Every year, while digging the soil with my family on the backyard plot where a tractor simply had no room to turn around, I thought: “I need a motoblock-cultivator.” Of course, I could, by denying myself something else, buy such a mechanism. But, thinking that it would be used only a few days a year, Read more…
In city apartments, country houses, and garden cottages, wooden window frames periodically require refurbishment and painting, and glass needs sealing or replacement if cracked or broken. All of this can be easily done on your own by following the suggested recommendations (based on materials from foreign publications). If the paint on a window has peeled Read more…
In everyday life, the kitchen typically serves as both a kitchen and a dining room: breakfast and dinner are eaten here, children are fed here, because everything is at hand. But sitting down at the table with a large family or numerous guests is preferable in a spacious room. This means dishes need to be Read more…
The journal “Modelist-Konstruktor” has more than once published materials about homemade “refrigerators,” where natural cold is used for storing food, of which there is more than enough in the middle latitudes of our country, not to mention its north. In all these devices, when the frost is too severe, the optimal temperature is maintained by Read more…
Nowadays, you can buy any tool, any mechanism. However, all of this costs a considerable amount of money. For the maintenance needs of the technical school where I teach, a compressor was needed. But the price range for compressors of Chinese manufacture (far from the best quality) started at eight thousand rubles and increased depending Read more…
Our dacha plots are small. And when every square meter counts, allocating space for garages and utility buildings is no easy task. Tent structures can be a quite acceptable solution. Especially when considering the time, and even more so—material costs. For assembling the frame of practically any of the three tent variants that have become Read more…
Mankind has made and described a huge number of the most diverse garden benches. But two reasons did not allow us to take advantage of centuries of experience: the absence of special materials and the presence of suitable ones. Almost always after the construction of a more or less significant building, scraps of pine timber Read more…
As is known, food products are smoked in the smoke from burning hardwood. The smoke generator is usually placed at some distance from the cold smoking chamber and connected to it by a flue, so that most solid particles, tar, and a number of other substances formed during combustion and considered carcinogenic do not reach Read more…
Not everyone is up to building a house or a large outbuilding, even if they have the desire. Some lack experience, others lack time. But some work can still be done yourself, while saving quite significant money. For example, installing a foundation plinth (otmostka) around the house. I ordered my country timber house from a Read more…
A stationary gazebo on a dacha or garden plot is a great convenience: under its roof, both in the heat and in bad weather, it’s nice to sit in the fresh air, rest from daily chores, and have tea by the samovar. However, there isn’t always room for such a permanent structure; and its immobility Read more…
