Simple and ingenious tricks for cleaning the house. Useful tips for the home: how to make useful things with your own hands Useful information for the home
SUMMER SHOWER
It is not difficult to make a summer shower in the country by yourself. The simplest solar water heater is easy to make using a freon condenser from an old refrigerator. It is necessary to remove the coil and attach it to the tank, as shown in the figure. When heated, the water will itself rise along the coil. G. S. Yakovlev, Perm
GARDEN HOUSE TRANSFORMATION
My friend bought a garden house. Only, apparently, this “hacienda” was not in the best hands, a lot had to be brought to mind. The chipboard floor looked depressing. It was not even painted, but only processed with drying oil. My friend carefully cleaned the surface of the floor, leveled the joints, sealed the cracks with sawdust on PVA glue, and laid waterproof wallpaper on top. When they were dry, I varnished them with a hardener three times. Paul shines!
The vents were kept on parole. Having taken out the windows, I drilled out the old wooden pins, replaced them with new ones, put them on glue. Then the cycle took off the dark layer of wood, in some places he walked with putty. For rigidity, I fastened the frame with metal corners, and cut out the corners for the vents from cans. Then I painted the frames with colorless Pinotex.
B.C. Spiders, village Sloboda Kuchinka, Minsk region
DON'T THROW OUT YOUR OLD GRINDER
When you need to cover a lot of glass when repairing a garden house, prepare a sufficient number of flagella from the putty by scrolling the putty through an old meat grinder.
Lana Ishanova, Volgograd
IF THERE IS NO OVEN IN THE COTTAGE
You can also cook on a fire, but it takes a long time. I offer my proven method.
Dip dry red brick for a day in kerosene. It burns for a long time, the weather does not affect.
S. Shagiakhmetova, Krasnoyarsk Territory
HOW TO MAKE A GARDEN BENCH
The bench is made of hewn boards, its dimensions can be different.
First, two sidewalls of the same size are made, the width of which should not be less than 20 cm. The height is selected as needed. Then a fastening rectangle is prepared, which is fastened with nails or screws. After that, the lid is nailed, which is made 5-10 cm longer than the frame and 3-5 cm wider. The nails are nailed so that the lid connects all parts of the frame.
Yusup Gelazov, Ulyanovsk region
COUNTRY TOOL RACK
I suggest making a pencil stand. It will be possible to put all the tools in it.
Dimensions - according to your desire. The base is determined by the edges, you can paint it in any color you like. Furniture varnish is suitable for covering the rack. The rack can hold the bags upright.
At a distance equal to the width of the bag, hoops are attached to the stand, to which bags can be attached using clothespins, ties or rubber bands.
N.V. Popov, settlement Betlitsa, Kaluga region
WE LEAVE WATER IN BARRELS FOR THE WINTER
My advice to those who prefer to leave water in barrels for the winter.
WARM FRAME FOR TOILET
Not everyone has a toilet in the house, and I think the frame I propose will be useful to everyone who has "outdoor conveniences": it does not "cold" and is not covered with frost.
Making it is simple: take pressed plywood 10 mm thick and cut the frame to the size you need. Then, using PVA glue, glue the foam plastic 40 mm or 20 mm thick on this frame in two layers. This frame can be put on a toilet seat or a bucket.
V.P. Belev, pos. Oktyabrsky, Krasnodar Territory
BIRD FEEDERS
From a five-liter bottle of water, a spacious bird feeder is obtained. It is necessary to cut two rectangular holes-windows on the sides of the bottle, and attach the cut pieces with adhesive tape as visors above them. Paint the bottle in bright colors with oil paint, hang it on a tree, fill it with bird food, and your feeder is ready.
A.A. Zakharyin, p. Kapyrevshchina, Smolensk region
WE REPAIR THE SLOT
I close up the cracks in wooden structures in the country house like this: I fill newsprint with hot water, and I close all the cracks with the resulting slurry. Simple and fast.
YES. Kilina, Novokuznetsk
INTERESTING IRRIGATION SYSTEM
Not everyone likes to carry buckets.
