• DIY Road Bike Stand
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    The Road Bike Stand

    December 27, 2020

    So after a few weekends of chore projects I decided to make something fun and creative. I didn’t want to spend time designing anything, and I just wanted to get into building ASAP!

    So here it is, (as my fiend called it) the “Trophy” road bike stand 🤣!

    It definitely had the trophy/commemorative plaque kind of feel without the paintjob, but once I put some color on it, it looks pretty slick!

    It took me about 2.5hours to make a functional bike stand, and 1/2 of that time was spent eyeballing dimensions and looking for my tools. Painting, also took about 2 hours, spread over a few days. So with a simple sketch, you can make yourself a functional stand in about an hour!👍

    You can check out how I built the stand on my YouTube channel! I thought it would be an easy video to edit, as I decided not to explain any of the steps, but it turned out that it took me way longer to make the video then to make stand! I think I am getting better at editing, but I have to stop making 15 minute videos of me walking around, it’s a pain sift through and edit out the 30 seconds of actual content! I hope you enjoy!😁

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  • Home Maintenance

    Around the Yard! Winterizing my sprinklers and raking about 10 tons of leaves :)

    December 9, 2020

    So around Thanksgiving break I decided to get some much needed exercise and rake in my leaves. And while at it, why not winterize my sprinklers?

    When we got the house last year, we also inherited a functional sprinkler system! Hooray, we can finally have a nice yard… only to discover how expensive it is to water :(. It cost me about $200 a month, just to water the front yard!!! After 3 months and $600 I decided that a perfect yard is not all that important to me :D, and that I just need to maintain it at a respectable level. Perhaps a Well Pump would make much more sense in the future.

    Regardless if I decide to get that lush green or just keep it neat, I need to make sure the sprinkler system is functional! (even in the back yard)

    Where I live there is a chance that we get a nasty freezing winter, causing my sprinklers pipes to burst. If the weather holds below freezing for several days AND your sprinkler system is full of water, there is a good chance that the water will freeze, expand, and burst the sprinkler pipes.

    To avoid that repair project (and save some $$$) I did some research and figured out how to do it myself! Its actually pretty simple, and once you do it the first time, you are good to go for many years to come!

    Sprinkler Winterization/blowout will cost you anywhere between $50 and $250, with an average around $80.

    Naturally I decided to make a “quick video” about it and show you how 🙂

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  • Furniture,  Home Improvement,  Repair

    Lets get Started! First project on YouTube! Edgeband Rework!

    November 20, 2020

    Ok, so bare with me 🙂

    I have taken the first leaps and have created a YouTube account and an Instagram account!

    I have already started posting content there, and it’s a bit overwhelming. It is only one YouTube video but it took me several nights over two weeks to actually edit something that resembles YouTube content :). I used an open source video editing software called Shotcut https://shotcut.org/ and it worked out pretty great. I was quite surprised how fast I picked it up, but when it comes to sound editing… I will leave that for the next video.

    Check out my first Video!

    Until next time… go make something! 🙂

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  • General

    Hello (DIY) World!

    April 10, 2018

     

    Hello World!

    I wanted to do this for years, and I finally did it, a website where I can showcase some of my Do it Yourself (DIY) projects. I love building things on my own and get a great gratification from it. I hope that you can learn something new from my projects and get the confidence to tackle anything.

    Here is a bit about myself.

    I purchased my house about 8 years ago, and have been working on various hobbies and home improvement projects ever since. Those projects have spanned from building floor standing speakers, repairing high-end CD players, making a desk for my wife, renovating my kitchen and floors, building a closet, making lamps, making a flight simulator chair, repairing my car, maintaining my road bike, and many others. As you can tell from my list, DIY is a bit of a lifestyle for me and this blog will reflect this.

    Life is busy, work, family but I hope to keep this up. Lately I have been itching to make furniture 🙂

     

     

     

    P.S.
    DIY is a great way to save some $$, and who doesn’t like that 🙂

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