• 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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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    That was the famous last words a out that corner btw. Just spent the last 30 min quid trying to get that corner squared and to the correct level from one line to the next wall!! Haha, should have taken heed when a certain brickie (bit arrogant if you ask me) told me I was incapable of...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Nah I never did know that, and even if I did, thanks in both cases. I think I half managed to figure that out a touch by kinda starting the corner where the fence is. Other side isn't a corner but just a drop and meld (is that a word) into the grass verge. I just checked the level and I think...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Yup, drive blocks Lons. My sister had them removed after the bathroom downstairs has been built. So using them as my introduction to bricklaying. I used some proper bricks inside before this but that was only a total of 6 or 7 in 2 tiers, so not much learning really.
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Slow n steady wins the race. Whilst I might not be good at bricklaying, I have started tier 3 and figured out my natural (maximum as I can get it) drainage strategy of having the fall towards my garden open straight to the soil. As you can see the holes have been bodged in there with the last...
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    Nervous about Surgeon

    Good outcome that, well done on persevering and standing your ground. They don't do it on purpose some surgeons/doctors. I always think of it as they have been through rigorous training for so many years that the social skills side of things is sometimes a bit lacking. Thankfully lately new...
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    Record temps

    Thats amazing thanks for sharing @Accipiter Our cat (a beautiful Russian blue) only gets the very best food but not lots of it. She has to come enter the house (through an upstairs window) using leaps; jumps with maybe a somersault thrown in. Our street is full of cats of which we appreciate...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    I shoved some old hosepipe at the joints @Lons costing me zero and hopefully works. More pics tomorrow after adding a bit more bricks with my plan of ok drainage to the side!
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    Make a workshop knife from a reciprocating saw blade.

    V nice thanks Duke.
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    What I have fixed today

    ... and just like that it was brought back into action. Thanks for sharing that @fuse. My first petrol lawnmower (I think a Mountfield, well used and second hand to me) years ago had a Honda or Briggs engine. I could never figure out (well, I needed a way to get under it, but that wasn't...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    I was thinking to just drill some holes through the mortar. Its not even a building but the retaining wall to level the slabs in front of the front-extension. Like BingyMan said on UKW, I'm maybe overthinking it... Anyway, just a few more mins of progress, but progress is progress! Yesterday...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    All advice is good advice (so most welcomed). I have exp as a 10 year old when my dad ordered x amount of tonnes to level the garden front and back. Dab and slide with a long stick AFAIR.. But it was 38 years ago!
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    After getting some actual woodworking out of my system yesterday (more to come today with some jointing with full missus approval as its for her cabinet thing), thought I'd start pouring in some more concrete to keep out the nieghbours fridge... and bits and weedings. Somewhere here between...
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    Bird feed holder shelter

    No squirrels round the back of ours Adrian. The fence tops are cat perch 😆 and come to think of it, it explains why there's no squirrels that bother coming round. The roof was not only to keep the feed dry but hopefully help em feel a bit more at ease that no one is watching (plus it gave me...
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    Bird feed holder shelter

    I can't find the communal thread that has, 'whats have you made' in it. So I shall just whack the finished product out here. Hope they like it and I may go and get some fat balls from B&Q just now!!
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    Bird feed holder shelter

    Don't tell the birds the stock was not properly squared up! From top to bottom. An old drawer front for the roof, attached to a piece of my sycamore tree that was made into an unusualy shape for some reason, bedside is the white pieces and the metal bit also from same bedside. Felt stronger than...
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    Bird feed holder shelter

    Bit more... Hopefully it's something that actually gets finished from amongst my many projects. The wife finally brought in the loop and she said, 'its nice'. So, all is well...
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    What I have fixed today

    Good point Ian. To be honest when I messed up my Disston I really was gutted and felt like a right prat. Especially after having processed x amount of the sycamore tree with it. But am hopefully I'll come out of this stronger. Problem with hard point is that when I need them, they're blunt and...
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    Bird feed holder shelter

    Titled amended before I gets investigated for misleading titles.
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    Bird feed holder shelter

    Bit more progress, in mm...
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    Bird feed holder shelter

    A box will be a project at some point Fuse. Once I get a chance to breathe. Lol... After this it'll be a hedgehog house as there's definitely a few around out back gardens and I'll make sure to not close the entry points to my garden whilst refurbish the fence.
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