Do you have a lot of LEGO to sort and don't know where to start? I'm trying out this system for sorting and storing our family lego bricks, and it involves finding pieces in different categories. The categories are for our Lego collection but you could adapt this to the kind of Lego sets that you have stored.
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Do you have a big box of Lego, just like this, and you don’t know where to start? You know, maybe it’s your kids’ Lego, or maybe it’s your Lego—or both mixed together—and it just kind of ends up like this. It’s like a Mumbai mix.
And what happens is that it never gets used. This has been in the garage for over a year because it’s just... it’s just overwhelming. My wife mocks me for saying that Lego is overwhelming, but it is! The kids don’t know where to start with it; I don’t know where to start with it. Every attempt we’ve made to sort this or get it into some kind of usable state has eluded us—until now.
This is the channel where we try new things to make your family happy, and the thing I’m doing to make my family happy today is making the Lego usable again.
Have a look at this—I think I might have found a way to do it. The problem is that if you’re looking for something, there’s no easy way to rifle through. Well, you can, but it’s such an unpleasant experience. There must be some kind of basic sorting we can do that’s easy and makes us feel like we’re making headway. And also, it has to be simple enough that we don’t just give up after 10 minutes. I think I might have cracked it—or at least made a start with it.
What you’ll need for this method—and obviously, your Lego is going to be completely different from ours, but hopefully, this system will help you—is a way to find general groups so you can at least start separating your Lego and actually get started playing with it again.
The system is this: I bought some Ikea freezer bags. I know, I know, great for the environment, isn’t it? But anyway, I’m trying to make it less horrendous than it is. So, I’ve got these Ikea bags—the big ones, the huge ones—and I got some tape you can write on. It’s like paper tape, sort of like parcel tape. And I’ve got a Sharpie.
Now, I’ve got a 20 kg box of Lego. I actually weighed myself on the scales, which is always a fun experience, but I know for a fact this box came out at 20 kg. So, we’re just going to start with the main box and work on weeding it down. I want to pull out 20 kg of Lego!
I’ve just seen this—I’m an ADHD dad, by the way, so this is overwhelming. My wife is right to mock me for it; my brain just explodes at the thought of even starting on this. But I’m already spotting stuff we can use. By the way, this is from the Galaxy Explorer—the classic 1979 Galaxy Explorer—which is in pieces in here somewhere. I know it’s worth a lot of money, and there’s also sentimental value there. These pieces were so precious back when Galaxy Explorer came out. If I can at least harvest some of these, I might be able to sell them on eBay or do something that honours them. If it doesn’t bring us joy, we can let go of it. But let’s at least pull out the stuff that could be used again.
So, here’s the system. Come over here. I’ve got the bags, and I’ve labelled them. The labels tally with a very basic breakdown of ways to sort Lego. This is just a big sort. I suppose we could get more finickity once this first sort is done, but at least you’ve got a fighting chance of finding something—or using something—or selling something online.
This is my system so far. Tell me in the comments how you would change this. What I’ve got at the moment are the 1x2x3 bricks, which are actually sticks, aren’t they? I should’ve called them sticks, but anyway, the 1x2x3 bricks—I’ve even got the L-shaped threes in there.
Then we have sticks—the 1x however long they are. Then there are bricks, the classic brick. I thought this would be the biggest bag, but looking at the potpourri—the Bombay mix of Lego we’ve got—I’m not sure there are that many bricks in there. I’ve got a funny feeling we might’ve filtered them out on a previous attempt.
Then we’ve got slopes—those strange pieces—and I’ve got loads of these from the 1970s. Then we have 1, 2, 3 plates—like the 1, 2, 3 bricks, just the small flat ones. Then there are stick plates. I don’t know if I’m using the right terms. If you use different terms, let me know in the comments.
This is just something I can remember as I go along while trying to get the family involved. Then we’ve got the 2x plates, which aren’t sticks but are wider plates. We also have tiles, anything shiny and flat. I’ve put a selection of different tiles here as a visual aid to help with sorting.
For older Lego, we’ve got a 1970s Lego bag. Look at this vile stuff in here! Tell me if I’m wrong, but I assume there’s still demand for it—things like old windows, grabbers, and wheels. It’s fascinating, really.
I’ve also created categories for weird stuff, arches, screens and seats, train parts, Technics, minifigs, wheels, and clutches (things that grip or click). The idea is to just get started and feel like we’re making progress.
Let me know if this system helps you. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps me keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you’re going to love watching next. Oh God, I don’t know where to start!
Cheaper Broadband! What is the best broadband internet deal? How do you get onto the cheapest broadband package price or negotiate your monthly fees down? I show how I halved our monthly internet costs by making only 2 phone calls - though, the second call was made by the broadband company to me! If you hate to negotiate, I share how I avoid all the sales talk and leave it to the internet company to bring the best broadband plans to you, with 3 best tips at the end for how to bring your internet bill down.
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Are you watching your internet broadband fee go up and up and up each month? You know in your bones that you could get a better deal or even move to another provider, but you're putting off making that call and making those savings that you know you could make right now. I know exactly how you feel, so I'm going to show you how I halved—yes, *halved*—our monthly fee from £54.39 a month all the way down to £20 a month for 18 months. And I know that's even more than 50%, and over the course of 18 months, that will save us over £600. So, uh, it's the wind, I’m not crying tears of joy.
I know why you're putting this off—because the broadband companies do everything they can to make you feel bad about this and to make you feel grateful for what you've got. And you don't want to make that call because you... you don't want to make things worse, or... or you don't want to be offered a deal that's not that good, but you're going to take it because you're scared that you'll lose even that.
I'm going to show you how I ignore all of that and what I do to sidestep some of the sales techniques they use to try and make us pay more each month for our broadband. It's going to involve making two phone calls at least, and you've just got to hold your nerve. The... the trick behind this is to completely believe that you *will* leave this broadband provider.
Now I've got the whole family on my back saying: “What?! Don't lose our internet! Don't get our internet cut off!” and it does involve a bit of nerve, thinking that that might happen. But I promise you, if everything goes wrong, you can just go back as a new customer. That's the first tip.
*Can I start by taking your full name?*
Are you the main account holder?
*Yes.*
And do you know how much your latest bill was?
*Uh, £54.39.*
Okay, I'm just going to get into your account. So how can I help today?
*Uh, just need to, uh... I just need to cancel the, uh, the account, please.*
Okay, can I ask the reason for the... the disconnection?
*Yeah, my wife’s found a... a broadband deal for £20 a month, and, uh, I think this is in my name, so I... I need to close this down so she can get that one started.*
Is that with us also?
*No.*
Let’s see, is there a new supplier?
