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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!
Mike's ext'n & renovation (solar panels)
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Mike G":253d95ts said:
If I have this right.. Workshop roof to finish, greenhouse/potting shed to finish, interior woodwork to finish, and the patio. So many jobs on the go would do my head in.
Stairs and patio looking great Mike :eusa-clap:
Going back to your vine comment, how do you know how big to make the hole...? Don't they thicken over time and risk filling that hole, or do they only get to a finite trunk thickness?
Cheers
Mark
Going back to your vine comment, how do you know how big to make the hole...? Don't they thicken over time and risk filling that hole, or do they only get to a finite trunk thickness?
Cheers
Mark
Mike G
Petrified Pine
I've been trying to get hold of my mate who was the first I saw doing this trick, but he's off climbing in the Alps. If it needs a bigger hole (I suspect it will), I'll get the angle grinder out.
Mike G
Petrified Pine
Andyp":2wi76y34 said:
If only that were it. I've a bathroom to build (no walls and little floor at the moment), stairs to build, plastering throughout the old part of the house, porch to build, window surrounds, slate roof over the lounge, EML in preparation for the render................plenty to get my teeth into.
Rod
Old Oak
A man's work is never done!!
I'll have to measure my vines thickness, I planted it in 1976.
Rod
I'll have to measure my vines thickness, I planted it in 1976.
Rod
Jimmy Mack
Old Oak
I too, was planted in 1976 [emoji1]Rod":2xfi2xjy said:
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Jimmy Mack":1vq330ii said:
I was 'planted' in 1975 but only broke the surface in mid '76, and I'm quite thick...! :lol:
Cheers
Mark
Phil
Old Oak
Mike G":2jn8kaap said:
3.5" square is 87.5mm x 87.5mm - Mike I don't think you need to worry too much as it won't become an issue in your lifetime! That would be quite a thick trunk and grapes supply the whole neighborhood or LOTS of L's of wine.
Phil":2wrdbbnr said:3.5" square is 87.5mm x 87.5mm - Mike I don't think you need to worry too much as it won't become an issue in your lifetime! That would be quite a thick trunk and grapes supply the whole neighborhood or LOTS of L's of wine.
It might not be a single trunk though...
Mark
Phil
Old Oak
TrimTheKing":35lydi1j said:Phil":35lydi1j said:3.5" square is 87.5mm x 87.5mm - Mike I don't think you need to worry too much as it won't become an issue in your lifetime! That would be quite a thick trunk and grapes supply the whole neighborhood or LOTS of L's of wine.
It might not be a single trunk though...
Mark
With the wall only patially built, the opportunity is there for more holes, one per vine trunk, different cultivars, more grapes, different wines ...........
Phil
Ok, let's not hi-jack the thread with wine :lol:
Mike G
Petrified Pine
They actually take a reasonable amount of room, vines. There will only be one, and it will be a dessert grape, not for wine. We'll also be "rubbing out" side shoots so that there is only one leader...........so one stem, and only the one hole needed. I think the size of the hole is going to be more dependent on the shape of the stem than on its size. If it decides to bend half way through the wall, it will need a bigger hole than if it grows straight.
How do you provide enough space for the vine to grow without letting undesirable rodents getting in?
Mike G
Petrified Pine
Still working outside on the hard landscaping. Here's a reminder of how the main steps were when I last posted:
From there it was a question of concrete, then the following day the next lot of bricks. Some hours later, fill with hardcore, then concrete, then bricklaying again.........
To the back door steps. Having looked a little more closely at how the levels are going to work here, I laid a soldier course, which I haunched with concrete, as this will have soil and turf hard up against it:
Tired of bricklaying, I thought I'd do some digging instead, so dug out the base for the path from the patio to the workshop, before & after:
It drove me nuts that I couldn't lay out an arc for this path. I tried all sorts, and eventually came in and drew it on the computer, and realised that there is no available arc. So that curve is by eye. There will eventually be a pergola over the steps and path at the patio. A new garden like this needs height ASAP, and a pergola is a great way of getting that quickly. Look out for that in 2018.
I finished off the edging strip for the paving:
That awful last photo helps me somewhat, as the nearest junction isn't my finest bricklaying hour.
I also laid lots of bricks for the greenhouse:
The corners are to full height, so there isn't much to go to bring the walls up to finished height.