I want to offer readers a homemade smokehouse. For the smokehouse you will need: an old pot with a wide bottom, a lid from it, a ceramic electric stove with a spiral, with a plug and a cord, steel wire for skewers. And if there are ready-made skewers, they will do.
In an aluminum pan just above the bottom, you need to make a hole for the wire. The hole must be large enough for the wire to pass through freely. With a hacksaw for metal, 10 vertical cuts must be made - 5 on each side - on the walls of the pan to half the height of the pan.
File all burrs and sharp edges.
IMPORTANT!
The width of the cuts should be such that the skewers can be easily put in and taken out.
Then it is necessary to pass the wire inside the pan, attach it to the contacts of the ceramic tile and insulate. The ceramic tile should lie freely on the bottom of the pan, and the wire should be long enough so that the entire heating element can be easily removed, cleaned of sawdust and put back into the pan.
From steel wire, make skewers larger than the diameter of the pan so that they do not fall inside. You will also need sawdust. They will be coals. Birch or hawthorn are well suited. And pine and spruce are not suitable - they are too resinous.
Raw products are prepared in a real powerful smokehouse, and they are smoked for quite a long time. And in our smokehouse we do not smoke, but bring it to a smoked state, and the process lasts 20-25 minutes. During this time, the smoke has enough time to saturate the product. At the same time, there will be a unique smell and a specific taste.
The spiral will heat up, and the sawdust will not burn, but smolder, actively emitting smoke, which will then come out through the slots, and therefore the pan should be placed in the garden. Sausage, cheese, sausages are suitable for smoking.
After the end of smoking, turn off the stove (let the spiral cool down) and remove it from the pan (this is where a long cord comes in handy), shake out the processed sawdust. Everything, the smokehouse is ready to work again!
G. S. Yakovleva, Perm
FOR EXAMPLE
We take 200-300 g of pork, cut into 6-10 pieces and fry in a pan in the usual way with spices and salt. Then we put pieces of meat on skewers, pour a handful of sawdust on the surface of the tile, insert the skewers into the slots, close the pan with a lid and plug the cord into the outlet.
The ability to do some useful things with your own hands very often helps out economically. A person who knows how to handle tools and has ingenuity replaces many purchased goods with home-made ones. Moreover, these are not only some trifles, but also quite serious, necessary home appliances.
Their production saves a lot of money and gives sincere pleasure from the opportunity to create something useful with your own hands and thanks to your own imagination. Perhaps our advice will be useful not only to beginner Kulibins, but also to experienced home craftsmen who cannot sit without work.
Do-it-yourself brazier-smokehouse from a barrel or gas cylinder (with video)
Let's start not with a trifle, but quite such a serious and useful thing in any country house, like a barbecue. It can also be a grill and smokehouse. If you can’t sit at home on summer days, and relaxing in the country does not strike the imagination with diversity, it’s time to make just such a barbecue and invite friends to picnics in nature. Such devices never stand idle and are always very popular in the warmest months of the year.
To make a homemade grill, you will first need to find an old barrel or a couple of empty gas cylinders. Its size and some functional features depend on the format of the product. Of course, in order to make such devices as a brazier, you must be able to work with metal and handle welding equipment. So these tips are only suitable for experienced craftsmen.
Useful tips for making homemade barbecue:
1. First you need to cut a lid in the barrel for the future barbecue. The photo shows a cutting diagram. If you want to make a more complex design with three sections (brazier, smokehouse and barbecue) from used 50 liter gas cylinders, watch the video. It details and shows how holes are cut in cylinders.
2. A handle must be welded to the lid. Be sure to have a wooden handle, which will help to avoid burns during frying.
3. If the smokehouse is made from cylinders and will later have 3 sections, then they will need to be welded to each other, as shown in the video. Pay attention to the design of the homemade. It provides for such things as a blower, a hole for draining the "soup" that is formed during the smoking process, etc.
4. The brazier can be installed on iron legs. For example, as in the same video, the master used a stand from a foot-operated sewing machine. Such a rarity can be found at the flea market. If you are not lucky with interesting finds, ask your friends if someone has an old typewriter lying around in the attic. In extreme cases, you can make homemade legs from scrap.
