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Not so much a 'build' as a 'choose one and fit it out'

Spectric said:
Yes John Boddys has long gone and is now a builders merchants. You do ask yourself what went wrong, to expensive or people just did not want the quality.
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A place I dropped in to every time I passed. We were just talking about them on Friday coming back from Harrogate show. There are few places anywhere near now.
 
Shows how fortunate I am as I've a hardwood timber company about 15 minutes away from me... one I worked for before being made redundant back in August 1992.

Not a patch on what it was when I worked for them back then. Not only sold fresh sawn green oak, kiln dried T&T waney edge English hardwoods but also imported hardwood and exotic, craft supplies etc. They still have a Royal Warrant as they make/sold/sell gates and fencing to the Royal estates.

I don't visit it as much as I should but they don't have the choices they used to have. Yandles is probably the closest to what it then was - and seen as a competitor back then.
 
Accipiter said:
Shows how fortunate I am as I've a hardwood timber company about 15 minutes away from me... one I worked for before being made redundant back in August 1992.

Not a patch on what it was when I worked for them back then. Not only sold fresh sawn green oak, kiln dried T&T waney edge English hardwoods but also imported hardwood and exotic, craft supplies etc. They still have a Royal Warrant as they make/sold/sell gates and fencing to the Royal estates.

I don't visit it as much as I should but they don't have the choices they used to have. Yandles is probably the closest to what it then was - and seen as a competitor back then.
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Where is it Frank?
 
Spectric said:
Yes John Boddys has long gone and is now a builders merchants. You do ask yourself what went wrong, to expensive or people just did not want the quality.
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Neither, Associated Timber Services bought out Boddys & in less than a couple of years ATS went bust, if the rumour factory is to be believed it was nothing to do with the Boddys site.
It did me a good turn as I secured a pallet of sweet Chestnut in the subsequent auction of stock at their Honey Pot Lane site at Colsterworth, 10 years ago now.
 
RogerS said:
Oak-bloody-FurnitureLand
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People are no longer individuals who appreciate quality or uniqueness and MFI was just the start. Now you get stuff from places like Wren and Oak FurnitureLand which is really just crap for the masses. Oak Furniture Land is a bad description as I think they spray Oak scent onto the stuff to make it smell like Oak because the actual oak is like venner, it is so flimbsy.
 
Spectric said:
Yes John Boddys has long gone and is now a builders merchants. You do ask yourself what went wrong, to expensive or people just did not want the quality.
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As I understand it, and I may be wrong, is that it was sold and then asset-stripped. It was a fantastic place, with an excellent reputation, so such a shame.
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Now we hear that Arnold Laver has gone into administration so if companies like Oak furniture land are buying in cheap stuff to resell that is made abroad and we are making less furniture in the UK then our own suppliers of wood are losing manufacturing customers.
 
Spectric said:
Now we hear that Arnold Laver has gone into administration so if companies like Oak furniture land are buying in cheap stuff to resell that is made abroad and we are making less furniture in the UK then our own suppliers of wood are losing manufacturing customers.
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I suspect that the customers for bespoke furniture etc are drying up at the moment. The high and medium-high end property sales in London, for example, have totally stalled for many reasons. Only recently one of the leading suppliers of quality tiles has gone into receivership.
 
I was in the garage today and was surprised to see serious condensation on the outsides of two freezers inside.

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Never ever seen that at our previous house. As I mentioned before, the garage is very damp and cardboard boxes disintegrate. I'm thinking that better (there is none) ventilation will help. I can lay my hands on a pretty fearsome fan but would need to knock two holes - one to let air in and the other , let it out.

Assuming my thinking is correct, should the fan suck out or blow in ?
 
I can't comment on your garage Roger but from a distance my guess would be ventilation however there could be other issues to consider along side that.

Donkeys years ago my inlaws bought a retirement bungalow, high spec built by a small local developer. FiL boasted about how much insulation was in the loft, well above regs at that time. He rang me up one day saying his roof was leaking and could I have a look. His roof was watertight, the builder had installed glassfibre between the rafters below the felt and tiles and the whole loft was dripping with condensation.
I fitted air vents in three gable ends providing a throughflow of air and the problem disappeared.
 
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Just a suggestion - if you've not already done something. Give a bathroom type ventilation extractor fan a try.

I'd a bit of an (unknown/realised) issue in the back storage area of my workshop... most likely because of all the stuff I'd got stuffed in there so a lack of air circulation even with a small window slightly open. Came across it this spring... when starting to resurrect the workshop area (from the dumping ground it had become... long story).

I needed to partially empty the back area to sort something. Noticed the storage rack/shelving on top of the old kitchen units worktop were sagging in the middle and leaning forward. I discovered a good build-up of white mould under the worktop and internally of the units - they were collapsing under the weight that they'd supported for the past 10+ years... had to be a lack of air circulation and build up of dampness in the old units.

Cutting short - emptied out to dispose of the units and built in a support frame as I removed the units - not able to empty the top shelving - hoovering off the mould and treating as I went... caught pneumonia from doing the work even with wearing masks - set me back somewhat with the workshop resurrection.

Although the back area is still a storage/dumping area I've got a bathroom extractor fan running close to the underneath of the worktop area to drag the air in that room out through the small window via some extractor tubing...

Apologies... probably longer than needed but felt I should give some explanation for why I put forward the bathroom extractor fan 🙏. Obviously you need to find a reason for all the condensation you're getting. Possibly the freezers aren't helping - but not the cause.
 
I now have a fan and need to get it fitted ASAP. I went to use my trusty bandsaw today. In two months in this rancid, damp hellhole the blade had rusted, there was mould on the sawdust inside the cover and a tremendous amount of crud on the wheels. Completely unusable at this moment in time and I need it.

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Anyone got any Semtex I can have ?
 
Jeez... where abouts are you in your "pastures new" @RogerS ? Some swamp lands down this way?

Ive had my own issues with that sort of mould, discovered around May time this year under and inside of some old kitchen units I'd put down in the back workshop 'storage' area a few years back. I'm certain that's why I got pneumonia... in my efforts to clean up and dispose of the old base units.

I've a bathroom extractor fan going 24/7 to keep the air moving down in that area - unable to check if it's working/worked because of the stuff I've had to put back in there. Slowly whittling it down as I continue using the old offcuts from different sheet material.

Dehumidifier/s - even if those cheap throwaway box type ones - and extractor fan/s...

Wish you well in resolving this - soon🤞🙏
 
Yes mold isn’t fun at all, and as Frank said it can cause real lung problems. The rust on the blade, probably the easiest way to remove it is to cut some wood! Also the sawdust produced will help soak up some of the moisture in the saw till times are better and you can strip it down and get it sorted.
It’s heartbreaking though as I know to see your equipment deteriorating, I’m in the same boat with my new Combination mc, no point doing much except keep spraying it with WD40 till the workshop is dry and warm.
 
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