*Yeah.*
Okay, I mean, I... I could see if I can get the... get your price down because you've been with us a while. So even though it’s £54 at the minute, there'll be some... some pretty good discounts on your account. Are you happy enough with the speed, the 250 speed?
*Yes, thank you.*
Does anybody work from home with the internet?
*Yes.*
And how many people are in the house at one time?
*Uh, four. Four people.*
Okay, so keeping the same speed, I'd get it down to £30 a month, down from £54.
*Yeah, that's more than the £20 that she’s found, so I... I don't really need that, thank you.*
So is it £20 dead?
*Yeah, for two years, I think.*
Okay, and what speed is that—uh, same speed?
I mean, that will be a new customer deal, so it will be heavily discounted. But then you just have to... just watch when you come out of contract because the price will double.
*Yeah.*
When you come out of contract.
*Yeah, they tend to put it up, don't they?*
Yeah, but that's just because it’s a bit like this one where you've come out of contract...
*Uh-huh.*
So, I mean, if you did stay, I've got my own discount. I’d get it down to £23... £23 a month.
*Yeah, that's... that's still more than £20 a month.*
It is, but considering it's a new customer deal elsewhere, because you've been with us nine years, I'm not matching it, but I'm not... not far off.
*Yeah, at the moment...*
That's what happens when you are with somebody a long time, is your discounts get better over... over the time. So, in the long run, you are better off staying. In the short term, you're going to be paying £20, but then all these discounts that are on your account at the moment are just going to disappear.
*Yeah, but for two years, that's... that's more than... that's more than £20.*
But only just, I mean, it’s three pound out, and that's your customer deal—yeah, you're an existing customer with us. I mean, I can give you a speed upgrade for the £23 as well.
*I don’t...*
I can go up to the 350 for £23 now.
*I was really happy with the 250, to be honest. So I can't really go back and say I’ve... I’ve... I can't cancel it because I'm paying more. I’ll look like a bit of a chump. I... I look like a bit of an idiot, so I... I can't do that, sorry.*
I mean, just to cancel over three pound seems a bit of a shame.
*Yeah, but I...*
You have a cooling off period with your new suppliers, so even though you've signed up, you can still cancel and change your mind. You know... you don't have to tell them what price it is. You can just cancel, if you... if you want.
*Yeah, but at the moment it's... it's... it's less than £54 a month, so I... I... I think I've better, you know, just close this. Do you... do you need me to send back the... the... the box? Do I need to post that back to you?*
Yeah, we need it back. So is the new service installed yet?
*Uh, no. She’s just waiting for me to do this, so I... I... I just need to... to... to close this.*
So you no longer give 30 days notice. You would just go through your new supplier, uh, so once you've signed up with them...
*Yeah.*
Um, to avoid any unnecessary bills, you just go through them, okay? So, um, you would just notify your new supplier of your intention to switch, and we'll send any and all the relevant information out.
*Okay.*
Um, so you need to contact your new provider who will notify us of your intention to switch. As soon as you've got your install date, uh, your disconnection then lines up with that, okay? So it’s just a bit easier way of doing it.
*Oh, lovely. Thank you.*
No problem. Is there anything else I can help with?
*No, that's... that's really helpful. Thanks for your help.*
No problem, no problem. So you just need to organize it with your new supplier now, um, just get the install date, and they'll do the rest for you.
*Brilliant, lovely. Thanks for your help.*
Well, no problem, no problem. Have a nice weekend.
*Yeah, you too. Have a great weekend.*
Thanks a lot. Thanks. Bye-bye.
*Bye-bye now.*
Okay, so that took 12 minutes. I mean... oh, it's difficult, isn't it? It's difficult; it's brinkmanship. But I say stick with it—go with it. So they've offered £23, and I know you're probably screaming at the screen saying, "Take it, take it, take it," and you're probably right. And it might be that they say, "Oh no, we can't offer that to you again—we've offered it already," but... I’ll put some lights on.
I say stick with it, because it was £20 a month. I've had that for the last four years, and £23—is that a 15% increase? Also, I’m... it's sticking in my throat slightly, as you can probably hear, that they've obviously whacked me on to £56 per month, so I've paid that, so I've got to now divide that extra over the two years.
Hold strong!
But now it’s two days later, and guess what? They called back! They called back, and luckily I've managed to start the camera rolling. The sound's a bit rubbish at the beginning, so I put subtitles on the screen, but this is what happens next.
*Yeah, it’s £54.39.*
Would you say you’re sort of happy with that speed, or do you have any issues with it?
*No. No, it's perfect. Absolutely.*
Just to cut in here for a moment—did you notice that the very first question that was asked is: “Are we happy with our internet speed?” Now that's a really standard question, but last night we were having real problems with our internet. It... it was almost as if the speed was being throttled, and it might have been a complete coincidence that we just happened to have problems with the internet now, or who knows—maybe it's part of the sales tactic. Just don't know.
*Okay, so. If I was to apply a new discount for you, um, basically if I sort of rebuild the package for it, it’s 250—the sort of standard price for it now comes in at, uh, at £60. But then I've got a £37 discount here to drop it down to £23 a month. And then what I can do on top is apply a £3 personal discount, which is the highest one we can offer for, uh, for broadband deals. The overall price—I can then drop it down to £20 a month for you.*
*That would be really helpful, because my wife has managed to find somewhere for, for £20 a month, so if... if you're able to offer, like... oh, can I, how long would that be for, please?*
*It’s, uh, for 18 months, and it’s the same speed that you’ve got now there as well, so you wouldn’t be sort of dropping it down at all.*
*Okay. And, I mean, during on this term, that actually went up during the 18 months. Is it likely to go up during the 18 months, you know, whatever we go through now?*
*Well, in regards to all providers, we also go through a rate of inflation increase every year. So every April with ourselves, it goes up by 3.9% plus rate of inflation slack. So like last year, it went up by 8.8% altogether. So if you, if it goes up by 8.8% again, you’re going down to £20, uh, plus 8.8%, it will then go up by about £1.70. So after April, it will go by about £21.76.*
*Brilliant. That’s really helpful. So that’s in April. Lovely. Um, well, do... do I need to do anything to... to... make this happen?*
*So, um, if you were happy to... to go ahead with it, um, that’s all I do on this call, is it just sort of send you over the details? You’ve got to copy in writing, and then I... I put it all through for you then, my end, so it'll only take me a couple of minutes there.*
*Brilliant. Because, um, your latest bill was £54.39. Um, your next bill with us will only be £2.81, so you're getting some credit back for it. And then after... after the £2.81 in November, uh, December then will just be the £20 onwards to you, okay?*
*Perfect, thank you.*
*Brilliant, um, anything else that they could look up for you today?*
*No, it’s extremely helpful. Thanks, thanks for your time.*
*Yeah, no, that’s no worries. Well, thank you for your time anyway, and take care now.*
*Thank you. Thanks for the call.*
So we did it! We managed to cut the broadband bill by more than half, and we're going to be saving over £600 over... over the 18 months. So it's—my goodness, those two phone calls are painful, but they're really worth doing.
