What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

[Frnc]

I've just been editing my insurance notes, adding the ratchet set. I try to keep a list of everything I've bought and still have, with screenshots of recepts. Sometimes I take a photo, eg my hifi, which I bought from a local hifi shop, and might not still have the receipts. I record brand/model, and importantly, size. For example, bike gloves, I have about 6-8 pairs, some are medium, some large. I use Apple Notes, organised in folders.

[pseudonym]

Single serving freeze dried Cottage pie half price suits my needs and hobbies so win win.

Got some beef chilli in retort pouches at the same time and saved on postage.

These pouches are not for all, but they ideal for my needs, last longer than some tinned goods and are already cooked bar the freeze dried ones.

As I am only buying for me I know there won't be any wastage.

[deckard]

Picked up a little portable heater as an extra backup. Something American rather than Chinese for a change; seems to have a few safety features and a proper manual. £58 new, opened box \ possible cusomer return but works great. Runs off ~450g disposable cylinders but can run off larger ones with a suitable pipe.

https://www.mrheater.com/portable-buddy ... rsion.html

Mine is rothenburger branded it has a brass valve head fitted which takes these

https://www.toolstation.com/gosystem-bu ... lsrc=aw.ds

Yes, mine has a brass lindal adapter, those cartridges would fit, but I would have to stand the heater on something as they're too long, the c500 ones fit perfect, at boyes they work out cheaper too.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Picked up a little portable heater as an extra backup. Something American rather than Chinese for a change; seems to have a few safety features and a proper manual. £58 new, opened box \ possible cusomer return but works great. Runs off ~450g disposable cylinders but can run off larger ones with a suitable pipe.

https://www.mrheater.com/portable-buddy ... rsion.html

Mine is rothenburger branded it has a brass valve head fitted which takes these

https://www.toolstation.com/gosystem-bu ... lsrc=aw.ds

Yes, mine has a brass lindal adapter, those cartridges would fit, but I would have to stand the heater on something as they're too long, the c500 ones fit perfect, at boyes they work out cheaper too.

Fair enough mine been a different brand must be a smidge higher as they fit fine

Think the cartridge your talking about in boyes is £5 is it not

[deckard]

Think the cartridge your talking about in boyes is £5 is it not

Yes that's the one. Yours looks identical except is a complete mirror image (cartridge on the other side) and mine looses about an inch for the cartridge where the adapter screws on.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Think the cartridge your talking about in boyes is £5 is it not

Yes that's the one. Yours looks identical except is a complete mirror image (cartridge on the other side) and mine looses about an inch for the cartridge where the adapter screws on.

Guessing it's a German / china copy got it In Aldi a good few years back thought it was expensive then at £80 ISH


Can't believe the price of some stuff at the moment about 10/15 years back I paid £30 for one of these in boyes...

Get some good offers in there

[Jeffjones297]

I'm lucky I have a garage immediately adjacent the property, that is my store/workshop. I'm hampered that my daughter is not on board, so I have to be conservative about how fast and how obviously I do this. It is only lightly secured, I need to make this more robust without such security indicating so, probably from inside the garage.

I've got most/nearly all my short/medium term foods stored and I have a rotation plan in place diaried

My emergency first aid, medications box is stocked, listed and dated.

Misc prep items are being slowly added to, tools, chemicals, useful items to allow water, energy, cooking to continue.

Long term food replacement, ie gardening, chickens etc are being planned for and moved towards.

Long term water sourcing under planning, containers, rain collection, filtering.

Long term cooking, heating, energy sources being researched and evaluated.

I've listed a materials resource shop list immediately near me. And have a scavenger list, made for first few days of shtf to fill gaps of immediate, medium and long term needs. (This is a grab everything on the list, via immediate 1-2 day blitz of sources list).

Home security, is being considered and planned, luckily I have a youngish dog, who is incredibly alert and protective of us, nobody is getting near us, without us being alerted. I'm considering locks, garage security, access to back garden, possibility of cameras (where, what kind etc, hooked up to channel on TV or phone).
Mod snip can we avoid any talk about weapons / stuff held for self defense as it causes all sorts of issues / attention that we dont need thanks

I would imagine, that for short term disturbances I'm prepped, medium and long term disruptions, will need another 6-9 months of planning, sourcing, resourcing. Long term disruptions, will require changes, that can be made, as soon as required but aren't needed as yet.

I need to record everything, to allow a continuation for my daughter's, in the event of me not being around. How to's, what to do, guidance notes.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Jeff

For locks if you have a uPVC / composite door look into bs ts 007 *** euro profile locks lock snapping is endemic in the uk and very easy to do..

As for garage door security if it's a metal door era do a range of locks eg

https://www.lockstation.co.uk/era-318-garage-locks

Can be found much cheaper someone has a listing on eBay for £25

If you've a pedestrian door look into hinge pins / bolts and any exposed screws replace a few with clutch heads or some torx headed screws or drill the X out so they can't be unscrewed

Our back gate has a slam lock pin code jobbie so easy to exit the garden but you can't get in without a pin number and a big lockable sliding bolt for no movement in or out with plastic prickly strip on top to keep the cats in ...


As for cameras I like the imou stuff it's cheap enough you dont have to pay for subscription if you dont want to integrates with a phone / tablet app or your TV via an Amazon fire stick name the camera "Alexa show me front door" and up it comes their battery units seem decent got 2 the other week to cover a couple of blind spots where getting power to them is tricky

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0C2YZ ... asin_title

This is the newer version to my mains powered versions mine has IR illumination

https://www.amazon.co.uk/IMOU-Bullet-2M ... 09&sr=8-16

[Winterprep]

Added 40kg of Basmati Rice,20kg of mixed pastas to the long term store.

Got a trailer load of Ash from a friend that’s been cut and split to length and is all tucked away to season,I know some say that you can burn Ash from cut but it’s still wet wood and will cause creosote build up.

Rotated stuff from my Emergency bag and charged power bank.

WP

[Yorkshire Andy]

Refilled my gas bottle yesterday same size as the camping Gaz 907 which is now pushing in some places £50 a refill.... Refillable bottle was £3.28 to fill

One more fill and I'm saving (bottle was £200 to buy)