• 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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    AI for Technophobes

    I love a good rant. I think “My bad” was popularised in the ‘90s though.
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    What I have fixed today

    The bolt on the bathroom door hasn’t lined up with its keep since we bought the place. So today I unscrewed the spacer block attached to the door frame to which the keep had been attached, turned it upside down, and reattached it using the same screws & screw holes. Everything is now aligned...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    So how did you make the double dish @HOJ?
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    Getting old and stupid

    I’m increasingly replacing reliance on short term memory with procedures that can be called up from long term memory. For example, if I make two cups of coffee, can I remember which cup contains caffeine and which is decaff by the time I have to deliver them? Well, most of the time I can, but...
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    Painting MDF panels

    10° C seems more normal. I think the paints I normally use have 5-8° C as the lower limit.
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    Painting MDF panels

    Steve, the Amazon page for your paint says don’t apply when temp below 15° C. This is a surprisingly high temperature!
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    Painting MDF panels

    Is the texture definitely coming from the paint? I watch https://youtube.com/@thelondoncraftsmanworkshop who paints a lot of MDF and he sometimes talks about particular brands of MDF that fluff up with cutting or painting - sanding appears to be the solution to that.
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    Painting MDF panels

    Have you tried watering down the paint a little and applying more pressure as you roll? If that doesn’t work, you might want a different roller with a shorter pile. Although if you want that completely flat look maybe it can only be done with spray.
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    What I have fixed today

    Reattached a loose fascia board to the front of the workshed. Took a hook off the shower room door that had never sat flat and sanded its back to level it. Then painted it along with a couple of other items.
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    So it is Spring now, for me it's still Winter

    We’re having nice spring weather right now, but temps of -3 C overnight forecast for in a few days.
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    So it is Spring now, for me it's still Winter

    I’ve only seen bluebells in woods or under hedges or other plants so I assumed bluebells needed the shade.
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    Brass Escutcheons

    Fantastic. Thanks Andy. I was thinking just curved outline to the plate rather than detail on the surface of the plate (other than the round dimples - maybe just large diameter nail punch rather than a press can do those; also possible simple drilled holes would be OK for that element too)...
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    Brass Escutcheons

    I have a vague idea that at some point in the next decade I might like to make a couple of brass escutcheons (for room doors) to echo a design from a fireplace. The design would be kind of a Nouveau style with a couple of raised dimples and swoopy edges - simplified for the escutcheon, so it...
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    Exterior door threshold

    There were a lot of compromises on the way due to competing tasks but the result is we started with this: And ended with this: And that will just have to do for now.
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    L shaped hallway - oak floor

    Looks good. Perfectly normal. Maybe I’m just worrying about nothing. Might just keep the boards running in the same direction then. Thanks for the photos. Very helpful. What finish did you use on your floor Doug?
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    L shaped hallway - oak floor

    Over the original existing pine floorboards
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    L shaped hallway - oak floor

    I looked at pics of our old American house which had a similar turn from entrance hall to kitchen (although the corridor bit to the kitchen very short) and corridor & kitchen boards are 90° to direction in the hall. Presumably the joists changed direction though. I don’t know what was going on...
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    What I have fixed today

    Thanks. The blinds are William Morris’ Strawberry Thief design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Thief It’s East-facing so a lot of morning light. The counter is cherry.
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    What I have fixed today

    Finally put the kitchen back together after a rehab (new floor, walls painted, worktops re-oiled, the shelves peeking out on right sanded and re-oiled). Just in time for guests to arrive. The kitchen walls are Little Greene “Harley Green” and the close walls you can just see at edges of picture...
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    L shaped hallway - oak floor

    We were thinking of encaustic tile for the hallway, but now looking at oak floorboards like in the adjacent rooms for the L-shaped hallway. The side going from the front door into the house is aligned with long boards as in the rooms, so that’s no problem. But as the hall turns 90° to the left...
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