• 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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    Workshop strip foundation

    If that's a difficult decision to make, it sounds like it might be worth just going for planning permission and not being constrained by the limits of PD. You only need to be one metre from the boundary to maintain the building regulations exemption, which is the one that will really save you...
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    Workshop strip foundation

    Permitted development means it doesn't need planning permission. Whether building control is required is a separate question that mostly hinges on the final internal floor area and distance to a boundary.
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    JK cabinet with a 'V' door

    Just to take the idea to its logical overkill conclusion, if the core is never going to be seen then you could in fact make it entirely from stacked plywood sections in the same orientation as those splines. Or, for a less extreme version of the same principle, you could make 4-5 sections the...
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    Can we create polls on the forum ?

    With repeat prescriptions, every time you need a refill you have to ask the surgery to issue a new prescription, which they'll take a day or two to do and send to the pharmacy before you can pick it up. They'll generally have a repeat prescriptions team and won't make the individual GPs do it...
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    Well this is a bummer.

    I've never not been able to get an early morning check in to a hotel, usually after an overnight flight. I've usually had to pay for the previous night, either half rate or in full, in order to get it. It's a situation that online booking systems struggle with, but hotel staff can almost always...
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    My Favourite Sandwich - Yes a lame post.

    I was baffled for a moment trying to work out marmite and barbecue sauce.
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    I'd say a majority of the jobs I've had done were fixed price, with it changing only where we changed the scope of work (by mutual agreement) part way through. Sometimes it has been caveated though - e.g. when I had the consumer unit replaced, it was an EICR on day 1 and the actual change on...
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    They're useful, and I have all of those in addition to the expensive MFT, but they're not really sufficient on their own. The short version is that they can tell you something is wrong, but not that it's definitely right. There are plenty of faults that the cheaper equipment just can't detect...
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    The honest answer to "why not?" is because the equipment you need to do it properly costs more than an electrician does for a job like this. The absolute minimum you'd need to do things properly and safely would be a safe isolation kit to reliably prove that the circuit's dead before working on...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    'Tempora' is plural; the singular is 'tempus'. The -a ending is often a first declension singular suffix, but in this case it's a third declension plural. Here's the full table. But Malc is right that it should be 'tempora bona', because the neuter plural form of bonus is bona.
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    Chairs - Done!

    I'll agree with Mike, unsurprisingly, and add that to address the against-the-grain problems you can do your initial waste removal down to depth with masking tape wrapped around the guide bearing. That will take you a fraction away from the final line, and then when you remove the tape you'll...
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    Cordless battery adapters - any good?

    Al's point about different battery protection systems is the main thing you need to be aware of if you're doing this, and is also the reason why opinions on the Internet are so polarised about it. People that say they've been doing it for years with no problems are either using a combination...
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    I don’t like our new induction hob

    Induction is more efficient than ceramic at any power output. The internet quotes 'up to 50%' in several places but I haven't got a primary source for that number. Regardless of exactly by how much, the induction cooker is doing a lot less work; it heats the pan directly whereas the ceramic hob...
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    Name the date - 15%, dry enough to paint

    They work well enough for what they're designed to do, which is measuring moisture content of untreated timber. The damp proofing industry mis-using them on completely unrelated materials for which they have no chance of ever working is definitely a problem, and if you ever see someone sticking...
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    I don’t like our new induction hob

    Those power ratings are the maximum it's capable of putting out, but you very rarely run an induction top at full power for long. If, to exaggerate the numbers a bit, the power output is 20% higher but it boils the pan of water in half the time, you've spent 60% of the energy to do it. Most of...
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    Saw blades

    If I'm using my crosscut sled on thin material, I have the blade an inch or more above the top of the cut, so that the fence of the sled can pass under the guard. It works perfectly well. I also don't generally bother adjusting the blade height between cuts if I'm running different thicknesses...
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    I don’t like our new induction hob

    Yes, the touch controls are the worst thing about it. Especially when you have cats that like to walk on them, so you have to keep the child lock on at all times despite not having children.
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    I don’t like our new induction hob

    I've been on induction for the last three months, after having had gas for the previous nine years and old-school electric before that. After changing out a few pans, there was a while of having to re-learn what power level and time everything required, and to be honest I'm still not finished...
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    Saw blades

    And the counterpoint: when cutting thin materials, having the blade set lower means that the teeth exit the cut at a shallower angle, which can reduce breakout on the back of the cut when cutting things like plywood across the grain of the face veneers. Personally, I set it low (somewhere...
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    New garage shop

    For acoustic dampening, you want it to be as heavy as possible. Thermal insulation is generally as light as possible, and wouldn't have the same effect at all.
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