The first technique is to make sure that, uh, you give them a date of notice, so a 30-day notice. Start the call by saying, “I want to end this on...” If it’s the 25th this month, say the 25th next month.
The second thing I do is to put the blame on someone else. So I'm lucky I have a beautiful wife that I can blame for these things, and it means that all the sales techniques won't work because I've told them I'm not the decision maker on this, and that really steps up their game.
The third is to *not* accept the first offer. Whatever they tell you is a first offer, and even if they say “This is it—if you don’t answer now, we’re going to take this away,” or imply that—just know that you can take your business anywhere, and you could even leave and come back as a new customer where you'll definitely get a better deal anyway. But they don’t want to do that—they just want to keep the people they want. They want to reduce their churn. For the companies, it's not personal; it's a numbers game. But for us, it's intensely personal because we don’t want the internet to get cut off, and I don’t want my family blaming me for losing the internet to the whole house.
So I appreciate there’s real pressure here, and they know it. Don’t let them make you feel grateful for something you're paying a lot of money for. I am calling this a dad delivers success! Leave me a comment down below and tell me some of your techniques or tips and tricks that you use to keep your internet broadband monthly fees down. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps me to keep this channel going. I really appreciate it, and right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.
How can you cook the PERFECT AROMATIC CRISPY DUCK in an Air Fryer?
I share how easy and quick it is to make this delicious Asian duck dish: with the correct cooking time and temperature using a Ninja Foodi Max DualZone Air Fryer for half a duck.
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Look, can you see Casper over here? Here you are—the definition of hopeful there. You could not look more pleading. Oh, Casper! Hello, welcome back to the channel! Can you cook Peking crispy duck—so it's crispy aromatic duck—in an air fryer? That's what I'm trying, and you're seeing video footage from the future. I do not know how this is going to work out. I've just edited these pictures in, and I'm doing this for the first time, and I have no idea whether this is going to work in this Ninja Foodi Max Dual Zone air fryer. The details of the air fryer are down in the description, and I've got this from the supermarket here in the UK.
Let's open it up. Obviously, wherever you're watching this around the world, it's probably different for you, but in this country—the UK—we can buy crispy aromatic duck. This is half a duck. Doesn't look like half a duck, does it? This is a half duck, and it's come prepackaged. It's not frozen; it's just chilled, and I think it's got some sauce and seasoning on it. But in the box, you get some pancakes and some hoisin sauce as well, which is lovely. But it's the duck that we need to work out how to cook.
I've said this a few times on my air fryer videos that Ninja say you do not need to preheat the air fryer before cooking. But I think with the duck, I do want the... I do want the duck to hit the heat—hit it as soon as it goes in. By the way, this is a regular feature on the channel called "Bung it in the Air Fryer," and I have a whole playlist of food that we have bunged in the air fryer. But to preheat, obviously, I don't need to bung anything in the air fryer, so I'm going to choose... let's choose roast, and, uh, I’ll put it on the highest temperature I can. Hit start.
This is just to warm up the chambers. I’d better check they're clean... Yeah, clean... Oh no, someone's had a sneaky croissant in here! Okay, we're going to have to stop that and preheat the other zone. So I'll hit on to roast, temperature, and we'll just... we'll just give it 5 minutes.
While that is warming up, it's time to prepare the veg. We could do this while the duck's cooking, but there's no time like the present. So this is my beautiful, hardworking, unstoppable wife cutting up the cucumber. She's feeling a bit self-conscious about her cutting, but it's way better than my vegetable cutting. We're just going to cut these into strips and arrange them in a nice Asian bowl, and we've managed to find a few spring onions from the bottom, right... right at the back of the vegetable rack in our fridge. We thought we had four spring onions here, but one of them doesn't quite make the grade, so in the bin that goes.
And you can't hear this with the air fryer and the music in the background, but the chomping in the background is Casper. He's having his dinner. It's good that he has this now, so he's not begging us when the duck comes out of the air fryer. Sorry, Casper, this isn't for you. And just as self-consciously as the cucumber, because we're not chefs—we're just sharing our cooking times, and you can, uh, judge our techniques as much as you like. We don't care; we're the ones that get to eat this, and hopefully this walkthrough is helpful for you if you're planning on some crispy aromatic half duck in the air fryer.
I think the basket is nice and hot now, and I have washed my hands. And on the instructions, they do say for a regular oven you need to place it skin side up. So I'll try and do that—that's the skin side up—and hopefully it fits. Oh, can you hear the sizzle? Amazing! It's exactly why I wanted to preheat it. And I'm going to put that in here... let's clear—you want to clear all of this.
You're watching this in the future, so I will put on screen now the actual time that worked out for us. But for this experiment, I'm going to put it on roast, and I'm going to dial up 400°F, which is 200°C, and I'm going to try just to start with... I’m going to try 25 minutes, but I'll put on screen now the actual time that you'll need to put it on for.
It is time to "Bung it in the air fryer!"
All we need to do now is to hit the big start/stop button, and fingers crossed, we'll see how this comes out. Just something else that we can get ready—and that's the sachet of hoisin sauce, the plum sauce. Oh, I need the bowl. It’s going to have 25 minutes to get this ready and very elegantly prepare that for the table. More plastic bags... So now we have the sauce, and the cucumber and onions ready to put into our pancakes.
It's the final countdown now... 3, 2, 1. Let's see how it's looking! Oh my goodness, that is looking absolutely sizzling. Hoping it's coming across on camera, that is looking absolutely perfect. Now, I... I think that's ready to go, but I don't have a... a meat thermometer, so I'm going to put it in for a few minutes extra just to be sure. But I think... I think that that is looking crispy and done to me. Let's just put it in for another 5 minutes, just to make it super crispy.
It is now 5 minutes later, and let's see how it's looking. Oh boy, so putting it on for the extra 5 minutes hasn't completely wrecked it. Let's elegantly put it into the shredding bowl that I've got ready here. I have to do it one-handed 'cause I'm holding the camera. I was always told it’s good to let the duck rest for, uh, 5 minutes before shredding, so I've given it a few minutes.
It's shredding time! I've got my two forks—let me put the camera up here—and then I'll just use the forks to open it up, and wow, that... looking at absolutely... perfect.
