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I was one of the first in the old forum , all those years ago, and then we had a decent Sunday evening chat and decent mods. Lately, I have been to busy too post, but I did keep my eye on the ball quite often. Yet, the old spirit of the first forum seems to me to be some what deminished {sp}...

Well it has been a long time since I last popped in, as you will soon see, I have been a wee bit busy. With the re-building of my house, and trying to earn the money to allow me to re-build the chez karl :) To date, foundation dug out, concrete poured, tyres filled, joists layed, floor put...

pre mixed forBEST results should be used with in 1 year, but I have been using shellac that is 5 years old - it reaally comes down to storage - air tight and I mean AIR TIGHT ! un opened is still good. When used, SQUEZE OUT ALL AIR [ ok to do in plastic - but try it with a tin :P ] Lack of...

:D looking good there Steven, just make sure you paint it with a moisture regulating paint, and it will last you a few years. HS

imho the best method for doing linings is on ART CARD , use a good spray mount adhesive ontyo the card, then with the baize lying flat down place card central onto it. Make "hospital corners" and re apply spray, fold baize ove and place under a heavy book. This can then be put into the relevent...

yep, wish you all the best, and hope that for your birthday your family allow you to spend the WHOLE DAY in the workshop :twisted:

:D :D :D :D lol

lke others here in this posting, I too suffer from a bad back, curtesy of HM Govt. and the fact I wore green for 16 years :shock: gawd was it that long :? So between jumping outta good servicable planes :lol: and jumping the odd 6' foot wall :lol: I now am paying for it. As the Govt. did...

It would make our job of free advice ;) much easier if you could post piccies of said "shed" and a drawing with dimensions. Tho' after reading the previous posts, I stick with my pennies worth , but amend to doing the new front as per OLD's suggestion, and use chemical anchors with studding...

hmmmm I think you will run into problems with this new workshop if you go on in that manner, I stand tobe corrected by others tho'. I personally would build a stud wall inside the three stone walls, line with a membrane first to prevent damp coming through later. Line the studding with , and...

Andy, try the big IKEA store they had some stools with iirc 1" wooden screw threaded seat on a 4 legged stool base.The height adjusted from 18" to 24" [ :oops: ] cannot recall the full range sorry. I wanted to buy a few just for the threaded part to make a ROUBO style vice. HS sweating on a...

you can " cook " it in a micro for 10-15 seconds, iirc tho' I have tried once a while back, it did revive the gorilla glue I had. :D

74 got mine noe :D

lol good one that - how did you guess :D sometime next year , when the funds allow.

Devonwoody wrote Be warned with the new H & S law in action one can no longer use a laddwe above 1.5m for longer then 30 minutes at a time, so a pro painting firm has to scaffold up and then paint a house front. Of course the really smart painter/s would have invested in a small trailer...

I have built an extension to my humble house in East Friesland, it is a hybrid Straw bale construction. Timer framed, with main load bearing posts staying outside the SB infill :D the remaining purlins will be enclosed totally. From previous constructs, the timber frame was either infilled with...

dunno if I'm on or off topic here :P but yep I'm with ALF and a few otheres here, that BC writes fantastic books his Warlock series is good but what grabbed me when I was still wearing green :oops: was SHARPE, reading how then the ordinary grunt was shafted by the HQ made me smile.In fact it...

The outside walls will be rendered in a Lime render [ if I can find a supplier here in Friesland ] otherwise with a clay render and then whitewashed with old fashioned lime paint. Then once some more readies are in hand I'm getting some custom made DG windows with roll shutters. Looking more and...

:lol: lucky bugger :D

well I am finally getting there, it was time to get some of my machines out of storage, and into the workshop. [/img] Got these ones in , unfortunatley, there is no room for the thicknesser or jointer :( ](*,) :-k well I think I sort summint out later, as of now I knackered. more tools...