lloyd
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MantlepieceOkay, this is the finally finished product, a pig slaughtering bench made approx in the early 1800's. My parents had it highly waxed indoors in their cottage, as a bench, and I've had it in the shed for a year , and before that, for a year in the garden. However, with our new hearth, we needed a new mantle, so I cut it in half longditudinally, sanded it, CP waxed it with beeswax, and I mounted it using 12mm threaded bar countersunk into the wall, fixed with chemical anchor, and the bench pressed onto it. Looks ok???
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lloyd
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Hmm...photo posting not working.................
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Cabbagepatch
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Lots of hard work but it looks lovely and very unique. Will attempt to post photo again 
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lloyd
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Leonie2
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that looks fab 
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lloyd
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Thanks, a lot of work but worth it. The wall below has now ben sanded and repainted too. 
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Cabbagepatch
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hmm, i must say, that photo doesn't do it justice at all, i will try and take a better one later...
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mrutty
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I've resisted for an hour or so....
Are you sure you'll even look at that mantle when you're stoking the fire??? 
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lloyd
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It's an Army thing, Young Smutty.
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Cabbagepatch
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Mark, go and make your mother in law a nice cup of tea.
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nanny-now and forever
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looks good lloyd and i should ignore the comments from the peasants
woodburner looks good as well
i consider myself a bit of an expert in them now
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Cabbagepatch
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and yours has been fitted today i believe????
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nanny-now and forever
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oh yes
by 2pm we had fire in the living room
sleeping animals all over the room now basking in the warmth
heating has hardly kicked in this evening
nr nanny has taken pictures so i will get him to download them and you can see chez nanny
for what it is worth
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mrutty
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By moving MIL ourselves I think we have now saved enough for our burner once we finally move.
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lloyd
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nr nanny has taken pictures so i will get him to download them and you can see chez nanny |
No rush, Nanster.
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nanny-now and forever
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oh i know
i hae a picture somewhere of a frost angel millie did but i asked him for the others and he hasn't come through
i will ask again
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nanny-now and forever
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ok, here a a couple of photos
the first shows the fireplace pre woodburner and when we had NO HEATING AT ALL !!!
then a couple of after's, one of the woodburner and the second is a load of animals that appear to be basking in the warmth which meant we got none
so there you have it
chez nanny with heat
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Kathy
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Wow, looks great, where do you and Mr Nanny sit then?
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nanny-now and forever
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we don't
much
i am actually sitting in a wooden chair in front of that galss cabinet thing at a daining table and not very comfortable
mr nanny is in his study getting over his sprouts
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Leonie2
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they all look very comfy there nanny
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nanny-now and forever
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the are always very comfy leonie
it is mr nanny and me that are uncomfortable
at the moment there are 5 cats and 2 dogs in this room
and me
in the corner
edit
i lied
6 cats and 2 dogs
and me
in the corner
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Cabbagepatch
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Looks great and clearly the animals are very cosy!
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nanny-now and forever
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there appears to be a lot of sproutness in this room as well
one of the animals i expect
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Cabbagepatch
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hmm, much success with our sprouts this season as well...
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nanny-now and forever
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oh dear
it appears to be a guy thing
certainly merlin is more potent than lucy
she just throws them all up
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Kathy
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nanny-now and forever
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that and the red cabbage
we had some left over the other night and she loved it
then next morning i found a pile of undigested very red stuff on the bedroom floor and thought someone had lacerated themselves overnight
scared me half to death
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Cabbagepatch
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nanny, thank you for sharing with us....
and Happy New Year to you too...xxx
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nanny-now and forever
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just another day here at the ranch
and a very happy 2007 to your as well
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Becki
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They both look fab
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lloyd
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Looks nice, Nanster. What kw output is it/....looks quite big?
Make sure the wood underneath is only seasoning, not catching light though. 
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nanny-now and forever
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it is a 5.5 kw one and kicks out just enough for us lloyd
the heat circulates a bit round the house as well which means the rooms don't get too cold despite the central heating not coming on
no- the wood underneath didn't catch light, didn't stay there long enough really
we mix wood with some coke we got for free last year and brought with us from suffolk (stingy or what) and it keeps in nicely
i personally didn't want one with a hood, i like to be able to stand a kettle on it but never mind
it looked a lot bigger in the shop actually
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lloyd
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I think ours is 5.5 too. Yours looks quite big in the picture. I'm using palletwood that I get for free at work, and chainsaw up before bringing home in Maureen, who incidentally has new "eyes". I just retrofitted halogen lights to replace the old style ones, so now she can see in the dark.
Although my pay is unelievably cr*p, I make it up in other ways, like the firewood. We also get as much free fresh bread as we want, because t is baked fresh in the store, and if unsold at the end of each day, is litterally thrown away!!!! .........Needless to say, we have a lot of bread in the freezer!!
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