Look, you see Casper over here? You are the definition of hopeful there. You could not look more pleading.
Oh Casper...
Let's get this delicious duck into a pancake. I... I've waited far too long for this, so I've microwaved the pancakes, and I'm just putting on some hoisin sauce, ready for the cucumber and the spring onion.
I know I'm just doing this in a rush.
Uh, on goes the duck, and food preparation when I'm actually dying to just get it in my mouth is not my forte.
Okay, not... not the most elegant pancake in the world, but it's just for a quick test...
oh my goodness.
I am calling this a Dad Delivers success!
I hope this helps you cook duck in the air fryer.
I need to clear my mouth.
I am calling this a Dad Delivers success!
I hope this helps you to make crispy aromatic duck—Peking duck, half duck—in a Ninja air fryer. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps us to keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you are going to love watching next. I want to eat this.
We did it! We found our perfect American Style fridge-freezer. The LG Instaview GSVV80PYLL Freestanding 60/40 American Fridge Freezer in Prime Silver. This video is a first impressions unboxing in our kitchen and it's gorgeous. I give you a full tour of this double door fridge freezer and it even has a door where you can look inside with two taps on the window!
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Hello, welcome back to the channel. Today is a really big day in our house, probably the biggest day for the family. Here's a little sneak peek—this is a video about the LG Instaview American-style fridge freezer. But let me tell you how we got here first.
I never thought, when I was growing up, that I would ever own or use an American-style fridge freezer. And then, 8 years ago, the magic happened, and we did it—we got our first American-style fridge freezer. It was a momentous moment, really exciting. But then, after eight years, it went wrong. So this is what the fridge looks like on the inside. There's this little door that lets cold air into the fridge compartment from the freezer, and this door—I think it's called a damper—just stopped working. It iced up; we fixed it, but it just stopped working from time to time. So it was freezing our stuff.
It was a John Lewis branded fridge, but unfortunately, it’s made by Daewoo, and Daewoo decided to stop making fridges. We just could not find this part anywhere. It feels terrible that we can't fix a thing, but we tried for about a year, and I failed. So then we went on the hunt for a new American-style fridge freezer. I've got a whole playlist of videos where we've been just out in shops, staring at fridges.
There were some things we knew we wanted. I really wanted some handles, like our lovely fridge, and that's quite rare to find. And we also didn't want a drink dispenser or ice dispenser, partly because it takes up a lot of space in the freezer compartments, and partly because it's actually a bit useless, isn't it? Instead of just being able to get a glass of water, you have to wait for it to drip out at whatever speed the fridge pumps out. And we also thought the kids—and probably me—would be goofing around and feeding the dog directly from the dispenser. So we didn’t go for the dispenser, but we wanted a fridge that was a bit premium, with something special, but without the drinks dispenser.
Because the drinks dispenser is a feature they put on, it's really difficult to find a fridge with something special about it that doesn't do the ice and water. Well, behold—we did actually find one in the end, and this is how our fridge looked this morning. Very sorry state. We thanked it for its service, gave it a last clean out, but you know what? It's going to be so nice to not worry about all our food being frozen and thrown out.
So, behold! This is the LG Instaview. I'll put the actual model number on screen now. We’re heading for tea time, so you might hear some dinner time noises in the background, but this is the first evening of the LG in our house, and it is looking absolutely magnificent. But the best bit—the best bit—is this.
You ready?
You can actually see into the fridge without opening the door! I can't believe we managed to find a fridge with something special here and nothing special here. We really like this. It stands out a bit proud, and you’d think that American-style fridge freezers surely just have the same depth, but no, which is good because it probably means more space inside.
I think we need to adjust it so that it tilts—it's tilting to the back a bit, so that's not straight. You can see it's kind of flush at the back of the door, but it sticks out a bit here. I think we need to adjust the feet tonight, and that will give us about 5 cm push back. But we do like that it kind of stands out; it’s making its presence known. It's an LG.
Should we look inside? Let's look inside. So this fridge will never look like this ever again. Let's go for the freezer first. I do have a video where we see it in the store, but here are some first impressions. This is a first impressions unboxing, and, uh, the beeps, by the way, are the air fryer, not the fridge. You can see it's got really nice lighting up here, and because it stands forward, it doesn't whack the oven as well, so this is a huge, huge step forward for us. We’ve got one, two, three, four shelves and two bucket shelves—I don’t know what you call it; I was trying to think of the name there.
What's beautiful about this is that the shelves clear the door, and the Samsung fridges that we've seen do not do that. The second thing we love is they’ve got handles, so you can actually take these out—you can just take them all the way out for cleaning or for stuffing with frozen food. Let’s put that back in. And they glide on these glass shelves, which is a nice touch. There’s like a chrome look; I can't tell if it's metal or plastic. It feels like metal on the edges there, so that's fantastic.
It comes with a really measly ice dispenser, but it’s a little dinky ice tray. You probably heard it going “ding dong ding dong” to let us know that I left the door open. I should really let it cool down, but I really want to show you how it looked before we stuff it with food. And then we’ve got adjustable shelves, so this shelf could be on either of these prongs. But it comes with one, two, three, four shelves, and they’re really deep as well, really generous shelving there, so that’s going to hold a lot of stuff, I think.
So let's close that and... should we do the tap again? I can't wait to do this tap. Ready? Oh! So I'll take this label off now. It’s just to... it’s just to show you how it comes, and oo, it's obviously empty at the moment. We’re going to fill it up; I’ll see if I can put that on the video. But if you wanted to turn the light off, you can just tap it again. It's amazing—the quality of it feels really premium.
So we probably wanted something a bit darker, but I think it looks good. I think it looks nice, and it kind of goes with the ovens there. So let's give it another tap, and we'll take a look inside. Yeah, so I didn’t get my handles dream, but we do have grips under the middle of the door here, which is really good. I don’t like the reach to the side—it’s a silly thing, but I just... I love that you can just pull it or pull it. So there's no reach around.
And then behold, the ThinQ. The trays on here are huge, and you can get versions of this LG Instaview fridge freezer where this part of the door opens. I think there’s a catch under the door, but they haven’t provided it on this particular model. But I don’t think we need it; we just wanted to be able to see inside. And I reckon you could get a six-pint of milk there easily. We’ve got four pints now, and we’ve already started to fill it up with pasta and jars.
So you get one, two, three, four shelves, then over here we’ve got one, two, three, four shelves in the fridge. And oh, we really wanted—so this is on our wish list, we didn’t get—we really like the fridges with the brushed chrome back, so that looks like a sort of premium feature that most fridge manufacturers put. So this isn’t their top, top model, but it looks nice, and nice and bright as well.
