• 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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    What I have fixed today

    Replaced the tap in a wash basin in our main bathroom. Simple enough except that my almost 80 yr joints did not appreciate laying on my back inside the vanity unit. As for covered drains, in my last UK home in Sussex the previous owner had placed a couple of paving slabs over a manhole, then...
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    Wedged M&Ts

    Can I pop in a supplementary question pls ? For exterior joinery, windows for example, do you prefer through tenons which expose end grain to the weather but simplify wedging, or fox wedging, trickier to do and probably less strong ?
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    Photo size?

    HEIF is a container, it can contain a jpg but also other formats such as video. When a HEIF container has HEVC coded info inside it, it is often called a HEIC format. Support of HEIC outside of the Apple world is quite limited at the moment. Taking web browsers as an example, as of...
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    Photo size?

    RAW files are proprietary to each camera maker, all different. Most web software does not accept them simply because there are so many. Stick to jpg, it's universal. As for file sizes, there is not much point in uploading big files, the screens you view them on are mostly roughly 2000px wide...
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    What I have fixed today

    Repaired screeching extractor fan in the bathroom ceiling. 10 mins to take it down in the dark (it comes on with the light) and remove the dead wasp. 10 mins more to put it all back. Quite satisfying.
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    I don’t like our new induction hob

    Nasty things, cant see what they are doing. Gas every time.
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    Goodbye to an old friend

    I have (sadly) parted company with my 29 year old 4x4. I bought it 3 yrs old in 1999 and we have since travelled over 300k km together. It still runs beautifully but my need for a 4x4 has steadily reduced and last year I did just 1500km in it, preferring the comfort of my modern car for most...
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    Best alternative to Photoshop?

    To return to the original question.... an alternative for Photoshop. Affinity Photo is really very good and a one-time purchase. I use it from time to time to keep up to date for teaching, but I dont use it regularly because I'm a paid up Adobe LR/PS user and while I could live with Affinity...
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    Routering trickery.....

    Router bushes as has been described above. You do need a very steady hand though as the smallest deviation from perfect contact with the template shows up as a gap. I've used mine to make and fit keys to stabilise splits in big boards.
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    Can you spot what went wrong?

    Forgive the lack of correct terms, but shouldn't the rafters be in contact with the transverse member ? It doesnt do much good otherwise...
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    Anyone ever seen a polecat?

    Translation of the various names polecat, stoat, weasel etc into french is a bit vague, but the critter that killed several of my neighbour's chickens before we trapped it was identified as a Fouine here. We also get Martres, which are translated by Google as Pine Martens.
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    I don't want to believe that this is true...

    Yes and no... Mine is wildly optimistic, it reports 5.6l/100km averaged over several months but if I compare fuel purchase with km driven I get more like 6.5.
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    Needed another off cut storage bin.

    Having filled two large bins and observed that nothing much ever comes out of the off-cuts bins, I now use the BBQ. Hard woods burn quite slowly and with a small layer of charcoal on top of the ashes I can cook most of the stuff I want.
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    Omelette theory

    No-one has mentioned the eggs. Not all eggs are the same ! We keep chickens and when, rarely, we dont have enough eggs and have to buy some, the difference is awful. Better still are goose eggs, they have a higher proportion of yolk to white. Sadly I no longer have space for geese and I...
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    Fixing conundrum

    Hiding the fixing seems to mean doubtful strength in this case. I'm voting for chunky rivets and making a feature of them.
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