• 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)

Thanks guys. I remember a rather indelicate expression from my youth which referenced "chapel hat-pegs", and believe I may have produced a similar look here. They'll look so much better when the porch is properly paneled and plastered.
 
I am pleased they look so good fitted. The challenge for me was turning them all the same, makes me relise skill of a production turner, being able to quickly produce lots of multiple copies of the job.
 
Mike G":118f80bu said:
Thanks guys. I remember a rather indelicate expression from my youth which referenced "chapel hat-pegs", and believe I may have produced a similar look here. They'll look so much better when the porch is properly paneled and plastered.
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It’s getting to that time of year again where ‘chapel hat pegs’ will be regularly visible in the wild...
 
TrimTheKing":1wljy981 said:
Mike G":1wljy981 said:
Thanks guys. I remember a rather indelicate expression from my youth which referenced "chapel hat-pegs", and believe I may have produced a similar look here. They'll look so much better when the porch is properly paneled and plastered.
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It’s getting to that time of year again where ‘chapel hat pegs’ will be regularly visible in the wild...
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True but ones to match the size and style of Mike's would be outstanding and worth seeing in the wild or domestically tamed! :lol:

Bob
 
9fingers":3m7yozs3 said:
TrimTheKing":3m7yozs3 said:
Mike G":3m7yozs3 said:
Thanks guys. I remember a rather indelicate expression from my youth which referenced "chapel hat-pegs", and believe I may have produced a similar look here. They'll look so much better when the porch is properly paneled and plastered.
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It’s getting to that time of year again where ‘chapel hat pegs’ will be regularly visible in the wild...
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True but ones to match the size and style of Mike's would be outstanding and worth seeing in the wild or domestically tamed! :lol:

Bob
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Indeed they would be a sight to behold!!
 
Phil":1adsw8q5 said:
Malc2098":1adsw8q5 said:
There you go. You boys are getting smutty again! :eusa-naughty:
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With winter up North you should be seeing a lot of spotlights :lol:
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Used to be called Foden push starts down here!
 
For three years now the kitchen has been open to the hall, and with a couple of spare days available, I thought I would begin the infill process. This is the oak screen which forms the kitchen wall (and holds up the extension). I'd already battened the openings when I remembered to grab my camera:

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Those openings were pretty regular when I built the framing, but vary a lot now. One of the openings is 15mm wider at the top than the bottom, for instance. To make life a bit easier, I decided to cut some oak faced ply as a permanent template, so to speak, by trimming them to fit the openings exactly:

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I then took that into the workshop, where I found some off-cuts from my collection:

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I cut these roughly to length and planed up a face, having worked out my cutting list:

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Then using this:

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and this:

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I ended up with these (12 x 40 x varies):

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I then cut and carefully marked the outer frames to suit each opening, pinned them in place and adjusted in situ with a block plane. I then cut the intermediate pieces and fitted it all together, dry:

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That entailed lots of fine tuning using the shooting board:

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You'll all know by now the importance I attach to stopped chamfers, so you won't be surprised that they're next on the agenda:

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After a lot of cleaning up, another dry fit:

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Finally, it was glue up time, then cleaning up, and finishing with a couple of coats of water-based lacquer before fixing them in place from behind:

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They go nicely with the front door, which will remain in view even when the rest of the wall is complete (it will be glazed with leaded lights):

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She did. Her bed used to be in the corner there, where the pot plant is now.
 
Love the lock Mike! Using steel from the wheelbarrow to make those straps is so creative - brilliant stuff!

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I'm experiencing creative withdrawals when seeing these creative projects.
 
Ever since I built the porch, it has looked like this inside:

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I decided it was time to make this a bit more presentable. This means insulation and lining the inside, ready for plastering. First up, battens all around the sides of each panel, set C.15mm back to allow for the plasterboard and plaster thickness:

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Next, cut the insulation to size, and push it into place:

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To be very clear, this porch is isolated from the house thermally, in that there is an insulated wall and door between the porch and the heated part of the house. The porch remains unheated. So the insulation doesn't really have much of a heat retention purpose. I's main purpose is avoid having unventilated voids, which are to be avoided whenever possible.

Next came plasterboard:

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Before I could plasterboard the ceiling, I needed to support the house end of the oak ridge beam, which is structural, and was only on a temporary support. I made this:

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I hate having that much sap wood in anything made of oak, but I only have scraps of construction oak left, so I didn't have much choice. Here it is in place above the door:

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This enabled the fitting of the ceiling plasterboard, which isn't easy to photograph:

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This whole project has been fantastic to follow I can’t wait to see what you do next :lol: although I hope a break is first on your list.
 
A break? I'm cycling a thousand miles down to northern Spain in the summer, if that's what you mean. In the meantime, too much drawing, too little workshop time.
 
Hi Mike,

What thickness of wood wool board did you use on the porch, 15 or 25mm?

