• 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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    Square of Thales

    V nice Andy.
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    Square of Thales

    Hello everyone, long time no see/speak. Justto reintorduce myself, @duke I think was making good ground on the shed upgrade. But then builder/fitter number one cancelled on me. All bathroom tiles, bath, sink etc already bought awaiting for his big day. Found bathroom fitter number 2 with a 50%...
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    OOPs and some.

    May it stay like this for you Cabinetman. I had looked after my license for a good 20 years as initially the plan had been to become a paramedic. Not sure if its linked, but after going from a 3.0L for years, and driving a 4.3 Lexus, I got so many points within a 3 year period. Sold that car...
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    OOPs and some.

    Sorry to hear about your mum. @Lons well done for coming to the rescue without delay. Its always nice to know that you have that one mate that you can shout 'HELP' and they'll be there! I once went to look after a client who was on some sort of a breathing tube (won't wat which) and managed...
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    Box I made from Mike Pekovich’s book

    Well done in using his book to make that. I looked at them areas of the book and decided it wasn't for me. Very good teacher nonetheless and I never realised the blue-tape method was an original from him (I learnt from others on here and the other place).
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Its true. I was thinking the bulk of the bricks would be on concrete slabs (side and back) and under these slabs I went deep down to the clay. The 8 slabs I've laid now are part of the garden and not for the shed. It might hang over via the roof!
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Thanks v much @Accipiter and regards that insulation. She asked me to make an offer (8 sheets, around 75mm thick celotex) and I said £100. Lots of wood they have given me for free and the brickettes to make my wall and a few to bury and get this level right... Anyway, for the paving slabs...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Anyway, gents. Everyone loves a good and successful picture... Did a quick pour water test and it seems I might just have gotten the levels right. Every lift was me feeling like I'm in a StrongMan competition though so had to be super careful!! Have also added some pf the spare mortar behind...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Thanks @Accipiter good info as always. I have access to some thick insulation (Celotex I think) which my sister did not use. I might ask him if I can buy the job lot off him and see about insulating from the outside and then possibly some sort of render. Overthinking it I know, but ever since...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    I Asked AI about building a single skin brick shed (well, a hybrid is what I'm thinking) but it seems to think I'll get condensation/damp risk! Surely a few vents should sorr that!
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    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    Kanaban. I'll remember that Rob as the depression at the back of mine is soon gonna interfere with the edge. I'd wondered what I'd do then and now you might have thrown some light on it!
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Conflicted! Do I start putting down some slabs to reduce the footprint of where the cats can do their business. Of do I use my head and go indoors and continue tomorrow... Hmmm Earlier
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Thanks Duke. So far so good. Alot of the stuff thats gone in the ground was recycled. Sharp sand and building sand all shop bought by me. There is a builders bag of sharp sand 10 miles away, but I'd rather not figure out how to move that in my small Toyota Estate. So certain things I'll just...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Haha. Thanks for the cats info @Accipiter but once the sand is all covered up we should be sorted. Am working on how to increase the food/berrys for birds without yoo many feeders so maybe I could kill/feed 2 birds with one stone. Once the shed/slabs are all sorted then I can work on 'whats...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Mud from the kids water pool retired back into area it came from (under the slabs, I think). About 6 rocks and loads of old bricks smashed (safety spec on, also had a massive rock-shimmy across the garden!!) and mingled into the top soil. Just next to the reatinign wall I used the smashed rocks...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Once I've got a decent level (about now) I'm gonna throw at least 8 of them concrete slabs back onto the sand that I've tried to retain with that weak 3 tier wall. Hoping I've overengineered enough that the water falls nicely away and not too much side pressure onto the wall. Yes, very tight...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Quick update as I sacrificed the mtb ride! I thought about it and knew it would say over time. So some side supports going in with makeshift rebar and gaps for drainage hopefully. MOT as the base hopefully helps drainage towards the grass too!!
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Here we go. After ages, finally I can see the inside of my cheap gorilla bucket (don't know why they stopped making em like the proper Gorilla buckets, must be happy to think we're all stupid). A few levels dotted around...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    So true. Thing is, I never even actually asked him. It was a ****ing forum and I opened up a 'off topic' thread about building a shed in brick. Plenty of helpful suggestions but he couldn't help chip in with 'you're incapable' or something like that. I just ignored it and never remarked back...
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