LED lighting! Look... oh, should we do a... unboxing peel? Oh, this is going to be so satisfying. Here we... go. Aha! I'm so glad you’re here to... to enjoy this with us. We’ve got door cooling, so there’s a special feature here—I’ll put that on screen now—how the Door Cooling Plus works. Multi-air flow—I don’t know what that means.
And we’ve got a bottle rack or a wine rack, which is easily removable if you wanted the extra shelf space or... I’m getting a reminder... yes, fridge, honestly, we’ll close the door soon. You change the temperatures here, so the temperatures are displayed on the inside. How do we change it? Should I try pressing fridge? There you go—you just press the right button for what you want to change, so you just keep pressing fridge and take that down to four, and same with freezer.
Now I won’t do this now, but it has Wi-Fi. It has a Wi-Fi connection—apparently. I have no idea why I would want to talk to my fridge, but we’ll see. Express cool, express freeze if you need to do a fast freeze, and you can lock these controls by just holding this for 3 seconds... there we go. So now nobody can change the temperatures until you hold the lock down for 3 seconds. There we go, it's nice, perky, perky messages.
Down here we have the fresh balancer and the fresh zone. So the fresh balancer, you can adjust by switching that over. I think it changes the humidity inside, so there’s like a little air gap, I guess. I love how the drawers come out and don’t hit the door. So, Samsung, you might want to take that out of LG’s book. This is absolutely gorgeous. So we'll close that one, and... and the bottom one doesn’t quite clear the door, but it goes to about here. You just need to open the door a bit more to get full access to that veg rack.
We had that on the last fridge, where we couldn’t open it all the way because of the door, so it’s just a design of... of fridges, I guess. Interestingly, no fridge shelf at the bottom so that you get extra space in the veg zone or the fresh zone. I don’t know what else I can show you... cuz I'm starting... I’m going to need to close that.
I think... I think I am calling this a Dad Delivers success! So after about 3 months of looking, we have finally done it—we finally found the fridge freezer of our dreams. So I hope this mini tour, this unboxing, helps you choose your features and your brand and your model of American-style fridge freezer. We've got a whole playlist of our search—that’s on screen now. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps us to keep this channel going. So thank you, and right here are all those other fridge freezer videos.
Here's why MeacoDry ARETE TWO 12L dehumidifier & air purifier is possibly the best small dehumidifier on Amazon. Buy Meaco Arete Two 12L Dehumidifier HERE! (Amazon commissions earned) 👇👇👇👇
Here's the MeacoDry Arete Two 12L dehumidifier and air purifier from every angle, helping you decide if it’s the right fit for your home. This compact and powerful dehumidifier can reduce humidity, prevent mould, purify air with its built-in HEPA filter, and even dry laundry. Perfect for flats and 1-3 bedroom houses, the Arete Two has a sleek design, quiet operation, and smart features like an LCD chase display and app compatibility. Whether you’re battling dampness, trying to save on heating bills, or looking for a cheaper laundry solution, here's our real-world experience of the Arete Two as the ultimate dehumidifier for your home!
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Do you have a big box of Lego, just like this, and you don’t know where to start? You know, maybe it’s your kids’ Lego, or maybe it’s your Lego—or both mixed together—and it just kind of ends up like this. It’s like a Mumbai mix.
And what happens is that it never gets used. This has been in the garage for over a year because it’s just... it’s just overwhelming. My wife mocks me for saying that Lego is overwhelming, but it is! The kids don’t know where to start with it; I don’t know where to start with it. Every attempt we’ve made to sort this or get it into some kind of usable state has eluded us—until now.
This is the channel where we try new things to make your family happy, and the thing I’m doing to make my family happy today is making the Lego usable again.
Have a look at this—I think I might have found a way to do it. The problem is that if you’re looking for something, there’s no easy way to rifle through. Well, you can, but it’s such an unpleasant experience. There must be some kind of basic sorting we can do that’s easy and makes us feel like we’re making headway. And also, it has to be simple enough that we don’t just give up after 10 minutes. I think I might have cracked it—or at least made a start with it.
What you’ll need for this method—and obviously, your Lego is going to be completely different from ours, but hopefully, this system will help you—is a way to find general groups so you can at least start separating your Lego and actually get started playing with it again.
The system is this: I bought some Ikea freezer bags. I know, I know, great for the environment, isn’t it? But anyway, I’m trying to make it less horrendous than it is. So, I’ve got these Ikea bags—the big ones, the huge ones—and I got some tape you can write on. It’s like paper tape, sort of like parcel tape. And I’ve got a Sharpie.
Now, I’ve got a 20 kg box of Lego. I actually weighed myself on the scales, which is always a fun experience, but I know for a fact this box came out at 20 kg. So, we’re just going to start with the main box and work on weeding it down. I want to pull out 20 kg of Lego!
I’ve just seen this—I’m an ADHD dad, by the way, so this is overwhelming. My wife is right to mock me for it; my brain just explodes at the thought of even starting on this. But I’m already spotting stuff we can use. By the way, this is from the Galaxy Explorer—the classic 1979 Galaxy Explorer—which is in pieces in here somewhere. I know it’s worth a lot of money, and there’s also sentimental value there. These pieces were so precious back when Galaxy Explorer came out. If I can at least harvest some of these, I might be able to sell them on eBay or do something that honours them. If it doesn’t bring us joy, we can let go of it. But let’s at least pull out the stuff that could be used again.
So, here’s the system. Come over here. I’ve got the bags, and I’ve labelled them. The labels tally with a very basic breakdown of ways to sort Lego. This is just a big sort. I suppose we could get more finickity once this first sort is done, but at least you’ve got a fighting chance of finding something—or using something—or selling something online.
This is my system so far. Tell me in the comments how you would change this. What I’ve got at the moment are the 1x2x3 bricks, which are actually sticks, aren’t they? I should’ve called them sticks, but anyway, the 1x2x3 bricks—I’ve even got the L-shaped threes in there.
Then we have sticks—the 1x however long they are. Then there are bricks, the classic brick. I thought this would be the biggest bag, but looking at the potpourri—the Bombay mix of Lego we’ve got—I’m not sure there are that many bricks in there. I’ve got a funny feeling we might’ve filtered them out on a previous attempt.
Then we’ve got slopes—those strange pieces—and I’ve got loads of these from the 1970s. Then we have 1, 2, 3 plates—like the 1, 2, 3 bricks, just the small flat ones. Then there are stick plates. I don’t know if I’m using the right terms. If you use different terms, let me know in the comments.
