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To cost-effectively protect grapes from being eaten by birds, you can make pinwheels from plastic bottles. They rotate in the wind and create glare, thereby scaring pests. In addition to practical benefits, homemade bottle spinners are

To equip an outdoor seating area, you can make a coffee table from concrete and glass bottles. It will look good on a covered terrace, gazebo or workshop. A concrete table is not afraid of precipitation, and most importantly, it does not look like the usual

Standard shop hoes are made of carbon steel, so they quickly rust and require frequent sharpening, which is further complicated by the rather thick blade. You can make an “eternal” and comfortable hoe, and at the same time save money

For relief decorative finishing of walls, special expensive plaster compositions are usually used. Using simple techniques, you can achieve a similar result using cheaper materials. An example is wall decoration

If you pour ordinary water into the iron instead of distilled water, scale will appear in it. Gradually it blocks the steam outlets and this function stops working. You can remove scale from the inside of your iron in just 10 minutes using regular

To keep the air in your home clean, you need a filter. It collects flying suspended matter, thereby minimizing the accumulation of dust on surfaces and its entry into the lungs. Clean air in the house is the key to health, strong immunity and the absence of allergies.

Cooking barbecue in my family is a whole ritual, accompanied by restless jokes and constant culinary experiments. In my experience, the most ruddy portioned pieces, saturated inside with fatty juice with a taste of fragrant herbs, after

When using a regular frying pan without a non-stick coating, you constantly have to scrape off the stuck-on remnants of the cooking dish from it. It is difficult to make pancakes, fry meat, and stew vegetables on it. To get rid of the problem of burning, you can

A few years after laying paving slabs, weeds grow between the seams. This spoils the appearance of the paths and can lead to the roots turning out the tiles. If difficult-to-remove weeds appear in the seams, you can remove them easily

There is always a job for a small anvil in a home workshop. You can use it not only to straighten nails or make staples, but also to perform some blacksmithing operations - forge a blank for a kitchen or hunting knife, flatten

The size of standard pressure washer nozzles does not allow you to reach hard-to-reach places. To wash the underbody of the car, engine compartment or radiator, you can quickly make a short nozzle.

If you want to diversify the meat menu on the grill, you can cook meat with cheese filling instead of the usual kebab. According to the duration of baking, it is fried like a shish kebab, but does not require many hours of marinating. This is a quick recipe that

In a closed workshop or garage, you can get sick from smoke when working with welding or an angle grinder. To remove it from the room, powerful exhaust ventilation is needed. It can be assembled from sewer pipes and a duct fan.

Today I want to share with you my methods for prolonging the fruiting of tomatoes living in greenhouses.When growing tomatoes in closed structures, it is necessary to regularly carry out measures to protect plants from fungal diseases.

You don’t want to fuss with small or very bony fish for a long time, especially since the result will not be too pleasing, because numerous bones will still spoil the pleasure of the prepared dish. Canned fish can help in this case - fish in

Nowadays, there are more than enough objects with which you can make fire. These include matches, both ordinary and hunting, termite, long-burning, etc. Lighters, both regular gas and petrol and electronic. As well as a variety of flints,

Many people are familiar with such a delicacy as fruit ice. This is something reminiscent of ice cream with the taste of frozen fruit. Legend has it that the recipe for this dessert was born completely by accident, thanks to an American boy who forgot

To prepare delicious meat and vegetable dishes in the fresh air, you can make a compact, neat tandoor from a barrel. In this design, it is not afraid of rain and wind, so it can be outdoors all year round. To make tandoor in a barrel

In addition to its main purpose, a regular bolt and nut can also be used as a material for the manufacture of various devices. Let's look at a few of these homemade products that may be useful.

One day, for one of my projects I needed a powerful mosfet. A large current of about 500 Amperes had to be switched. And then the idea came to mind to make a separate transistor, modular, composite.

To decorate your area, you can make a decorative garden windmill from plastic bottles. It's very easy and fun. This homemade product can be made together with children. If you use colorful, bright, saturated plastic bottles, then

It is believed that fried meat combined with fresh vegetables and juicy leafy greens is the best men's food for restoring strength and maintaining vital energy. Do you like meat fried on hot fragrant coals? In my friendly and

For convenient car maintenance, it’s a good idea to have a car lift in your garage. By making it from a hydraulic cylinder from a loader or other special equipment, you can significantly save free space, since almost all the technical components

The plastic protective shield on lawn mowers is extremely unreliable. It is often broken into fragments by stones flying out from under the knife. If the area has a lot of gravel hidden in the grass, then there is no point in installing a new plastic shield of the same type. Need more