Workshop and Home Maintenance Hints, Tips, Hacks & Tricks

Drywall hole repair...

https://youtube.com/shorts/aoeNyl0ddgA?si=YEgdD-Fru8EUWlq0

 

Garden and household hacks...

https://youtube.com/shorts/X69GsQvPTFA?si=mBDLlqQqXNGERxcI

 

Using a fragment of chipped sparkplug ceramic as a scribe to cut glass.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AcyjLZBiz9c?si=4Lf7vM-n-b3M35wL

 

Assorted household tips.

https://youtube.com/shorts/i8g3cAfrbHI?si=FY0WNge2t-2SoAO5

 

Making a steel cooking tripod to suspend cast iron Dutch oven cookers...

 

Low tech oil lamp using glass jars and some wire and other sundry easily obtainable materials...

 

Save little Billy....without getting shards of glass over him.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jPVdAkJVW18?feature=share

 

Making a mitre tool for marking out, and drilling holes joining picture frames and similar jobs with pegs.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GH6bUAeJS8A?feature=share

 

Tool tips...

https://youtube.com/shorts/kgPGhfkDot4?si=e-DJOm3drIZ50Lm3

 

Hacks that resolve many everyday household challenges...

https://youtube.com/shorts/kLO9SMla73w?si=nYx0rscZiGCtd5x6

 

How to renovate and sharpen a hand saw...

 

Sundry home hacks....

https://youtube.com/shorts/_GWamqGMKWU?si=0vsqpLh2c__ZyM-j

 

32 Ingenious secrets and tricks to make home repairs and maintenance easier...



And 32 more....



And 54 more...

 

I likes the DIY workshop vacuuming bucket...

 

Solar stove adapted from a decommissioned domestic air conditioning unit...a novel idea...

https://youtube.com/shorts/tjTNITNyyiY?si=1kmQdSSjZgWffaBT

 

DIY solar hot water system using basic tools and recycled materials...



Suggestions....paint the copper pipe in the solar collector and insulate with lagging the copper pipes outside of the solar reflector as well as insulating the hot water storage for better thermal efficiency.

 

Joining tin-plate pipes of unequal circumference.

https://youtube.com/shorts/qC5Mweed7dI?si=Jm7tBITJ7G2Y1rIL

 

Cutting glass with an electrical current...first, find a wooden clothes peg

N.B. Wear eye protection against glass splinters and shards.

https://youtube.com/shorts/9VU7hCCkzKg?si=fJEH1r9ooj658wdx

 

Using super glue and charcoal to repair damaged black plastic...

https://youtube.com/shorts/j1DusA6Gqyc?si=67BSvFYh7iB47UFS

 

Some clever improvisations...

https://youtube.com/shorts/EP2EvVsD06c?si=DynCi2RrL5fdEZA_