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Your home should be a space for comfort, relaxation, and unwinding, especially after a stressful day at work. You can further maximize this comfort by crafting a modern outdoor entertainment paradise in the free space outside. This addition can transform…
Join me for some quick snippets of rural life here on Manitoulin Island, Canada. Click below for a “look over the shoulder” video view of what I’ve been up to lately. Drainage tiles running, working on equipment, metal work, inertia wood…
One of the strangest things in life is how the most important skills are definitely not taught at school. Many of them aren’t even discussed. Something I call the “discipline of details” comes immediately to mind. It’s one of dozens…
In this week’s video episode, watch how cedar shingles make a great wall siding; see
one way to make a vertical drainage pathway behind shingles; watch
how a saggy old shed is refurbished using cedar shingle siding
Most homes are insulated with some kind of fibre-based insulation such as fibreglass or rock wool, but for these products to work properly they need to be installed with some kind of vapour barrier applied to the warm side of…
My Amish neighbours are quite resourceful, often doing a lot with little. The video above is a case in point. It shows a homemade DC generator – primitive, simple, ugly, but effective. It’s made with a salvaged automotive alternator driven…