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Woodworks

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    Cabinet maker but now log cutter/seller

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  1. I remember loading my Hilux single cab with beech. Plenty in there with greedy boards on. One of the groundies was a retired traffic officer and he said he would have pulled me back in the day. Weighed it all when unloading and it came in around 800kg if I remember rightly so just legal. Your max payload would presume even distribution of the weight so you would want to get as much weight as possible up front or it will all be sitting on your rear axle.
  2. Inside we have standard trickle vents and mechanical ventilation in bathroom and kitchen as building regs required. Nothing more. If we had our time again would have probably fitted MVHR but not having cold surfaces does stop condensation forming in the first place. We did look at tradition options. Had a heritage builder recommend lime render inside and lime pointing outside. His case was yes the walls get wet but they dry out again when the rain stops. He didn't have an answer when I asked how the walls dry when it rains literally for months on end which it does. When the barn was my workshop water would get right through the 600mm thick windward facing walls and run down the inside. The way we have done it the walls can be soaked but we remain on the dry side. Its a plastic tanking membrane by the way and any water that penetrated runs below the slab and into a sub floor drain. We started from scratch and it would be a bugger of a job as a retrofit in a house you were living in.
  3. Not got MVHR but we do live in a 200+ year old stone barn. We did dry-line the whole place with insulation inside of that. We literally tanked the whole place like it was a basement so any water that penetrates the walls does not get into our living space. Recognising old walls need to breath we lime pointed the whole of the outside. It works and has done for 10 years. Not totally mould free as there are few thermal bridges that have slight issue and the north facing bathroom. The rest of the place is spot on in spite of our climate which may not be as bad as parts of Ireland but is pretty darn soggy by English standards (Dartmoor)
  4. Nice relaxing one for a wet Sunday morning 😃 We see division everywhere with no common goals nationally or internationally so are we at the beginning of the end of our current way of life?
  5. Would imagine as well as cooling it would suppress the nasty dust. Not going to nice chips off something that hard
  6. Thats from a spot price when it was briefly very high due to it being very cold on a still evening of high demand. It was doing the rounds on Twitter but not a reflection of the average just what a supplier had to pay for a short period Market Data | EPEX SPOT WWW.EPEXSPOT.COM
  7. When hedge laying I have found this to be most definitely true.
  8. Snowbound, so I popped next door to see if my 79 year old neighbour needed anything from the shop. She said she did so I gave her my list. No point in both of us going out in this weather.
  9. When it comes to sailing boats they used to hold there value incredibly well. My dad was a keen sailor and he always said he never lost money on any of them. Mind you he would say that 😆
  10. Yep. We could sell our stock several times over this year but we are in logs for the long haul so not going to take pee just because we could this year
  11. Yep its looking warmer for sure. Above freezing down here this morning with rain forecast for today.
  12. So what are you asking per cube and 2 cube? These guys cover my area so we need to be in the same ballpark price wise. We are still more expensive without the kiln dried and Woodsure tag. Kiln Dried Loose Logs | Devon and Cornwall Logs DEVONANDCORNWALLLOGS.CO.UK Our kiln dried logs are an economical way to fuel you fire because they have a lower moisture content, meaning less energy is required to burn off residual moisture and therefore more...
  13. If you go for 2 gates they need to line up near perfectly as any miss-alignment is very obvious. One large gate meeting a wide post any twist would be far better hidden.
  14. Think Liz has proper winter tyres and not all season tyres. Still leave them on all year
  15. When the weather is cold these SKYTEC ARGON Not the hardest wearing but I have a habit of bashing my digits if I let my hands get cold. The rest of the time a pair of the grey cut resistant ones from one of the tool sheds. Brands seem to chop and change monthly.

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