• 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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  1. Doug

    Hosepipe ban

    Water companies lose 20% of the water they purify through leaks from their systems before it even reaches consumers taps & have done for years. Until we have better governance over the water companies nothing will change. We are having far more winter flooding than ever before & a noticeable...
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    A tad of mirth

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    A tad of mirth

  4. Doug

    Big Lump of Olive Wood Log

    If you have any small scraps of Olive wood from your converting & you get your lathe up & running it makes for lovely pens. This is an olive wood pen from a couple of years ago
  5. Doug

    New garage shop

    Good progress Gary, which cyclone do you have.
  6. Doug

    Heatwave?

    Yes not a pleasant experience, fortunately the rubber & trims etc were finished just after 10 am Saturday though the rubber was pretty warm by then, did some running around till 3pm by which time the sun was off the walls I needed to lead flash. Though as you can tell from the photo the sun...
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    Heatwave?

    I’ve been routering in fixings on a flat roof from about 11:00 this morning, it’s been quite warm. Gonna make a 6:30 early start on gluing down the rubber tomorrow see if I can avoid the worst of the heat.
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    Flies

    As Wallace says not common over here, as a kid living fairly rurally I remember neighbours having fly curtains which were basically plastic ribbons that hung down in front of the door, not seen one for years but a quick search of the tinternet shows they are still available, Screenshot
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    Flies

    Move into town ;) Funny you should ask this Mike (& of no help) my wife & I have recently been cat sitting for a mate who lives out in the sticks & we’ve been staggered by the amount of flies he gets, it’s a lovely picturesque place in the country but as my wife said she couldn’t put up with...
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    Regular readers will recall me saying no more renovations. Well.........

    There are advantages & disadvantages with both ring mains & radials, from my experience it seems to be personal choice as to which a particular electrician chooses to use
  11. Doug

    Expansion and contraction

    Probably find it’s a ring shank nail & the rings have rusted away hence it keeps working its way out
  12. Doug

    Garden room restoration

    It’s exactly as @Richard says Mike
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    Garden room restoration

    Definitely his initial fix has not allowed for expansion which is key & why it has failed. My initial thoughts at the moment are to stand a piece of 3” (75mm) angle iron in each internal corner which will have 1” vertical slots milled in it to correspond with the centre of each horizontal...
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    Garden room restoration

    A dear old friend has this style of garden room The problem is where the interlocking timber meet on the corners These are rotting & prior to painting a few years ago he screwed 3x2’s to the corners to try & reinforce them, this hasn’t really worked. His thoughts are to clad the outside &...
  15. Doug

    Another scam

    Today I received this email The interesting thing (well to me) is when I clicked on the 701 other recipients they were all iCloud.com email addresses, why would that be so?
  16. Doug

    New hobby

    As a young lad I used to watch Solihull Barons with a school teacher, the first couple of times she took me I hardly saw the puck it traveled so fast but eventually I got into it & really enjoyed watching though it seemed to me the priority was to get your retaliation in first 😂 It’s great...
  17. Doug

    500 year old methods

    When the European Woodworking show used to take place at Cressing Temples there were a couple of blokes who would demonstrate hewing a log into useable timber with different axes, quite an interesting spectacle to watch.
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    Gin with flavors

    Exactly that Steve, the guy behind the bar made a comment that Bass doesn’t travel well & as his hadn’t traveled much more than 30 yards I wouldn’t get a better pint & to be fair he wasn’t wrong.
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    Gin with flavors

    Did you never go to the Holly Bush Inn at Makeney when we used to go for a pint with Brian, Ed et al Steve, they served Bass in a jug. The best pint of Bass I ever had was the pub behind the Bass brewery in Burton many years ago, they had the barrel behind the bar.
  20. Doug

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    This little job has been keeping me busy for a few days. This was originally the outside door of a 1930 house which used to open onto an open porch, at some time a door had been added to the front opening of the porch it can just be made out through the fan light. Also a combi boiler had...
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