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, i caan not link any wire to the garage as its is not in the same garden area but at the end of another street. i was looking at cheap chinese house alarms that take a sim card and working as that as the base unit. the battery back up can be from a car battery and would last a week between charges....

I have a shed/ garage, its beyond reach of a cable run and of a house wifi system. there is no 230volt power so i wanted to use a car battery of some form. most alarm systems run on 12v dc anyway. battery charging and changing is not a concern. as there is a weekly visit to it. i want text alerts or...

Having a few problems with my jerry can collection, what do you suggest; 1, seals, the seals on fleabay and other sites are a different shape to the ones in the cans i have and you end up cutting them to fit. why is that and where do i get real jerry can seals that fit, from? 2, base of the can, i h...

Many years ago i brought a few spare 600mm bow saw blades. dropped them into a plastic pipe and added two ends. six million years later got one out today to replace an old blade but they have not lasted very well. The oil and brown paper i used as a rust proof wrapper did not work as well as i wante...

as someone that has lived in countries where loo roll is not avalible. you only real alternative is a hose pipe or a bidet. poo sticks and pooh sponges are good but believe me you soon tire of wanting to use them. one issue i have with storing rools is the volume they take up. i have tried to vac pa...

once i learn how to post pictures i can show you my set up and how it all works, been doing it for years in jam jars of seeds and foods

you dont even have to dig down, lie two on there side and cover with soil and grass turf with a sliding draw system. i saw someone do a dozen side ways and more on top on a banked hedgerow and grew grass over the top to bury them

To help gauge costs of a proper cellar being added to a house after it has already been built here is the info about a colleague who had his cellar dug out a couple of years ago. He has an end of terrace house circa 1870s. Like me he already had a good 4 foot gap between his floorboards and the ear...

Watching the welders on site today dealing with a stainless steel pipe. They used a method of almost sealing each end and pushing an innert gas through to remove all the oxygen before welding. that gave me the idea of a mondern version of the dry ice i used to use in large containers. even in a vac ...

at my allotment i trialled several ideas, one was insulated bins above ground these where slightly burried intot he ground to get the cool earth into them and the insulation kept the heat out and it worked quite well. the one i favoured was plastic 200litre screw top bins in the ground, we actually ...