• 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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    Oak Sleeper Raised Beds

    Hi all, I'm looking to build some raised beds for the veg in the garden to replace the flimsy ones I did 12 years ago. I want something that looks quite solid and structural so was thinking of using oak sleepers as, despite the painful cost, they will hopefully last as long as might want them...
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    Anyone make yoghurt?

    My wife, daughter and I all have a bowl of fruit, yoghurt and kefir for breakfast each day which means we get through a lot of yoghurt, so my wife bought a yoghurt maker for us to try. Turns out you put a load of warm milk in it with a starter amount of bought yoghurt (at least to start with)...
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    Shower panels help please!

    Hi all, I’m looking to install some bathroom wall panels as part of a renovation I’m doing. I’ve removed the old tiles but the wall is in a really poor state. The panels are designed to be glued to the wall with a fancy adhesive but any tips on how to prepare this crumbling plaster so that the...
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    French holiday house

    A colleague of my wife was telling her about some houses for sale in the French village that his family is from and from some initial looking it appears that it would be financially possible for us to buy one. Probably somewhere near Limoge, and at the moment it would be a holiday home but maybe...
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    Advice to make this shelf strong enough?

    I’d like to make a few shelves for storing and displaying records. After a bit of Googling I’ve found these two types on Etsy, and I’m going for a width of two or three records. What would be your suggestions for making them strong enough? Surely just glue wouldn’t be enough? Is there a way to...
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    Porch insulation

    Hi everyone, just after a sense check here. I've got an existing single skin brick porch on the back of my house. I've recently had the old single-pane windows replaced with double glazing which has definitely stopped the room being quite so cold and draughty. I'm keen to next this the next step...
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    Long garden and hose pipe pressure

    Hi folks, I'm hoping some of you expert gardeners and clever people might be able to help. My garden is quite long with the veg beds at the far end so at the moment I'm using a 50m Hozelock Ultramax 12.5mm diameter hose but the water pressure at the end is a bit disappointing and makes watering...
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    Do I need an architect?

    Hi folks, We've lived in our house for 12 years now and have recently been considering moving house. The process of looking round other places has reminded us of what we love about our current place but I feel like we need to do some work to get a bit more space and maybe work on how best to use...
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    Tower Scaffolding

    Hi folks, I’ve got a tall leylandi hedge that I regularly need to trim the top of so I’m thinking of getting a tower scaffold as doing it from a ladder makes an awful job even worse! I was also thinking that it would help me with various other DIY jobs like cleaning gutters and repainting...
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    Workshop Roof help please

    I'm in need of help please folks, and its something I know nothing about! The roof of my garage which I use as a workshop has a couple of issues. I think it's 100+ years old and I think at one point it was used for livestock of some variety (judging by markings in the concrete floor that appear...
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    Radiator help needed

    You fine woodworking folk seem to know a considerable amount about all things building&houses etc so I thought I'd ask you for some central heating assistance please! I've got a single pesky radiator that won't get hot! I've cleaned it out so there's not sludge in it, and it re-filled absolutely...
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    Time to say hello

    Hi good folks of WH2, I've been a member here since February and only just noticed that I've never actually made a post :oops: I've already learnt an awful lot though, and even made it the whole way through Mike's epic house build thread :shock: Is there anyone else here from the York area? Tim
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