• 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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    American Ash

    I’m not sure, but some of the flickers in the north west of the US are woodpeckers that seem to spend a lot of time close to the ground so figured they might be a possible cause for the damage.
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    American Ash

    Do you have flickers in your area?
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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    I am not a doctor, so do your own research, but: Kidney damage from ibuprofen is dose & duration dependent. Instructions on timing are usually pretty detailed partly because of kidney effects & part of the reason for the limits is to avoid irreversible kidney damage. There’s no hard threshold...
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    Spot for a cabin, delayed for 5 years, maybe this year.

    So high water was lower than the top of your footing blocks? Are you punching the air with joy because you planned appropriately or are you doing a sharp intake of breath because it could have gone sideways with a bit more water?
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    Bedec Barn Paint, thank you Mike G

    Just to set expectations, Dr Al reported in thread 'Router that can get close to a wall?' that the centre of the Makita offset spindle is 18.5 mm from the edge so if you’re thinking about that one, you can get a little closer than that (based on the size of the cutter you use), but perhaps still...
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    Bedec Barn Paint, thank you Mike G

    Do you have an oscillating multitool? An offset attachment for a router lets you get closer to an edge if your router has one available. Personally I’d use a trim router to establish depth and remove a lot of the waste, an oscillating multitool for rough waste removal closer to the edge if the...
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    Bedec Barn Paint, thank you Mike G

    If you cut out the damaged wood and resurface with a new piece, would that mean you wouldn’t need to paint? What parts of the process worry you?
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    Bedec Barn Paint, thank you Mike G

    It’s the area on the horizontal surface covered by the window when it’s closed? It’s certainly better for it not to be flat as Trevanion says. Also have a look under the window for a groove near the outside edge. This groove would be to prevent capillary action so water doesn’t move under the...
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    Ideas for replacing hinges.

    This is the reason I use a fork when I go to Wagamama. Bamboo easier to use when not covered in food.
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    Ideas for replacing hinges.

    Andy, on your list of tools to bring you have “bit set” which I would read as “driver bits”, but don’t explicitly list “drill bits” for the making of holes. I’d hate to see those missed. When making the checklist of stuff to bring, I’m sure you’ll also list all the materials (hinges, screws...
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    Bedec Barn Paint, thank you Mike G

    I don’t think woodlice eat dry wood. If your wood is dry and well off the ground and something’s been having a nibble, I’d guess wasps. If the wood isn’t always dry and you see woodlice, it’s not a woodlouse problem, it’s a water problem.
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    Yes another bathroom reno.

    I like to see the renos. We should be doing our shower room in the next couple of years, so directly relevant, but I guess I just like a bit of home improvement in general and also seeing what people are up to. It’s a bit like a soap opera. Pics make it more vivid.
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    I think a small, light, manoeuvrable mitre saw makes a lot of sense. Low cost makes it even better. Do you use the blade it came with? What do you use as a stand? The latest floor has been prefinished oak of the kind you get in boxes, so short lengths. That meant any length could be supported...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    I’ve found a mitre saw useful because I’ve been doing a lot of flooring, skirting, moulding, but on the latest floor I just used a track saw for everything because I had put the mitre saw away to get some space back & didn’t want to pull it out again when I always use the track saw for rips on...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Welcome. Once you get started, you’ll soon learn what you need. The trick is to manage your finances and available space during the period while you’re still building up experience. If you can spend a few grand on a hobby that maybe doesn’t become a life’s passion without blinking and you’re not...
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    Dogs’ understanding of time

    When the time changes - after an adjustment period, say - do they pester you 2 hours ahead?
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    Dogs’ understanding of time

    I wasn’t familiar with the Maremma-Abruzzese Sheepdog so looked it up. I’ve known a couple of Great Pyrenees though. Lovely dogs. Quite similar looking?
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    Dogs’ understanding of time

    Definitely a dog’s conception of time is different than our own, but “dogs live in the now” is implausible to me both theoretically and from personal observation (of herding dogs and particularly Border Collies). Dogs, like humans, have had to survive in a world with days and seasons and years...
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    Dogs’ understanding of time

    It’s tough when they go. My wife thought it would be a good April Fool’s to tell me that her sister was going to bring a doppelgänger of the dear departed Aussie for us when she comes to visit. I didn’t really believe it, but then I started thinking about how we could make another dog work with...
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    Dogs’ understanding of time

    I thought the Aussie was hearing a plane or a bus going past because he was so accurate with the time. I was amazed when I worked out he was just using the clock.
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