• 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!

Recent content by Norty Raskel

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    Bored, bored, bored...

    Mike, You could do some learning/training prior to your proposed boat build... Jon
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    Q for Mike - Workshop Foundations

    Hi Mike, You may remember this is my workshop, it was already here when I moved into the house and has served it's purpose. However, it's 6x3m, which leaves me with 2.8m internal working width which I find too restrictive. I'm planning to build a new workshop on the same site and utilise the...
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    The Orangerie - duff glass-fibre-coating REPAIRED

    Hi Roger, How's the orangerie progressing? I thought I'd highlight a problem I've come across with mine, in the hope that you can avoid the same issue. This is the state of my eaves closer, absolutely full of flies. When I put my seal along the eaves closer, I thought about putting a seal...
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    Self Build Orangery

    After what seemed like an eternity I finished painting the separate components and the lantern was finally ready to be permanently rebuilt on the roof. I had measured for the glass before disassembly and placed the order the week before, so on the Friday afternoon I took off from work to...
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    Self Build Orangery

    Hi Roger, I thought that must be what you were referring to, as I couldn't think of anything else. I made a block up to fit the end of the ridge, to make the joins of the rafters neater as they will be very much on show. I made one in softwood first to proof the concept And then made the...
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    Self Build Orangery

    Before I can knock down and remove that internal wall and the rest of the chimney breast in the kitchen I need to fit a new exterior door to what is currently my outside toilet, but will become the entrance to my utility room. I would like to fit the door to the inner leaf of the brick work...
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    Self Build Orangery

    I'm really not very good at these WIP postings. I'm sorry to say it's been 5 months since my last update. I'd all but given up on getting the EPDM on and the roof watertight before Xmas because of the incessant rain we had leading up to Christmas, Mike had advised not to fit the insulation and...
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    Self Build Orangery

    I really don't know how some of you find the time to write your excellent WIPs, by the time I've finished, often i the dark, I'm good for nothing else but hitting the sack. Anyway, today is the first day since the spring (and that horrible wet winter) that I'm not able to get out and do some...
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    Self Build Orangery

    Well after a seemingly never ending winter, I've lost count of how many days have been lost to torrential rain, or near sub zero temperatures, I've finally reached the milestone of finishing the facing bricks. The DPC gave me a little trouble, I had problems with water seeping from the mortar...
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    Self Build Orangery

    Happy New Year to everyone. Well I'm embarrassed to say 3 months have passed since the last update, and so little progress in that time. To bring you up to date, I left the foundations around a week to harden up and then did my best to clean off the slime that had formed on top. It was quite...
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    Self Build Orangery

    Well I can relax now, concrete is in, the torrential rain I could have done without though, everywhere is a disgusting mud bath. Unfortunately, the shuttering collapsed in the well, but I had rounded my quantities up to ensure I didn't run out so I had enough despite the collapse. A quick...
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    Self Build Orangery

    So having cleared the site, it was time to dig the footings, and here was my next cock-up. My poured foundations will finish 550mm below the finished floor level, add to the this the 1metre footing and had a did depth of 1550mm, time to get started. So I dug a 300mm wide trench alongside the...
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    Self Build Orangery

    Ok, next step was to take off the top of the "well" which sits right outside the back door. To call this a well is really stretching things a bit far, it's a concrete box in the ground which used to fill with rain water from one of the downpipes (this has long been diverted), but also nowadays...
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    Self Build Orangery

    Wow, I see the last post was February, how time flies. Time for an update, I've finally made a start on the orangery this week having booked a weeks holiday expressly to kick this project off. It's been delayed by months by a large koi pond build which has not only ran over in terms of time...
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    Self Build Orangery

    Mike, I'm not concerned with trashing the bathroom as we remove the roof, the bathroom floor is at a lower level than all the other floors upstairs because of the limited headroom due the concrete floor. This in turn means the ceiling in the utility room is lower than the current kitchen/dining...
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