5. Then the lid is attached to the barbecue. If desired, a skewer can be built into the brazier for roasting large carcasses (suckling pig, nutria, goose, etc.). In order not to turn the spit on its own, a motor is connected to it. How to do all this is shown in the video.
6. A grill is laid on the "bottom" of the brazier. Since both the cylinder and the barrel are rounded, the grate does not lie directly on the bottom, but is located at some distance from it. The grille can be used ready-made or welded independently. For experienced welders, this is not difficult. After the complete assembly of the structure, you can try it in action (video).
Homemade from empty plastic bottles: hanging gardens
With your own hands, you can make not only such “high-tech” devices as a brazier-smokehouse, but also various pleasant little things for the home and garden. These small and fairly simple crafts are very useful things that can cost a fortune in specialized stores.
Useful little things for the interior can be made from empty plastic bottles, which are apparently invisible in cities. For example, you can make a chic hanging garden on a brick wall. Usually, climbing plants themselves “creep” up along wrought-iron fences, forming a thick green, and sometimes also a flowering wall. She makes the garden very beautiful and cozy.
But if the fence around the house is solid (stone or brick), and you want more greenery, the inventions of home craftsmen will help out. To equip hanging gardens on your site, you don’t even have to buy pots and then think about how to attach ropes to them. Elementary homemade products from plastic bottles and fishing line will help.
How to make homemade pots for a hanging garden around the house
To make these extremely useful, but at the same time very simple things, you will need to collect about 20-30 bottles. The volume must be chosen depending on what plants you want to decorate the fence around the house. For those who like more space and have an extensive root system, you should choose bottles of 1.5-2 liters. On one side, a “window” is cut for a flower. The cork must be tightened so that the soil does not spill out of the bottle.
On both sides, holes should be made for fishing line, with which homemade pots will be attached to the top of the fence. Then you need to fill the bottle with soil (preferably immediately fertilized and prepared for planting an ornamental plant). It should fill the container about halfway so that the plant has somewhere to take root. But you shouldn’t pour a lot of earth either, otherwise the homemade pots for the hanging garden around the house will be too heavy.
At the end, you need to plant flowers and fix homemade pots made by yourself on the wall. It is better to do this in a checkerboard pattern, so that subsequently overgrown plants form a thick green "wall". Climbing flowering plants look very good: they grow very densely and delight the eye with bright colors almost all summer and a good half of autumn.
Useful little things for a country house: a curtain and a spray bottle from plastic bottles
From plastic bottles, you can make other crafts and useful things for a cozy life. Our advice will help you to equip your cottage as cheaply as possible. For example, it is not at all necessary to buy curtains for a gazebo or a loggia. They can be made from the bottoms of plastic bottles.
They already have a pretty nice shape. It remains just to cut them out and fasten them together with a fishing line, as in the photo. Even a child can do such crafts, and at the same time they look quite impressive.
Our advice concerns not only decorative interior moments. From used plastic bottles, you can create such useful things as a sprayer for watering a garden or lawn. Such devices are quite expensive in stores, and their device is so simple that you can literally make such useful little things at your leisure in a couple of minutes.
Tips on how to make a sprayer for watering the garden / lawn around the house
If there is a lawn around your country house that needs regular watering, our tips for creating a simple fixture for this will come in handy. For work, you will need such trifles as a few ballpoint pens that have served their purpose and one empty plastic bottle.
You need to make holes in the bottle. In diameter, they should match the diameter of the body of a ballpoint pen. The rods from the handles must be removed, and the bodies themselves must be fixed in the holes in the bottle. After that, we make a hole in the lid for the hose mount and fasten the latter to the neck of the bottle. Now it remains only to throw the sprayer on the lawn and connect the water.
Such simple and at the same time extremely convenient devices greatly facilitate the life of a summer resident. The plastic bottle sprayer can be easily transferred to another part of the garden (lawn) after the first area has been well watered. Even a child can cope with this task, because plastic is a very light material.
