• 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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    New garage shop

    All done with the closet. The earth plaster access panel will finish drying in place. Sealing around the duct looks kludgy but it works. The only other major shop task is to install a sink. That's for next year. Enclosing the dust collector took its sound level measured from my workbench...
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    New garage shop

    All done plastering. It isn't completely dry but the lime has set. Now I just have to mount the access panel, the bin full warning light, and the manometer. And here is what the finish looks like. Some hairline cracks. I think I had the mix a little too wet. But I it does add some interest...
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    New garage shop

    I think you are right about the venting but there are tradeoffs. For example if you have to buy ducting for the exhaust. Large diameter ducting gets expensive. In my previous shop I also had a 6 inch inlet duct and used an 8 inch exhaust duct. I had a manometer connected to the setup and the...
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    New garage shop

    I have read that the exhaust sectional area should be at least twice that of the inlet. The inlet here is 6" duct (about 28 inches square) and the exit is 5" x 15" or 75 inches square. I haven't measured the static pressure yet.
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    New garage shop

    More progress. The door is fit and weather sealed and the closet is functional. I measured the noise level at my bench using an app on my phone. With no closet it was about 95 decibels. With closet but no door it was about 85 db. With the door closed and sealed it is 75 db. Once I fit a proper...
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    New garage shop

    The plaster is mostly dry and the lime is at least partially set. It looks a little blotchy I think because of the excessively short strokes we used when leveling and smoothing the surface. But I'm ok with some variagation. Makes it look hand made rather than a perfect industrial finish. The...
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    Beautiful fall colour.

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    New garage shop

    Yes, it is one of the finishes we learned about. I will say that it has several disadvantages: being rather soft it is relatively easily damaged and it is labour intensive and time consuming.
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    New garage shop

    Earth plaster is widely available, non-toxic, easily repaired, completely re-usable (if you don't add lime), and is literally dirt cheap. It also can be done in a variety of natural colors that don't fade. I also like the idea of working with a building material that has been used all over the...
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    New garage shop

    Plaster day. The work sequence was to trim the wall first and plaster up to the trim border. The trim is unfinished American black cherry, hand planed to remove milling marks. The plaster is a 1: 0.5: 0.6 weight ratio of earth from my back garden : toilet paper: hydrated lime. The toilet paper...
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    New garage shop

    Yes, I was going for dense mass, similar to the walls. The plywood might belly out a little and that may leave some empty space at the tops of the voids. But the ply is held securely all along the edges of the voids. I don't think it will bend much.
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    Beautiful fall colour.

    I'm a proponent of the "Leave the leaves" movement. I rake them off the grass and into the shrub and flower beds. https://homegrownnationalpark.org/leave-the-leaves-why-less-cleanup-means-more-life/
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    New garage shop

    It is mostly masons sand since I had some around. But that wasn't enough. The rest all-purpose sand since that is what the local hardware store had available. I don't think the type of sand matters much as long as it is clean and dry.
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    New garage shop

    All done with the ducting except for the last connection to the band saw. The ducting to the planer/thicknesser is a quick disconnect so I can move the machine out of the way when not in use. I'm also working on the closet door. This is an experiment: a sand filled door. I read about these on...
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    New garage shop

    Yes, I like to keep it simple.
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    1st intro 'disappeared...? 2nd attempt...

    And welcome from the USA, too.
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    Bundwerk barn

    I believe it is a German machine: Bottger-Gessner. Reuben bought it at auction from somewhere in Canada. http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=13033
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    Bundwerk barn

    I mentioned the doors to keep out woodland critters. One in particular is the packrat, so-called because they gather whatever is nearby to build their nests. For years Reuben has been storing a stash of old woodworking machines that are destined for his bundwerk barn in a shipping container on...
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    Bundwerk barn

    All done for now. Temporary doors in place to keep the woodland critters out during the winter. Building will resume in the spring.
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    New garage shop

    Ducting about half done. The stubs are headed for the band saws.
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