From there it was a question of concrete, then the following day the next lot of bricks. Some hours later, fill with hardcore, then concrete, then bricklaying again.........
To the back door steps. Having looked a little more closely at how the levels are going to work here, I laid a soldier course, which I haunched with concrete, as this will have soil and turf hard up against it:
Tired of bricklaying, I thought I'd do some digging instead, so dug out the base for the path from the patio to the workshop, before & after:
It drove me nuts that I couldn't lay out an arc for this path. I tried all sorts, and eventually came in and drew it on the computer, and realised that there is no available arc. So that curve is by eye. There will eventually be a pergola over the steps and path at the patio. A new garden like this needs height ASAP, and a pergola is a great way of getting that quickly. Look out for that in 2018.
I finished off the edging strip for the paving:
That awful last photo helps me somewhat, as the nearest junction isn't my finest bricklaying hour.
I also laid lots of bricks for the greenhouse:
The corners are to full height, so there isn't much to go to bring the walls up to finished height.
:eusa-clap: :text-bravo:
Rod
Old Oak
Looking good
Rod
Rod
Phil
Old Oak
I will again take my hat off to you! {no emoticon!}
Looking good, excellent work :eusa-clap:
Looking good, excellent work :eusa-clap:
MattS
Nordic Pine
Continue to be amazed by the quality of work and your rate of progressed. I don't know what I do with my time 
Tusses
Old Oak
MattS":3n437zc8 said:Continue to be amazed by the quality of work and your rate of progressed. I don't know what I do with my time
haha , me too !
Commander
Sapling
Hi Mike, it has been a while since I have been around, but what a pleasure to catch up on your build! Fantastic work and great progress!
Rod
Old Oak
Here's a photo of my old vine - its about 30mm Diam so your "hole" should see you out Mike [emoji3]
Rod
Rod
Mike G
Petrified Pine
Thanks Erich. Always a pleasure to see you here.
Nice, Rod. Yeah, if the thing stays straight as it passes through the wall i should be fine. If it decides to bend it could be more of a problem.
Nice, Rod. Yeah, if the thing stays straight as it passes through the wall i should be fine. If it decides to bend it could be more of a problem.
Rod
Old Oak
Mine used to bend into a greenhouse until the greenhouse rotted away - now it climbs over an arbor to provide a shady spot. It also climbs over everything else and a pain to keep in check!!
Rid
Rid
Mike G
Petrified Pine
My mate tells me that a 6" square opening is about minimum. I'll have to do a bit of work with a mini grinder.
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Look out for some actual woodwork tomorrow! Yes I know. Unlikely, hey?........My back has gone, so I can't do brickwork or patio laying. After a couple of days resting I'm going to attempt a fun little job tomorrow which may actually be a first here. It's certainly a first for me.
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Look out for some actual woodwork tomorrow! Yes I know. Unlikely, hey?........My back has gone, so I can't do brickwork or patio laying. After a couple of days resting I'm going to attempt a fun little job tomorrow which may actually be a first here. It's certainly a first for me.
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Mike G":ye1u5yuo said:
I was thinking about this the other day Mike. I reckon if whilst the stem is still green, you protect it with some pipe insulation, and pass it though the hole in a sort of zig-zag path and pack the rest of the hole with glass wool of similar then when the brown wood is formed, the stem should take on the right sort of shape to stay in the centre of the hole and gradually swell without chafing on the edges of the brickwork.
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Form work for some drainage gullies?
Bob
Bob
Tusses
Old Oak
looks like the 4 bits might come together to make a frame
Formwork to make some internal rounded corners for window frames?
Cheers
Mark
Cheers
Mark
Tusses
Old Oak
trying to get a scale .. maybe a form for the cap stones for the brickwork by the steps ?
Mike G
Petrified Pine
Bingo!
Yep, pier caps, in two parts, for the piers either side of the steps. This is all my back will let me accomplish at the moment.......
Only the edge will be seen......the coved section with the adjacent quirks. The clingfilm is just an idea to see if it helps with release from the mould. The concrete is white cement and sharp sand, in a very strong mix.
Yep, pier caps, in two parts, for the piers either side of the steps. This is all my back will let me accomplish at the moment.......
Only the edge will be seen......the coved section with the adjacent quirks. The clingfilm is just an idea to see if it helps with release from the mould. The concrete is white cement and sharp sand, in a very strong mix.