These are useful things that can be made literally from garbage - ordinary plastic bottles, which in cities are thrown into landfills by the ton.
Tips and inventions needed in everyday life: do-it-yourself summer shower
You just don’t want to spend money on many devices, because in time their production takes just nothing. For example, things like outdoor showers are very easy to do yourself. You will need 1 metal corner, nails, a water hose, electrical tape and an empty aluminum beer can.
Tips on how to do these crafts:
1. To make a water sprayer, you first need to cut off the bottom of the beer can.
2. On the other side, the hole should be widened a little so that the hose nozzle can be attached.
3. To prevent water from seeping into the holes of the craft, the attachment point is carefully closed with electrical tape.
4. To attach this simple invention, the corner must be attached to the fence. We drill holes and just nail it.
5. The point is small - turn on the water and enjoy the summer shower.
Any home craftsman collects a huge number of different things that need to find a specific place. These are all sorts of little things: nails, self-tapping screws, coils of electrical tape, etc. In order not to lose all these things that are necessary in the household, special storage devices are used. Of course, you need to do them only with your own hands.
An excellent storage for various little things is easy to make from 2 empty plastic bottles. First, we cut off the bottom of each of them, then attach a zipper to the cut of the future craft and simply fasten it. That's it, now you have a place to put various important little things with which you will make your crafts or even create real inventions.
Simple crafts - the first step towards great achievements
All the crafts presented by us are fairly simple options for what you can do with your own hands from improvised means. The most savvy craftsmen know how to turn banal household items into amazing inventions. By the way, many of them are real inventions, often worthy of some kind of award, if not on a global, then certainly on a regional scale.
If you want to join the cohort of self-taught masters, try making the simple crafts presented to your attention. Perhaps over time you will develop a taste for manual creativity, and you will become a brilliant craftsman or even an inventor.
43 original tips!
Little household tricks that everyone should know (photo, selection)
Use hanger clips to keep food bags closed.
If the zipper on your jeans always tries to unzip
Freeze grapes and use them instead of ice in drinks
To heat food in two bowls at the same time, just do as shown in the photo above.
Great idea to turn a crib into a table when the kids are grown
To clear a clogged sink, pour 1/2 cup baking soda and 1/2 cup vinegar down the kitchen sink drain.
To accurately make holes for a particular item, simply make a photocopy of it and attach it to the wall
To get rid of bad smells, put tea bags in your shoes.
Insert a blue rod into a red pen, because no one needs a red pen and no one will steal it
Put your phone in airplane mode and it will charge twice as fast
Put old newspapers in the bottom of the trash can, they will absorb liquid from food.
Any food will warm up faster and better if you make an empty place in the center.
If you have problems with the sharpness of your smartphone camera, try covering the lens with transparent tape
To quickly cool a bottle of beer, wrap it in a paper towel, then soak the wrapped bottle and refrigerate, preferably freezer.
In order not to beat your fingers with a hammer, use a clothespin as shown above.
Use a can opener to open tough plastic packages
For a fresher pizza, warm it up in the microwave with a glass of water.
To hide scratches on furniture, rub them with a walnut
Lamp option in nature
To quickly smooth out a wrinkled T-shirt, rub it with a few ice cubes.
Use a staple remover to spread your key ring apart to avoid breaking your nails.
How to easily and quickly peel a banana
To cool something, use a frozen sponge soaked in water in a bag, it will cool and leave no wet marks.
If you are not comfortable eating noodles out of the box, you can simply lay them out like a plate.
Get rid of pilling jeans with a razor
How to make the perfect sandwich
Before going to the beach, put important things such as keys, money, phone, in a bottle of shampoo or sunscreen. So you protect them from sand and moisture, and it is unlikely that someone will want to steal a bottle of shampoo or cream from you.
To easily peel a boiled egg, add some baking soda to the water before boiling.
Put a wooden spoon on top of the pot, and if its contents decide to escape, it will slow this process down a bit.
Plastic cup lids can be used as coasters
Stack clothes vertically in drawers to save a lot of space.
