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The use of refractory brick does not guarantee that a stove or fireplace made from it will last for a long time without cracks. The mortar used for laying is no less important. Ready-made heat-resistant mixtures in bags are quite expensive, but labor costs

Files, chisels, screwdrivers and knives with wooden handles often become unusable due to the wood splitting from swelling or impact. HDPE handles, which you can make yourself, are much stronger.

Young seedlings often wither and die immediately after planting, which is caused by pests in the soil. They eat up the tender roots, causing the plant to die. To prevent this from happening, you need to scare away the wireworm, mole cricket and others

Trout is truly a royal fish. A storehouse of Omega-3 acids for humans.It’s rare that a Russian holiday table is complete without this tender and surprisingly tasty fish. It especially goes great salty, with white bread and butter! And in order not to get into trouble

During the ripening season of cherries and strawberries, the garden plot begins to swarm with starlings who try to eat the entire crop. To protect your garden from them, you need to make a scarecrow that can repel pests.

To make sure your garden hose lasts longer, it needs to be stored correctly. For this, it is advisable to have a coil. It will allow you to wind it up without any creases or twists, so that in the future it can be placed under a canopy where it will not be exposed to

Today I will tell you how to make good use of the remaining fasteners, in this case they will be two anchor bolts with an M8x100 nut, which I had lying around idle.

When burying wooden poles without waterproofing, you can’t expect them to stay in the ground for more than a few years, even if it’s wood that’s quite rot-resistant. There are many methods of waterproofing, from cheap to downright expensive.

In the spring, while the soil is loose, ants often begin to colonize the beds, which is fraught with infection of the seedlings with various diseases, as well as gnawing on the crop.In this regard, it is necessary to get rid of anthills as early and radically as possible. This can be done

One of the most effective sprinklers in terms of area coverage and droplet size are snails. However, they are made of such poor plastic that the device often does not even survive until the end of the season. In this regard, it is much better to do

When installing a light fence or tensioning a mesh, the posts do not have to be dug in or concreted, but driven in. It's faster and easier, but still difficult. If you have to drive in a couple of dozen pillars, then it’s worth welding a simple device for this,

Starlings and other birds are one of the main pests for the garden, as they raid berry bushes and fruit trees. They peck at the crop, making it inedible. The only way to combat this is

With the help of a heating and cooking stove, you can not only heat the room, but also cook food. However, the combination of materials such as brick, cast iron and clay (cement) with different coefficients of thermal expansion leads to cracking

When digging in wooden posts, it is advisable to waterproof them over the entire surface that will be in the ground.This will prevent the wood from rotting, so the pole will last many times longer.

Today I will show you how I made an unusual, anti-gravity coffee table. I built it according to the Tensegrity principle. The striking appearance of this table levitating in the air will definitely surprise your guests.

If you have to dig up your garden by hand every fall, you should make a wide ripper. It will allow you to reforge the area many times faster and easier than it can be done with a shovel. When working with such a tool, the back is less strained. Besides this, after

A large plastic canister can be converted into a thermal container for storing cold drinks, ice cream and other products. It is very simple and cheap, much more profitable than buying a ready-made thermal box. A homemade thermal container is useful for

If there are wireworms on the site, potatoes and carrots suffer greatly. This pest gnaws through root crops, resulting in a significant portion of the crop becoming inedible. It is also detrimental to young seedlings. Therefore, in early spring, or

To forever forget about the need to rotate the pedals when riding a bicycle, it must be equipped with an electric or gasoline drive.For long trips, of course, a gasoline engine is better, since when using it you do not need to make long trips.

Today the market is flooded with a variety of adhesives for joining wood, glass, plastic, leather, cardboard, etc. But they must be kept for some time after application to the surface, not removed for several hours, and used after

Transparent epoxy resin is used to create various souvenirs that can be confidently called works of art. The imitation compositions created in it, for example, of a burning candle, look especially impressive. If desired

Large cobblestones are used to make walking garden paths and recreation areas. However, finding or buying such a stone is not so easy or prohibitively expensive, so it is easier to imitate it with concrete. It is not difficult, and the result will exceed all expectations.

A screwdriver, when equipped with the appropriate attachment, can be used to solve a wide variety of, and even unexpected, problems. An example of such a non-standard use would be its use for pumping water. For this you only need

For gardening, you can make homemade tools and other tools from milk bottles.This will allow you to acquire the necessary equipment for free, and in addition, use plastic for good, rather than send it to a landfill.