What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12

[mcprepper]

Suppose I best get out of bed and shut the windows and blinds to keep the heat out the house . .

Then go top up the paddling pool turn the pump on for the solar water heater

Chucking it down here! But that lovely warm rain that’s quite enjoyable to be out in. I’ve decided to ignore it and carry on gardening - planting up kale where the first early potatoes came out. Storms forecast again so I’ll be unplugging the internet router well in advance as my neighbours lost their internet last weekend after a lightening strike over where we live. I’d got up in the middle of the night to unplug ours so it was fine…

[Yorkshire Andy]

Suppose I best get out of bed and shut the windows and blinds to keep the heat out the house . .

Then go top up the paddling pool turn the pump on for the solar water heater

Chucking it down here! But that lovely warm rain that’s quite enjoyable to be out in. I’ve decided to ignore it and carry on gardening - planting up kale where the first early potatoes came out. Storms forecast again so I’ll be unplugging the internet router well in advance as my neighbours lost their internet last weekend after a lightening strike over where we live. I’d got up in the middle of the night to unplug ours so it was fine…

Kids had a great morning in the pool my sister and niece turned up to go scrumping on the allotment strawberries / raspberries / currents then washed the muck and juice off the kids in the paddling pool

Hoed a load of weeds round the cabbages corn and pumpkins that was hot sweaty work..

Just had a shower of rain here garden is just about clear incase the wind gets up or just turns nasty plus like you ill be unplugging most stuff tonight if the forecast storms appear ..

Seen the damage a strike can do first hand

[Frnc]

Decorator finished about 3 pm or so. Got my computer, tv and hifi provisionally wired up, all working. For some weird reason I could only get one screw in the smoke alarm, not sure how that happened, but it's pretty secure. It's lath and plaster, so I could drill a load more holes and not find anther good one.

Got my head torch, hand torch, keys, wallet. Just remembered fire escape ladder.

Am knackered, and my back is borderline about to spasm, which I need to avoid at all costs, so I'll take it easy for a few days.

Then when my room is sorted (eg tidying the cables) I can start preps. Need to fill some water containers and sort the prep room out.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Been to lidl and aldi


Couple of bargains
Aldi have camping bits in got a hydration bladder for £5

And a first aid kit £5..

Can't grumble for a fiver

And lidl have head torches and camping lanterns in for £1.99 with batteries included give a decent light out and we'll worth the money make good barter / trade items

[Frnc]

Finished rigging my fire escape properly, including dangling the ladder (rolled up and secured with velcro straps) out of the window. Put it under my bed. The ropes are under the wardrobe, and the curtain covers the bolt, so it's all hidden, but has 3 anchors. One wall bolt (epoxied) and two ropes around wardrobe legs. The two ropes go to one carabiner.

[Frnc]

Gonna get a cheap rug and a nice cushion to hide the broken floorboard, old fireplace stone, and where all the wires join. The are 8 wires in total down there. Not as good as getting an electrician to bury them all, but a lot cheaper.

[Frnc]

Prep room is a lot clearer now, but still got a lot to do in there. Had to put some stuff on top of the landing wardrobe, at least for now. No way am I putting it on the wardrobe in my room now.

Got 1 x 10l and 4 x 5l water containers in the bathroom ready for steralising and filling today. These can go under my bed. I have 4 x 10 litre containers that look similar, but I know one fits under the bed ok, but one doesn't, it gets stuck, so could get damaged, so I need to be careful about that. Anyway, it's hard to lift the bed to get the 10 litre one under it, so one is enough. I have one on one of the racks in the prep room, and two under a chair in there.

Ordered more Milton tabs on subscribe and save. It's a good reminder. Cost is about 17p per tab, which does 5 litres. Checked through my other subscribe and save items due in July, skipped a couple. Nescafe Azera in Sainsburys....140g is cheaper than 90g, and it's not on offer. Bonkers. Only slightly cheaper on subscribe and save. But it's half the price of 90g in Sainsburys, per 100g.

[adamm]

I've a large loft space that's unused but it needs flooring put in before it's usable for prep storage. But once that's sorted, I'm going to shift all of the canned goods etc. up there and fill it out with additional prep stuff. Can anyone recommend some good stand-alone shelf units that don't break the bank?

[GillyBee]

I used the basic black plastic shelves from B&Q for mine - but that was a while ago & I dont know if the same ones are still available. The loft gets very hot in summer. I keep non-food items up there (spare loo rolls, washing tabs, detergent etc) but would be wary of storing anything that might deteriorate in 50C heat or might get plasticiser migrating into food.

[Frnc]

I've a large loft space that's unused but it needs flooring put in before it's usable for prep storage. But once that's sorted, I'm going to shift all of the canned goods etc. up there and fill it out with additional prep stuff. Can anyone recommend some good stand-alone shelf units that don't break the bank?

If you have a very old house with flimsy rafters, get it done by a company that suspends the floor from the purlins. It will also be held up by the internal wall in the middle.

Personally I don't want to add a lot more weight, as the side walls are only one brick thick, and are 170 years old. After I got mine boarded, I had the insde pointed where there was a lot of mortar missing, and some cracks. Also it's not easy carrying stuff up the ladder.