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Peplers In Rye: Eco-refurbishment - sweeping the chimney
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Find about what we're up to in Rye, East Sussex, and what's going on in our wood, Chestnut Coppice. Thursday, 16 September 2010. Eco-refurbishment - sweeping the chimney. The work is progressing on refurbishing our house to have a lower energy demand. We already had the cavity walls insulated. And now work to install a wood-burning stove with a boiler is in progress. The sweep also gives you a certificate to prove the chimney has been swept, which is important for house insurance in the event of a fire.
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Peplers In Rye: Off-grid solar PV upgrade
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Find about what we're up to in Rye, East Sussex, and what's going on in our wood, Chestnut Coppice. Friday, 12 July 2013. Off-grid solar PV upgrade. Sorry there's been no posts for a while, but as you can see I've had a lot going on! With the help of my friend Rich, I've upgraded our off-grid solar PV system, removing some of the panels we installed a couple of years ago. And replacing them with some much larger models. Here's a video summarising what's been done:. Then we removed the top mounting rail, ...
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Peplers In Rye: Making a table using a chainsaw and a sledgehammer
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Find about what we're up to in Rye, East Sussex, and what's going on in our wood, Chestnut Coppice. Tuesday, 14 July 2015. Making a table using a chainsaw and a sledgehammer. Having seen someone make a wooden bench using only a chainsaw and a sledgehammer, with no nails or screw, I thought I'd have a go, but making a table for use at the camp in the woods rather than a bench. As it was my first attempt I decided to use an old piece of sweet chestnut I'd had sitting around for a few years. Having repeated...
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Peplers In Rye: Turbo Saw Mill in action in the woods
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Find about what we're up to in Rye, East Sussex, and what's going on in our wood, Chestnut Coppice. Sunday, 26 July 2015. Turbo Saw Mill in action in the woods. Over the past few weeks I've given my friend Rich a hand a couple of times using his Turbo Saw Mill to produce useful timber from some wood he's coppiced. Here's a timelapse of us using the swing-arm circular saw, driven by a chainsaw engine, to produce batons from a sweet chestnut log:. Posted by Mike Pepler. Labels: turbo saw mill.
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Peplers In Rye: 04/01/2015 - 05/01/2015
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Find about what we're up to in Rye, East Sussex, and what's going on in our wood, Chestnut Coppice. Monday, 20 April 2015. First bluebells in the woods. Spring really is here now - the first Bluebells appeared in the woods this week! One particular spot in Sweep Wood has a great mix of colours right now! There's some Violets out there too:. And the Wood Anemones are at their peak, looking stunning:. Birch are quite well advanced:. And the whole wood is beginning to take on a real green tinge! While photo...
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Peplers In Rye: 07/01/2015 - 08/01/2015
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Find about what we're up to in Rye, East Sussex, and what's going on in our wood, Chestnut Coppice. Sunday, 26 July 2015. Turbo Saw Mill in action in the woods. Over the past few weeks I've given my friend Rich a hand a couple of times using his Turbo Saw Mill to produce useful timber from some wood he's coppiced. Here's a timelapse of us using the swing-arm circular saw, driven by a chainsaw engine, to produce batons from a sweet chestnut log:. Click here to read the rest of this post. To get them to fi...
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Peplers In Rye: Digging in the woods
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Find about what we're up to in Rye, East Sussex, and what's going on in our wood, Chestnut Coppice. Sunday, 7 June 2015. Digging in the woods. For once it wasn't the wild boar digging holes, it was me! I've been trying to persuade this bog not to drain into the track for some time, but have finally decided the only way is to dig a ditch to try and drain it in a different direction:. Here's a few pics from Rye Harbour too, taken a few weeks ago.The gulls were busy building nests:. And second, Pett Level:.
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Peplers In Rye: Retro-fitting flat roof insulation
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Find about what we're up to in Rye, East Sussex, and what's going on in our wood, Chestnut Coppice. Tuesday, 7 February 2012. Retro-fitting flat roof insulation. Ideally a flat roof should be a 'warm roof', i.e. using good insulation and a vapour barrier so that heat is kept in and moisture can not reach any cold spots to condense and cause problems. But what do you do if you can't or won't spend the money refitting an entire flat roof? The other thing that was needed was to ensure that there was still a...
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Peplers In Rye: Eco-refurbishment - cavity wall insulation
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Find about what we're up to in Rye, East Sussex, and what's going on in our wood, Chestnut Coppice. Tuesday, 31 August 2010. Eco-refurbishment - cavity wall insulation. Last week we had cavity wall insulation installed. It's well worth anyone doing, as there's grants available in the UK (some people even get it completely free! These are fed into a machine in the back of the installers' van, which shreds the material. And blows it down a hose into the wall:. We've also had our new water cylinder arrive, ...