Well what good service from the company. Just arrived and I'm very pleased with them. Thank you @wild edges for pointing me to this type of box. Bottom pic inside is in shadow.
I have moved on to the next stage of making my woodcrete nesting box. I sat and made the interior former from heavy-duty cardboard boxes, half a biro tube, and plenty of sellotape. It looks good enough to use as it is, even though I say so myself. Yesterday I had to go to a local farm shop to stock up on fuel for my fire and found a small bag of ready-mix cement, enough for 1 fence post, and a bag of fine wood shavings, bedding for small animals. Total cost just under £10.00. The girl at the till reminded me to wear rubber gloves when handling the cement powder as it is a devil to remove from under ones fingernails! This is a useful tip. Now I must hunt to find some rubber gloves, I am sure I have some somewhere. I just hope I am not heading for a massive crash and burn failure. Slow worm, I like the idea of the wattle and daube technique as the mix needs to be dryer than when putting in a post. Much easier than the pouring method. I love farm shops, they sell such a huge range of "stuff", from designer clothing to timber to drainage pipes to nuts and bolts to things I have no idea what they are or what they are for! Great for thinking outside the box and adapting things to be used for other than their intended use. I hope the birds appreciate all of my effort and brain-bashing.
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I sat and made the interior former from heavy-duty cardboard boxes, half a biro tube, and plenty of sellotape. It looks good enough to use as it is, even though I say so myself.
Yesterday I had to go to a local farm shop to stock up on fuel for my fire and found a small bag of ready-mix cement, enough for 1 fence post, and a bag of fine wood shavings, bedding for small animals. Total cost just under £10.00. The girl at the till reminded me to wear rubber gloves when handling the cement powder as it is a devil to remove from under ones fingernails! This is a useful tip.
Now I must hunt to find some rubber gloves, I am sure I have some somewhere.
I just hope I am not heading for a massive crash and burn failure.
Slow worm, I like the idea of the wattle and daube technique as the mix needs to be dryer than when putting in a post. Much easier than the pouring method.
I love farm shops, they sell such a huge range of "stuff", from designer clothing to timber to drainage pipes to nuts and bolts to things I have no idea what they are or what they are for! Great for thinking outside the box and adapting things to be used for other than their intended use.
I hope the birds appreciate all of my effort and brain-bashing.