• 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!

Trimble Towers Workshop - Fitting out begins...

I had a play a few days back and was impressed on how easy it is to load images. Lees impressed by the way it handles PMs.
 
Andyp":2fnu47kr said:
I had a play a few days back and was impressed on how easy it is to load images. Lees impressed by the way it handles PMs.
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But that's not TT's fault, that's because you have chosen to implement folders in your PM's. TT is a generic forum reader, not phpBB specific. I'm sure they could add that feature in if requested but I imagine other than you and I there's only a small % of the population who implement folders.

Cheers
Mark
 
ScotlandtheDave":3t02pjc0 said:
Yep, reading this on TT now and it's an invaluable app!
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Dave, Not having used TT I don't know what is offers apart from its ability to host photos which is handy in the current climate. In what way does it score over a normal browser to make it invaluable to you?

I view forums on PC as well as iphone. Is there a PC version?

TIA
Bob
 
9fingers":1830g0lr said:
...In what way does it score over a normal browser to make it invaluable to you?

I view forums on PC as well as iphone. Is there a PC version?

TIA
Bob
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For me, just that it's much less fiddly than using a browser when using on the iPhone on the move. No having to zoom in to see the icons etc as it's laid out to the screen size. Other than that there's no functionality benefits and I wouldn't us it over the browser on my Mac when sat in front of my machine.

Cheers
Mark
 
Plasterboard panel lifter ordered. It's £100 to buy and £70+vat to hire so I'll buy and sell afterwards.

Just too hard getting the panels up to the ceiling height, held and screwed even with two people. Need 3 ideally but getting 3 people together at a time is proving difficult so bullet bitten. Hopefully arrives before weekend at which point I expect to complete the ceiling boarding in minutes... :D

Cheers
Mark
 
A good decision Mark - I borrowed a friends who'd bought it for his improvements sometime ago. Made light work of the lifting. Friend sold it on for more than he'd paid for it!

Rod
 
9fingers":1znob013 said:
Dave, Not having used TT I don't know what is offers apart from its ability to host photos which is handy in the current climate. In what way does it score over a normal browser to make it invaluable to you?
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Sorry for the late reply Bob, i missed the notification, which is somewhat ironic given what i'm about to say :)

For me, TT allows me to group clusters of forum posts from multiple forums (fora?) under one application. I can sign into the forum once via TT and browse the whole thing, subscribing to threads, or whole sub sections (to catch new posts) of interest.

The interface gives a phone-readable format which for some sites is a real bonus if they dont scale to phone displays well. It displays images well and allows me to reply to posts and link images, although habitually i used a 3rd party hosting for "real" posts and I doubt i'd post anything significant from it because typing on a KB is always easier. I think its great for keeping up to date with a thread bit by bit, rather than trawling 30+ posts of an evening.

The notifications are a big bonus too. In the time i've been typing this i've noted that Mike has updated his post and Andyp has commented on it and last week i was alerted to an incoming price drop on a TV i was looking at, so waiting another 12 hours netted close to £600 off the cost :)

I'm typing this post on a Chrome browser, so dont use it all the time, but for keeping up to date with posts on the go its a great help.

Sorry the reply was so late!

Cheers
 
Thanks Dave
Some interesting points there but I already get notifications by email which gives me a list of things to keep up with. Given I mainly use a PC to view forums I feel tt would not give me much advantage. Viewing in the same way on all platforms seems easier to me

Thanks for your time responding
Bob
 
stephen.wood125":13fzz04i said:
Fiddlesticks! I'm sorry Mark!
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Not a problem mate, that's life. ;)

Had a quick setup and bash last night, because I'm putting the boards up vertically not horizontally this still isn't the whole answer because it's designed with all the additional supports for a horizontal board. When the board is mount upright it wants to fall backwards which isn't ideal so still need two people.

That being said, it only took SWMBO and I 15 mins to mount a board and get it into position and screwed in place, without any of the backbreaking of previous, so it will do the trick.

I'm off playing golf in Wales for the weekend for my mates 40th so will try and get some done this afternoon if possible, and tomorrow morning, otherwise it will be next week now, dammit!

Cheers
Mark
 
So I'm getting sick of myself and my bloody procrastination, and so is my mate!

He called me up Tuesday and said "When are we getting this workshop of yours finished so I can have a play in it? I'm off on Thursday, get the day off and we'll get it sorted!"

So, here we are. I can't get the full day off but I've booked off from 1pm and not just one but 2 mates are heading over to get the ceiling finished and any other bits we can between us. Yay!

Expect pictures and excitement later this evening...

Cheers
Mark
 
What was the problem with fitting the boards vertically ? I'm missing something. I can understand the need for a lifter for the ceiling but the walls ?

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Nah, he's still working out which way up to put it :lol:
 
You are a cheeky young bunch of pups!

So I started later than planned because of a work issue.

Started at 2 and in 45 mins we had put up one board, removed 2 boards of 50mm insulation, retrofitted the table straps I had forgotten...and put the insulation back.

Then had to break to go and get kids from school. Back at it at 3:30 and have another 3 boards up by 5:30 when mate had to leave.

Logistics of moving piles of crap from one place to another added time into it but I feel like we've made a bit of progress and will get some more done tomorrow.

Not quite as much as I had hoped but nothing went easily so I'll take this as progress.

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Cheers
Mark
 
Not long before you'll be slapping a bit of paint on there mush! :D

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Got another board up with SWMBO's help last night and my mate is coming round over the weekend to see if we can't finish off the ceilings...

He is a Chief Inspector but in his previous life was a time served sparky so is going to sort out all my 'lectrics so will be scoping that out and writing me a shopping list. Any 'must have's' for me...?

Cheers
Mark
 
TrimTheKing":3skcd07u said:
Got another board up with SWMBO's help last night and my mate is coming round over the weekend to see if we can't finish off the ceilings...

He is a Chief Inspector but in his previous life was a time served sparky so is going to sort out all my 'lectrics so will be scoping that out and writing me a shopping list. Any 'must have's' for me...?

Cheers
Mark
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Plenty of sockets on a ring (your requirements x2)... A sepertate circuit for electric heaters

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I ran all my electics in conduits, so they're not too tricky to edit. I ran a spur off the ring to a socket on the ceiling to supply an air filter.

I have a raised timber floor, if this is an option then there's scope to run a few to services in the middle of the room ?

I found the grizzly.com workshop planner really useful at this stage for layout working. Shame it's in... Imperial [emoji3]

http://www.grizzly.com/workshopplanner

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Try and split the lighting across two different circuits so that if something trips a circuit in the workshop, you are not plunged into darkness as well.
Consider connecting a battery charging station to one lighting circuit and a separate isolator for everything else so you can kill all the power in the shop apart from half the lights and battery charging (and alarms) when you leave the shop.

Bob
 
Cheers chaps, good ideas.

Andy - I gave up counting months ago... [emoji6]

All external work finished now (I bedded in and pointed up the window cills last week) and old window frames stripped back and primed.

I’m back in work on the 2nd but have a few days of carry over holiday to take so I’m having the 4/5th off then a few more days towards the end of Jan and agreed with SWMBO that those days are 100% workshop dedicated to try and get things sorted.

I wanted the 2nd week of Jan but I’m on a training course in London for 3 days so timing didn’t work.

Cheers
Mark


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