• 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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    French holiday house

    I would have guessed La Maison de Bois but that's probably more referring to a wooden house 😁
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    French holiday house

    Haha, similarly I've found a cable that goes outside as if to an earth rod but not the rod! Not helped by the consumer unit being cartridge fuses and not MCBs, so there are definitely no 30mA RCDs that might save you're life. Bizarrely the Linky meter and main isolator are three phase devices...
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    French holiday house

    It's totally curious isn't it @Mike G ! The agent told us that it was built by the municipality at some point around 1910, so I don't think it was strictly agricultural although the huge opening was clearly for bringing in big things. I wondered about the central area being for horse&cart and...
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    French holiday house

    Thanks Dave :) Yes we bought everything in the house too. It was used a second home by a Parisienne family so has got everything we need to get up and running straight away - from kitchen utensils to bedding! Unfortunately they hadn't been there for a number of years it's all damp and musty, and...
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    French holiday house

    Thanks Steve. We're approaching it as a 10year renovation, during which time it'll be a holiday home - but I very much have dreams of moving there once the kids have left home. From what I've seen, and you've described, the process of getting visas to live there are just getting harder (which of...
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    French holiday house

    Necro-thread-revival! We've now completed on a lovely stone house in a pretty village in the Charente department (nearest medium size places are Ruffec and Mansle, nearest big place is Angouleme). We managed to find somewhere with a decent roof and is watertight. Second big benefit is that it's...
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    Oak Timber frame (and formally a Diminished stile door (markup and cutting the diminished part?))

    That's wonderful paving for something that will presumably never be visible once the suspended floor is in! Why not just leave it as the crusher run? Although having seen the rest of your attention to detail in the build I suspect the answer will just be that you wanted it done nicely for your...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    I’ve seen people use soil pipe as a simple box for long lengths. In fact it was one full of water for soaking and then another one for steaming.
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    Making sheaths for knives

    I've not used rivets before but when I've made sheaths I've included an extra strip of leather in between the front and back pieces so that the stiches are protected - I believe it's called a "welt". I think I'd use that with rivets too so that they can't blunt the blade.
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    A someone with a wonky table top can I make a suggestion that you flatten the areas where you expect each place setting to be? Trying to use knife and fork on a plate which is wobbling isn't an enjoyable experience 😆
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    That's really terrifying to have live plug pins like that, it could have very easily killed someone o_O Truly appalling that it was done by a "professional", if I was the home owner I'd be kicking up hell about it to the boiler installer.
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    Garlic press

    I used an ice cube tray to freeze portions of chopped garlic with a tiny dash of water. Worked very well and I made a few trays full. A month later using that same tray to make normal ice cubes lead to a pretty fowl tasting G&T though, so use a dedicated ice cube tray :LOL:
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    Aspiring woodworker - visit #2

    Brilliant Phil :love:. You never know what the seeds you're sowing will grow into. My grandad taught me how to solder by making little animal figures out of bent copper wire that we soldered together. It was an activity that we did once, for probably less than an hour, when I was maybe 8 - but I...
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    H&S. Cakes. Really?

    That's such a shame Steve, but not entirely surprising unfortunately. 20 years ago when I was at uni a group of us wanted to spend winter evenings giving out homemade hot soup to the many homeless people in the city. Someone thought we should check with the council who proceeded to put a huge...
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    01 steel and yew knife

    Thanks for the info Pete that sounds fun!
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    01 steel and yew knife

    A lovely sloyd knife there Pete! I really enjoy spoon carving :D How would one go about making a knife like this? I presume it's not forged from scratch?
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    A chair from one piece of wood

    Wow, that's incredible! Also very refreshing to see a youtube woodworking video that isn't an American in a giant workshop doing everything on a huge table saw. (not that there's a problem with those, just it's a saturated market)
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    Notre Dame - craftsmanship at it’s best

    I really enjoyed the BBC documentary on the rebuilding as the carpentry, using ancient techniques, is just a joy to see. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0016z46/rebuilding-notredame
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    Shower panels help please!

    That’s brilliant, thanks so much Andy! I couldn’t find those locally today but found an equivalent product in Wickes which have gone up very quickly and easily :)
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    Shower panels help please!

    I must admit that I’m slightly kicking myself for removing the old tiles as that is a legitimate installation method. But from where I’m at now it would be the same issue of adhesion with the tile adhesive on the old walls. A screwed-in backer board might be an option?
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