I'm envious of your Spain trip, I haven't been on a tour since our Sweden trip in 2015, I've just been too busy on the house.

PS could you check your spam, I sent you an e-mail the other day

Cheers
Jon
 
I replied to it, Jon. You might check your spam. ;)

15mm, BTW.
 
I have news. Exciting news. Shed news......

My neighbour in our old house used to call me Mike Fivesheds. I am thrilled to report that we are now back up to that minimum quota. Unfortunately, due to camera issues, I don't have much to show of the construction of the potting shed. You'll recall that last we saw of it it looked like this:

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Well, that spine wall went up and up and up. Whenever I had a spare day I'd go and lay a few more bricks or blocks. Once it got vulnerable to the wind I built a 3x2 frame to brace it, and eventually when it got to full height, I bolted on a plate and made a roof of 6x2s:

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Ooooh, look at that wedged scarf!!!

As luck would have it, I was involved as project architect in the re-roofing of my local pub. The old roof was stripped, and some post war concrete plain tiles were going to be chucked out. They were in good order, and nicely weathered, so I snaffled a couple of thousand of them. They look pretty good on the potting shed roof, I reckon:

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The windows are saved from the house (they're 1960s softwood), and the part-glazed oak door is the old back door of the house. One of the windows needed a a new cill and a scarf to repair a mullion:

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I haven't quite finished lining the inside, and my wife has moved in already:

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And that's not it!! In other exciting shed news, with hundreds of tiles left over after doing the potting shed I decided to re-roof this beauty:

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That was a bit of an emergency overspill shed I built when I had to move my tools out of the house last year. I stuck a quick mono-pitch roof on it and left it unfinished. Well.....

Off with the old:

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Some 4x2 rafters and a 6x2 ridgebeam:

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Membrane and battens:

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And hey presto, a new roof:

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The feather-edge boards sit in a pile awaiting painting, so this will soon be finished.

You'll all be thrilled to hear that I am putting the final touches to a planning application for 3 more sheds (being on former agricultural land, they don't come under Permitted Developments), and one of the existing sheds will be demounted and moved to form a chicken coop. I will then be Mike Eightsheds and life will be complete. :lol:
 
Thanks for the nice posting Mike! Surely you are into sheds big time and with style! Out of curiosity, what type of fruit are growing on the tree in some of these recent pictures? Oh, and I have to ask, what is the status of your braaiing facility?
Best regards from SA.
 
Hi Carel, good to hear from you.

We have 4 or 5 types of plum here. The small ones near the smaller shed are known locally as "bullus", an ancient and semi-wild ancestor of modern plums. Makes great jam. The bigger ones on the bigger tree by the potting shed are green gauges, the most delicious of all the plum family in my view. They make great eating straight from the tree.
 
8 sheds [emoji23]...I clearly need more sheds!

Love the potting shed green feather board, excuse me from (most likely) being behind... Is the other side the green house?

Mike, you have so many projects ticking over, I don't know how you juggle it...I can only imagine that some day they will all come into glorious alignment... Or perhaps they'll be another shed

Great stuff as ever, Jim

Sent from my Moto G (5) using Tapatalk
 
Jimmy Mack":f1iapqrd said:
8 sheds [emoji23]...I clearly need more sheds!
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I simply can't fathom how anyone can manage without 8 sheds. There is the workshop, of course, and a separate store shed (the one I've just re-roofed). The new potting shed is backed up by the mower shed, which will also have the bigger garden tools. It is currently the bike shed, but there will soon be a new one of those. The current garden shed will be moved to form a chicken shed. The new outbuildings proposed include a garage, a firewood store, and the new bike shed I mentioned. The garage will have a bin store as a lean-to.

Love the potting shed green feather board, excuse me from (most likely) being behind... Is the other side the green house?
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Exactly that. I'm going to be checking on western red cedar prices this morning so that I can make the frame for the glasshouse over the winter.

Mike, you have so many projects ticking over, I don't know how you juggle it...I can only imagine that some day they will all come into glorious alignment...
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I certainly hope not. I wouldn't have anything to do!! :)
 
Catching up on some photos from before my ride to Spain...

The utility room has been a nightmare dumping ground for far too long, so I set about sorting it out. I bought some PAR, some ply, and some paint. Firstly, the frame (proper joints, you'll note):

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The panels are just bridle-jointed 3x1s with 6mm ply panels:

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It's a narrow room, so this is the best I can do for a photo, I'm afraid. Here it is with 3 coats of Bedec MSP:

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Spot the cock-up:

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This cupboard won't have the mops etc when I've done the understairs cupboard (which of course has to wait until I actually have some stairs....):

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The wellie drawer neatly holds 4 pairs. Great through the summer when they're not in use:

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The airing cupboard above the boiler. Access to the boiler is via the panel below, which is removable:

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The seat and back panel with coat hooks:

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The latter hides a little secret:

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It's pivoted rather than hinged so that the coats don't have to be removed to open it:

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