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Most life hacks are not applicable in real life, as they simply do not work effectively. But among all the variety of such ideas, you can find really useful ones. Let's look at 5 life hacks that really work well.

When you go on vacation for a week or more, you may find your indoor plants completely wilted when you return. This can be avoided by making a drip irrigation system. It will slowly moisten the soil in the pot so that the plant will tolerate

Novice welders have little experience, so the seams on the structures being welded are unreliable and unsightly. At first, while the required level of skill has not yet been achieved, you can use special conductors. Let's consider

The largest possible tomato harvest can be obtained if you intensively feed the plants in the first phase of active fruiting. The proposed fertilizer application scheme is especially relevant for tall (indeterminate) varieties and hybrids of the crop, but

PVC or PP pipes are among the best in terms of the balance between cost and reliability, so it makes sense to use them for assembling irrigation systems or animal watering. The only problem is that connecting them involves soldering. Collected

To keep the surface of your appliances or furniture sparkling like new and smelling clean, you no longer need to look for a detergent. It is enough to take micellar water of any brand. The cost of water is no different from a good detergent,

Small rust bugs on the body of an old car gradually grow into through corrosion. In a good way, you need to cut out the rotten place and weld a patch, but the services of a bodyworker are not cheap, and it is very difficult to weld it with such high quality with your own hands.

Chickens, geese, ducks and other poultry need constant watering. If you simply use bowls or troughs as drinking bowls, you will have to top them up daily.Freeing yourself from these worries is very simple - you just need to spend half an hour and do

In hot summers, regular watering from a sprayer is accompanied by high water consumption. In addition, the soil being poured quickly becomes covered with a dry crust, impermeable to the air needed by the roots. Thus, you also have to constantly hill up the beds.

The circuit is designed to optically indicate that the lithium-ion battery has reached full charge and is included in the gap between a voltage source of 6 to 12 V and the battery being charged. The charge status is indicated by a glowing LED, when

To securely attach to a concrete floor or wall, anchors are needed. If you have scraps of polyethylene water pipes, you can quickly and easily make them yourself. The result is a very reliable fastening, which can be pulled out only with a part

When working in a workshop, the need for clamps constantly arises, and there are rarely enough of them. We offer a method for their manufacture. It allows you to make any required number of clamps with a minimum set of tools.

Watering garden beds with a hose and sprayer takes a lot of time, which can be freed up by assembling a cheap, practical irrigation system. If it is available, all watering will be reduced to opening the tap and turning it off after a while.System requires

A portable, low-voltage ice maker is quite easy to assemble with your own hands, even for a novice DIYer. This installation contains a minimum of parts and has a power of about 150 W. The design is extremely simple and does not require configuration. Her

Every day you have to deal with minor problems that require unusual solutions. In order not to rack your brains looking for options for carrying out this or that repair, we offer 5 great ideas on how to do it. Who knows, maybe they

Without the help of any smokehouse, you can easily prepare lard that tastes very much like smoked lard. Moreover, this can be done in a baking sleeve in the oven. Thanks to the addition of prunes and onion peels, lard marinated in spices

For sharpening knives and small workpieces, you can make a compact tabletop belt sander. A motor from any broken cordless tool is suitable as a drive for it. With such a drive, despite its small size, this

For dismountable pipe connections it is very convenient to use “American” ones. Unfortunately, they are expensive, so they are used to a minimum. Few people know, but you can get them almost for nothing by making them yourself from cheap nuts and fittings.

For precise, controlled sharpening, it is very convenient to use a sharpener with a stop table. It allows you to correctly position the part in order to set the desired angles when stitching. If you don’t have such a machine, you can make a stand for the grinder,

Not everyone has a soldering iron for PP (polypropylene) pipes, and buying one to make minor pipeline repairs is not always wise. If you need to solder a line where the water will be under low pressure, for example, for

The device is a switch of control actions and is designed to work with low-power brushless (otherwise brushless) electric motors, provided their windings are connected in a star. A typical example of such units is a drive

According to reviews from experienced summer residents, not only root fertilization of plants, but also the application of nutrient solutions on the leaves helps to get an excellent harvest of cucumbers. Treatment of cucumber vines with microfertilizers containing boron during mass

The device is designed to control an electric motor for children's toys, powered by a AA battery. It turns it on by selecting the direction of rotation of the rotor. The functions of the control elements are performed by pressing the circuit,

Golden mustache is a medicinal plant that is considered one of the most popular in medicine. It not only treats many diseases, helps heal cuts and wounds, but also has a powerful antiseptic effect.