• 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. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Thanks...but I'm a very long way from that.
  2. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    I clambered into the bath and left my booted foot up on the side.
  3. Mike G

    An office

    Yes, that's much more like it......but your blocks shouldn't sit on the screed. You take the blockwork and insulation down to the level of the slab. Then you'd just put your insulation on the slab and screed on top. Celotex (PIR) requires a 50mm cavity to the outside of the board, so you would...
  4. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Setting everyone up for a series of obvious jokes.... I just had my first shower for about 11 weeks. I can now stand in barefeet, so I can go in the shower. I can't tell you what a pleasure it was.....
  5. Mike G

    What Birds Have You Seen Today

    Buzzards are big, and don't hover. They also have a fan-shaped tail.
  6. Mike G

    What Birds Have You Seen Today

    They won't be for long. They're spreading rapidly from a series of release sites.
  7. Mike G

    What Birds Have You Seen Today

    If it's hovering, and smallish, then it's almost certainly a kestrel.
  8. Mike G

    What Birds Have You Seen Today

    We've kept a list of sightings* since we moved here 12 years ago. There are 72 birds on the list, with a couple or three which we've only seen once. These include a hen harrier and a tree creeper. We had 8 red kites in one thermal after lunch today...but our record is 12. Our rule is it has to...
  9. Mike G

    An office

    Yes, if you have a single skin of brickwork there is a cold bridge. This is fine in an irregularly heated space such as a workshop. However, if this is for an office, as it says in the title, and if that office will be heated, then you need a double skin plinth so as to fit insulation into a...
  10. Mike G

    Reclaimed bookcase - finished

    So one nail adjacent to the join holds everything down, but allows movement. If you can organise to start (or finish) with a half-width board it will help because that particular board needs a nail to both edges.
  11. Mike G

    London International Woodworking Festival

    Dorian Bracht!!!! 😳 😳 I might have to find a way of going.....
  12. Mike G

    Mike G's How to Build a Shed

    Who sir? Me sir? :)
  13. Mike G

    Reclaimed bookcase - finished

    Are the boards square-edged? If so, do you have enough of them to put a rebate on each edge and have half-laps? If so, you only need one nail per board, because the leading edge of one board then traps the trailing edge of the next, and yet leaves room for expansion and contraction. Or, knowing...
  14. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (Gas)

    That's a compilation of 2 or 3 days work, Andy. I'm always up by 6.40am......but never in the workshop. That clock helps sum up my current limitations. It normally hangs on the wall. It stopped. I managed to nudge it off its screw and replace the battery, but I can't get up to put it back. I...
  15. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (Gas)

    Back to the door surrounds. I rounded over the inside and outside edges of the outer face: Believe it or not, that will eventually be the same colour as the overhead shelf, but as it will be covered in epoxy to make it waterproof, that's not happening just yet. I'm still only able to stand...
  16. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (Gas)

    Back to the door surrounds. You may recall that I'd built the basic frames. Now it was time to do the corners, so I built a jig: This produced most of one side of a half-lap joint: I don't know if I've ever mentioned it, but I hate routers: That meant cutting out, grain matching, and...
  17. Mike G

    The Benefits Of A Hobby After Retirement

    I'm sure we all know lots of retirees, and can immediately picture those who are doing well. There is a huge amount of luck and genetics in whether or not health matters dominate retirement, but there is also a huge role for eating healthily and staying mentally and physically active. It doesn't...
  18. Mike G

    New member

    Welcome Dek.
  19. Mike G

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

    Very nice, Peter.
  20. Mike G

    Cutting a foam mattress.

    3" furniture foam. I think the issue was that the waste clogged the teeth, and then bound to the foam in the cut. It was certainly the last thing I expected.
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