Tag: diy

  • Fuerteventura in November 2017

    Fuerteventura in November 2017 Vlog – Part 1

    Fuerteventura in November seemed seemed quite busy for me. Well, that is to say, I got plenty of footage, even if what I did wasn’t very exciting. I decided to split the monthly vlog into two. Sue went off to the UK for 17 nights to visit family and I stayed here with the dogs.…

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  • spanish builders

    Spanish Builders – What are they like?

    We bought our house here in 2013 and since then it has been a constant round of maintenance thanks to the Spanish builders. We lived in our two previous houses in the UK for 17 years and in that time I didn’t need to do as much as I have done on this house in…

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  • Fuerteventura - 2016 in 3 minutes

    Fuerteventura – 2016 in 3 minutes

    Fuerteventura – 2016 in 3 minutes Fuerteventura – 2016 in 3 minutes – my Fuerteventura 2016 review in a short video. Well actually it didn’t seem to take much longer than 3 minutes to happen in real time but I guess that is what happens when you get older and you are an expat in…

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  • Build a timelapse panner

    How (Not) To Build A Timelapse Panner

    How (not) to build a Timelapse Panner I like taking timelapse videos so wanted to improve them by trying to build a timelapse panner to slowly turn the camera as it takes the video to make them more interesting. To achieve this I bought a clockwork kitchen, or egg timer, which you twist to the…

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  • Fuerteventura Vlog May

    Fuerteventura Vlog May 2016 – UK Trip

    Fuerteventura Vlog May 2016 Not much about Fuerte in my Fuerteventura Vlog May as it was rather dominated by our trip back to the UK to attend my son’s wedding in Canterbury. First stop was Somerset to stay with our friends Nick and Sheila in their house in Thorney, on the Somerset Levels. The house…

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  • Fuerteventura Vlog April

    Fuerteventura Vlog April 2016

     Fuerteventura Vlog April 2016 Fuerteventura Vlog April 2016 April started off busy as our friends Mike, Kirsteen and their daughter Suzi were staying with us for the first week but then it became a little quiet, which suited us as we were going to have a busy May. Including: – Shopping in Corralejo – Dinner…

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  • Fuerteventura Vlog March

    Fuerteventura Vlog March 2016

    Fuerteventura Vlog March 2016 March was a bit wet in Fuerteventura at times but it at least it does make the island green(ish). Including:: – Putting a garden fork through the mains water suppy – Corralejo seafront life – visit to Jandia beach – a poor little cat we found in the garden – cleaning…

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  • House Remodel

    House Remodel – Before, During and After

    House Remodel – Finished at last! I produced a video to show the before and after of our house remodel from photos and videos taking during the process. When we bought this house we did so knowing that we needed to do some fairly major upgrades. To start we installed patio doors to the swimming…

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  • Winter in Fuerteventura

    Winter in Fuerteventura Vlog February 2016

    Fuerteventura Vlog February 2016 – Winter in Fuerteventura What happened in my life during winter in Fuerteventura in February 2016. Although the start of February was lovely, winter finally arrived so we had snow, hail, frosts and – well perhaps not. OK we had a couple of weeks of sometimes cloudy weather with 4 or…

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  • Skill saw guide

    How to make a skill saw guide

    How to make a skill saw guide This is by no means my idea as it has been around for quite a while. However, as my table saw couldn’t accommodate large widths, I needed to be able to make quick and accurate straight cuts. This this was the easiest way of achieving it. Using the…

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