connective tissue, say a shoulder of lamb or a beef brisket, need to be cooked long and slow to break down the collagen and render the fat. That fat and collagen will keep it moist and juicy when cooked thoroughly and slowly. Lean cuts like most...
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    A question for the electricians

    So yes, having a plug with exposed energised pins is a terrible idea. But the existing domestic solar installs face the same problem, in that grid workers need to be able to turn off power to the street in order to repair underground mains, and having a house feed 240V back into the cables...
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    Wheelie Bin Store

    The law says precisely nothing about dado stacks. Workplace health and safety regulations do say, however, that table saws used in a workplace must have blade guards at all times, and must stop within 10 seconds of killing the power. Now, if your saw isn't braked, or the brake isn't powerful...
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    Glasses - what's your view?

    Is that for standard reading glasses, or for custom made-to-order? You can have a pair for a fiver here... if you need something between +1 and +2.5, the same in both eyes and no cylindrical component. If you just need reading glasses because you've become long-sighted with age, it's dirt cheap...
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    Workshop strip foundation

    If that's a difficult decision to make, it sounds like it might be worth just going for planning permission and not being constrained by the limits of PD. You only need to be one metre from the boundary to maintain the building regulations exemption, which is the one that will really save you...
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    Workshop strip foundation

    Permitted development means it doesn't need planning permission. Whether building control is required is a separate question that mostly hinges on the final internal floor area and distance to a boundary.
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    JK cabinet with a 'V' door

    Just to take the idea to its logical overkill conclusion, if the core is never going to be seen then you could in fact make it entirely from stacked plywood sections in the same orientation as those splines. Or, for a less extreme version of the same principle, you could make 4-5 sections the...
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    Can we create polls on the forum ?

    With repeat prescriptions, every time you need a refill you have to ask the surgery to issue a new prescription, which they'll take a day or two to do and send to the pharmacy before you can pick it up. They'll generally have a repeat prescriptions team and won't make the individual GPs do it...
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    Well this is a bummer.

    I've never not been able to get an early morning check in to a hotel, usually after an overnight flight. I've usually had to pay for the previous night, either half rate or in full, in order to get it. It's a situation that online booking systems struggle with, but hotel staff can almost always...
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    My Favourite Sandwich - Yes a lame post.

    I was baffled for a moment trying to work out marmite and barbecue sauce.
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    I'd say a majority of the jobs I've had done were fixed price, with it changing only where we changed the scope of work (by mutual agreement) part way through. Sometimes it has been caveated though - e.g. when I had the consumer unit replaced, it was an EICR on day 1 and the actual change on...
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