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Good evening all I’m looking for some 32mm ish square turned spindles, can find a few 41mm examples on line but nothing smaller. Has some quotes to make new to match the originals but these are bit on the spendy side ( though i realise its a bit of a niche market and time consuming for small...

Evening All At long last the lead work has been done. ( i got someone for that) and the cowl is now up, sporting its gilded motif. Thanks to those that have answered queries over last few months. Gilding came out ok , i think, but i made the silhouette in a hurry and I didn’t put enoughvtime...

Evening all I’m in the process of a conversion and have a stairwell that receives virtually no natural light, buildings listed and planners wouldn’t allow an extra rooflight or sun tube. However several of the rooms opening onto the stair well are well lit and whilst borrowed lights are not...

Evening All Things slowly moving forward on the Oast, currently making up the top bearing, traditionally these are a wood post through a steel ring. All the owners i’ve spoken to say that creaking and grinding spas the cowl moves can be a bit of a nuisance. So i’m going to use a big taper...

Evening All I’m currently converting an old barn/oast. Its been through multiple changes in its lifetime and not much of the original barn timber remains. What has is in very poor condition, years of worm attack and a bit of rot. Between the design and structural eng. little (if any) need be...

Good day all I’m currently making an oast cowl which is pretty much done and have got to the point of doing the decorative motif. It’s a silhouette figure roughly 18” x 9”. Ideally i’d like to guild it , never tried before had a look online and seems as though its quite doable. The cowl is...

Evening, I’m in the process of refurbishing an oast house and barn, all being well council will approve the planning which includes reinstating a cowl. Has anyone on here made one? There are couple of firms that do them , dude and arnette seem to be the main outfit in kent. But i’d like to have...

Good day all I’ve been offered a good deal and first refusal on some retirement machinery, however its all 3 phase and i don’t have it. Talking to a supplier of convertors, i’m told my needs will be met nicely by a 7.5kw rotary convertor unit. (I’ve supplied ratings of the machines) I’ve no...