This is just something I can remember as I go along while trying to get the family involved. Then we’ve got the 2x plates, which aren’t sticks but are wider plates. We also have tiles, anything shiny and flat. I’ve put a selection of different tiles here as a visual aid to help with sorting.
For older Lego, we’ve got a 1970s Lego bag. Look at this vile stuff in here! Tell me if I’m wrong, but I assume there’s still demand for it—things like old windows, grabbers, and wheels. It’s fascinating, really.
I’ve also created categories for weird stuff, arches, screens and seats, train parts, Technics, minifigs, wheels, and clutches (things that grip or click). The idea is to just get started and feel like we’re making progress.
Let me know if this system helps you. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps me keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you’re going to love watching next. Oh God, I don’t know where to start!
We love this dehumidifier. Here's why this MeacoDry ARETE TWO 12L dehumidifier & air purifier is possibly the best small dehumidifier on Amazon in my unboxing first impressions review.
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The thing I'm trying to make my family happy with is this: it's the Meaco Arete Two. I still can't say it—the Arete 2 dehumidifier and air purifier. This is the 12L version. I'll talk you through the different versions because this all started last year when I bought the Meaco Arete One dehumidifier—the 18L model—in Costco, and I did that with my own money. It was a huge expense for something that essentially sucks water out of the air. It felt like a really big investment, and it is hands down the best thing that we bought last year.
Like many homes here in the UK, the UK housing stock locks air in, and that kind of leads to mold. In our house, it was, uh, really big patches in really specific places. If you're watching this somewhere else in the world, I've had really horrible comments pointing out things that I'm pointing out on the videos, which is that the mold grows in cold places—cold, damp places in the house. And wherever you chase it, wherever you create air, open windows, there's still going to be patches in the house of damp collecting and condensating in the colder places of the rooms in the house.
We've tried so many things. Well, we tried opening the windows and keeping the heating on for long. It wasn't getting to the root cause of the problem, which is that there's a lot of moisture in the air in our houses. So when we saw the Meaco Arete One in Costco, within days it just changed how our house felt. It sucked out all the moisture, and I think it helped dry out the house as well, where for years, the walls had been ever so slightly not dry.
We were really happy with it, and I made a series of videos—they're down in the description—for the review and instructions on how the Arete One dehumidifier works. But then Meaco saw these videos and got in touch and very kindly said, "We've got the Arete Two coming. Would you like... would you like to try a model?" And I said, "Yes, obviously!"
I don't know if this is a good idea because we had the 18L model. I thought, "What if we try out the smaller model just to compare how things go, what it looks like, as well as to try out the new interface that the Arete Two has?" So Meaco has provided this model, but they've not said anything that I need to say at all. They've just said, "Here's the model, make of it what you will."
So this video is just an unboxing and first impressions review. I'm going to do a full review on this. I'll put the link in the playlist in the description if you want more details about the Arete Two. This is purely just a first impressions look at what this model looks like. So come closer, let... let me give you a tour of what comes out of the box.
And already I'm seeing some very, very exciting things. I didn't think I'd be excited by dehumidifiers, but this has absolutely changed our house, as you'll see in the other videos. The first thing I've noticed is a much bigger, nice, uh, kind of glassy display panel. The handle is here, and you have to lift it. There's a warning sticker on the top here that says you do have to lift it from both sides. But already, this handle feels even more substantial than the last model, and it locks in place.
The thing I'm most excited about, though, is here, and that's because on the Arete One dehumidifier, there's like an open grille to allow all the air to woosh out. The trouble is you drop things into it. I've dropped sawdust and wood chips—uh, long story—but you can, like, accidentally allow things to fall into the model. It looks as if there is... I think this is packing material because there's a cover for the fan, which looks absolutely fantastic. Already, it looks better, but I know that this will stop any debris or dust, just even general dust, from falling into the fan.
And this is where the Meaco dehumidifier pumps out the fresh, dry, cleaned, purified air. We have a free HEPA filter... is it HEPA or HEPA? I call them HEPA anyway. And we've got some instructions here as well, which is handy. There's a bucket that collects the water—the litres on the model. So this is a 12L model, and I think that refers to the number of litres per day on a standardized collection measure, so it just indicates the power of the unit. The actual storage capacity is different—I'll put it on screen now—the storage capacity of the water it collects for the 12L model.
There's an attachment so that you can fit a hose for it to constantly empty into, you know, directly into a drain. We don't do that; we just take the collection bucket and pour it down the toilet or down the sink. The larger models have a handle—a carry handle. There's a, like, a detector here so it knows when it's full, and the unit stops, so it won't flood—it won't just keep going and flood. So that's a nice touch.
And it looks really sleek, doesn't it? Um, it looks tricky 'cause I've got it on a table with slats, but there are casters here, so it does glide around the floor. We use ours on carpet and a wooden floor, and it's really easy to pull around. The 18L model is quite a thing to carry up and down the stairs. This... oh yeah, I can lift it with one hand. It'll be easier with two hands.
And then at the back, we have the filter. So air is drawn into the dehumidifier at the back here, and I'll slide this filter grille. So there's a fine mesh to stop larger particles of air, and then so that your dehumidifier doesn't gunk up, there's a filter that goes here.
So let's fit that now. So this is the HEPA or HEPA filter that comes with the dehumidifier, and that fits into here. And there are two tabs so you can pull the filter out when you need to clean it. There's some foam around the edge to keep it airtight. We can push that back into the filter holder, and it just slides and clicks. There we go, just slides and clicks into place like that. That is really smart.
I like the honeycomb design here.
Here are some features that it points out on the box. The MeacoDry Arete Two dehumidifier and air purifier has a premium LCD display, a unique chase humidity display. It's sleek and unobtrusive. There's a side air intake, which allows the dehumidifier to sit discreetly against the wall. We can easily clean the filter from the side without moving the unit. There's the new Meaco app, which allows for control via the app or voice commands. There's a hidden handle with sleek lines hiding a neat carry handle. The large window on the water bucket lets you see the water level clearly. Water can be emptied from both the left and the right side, with oversized ergonomic handles making it easy to remove the water bucket. And there are casters, which are hidden behind the feet that help the dehumidifier blend into any room.
Another thing to point out down here is that the power cable is 2m long, which we find really generous. And there's a special cord, uh, thing that you can coil the cord on. So if you have any extra cable, you can store it behind the dehumidifier.
We are indoors now to switch on the Arete Two for the very first time. Uh, this, by the way, is the Arete One, and you can instantly see the differences between the two dehumidifiers. You can see this is the display that I've, uh, lived with for a year, and it's... it's worked really well because it's really simple. But you can already see the improvements that have been made with this big display panel. But let's switch this on for the very first time.
