• 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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    Affinity Water - meter now activated conundrum

    When you talk to them, I'd leave out the theorising and stick to the absolutely concrete. You shut off the stopcock so that no water was flowing to your house, and your meter showed 310l of usage over six hours, with the stopcock closed. Your meter and stopcock are <distance> apart and you do...
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    Garden Table

    I found the video I was thinking of - he's doing through dovetails with one angled board, but the same principle applies here - start at 7:57.
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    Garden Table

    Definitely the first one, without the corner chopped off, for me. The tail in the second one just looks weird. Another thing I've seen done is to shift the tail angles just slightly, so that they're not quite identical relative to the edges, and not close to being identical relative to the...
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    Ever seen a consumer unit in a bathroom?

    As long as it's more than 60cm horizontally from a bath or shower, it's not outright illegal, but is certainly a questionable design. As it's an Airbnb one has to assume that was just the easiest place for the cheapest contractor to put it.
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    A new take on the PAUL SELLERS HAND CUT MORTISE JIG.

    In the interests of fairness - if you look a bit later in the video, around the 24 minute mark, you'll see he's using a Thor nylon-faced hammer. That's the only thing I've ever used to hit chisels with, and it does them no harm at all. He's not suggesting wailing on them with a clawhammer.
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    Shed Permitted Development Rights

    Permitted development for outbuildings is 50% of the original curtilage of the dwelling, and only applies within said curtilage. In your case it sounds like the question is where the local planning authority thinks is the boundary of the residential curtilage. Outside of that the agricultural...
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    Sources for green wood for some serious bending

    Using green or less-dried timber will no doubt be much easier, but Dave Engel of Engel's Coach Shop has several videos online on the subject of steam bending kiln-dried wood, predominantly Ash. According to him the trick is to steam it under pressure, and for several times longer than you would...
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    MS Outlook replacement

    Yep, if the requirement is for IMAP and/or POP, then Thunderbird is the answer. There's really no reason to use anything else unless you're part of a full corporate setup.
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    Single word complement to “scant”

    I've also heard 'a strong three quarters' for this purpose.
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    Mike's ext'n & renovation (solar panels)

    Generally speaking the MR stuff is green, while normal is the brown you're used to.
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    Permitted Development Rights

    That must be the famous American freedom that I keep hearing about at work.
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    eBay listings and bladed items

    You'd say that you had a good reason for carrying them, namely that you use them for work and were travelling to or from said work. They may argue with that if you were going out to lunch, as you could have left them at your work site with your other tools, but I can't see an officer having a...
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    Permitted Development Rights

    I think Windows has it; they're talking about the rule that all permitted development is relative to the original building (or the building in 1948) and you can't chain PD on top of PD to go beyond the limits. Either they've got confused about it or they've communicated it in a confusing way...
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    In-car navigation conundrum....

    We use this one, which clips into an air vent. It works pretty well.
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    Best alternative to Photoshop?

    Don't worry, this works the other way around too. My career has me about as deep into the details of the digital world as anyone you're likely to meet, and my cynicism towards the whole thing has also only been growing over time.
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    So after 20+ years it's Bye-Bye Zen

    If you're looking for a DSL option for the short term, A&A do monthly rolling contracts with no minimum term - the only tradeoff being an increased installation fee if you don't lock in. They're not the cheapest but are very good.
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    Australian word of the year, 2024

    Which is why the real benefit of this type of machine learning is on cases where humans don't know how to differentiate it - the radiology example is nice because it's easy for a layman to understand what's going on, but the really interesting cases are where we have all sorts of measurements...
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    I don't want to believe that this is true...

    It might be easier to persuade her to just keep the receipts from when she fills up and dump them on you at a convenient time, when you can transcribe it into the computer. Of course it's still a question of whether that's really the thing you want to spend your brownie points on.
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    Can you spot what went wrong?

    Mike's obviously the expert here, but I also can't see how the props would be the problem - the rafters can only slide down if the bottom ends are able to move away from the inside wall (whether because they're not tied properly, or the outside wall is moving, or some other reason), and if...
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    Mental Health benefit of woodwork

    And on the flip side, I'm still working 9-5 and will be for many years yet, but that work is all computer based and has little tangible product at the end of it. The ability to see something physically take shape in front of me is a huge counter to the sense of inevitable futility that easily...
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