Home maintainance

[ausjack]

:laugh2: nah Pedro a few years ago now the council changed our bin system and we could either keep our bins or put them out and council would collect but why get rid of them when they come in handy for gardens, water tanks and storage so I grabbed as many as I could but should have grabbed more

Yes very cute RG, your gonna end up with a pretty wild garden and that many lights but very pretty for the grandie :winkextra:

[JeffH]

Mini plant propagation houses

I did this before I saw a previous post. Scrounged some drinking water bottles (1 x 15 litre and 2 x 10 litre) and attacked them with a jigsaw. They should keep up the humidity for cuttings and minimise the temperature drop on these frosty nights. Translucent so let light in -easy to lift off to check progress or give more light on fine days.
The trays with the pots are discarded kitty litter trays; they are good for this application.

I might try some 20 litre, plastic drums later -cut the top off and sit upside down- for starting summer vegetable seedlings early. Not sure how much light the thicker walls of these will transmit so possibly I will need to cut the bottoms (now tops) out and stick some clear plastic over.

I like the idea of the fairy lights for supplementary heating but some "words of wisdom";
•Do not use ones that work directly on 240 volts. That is not a good situation for them and potentially dangerous,
•Do not use new type ones with LED lamps -more efficient which means more light and less heat; and it is the heat you want,
•If you can run them on a lower voltage than they are designed for (say 12 volt lamps on 6 or 9 volt power supply) they will be rather dull but emit much more infra-red (i.e. heat).
And a thought...some salvaged car parking lamps -typically 12 volt, 6 watt- would be good for this. Run them from an old car battery with a trickle charger could be quite effective,
That said, I think there are very few areas in Australia where the heating would really be necessary in an enclosure. If you are trying to grow delicate, tropical orchids in a cold area you will need something a tad more sophisticated.

[ausjack]

lookin good Jeff :good:

[trout]

hehehe
This is how to bottle up the California Reaper sauce

[ausjack]

:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
so they're what you were tellin me about, very appropriate from what you were saying

[trout]

:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

so they're what you were tellin me about, very appropriate from what you were saying

Yes that stuff is NNNNASTY

[trout]

Some pretty harsh weather just come through here.
Flattened my outside dunny and a few branches down ill take some images when it is safe to go.outside

[Unicorn]

Flattened my outside dunny ........

Are you sure it wasn't the "House Rules" crew coming to do a reno for you?

[trout]

Flattened my outside dunny ........

Are you sure it wasn't the "House Rules" crew coming to do a reno for you?

hehehe
I WISH

Dust storm as I was coming back from the Post Office.
My house is in the middle of that lot.



Poor old dunny

[Unicorn]

Holy outhouse Batman!!!

Perhaps Frankie Davidson paid you a flying visit ......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpg22KSrswc
Come on Trout, tell us the truth ....... you'd had too much of that sauce made from Stevo's Carolina Reapers!!!

[Nevol]

I trust it was unoccupied at the time. :angel:

[trout]

I trust it was unoccupied at the time. :angel:

That would have made an awesome pickie :diablo::laugh2:

[Pedro]

Must have packed a bit of a punch Trout.

I hope there are facilities indoors!

Pedro

[trout]

Must have packed a bit of a punch Trout.

I hope there are facilities indoors!

Pedro

I recon I blew in excess of 60kts , at the airport 8k's away it read 49kts.
I have been through quite a few bad cyclones so I don't think I am exaggerating the wind speed .

[Unicorn]

This one's for AJ.

There were two more there seconds earlier but I was too slow from the clothes line into the office to grab the camera .....