I'll go through the quite obvious differences between the Arete One and the Arete Two. The size is different because this is the 18L dehumidifier, and that's a 12L one, so that will give you an idea of the difference in size with the, uh, the footprint and the height. But let's switch this on.
This is the display panel, so bear with me. I'm assuming this is the on/off switch. We have a timer control as well with this, which I... I don't think we have with the Arete One. Let's turn it on.
Ah, there we go. So I've just hit the power button; it's come on now. The recommendation is that we lift this flap. Meaco call it a "louvre." They love their language, don't they, Meaco? So we got the... the... the Greek of the Arete and the louvre. I'll call it a flap. And it has two open positions—you can open it once; that's quite stylish. Or you could go full-blown. And I can feel the nice warm air coming out.
So this is the display. I'll close it so that I haven't got air blasting into my microphone. I think it's sampling the air—it kind of measures it first, and it displays the relative humidity on this scale here.
On first impressions, I sort of like just seeing a number. Look, when you switch it on, that's the relative humidity just shown as a really simple number. It's sampling it, so it's gone up to 52%. I'll turn that off. And here, we've got, like, a sliding scale, so you can see it instantly on this kind of graduated scale. And it says "wet" on the left-hand side and "dry" on the right. So we've got the high humidity at the top here—so you see 95 at the top, and where we're actually at, it looks like it's sort of 68%.
And you can see that the number 55 has a big ring around it, and I think that is the target humidity. So we are currently here, and the dehumidifier will keep going until the room brings that scale all the way over to 55%. So we can change the target humidity. So the current humidity of the room is here where this sliding scale is, um, it will keep going, dehumidifying, until it hits 55%. So I'm going to hit this button here, and this is where we can change the target humidity.
So humidity level—oh, this is a really super low-tech explanation as I understand it—is that 100% humidity is, like, wet. It's, like, really super humid. 0% is arid dry. So on airplanes, the humidity is actually 20%, which is really dry, and it's why you dehydrate when you fly. And I think for a normal house, I think the recommended target—I mean, everyone’s got a different opinion—but 55% to 65% is seen as a good thing. We're... we're about 68% because I'm sat right next to our laundry. I'll talk about laundry in a moment as well because we use dehumidifiers to dry our laundry now instead of the tumble dryer. And I think we're saving lots of money doing that—that's worked out really well for the last year with, uh, with our Arete One.
But you can set your target humidity by just pressing this button here, and it cycles from 70 down—each 5% each time—all the way down to 40%. And if I press it again, it goes to this infinity logo, and that means that the dehumidifier will just keep running. However low it goes, it will just stay on. So if you just want it permanently on, that selection is there. So I'm going to set it to 55%.
And when I say the dehumidifier switches off, it doesn't actually turn off; it's just that the compressor that extracts the water from the air—that turns off. The fan keeps going, and the air purifier keeps going. I think if we hold down this button—let's see what that does—right, so what that's done now is turn the dehumidifier off, but the fan is going. And because of the HEPA filter, that means you can just use this as an air purifier in the summer months, and it's always purifying air when it's dehumidifying as well. Hope that's clear.
Hold it down for 3 seconds to put it back into dehumidifier mode. So we're back to dehumidifying the air. So the heart is the ideal setting. Just as a reminder, it would be better if the humidity of the air were over here, but the actual target that it's aiming for is up here. And it's got the words "wet" and "dry" just to make that super clear.
So that's kind of cool. We've got the timer button here. Now, I've not used the timer button before, and it looks like I can just keep pressing it to set the timer. Over here, we have the night button, so if I press this, it goes into night mode, which I believe is a lower fan speed, and the display goes off so it doesn't disturb you. I think to turn it back on, I just press the night button again. There we go. And if you hold it down, you see the padlock comes on—that's a lock on the control panel, so I don't know if you want that for kids.
The last button is the laundry button. For laundry, it goes into high power. I don't know if you can hear that—I can definitely feel that fan has suddenly boosted up to high power. It keeps going for 6 hours. Now, we use this for laundry all the time with the Arete One. I think I've used laundry mode once, and the main reason for that was if you put it on laundry mode, say, at 10:00 at night, I don't really want it switching off at 3:00 in the morning because I want it to continue dehumidifying the room. So it's a really nice feature—laundry mode—but we don't use it. We just keep the dehumidifier on and just dehumidify the room as well as our laundry.
But that's just an overview—first impressions of how that's different from the trusty Arete One control panel, which now looks really tiny compared to this lovely display.
It's a very exciting moment now because I'll put on screen here—I’ve, uh, downloaded the Meaco app, which, again, is another new feature of the Arete Two.
Device added successfully, so I hit done, and there we go—oh my goodness! So on my phone, I can see the target humidity, which is 55%. Oh, look at that! When I hit the minus button, it changes the target humidity on the dehumidifier. That is incredible! I can increase it as well. It tells me that the water tank is okay and that we're not in the wet range.
And if I hit the three dots, it shows the different modes. So we have Smart Humidity—that's just regular dehumidifying. We've got the laundry mode—they call it Smart Laundry. So you can see the target has changed to 35%, and on the dehumidifier, it's switched to laundry mode on the indicator there.
What else can I change? I can put it into night mode so you can see the display's gone off. The other reason I wanted to get the 12L model was to just compare how it looks next to an 18L model. So I think the 10L and 12L models are this size—this height and footprint. If I go over the two, you can see there is quite a difference in size. The storage bucket underneath—I believe this stores 2.5L, this one here stores 4.8L—and oh my goodness, it's full! It's been doing really good work today drying all of our laundry.
I'm going to try an experiment now. This is just a quick experiment—it's not very scientific—but I do have a hydrometer from, uh, Amazon. I'll put it in the description, and it's saying that we're at 71% in here. So I've brought the 12L dehumidifier into her room, and I'm going to leave it here for an hour, and we'll see if this 71% goes down or stays the same or... we'll just see what it does. Uh, let's jump forward an hour.
It is now 2 hours later, and let's check the hydrometer. I forgot it was supposed to be an hour, so it was 71%. It's now—don't know if you can see this—press the button... oh! 59% in 2 hours! So it's dropped about 12%. And you can see on here, the reading—well, actually, the reading here says 55%. I'll probably go with the Meaco reading—as being a bit more accurate. So if you're interested in how much the humidity can drop, it's, say, kind of a regular-sized room. The door was closed, and my daughter's in here breathing, so that's going to add to the moisture. But thanks—thanks for helping me with the experiment! But that is the kind of humidity drop that you can expect with a Meaco dehumidifier that's 12L.