How to easily and quickly pull the bones out of fried wings
When traveling, the smartphone can be recharged from the USB input of the TV
To quickly peel a boiled egg, peel one side of it, and on the opposite side, make a small hole, blowing into which, the egg will simply fly out of the shell
Use a plastic bottle to quickly and easily separate the yolks from the whites. Just squeeze the bottle a little and release, then it will suck the yolk itself
Folding clothes properly will save you a lot of space when traveling.
How to make a speaker for a smartphone with your own hands
Fold clothes like a ninja
Put your smartphone in flight mode and play ad-free games
No glass holder? Not a problem!
Strong coffee can be frozen in ice cube trays and then simply added to milk.
Use lit spaghetti to light a candle without burning your fingers.
Clip-on hanger can be used as a cookbook holder
In order to avoid clutter in the house, you need to put each thing in its place immediately after it had a chance to be used. Of course, first, you need to bring the room and all the things in it into this very state of “order”. How to do it better, so that everything literally lay on the shelves, we look in today's review.
1. Packet storage
Box with plastic bags.
To keep plastic bags handy and not take up space on your windowsill or drawer, store them in a cardboard box attached to the outside of any kitchen cabinet door. By the way, paper towels can be stored in the same way.
2. Order in the refrigerator
Storing food in the refrigerator.
Inexpensive plastic containers will help save space and put things in order in the refrigerator. With their help, products can be sorted, divided into groups and food stocks can be controlled. In addition, such containers can be labeled with stickers that will help you easily find the right product, as well as remind you which food to eat first.
3. Named containers
Name containers in the bath.
In the family bathroom, hygiene products can be stored in separate named plastic containers. Such a trick will allow you to hide your own personal hygiene items and teach household members to always put their funds in their place.
4. Styling tools
Storage of curling irons and hair dryers.
Curling iron, hair dryer, electric shaver, tongs and some other things can be stored on the wine bottle holder. This stand is best placed on the bedside table by the mirror or on the washing machine.
5. Household supplies
Storage of brooms, scoops and mops.
The most common household hooks will help to put things in order in a locker or pantry. Just hang the simplest railing along one of the walls and attach panicles, dustpans, mops, umbrellas and any other things that you can hang to it.
6. Charging station
Place to charge gadgets.
So that cords for charging gadgets do not lie scattered around the apartment and do not spoil the appearance of the room, make it a rule to charge all devices in one place. To do this, reach into one of the drawers of the bedside table with a carrier and charge your devices there.
7. Pillow basket
Basket for bedding.
Place a spacious wicker basket by the bed that can be used to store decorative pillows and bedspreads at night. In addition, such a basket will be a wonderful alternative to a bedside table and is suitable for storing a variety of things.
8. Organizer for small things
Fabric organizer for small items.
The rest of the fabric can be used to make an original organizer that can be placed on one of the walls of the bed and used to store a mobile phone, remote control, books and glasses.
9. Protecting the shelves in the refrigerator
Film-covered shelves.
Buy a roll of the cheapest oilcloth and line all the shelves and containers in your refrigerator with it. When the oilcloth becomes dirty, it will simply need to be changed. This trick will always keep your refrigerator clean and will greatly facilitate the process of washing it.
10. Shelf by the sink
Stand next to the sink.
An old and not used cake stand can be turned into a convenient shelf for storing sponges, soaps and dish detergents.
11. Fixing wires
Wire fastening.
With the help of a binder and one single bolt, you can attach and fix all the wires to one of the walls of the desktop.
12. Cabinets for appliances
Appliances in a cabinet.
If possible, try to hide rarely used equipment in cabinets or drawers. For example, you can pre-equip a large box for a printer and scanner. This trick will save a lot of space on the table and protect the equipment from dust.
13. Cap storage
Lids container.
A small dish rack will turn any plastic container into a convenient stand for storing lids from all kinds of jars and containers.
14. Bag storage
Storage of bags in the closet.
The hanging rail in the closet can be successfully used to store bags, umbrellas and hats. To do this, hang a few household hooks on the bar and hang anything on them.
