What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[Yorkshire Andy]

Picked up a second hand ebac dehumidifier this evening one to dry out the leak from the bath and then to attempt a cheaper method of drying the laundry through the winter...

[GeeGee]

Picked up a second hand ebac dehumidifier this evening one to dry out the leak from the bath and then to attempt a cheaper method of drying the laundry through the winter...

When I lived in my very big house with my tribe I had a wooden creel attached to ceiling
Hung the clothes over the slats they were dry in a day and out of the way with the heat rises thing..need to be able to afford heat for it to rise now tho...!! when I sold the house the people who bought it asked if I could leave it up ...
The bedding on the normal airer obv took longer
The kids still talk about the creel now and daughter with her 3 children was asking me how to avoid pulling the ceiling down if she got one

[GillyBee]

We have converted some savings into solar panels which arrived today and gove us 400W of generating power. The task next week will be to get them fitted to the shed and the battery charging systems up and running. We have added a USB based AA-D cell battery charger which can run from anything that adapts to USB and other half is retro fitting his man cave to 12V.
The greenhouse is going to get a couple of lines in it for winter drying as it wont be so full of plants then.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Picked up a second hand ebac dehumidifier this evening one to dry out the leak from the bath and then to attempt a cheaper method of drying the laundry through the winter...

When I lived in my very big house with my tribe I had a wooden creel attached to ceiling
Hung the clothes over the slats they were dry in a day and out of the way with the heat rises thing..need to be able to afford heat for it to rise now tho...!! when I sold the house the people who bought it asked if I could leave it up ...
The bedding on the normal airer obv took longer
The kids still talk about the creel now and daughter with her 3 children was asking me how to avoid pulling the ceiling down if she got one

You can still buy the kits to make them but Mrs a isn't keen my gran had one and used it till the day she had a stroke above the gas fire in the breakfast room (where she spent most of her days )


If I was to put one up I'd use a stud locator to find the joists to screw into

[rik_uk3]

Not much this week, in the mancave I've fired up an alcohol stove made in Germany by Turm in the mancave, 70-90 years old and working just fine, coffee and a bit of ham radio

[rik_uk3]

Not much this week, in the mancave I've fired up an alcohol stove made in Germany by Turm , 70-90 years old and working just fine, coffee and a bit of ham radio

[diamond lil]

That looks really cosy rik!

[rik_uk3]

That looks really cosy rik!

It is, 90% of the time I run LED lighting in there but its nice to have the glow of a lantern or two and the cave is now solar now so no electric fan heater this winter, just paraffin heaters and occasionally a butane heater to boost heat when I first go down there. I might fit a tent woodburner in there, need to think about that one.

[Yorkshire Andy]

That looks really cosy rik!

It is, 90% of the time I run LED lighting in there but its nice to have the glow of a lantern or two and the cave is now solar now so no electric fan heater this winter, just paraffin heaters and occasionally a butane heater to boost heat when I first go down there. I might fit a tent woodburner in there, need to think about that one.

Look into the china diesel heaters they run on 12v and red diesel (still permitted for domestic heating) or 32sec heating oil

[Yorkshire Andy]

Got a few jobs done today,

Serviced the parents car it was moted this week he got an advisory on a loose wheel bearing which frighteningly was actually loose wheel studs the whole set... I did the brakes about a month ago and refitted with the trusty torque wrench I always do ... Even dad confirmed I'd torqued them up as little man had come to assist and he had a picture of him swinging on the torque wrench on That wheel .. goes to show they should be checked having being refitted most garages stipulate between 50 and 100 miles which is probably about the mileage it's done since I'd worked on it it's a 2010 car and only got 40k on the clock ..... Not loose enough to rattle but enough for some slight play .....

Sorted a sticky brake caliper it was on the to do list the rubber guide pin bushes were perished we had been waiting for the parts to come in the end we sacked off the dealer who couldn't get the parts .. so I hit eBay but then postman pat has had a extra days holiday to boot .....

Oil and filter change (and patched up the damage caused by a pheasant the under tray is now nicely sewn up by cable ties..) . along with a new cabin filter.... who ever the designer is at ford who put that cabin filter holder there must be the biggest see you next Tuesday to every dealer mechanic or being upset by one in the past big time.. remove glove box / fuse box / fuse box holder air con duct then find a blooming 7mm spanner for the cover .... Guessing the designer waited till they got the crayon to make the focus and rapidly retired with a big grin on his face least it's better than the MK1 with the leaky scuttle paddling pool footwell

Fixed his cig lighter socket the fuse had gone..

So that's him happy and he's buying me a pint or two tomorrow



Started squaring the garden away for winter,

put up another set of solar lights in the kitchen and ordered another set got the kids bedrooms the motion sensing type pendants they like leaving their lights in as it is solar lights are getting few and far between guessing China's energy problems = keeping kit for domestic use "at home "

Lad goes back to uni in the next two weeks he's going back with a small stove and head torch so at least he can cook a pot noodle in the dark