DIY Projects ’24
Chronicling the trials and tribulations of trying to do things myself and eventually succeeding – sort of.
Category: Doing it myself
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Project update: 2023
Workshop and Garden The workshop re-organize is still moving forward. I moved some shelving units into an adjacent area which the builder had designated a future bathroom (i.e. there was rough plumbing buried in the concrete), built some more shelves, made some custom clamp and square hangers and hung up a shelving unit I had […]
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DIY adventures – 2022
It’s been a fairly prolific year, at least in the number and range of projects I completed this year. Naturally, I have my own definition of “completed”! Keeping an eye on things Outside, I replaced the temporary installations of two video cameras which had been put in place with the equivalent of duct tape and […]
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Free Workshop Projects
I got around to quite a few (for me!) projects this year and they practically all had one thing in common: they cost nothing for materials. Also, as is usual for me, the designs changed often. If you’ve ever made anything from scratch, to your own plan, I think you’ll find some of these themes […]
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Christmas lights over the years
(If you’ve been following this over time, just scroll to the end to find the latest episode. If I’d planned this better, I would have done it in reverse chronological order, but I’m not going to change it now!) The three spruce trees at the back of our garden were planted in late 2003 or […]
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Workshop projects 2018
I did manage to complete some projects in my workshop this year. Well, by “complete” I mean get them to 97% complete – but I feel that’s a given. I started off, quite illogically, with a project to filter the smaller wood particles out of the air in the workshop. Illogical, because I really wasn’t […]