We woke up to the first snow of this winter season. Last year, we had very little snow, but today it’s coming down and laying own a thick carpet. Very mystical.
Author: Home Farm
We built a sawbuck from old reclaimed oak
A sawbuck (or sawhorse) is a stand that is used for cutting or chainsawing wood and logs into manageable pieces that will fit into your fireplace or wood burning stove. To date, when chainsawing wood, it’s involved me bending over and cutting logs on the ground or placing branches on a tree stump, neither of which are particularly safe practice
Organising our linen cupboard
When we moved into our house there was a small room under the staircase that my wife very cleverly converted into a linen cupboard.
Tips for removing bathroom floor tiles
Removing the shower and basin units has been relatively easy as part of our bathroom gut job. Having not done this kind of thing before, removing the ceramic floor tiles has posed several challenges. As with most things though, it just requires some strategic thinking and the right tools.
Karcher SE 4001
When working on DIY projects that make a lot of mess and dust inside the house, we try to keep things as contained and clean as possible. When gutting our master bathroom, we’ve had to cut into plasterboard and tiles, which is very messy and dusty work, and I can’t emphasise what an invaluable asset Read More…
Cordless Makita Chainsaw Review
When we moved into our new property, we inherited a small wood supply consisting of offcuts and small logs from the previous owners. We have two wood burning stoves inside the house, and we needed a tool that would allow us to cut some of the logs so that they would fit in our Chesney stoves.