Category Archives: Projects

Memory Lane, 9th December 2022: Progress on the compost toilet

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

After getting the front and back sorted, I decided that actually the back wasn’t sufficiently high, so I made the sides a little higher and I’ll add an “extension” to the back to match them afterwards. After extending the back … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 6th December 2022: Compost toilet begins in earnest

Posted on April 15, 2024 by james

The floor that I posted about not long ago is now actually supporting something! I’ve started making the framing for the toilet from tanalised 3×2. Front and back first, so I can measure off the exact slope for the tops … Continue reading →

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Sawdust for sprinkling on an open, err, well, you’ll get the idea…

Posted on April 5, 2024 by james

I’ve “made friends” with a local business that does lots of cutting wood. And now they offer me their waste sawdust, which I will use as “cover material” for my compost toilet. There’s plenty of it, too. Today I was … Continue reading →

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What have you put in my drawers?

Posted on April 5, 2024 by james

As reported recently, I made a third insert for one of our kitchen drawers. Cleaned up and sanded down, here’s it.

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Some forgotten CAD work

Posted on April 3, 2024 by james

For the drawer inserts that I posted about earlier. That’s “Cardboard Aided Design” 😀 This is how I started, as given the space available and the number of shapes and sizes to be accommodated, I had no idea whether what … Continue reading →

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Uno, dos, trays

Posted on April 3, 2024 by james

Last month I posted about making new drawer inserts for our kitchen drawers. These: Well, you know how it is, same as last time. Sooner or later it happens… “What you did is really wonderful. It’s made such a difference … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 5th November 2022: How much do you need more compost?

Posted on April 2, 2024 by james

Quite a bit, in my case. So I have embarked on a new project, building as much from reclaimed timber and other re-used parts as possible. Can you tell what it is yet? That’s the floor, carefully engineered from scraps … Continue reading →

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So I might build a “polycrub” sooner than planned

Posted on March 29, 2024 by james

Given the problems I’ve been having with my cheapy polytunnel, it struck me today that I could turn it into a kind of polycrub given, say, some recycled scaffold boards for the sides and six sheets of twinwall polycarbonate. I … Continue reading →

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What on Earth is a polycrub?

Posted on March 28, 2024 by james

I came across these for the first time today. A polycrub is, apparently, part way between a polytunnel and a greenhouse. It is (can be) a similar size to a polytunnel and has the usual hooped frame that a polytunnel … Continue reading →

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More plywood than I know what to do with

Posted on March 27, 2024 by james

A local business generates a fair bit of scrap birch ply, mostly 5.5mm, but some larger sizes too. I’ve been exchanging small amounts of cash for their offcut sheets (which are often just under 4′ or 1220mm square and therefore … Continue reading →

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