15. Storing toys in the bathroom
Containers for toys.
With the help of the simplest railing, screwed near the bathtub, and a few small plastic containers, you can significantly increase the possibilities of a small bathroom. Such a storage system can be used to store children's toys, shampoos, washcloths and cosmetic accessories.
16. Press organizer
Storage of newspapers and magazines.
Store newspapers, magazines and bills in a handy organizer made from a few plastic bottles screwed to a small piece of plywood or wood.
17. Laundry organizer
Laundry cabinet.
With the help of a few strips of cardboard, the drawer can be divided into small cells and turned into a functional and convenient organizer for storing underwear, tights and socks.
18. Detergent storage
Storage of detergents on the cabinet door.
The simplest rag organizer for shoes will help to increase the possibilities of a small bath. Just cut off a small piece from it and attach it to the inside of the cabinet door. Thus, you will get several additional compartments for storing cosmetics, detergents or personal care products.
19. Storing pots and pans
Storing pans in the kitchen.
Placing large dishes in a small kitchen can be very difficult. In such a situation, you should use the space to the maximum. For example, attach a few hooks to the eaves and use them to store massive pots and pans.
Apr 14, 2017 Sergey
Let's talk about our life today, shall we? I know, I know, for women there is no harder conversation than talking about cleaning, but nevertheless I decided to consider useful tips for the house with my own hands.
Tip one
How to wash the microwave and remove burnt food from there?
Take a sponge for washing dishes and thoroughly wet it with water. Then we put a drop of dishwashing detergent on it and achieve the formation of foam. We put the sponge in the microwave and bake it for 30 seconds. Then we take it out and wipe the entire inner surface of the microwave with the same hot sponge.
Tip two
How to achieve perfect glass cleanliness?
Wash the glasses in the usual way using products, but at the very end, before wiping dry, use a newspaper when wiping the glasses. The glass of your windows will shine, such do-it-yourself life hacks for the home, which we learned from the old days, will be very useful in the modern world.
Tip three
Distance protection
To protect silverware, which is still preserved in some families, you need to wrap a piece of chalk in gauze or a napkin and park it in a desk drawer.
Tip Four
How to remove a terrible stain from a new shirt?
Just imagine the situation, you put on a new blouse for work and immediately managed to put a stain on it. How, you ask? Yes, it’s very simple, especially when you have lunch in a terrible hurry. Personally, chalk came to my aid, which I crumbled and generously rubbed into the stain. After a few hours, the chalk absorbed all the grease, and I washed the stain.
Tip five
Oh those horizontal blinds!
Each owner of such blinds has repeatedly faced the problem of how to wipe all the slats without removing the blinds from the window. The answer lies in an old sock without - we pull it over our hand and voila - a special cloth for blinds is ready.
Tip six
Getting rid of mattress odor
Here we had a new and beautiful mattress, and after several years, it became ugly and smelled a little bad. Well, after the games of a small child with juice in his hands and from the constant munching of sweets in bed. We take traditional soda and sprinkle it on the bed, leaving it for a couple of minutes. Then we simply vacuum and the mattress returns to a completely acceptable form.
Tip Seven
stain on the carpet
My friend has exceptionally light carpets in all rooms and a small child who is very fond of juice and sweets. Therefore, catch a life hack from her - how to remove a stain from a carpet - take 1 part of vinegar and 2 water (look at your stain), and then spray this mixture onto the stain. We cover it with a damp cloth, and then iron it with an iron.
Tip Eight
Let's continue the topic of smells - how to eliminate an unpleasant smell in the apartment?
For this, we need vanilla concentrate (here the confectioners grinned rather) and an oven. We will dissolve 1 spoon of vanilla concentrate in water and put it in a preheated oven.
Tip nine
Cleaning a wooden board
To clean a wooden cutting board, add salt and soak the lemon wedges into it, then scrub the board well.
Tip ten
How to protect the faucet from stains?
Yes, it's easy - take wax paper and rub the faucet well after cleaning. A kind of protection against grease will help keep the faucet shiny and clean longer.