Something else I've noticed is that it's... apart from the nice warm air that comes out from the compressor extracting the water from the air, it's also, I think, really quiet. Um, it's going—I think the fan is on high at the moment—and this is so much quieter than our 18L Arete One. It's... it's... it sounds like a low hum. I think this is the kind of very low-level white noise that you can sleep with. So if you're looking for a dehumidifier to actually be in the room with you, I'd probably go for more of a 10L or 12L model than the 18L, 20L, or 24L models.
I am calling this Dad Delivers success! I've got all my videos about Meaco dehumidifiers down in the description. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps us to keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you are going to love watching next!
This is my first time back on a Boris Bike, after a major crash that was so bad, all I remember is seeing the A&E ceiling. 13 years later, I go out with my son back on the Santander Cycle Hire bikes and this time the new E-bikes released for hire in London. We rent the cycles from a docking station in Waterloo, head over Westminster Bridge to turn right at Big Ben and the Houses Of Parliament onto Victoria Embankment, past Blackfriars and up to the Tower Of London at Tower Hill. This is a real time bike ride, with all the sights and sounds from my bike ride POV...
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we go yeah sorry go for it hello welcome back to the channel and this is uh a slightly different video for this channel but it's a really big day for me because this is the first time that I'm getting back onto a Boris bike in London after a really terrible crash 13 years ago
so this is the first uh footage the first time I've been back on a cycle hire cycle the santander Cycles and since since this terrible crash and I I went with my son and we decided to just grab a bike and ride around London and just see see where it takes us
and it is... it... it was so epic
I'm not sure it comes across
this video is just going to be real time footage of that first bike ride after I completely smashed my face in and knocked myself unconscious for 3 hours
I've literally no idea what happened in the time I was out and I have cycled since but I haven't been back on a Boris bike
these are the blue bikes that you can hire from docking stations uh around London and uh they've now released electric bikes so you can now get an e-bike that you can just rent and cycle around and you you're charged for however long it is before you dock the bike again obviously
um keep an eye out keep an eye out people opening their car doors cuz they're not looking and taxi doors are the worst we've hired electric bikes before and they've been really good value but the the value of santander bikes is incredible
it's insane if you are visiting London I highly recommend just jumping on a bike but I did wear a helmet
that's the only crucial difference we did come prepared with helmets uh because I don't want to be in a hospital Corridor ever again so come come ride along with us
there's some weird chitchat along the way
we are cycling from waterloo station over Westminster bridge and along Victoria embankment to Tower Hill and there'll be some other videos in this playlist where we talk a bit more and we travel to some other places in London but this is the first video to get us going thanks for coming along with us on this ride
thank you oh my god s SM the bridge and there big pain
go right
we did it there we are
uh so we're going to head down the embankment now I think there's some kind of process going on there trying to avoid this it's going to be busy later
just row out
oh there we
go it is mad busy today it's is uh August and it's a Saturday I know about 20 demonstrations today but none of these people look like demonstrators that's the time
I'm well over my 20 minute limit
so watch the um oncoming we're going to go right and then down that cycle Lane yeah they going to be mad cyclist as well
so is it I've got it on the camera they're doing them
first a don't we'll see that we'll get more it's not going to fall out of your pocket is it you can put it get my bank if you want okay here we
go thank you you okay
all right
Hey Joe come alongside can you see people just aren't looking what they're
doing all sorry crank you
you see people just aren't looking
you okay
it shows the speed and I think it's capped at 27 km per hour uh cuz it you just can't get any more power out of
it you okay
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you're in third game
yeah thanks
Hey Joe I might change bikes so that I can um get another 30 minute period I think I've already gone over but we'll
see no they they see red light flashing yeah okay
I I think there's a thing under
here charging the dog
yeah yeah which is the advantage that they have over the line but they've always had those dock they Char yeah they must have um you know fitted
them I can't see it should show you how much long you've got left on your hire shouldn't it yeah
anyway should go to to of London okay
you want go in front
oh hold done see we're going under my school all
right screen for the traffic I think we wait for go now we could but yeah let's um yeah that which would not be a good thing I could really do with a drink we go to Tower Hill and get a drink Dr bikes and get a drink
yeah do you want let the super 73 have take here
yeah you pull forward I'll stay and then catch you
up he's going for it
sound it he really used
that oh Joe oh okay
okay wasn't expecting this I think we should have gone right left
okay this is uh my dad's house lived over there it's all changed now I don't think uh my son has noticed that I'm not here okay
hi
yeah there's a hole of London a hole in London my series holes of London it's this London Bridge over there they gone quite away oh here we go green
all mind if I go in front uh for this next section and then we'll stop at uh town of London yeah what's
up you
okay oh is it all at 4K no okay tell me to put it in your bag
all right
I...
I'm looking for a docking station it's green now go go go I'm looking for a docking
station okay thanks
wow
right I need to find docking station
I think there's one over
there just going to turn around
say got to call it got to call
it yeah I need to sh said on your right but he didn't so we got to have 360 awareness so what happened there was some uh likely sped past me like really close but I didn't know he was there if I swerve to the right i' have no idea uh so always good to call it if you overtake someone you should know that if you got your own bike
so so f
and so we found the docking station it's time to dock the bikes and this ride only cost us about a tenner each incredibly good value so we made it to the Tower of London I'm calling this a dad delivers success thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the Subscribe button it really helps us to keep this channel going and right here is this playlist of all the other places that we've gone together this is crazy Jo this is so crazy I'm going to take a break in the recording there oh it's brilliant
How do you open a stuck PVC window handle and also replace it?
In this video, I tackle a common household problem: fixing a stuck handle on a PVC window. If you've been struggling to open your bathroom window even after pressing the button, this step-by-step guide is for you.
I’ll walk you through a simple method to get your uPVC window open and then show you how to replace the broken handle with a new one. Whether you're an experienced DIYer or just trying to keep your family happy, you can follow along as I fix this window in real-time!
There are some unexpected challenges: finding the right handle size and cutting it down to fit perfectly. By the end of this, your window will be functioning like new, and you'll be able to let in some much-needed fresh air!
THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!
Hello, welcome back to the vlog, and welcome back to my bathroom. We... we've been in here a few times too many, I think. But is your handle on your PVC window broken?
Is it... does it just not move? Is it not working, even if you press the button in? The handle on the PVC window doesn't open? I think I've got a solution for this. I'm going to do this for the first time in real time so you can follow along with me. We try new things every day to make your family happy, and the thing I'm trying today to make my family happy is to... is to open the crucial bathroom window because Daddy... Daddy might change the smell in here from time to time, and if they can't let it out the window, I... I think we will have breathing difficulties.
Come on, Cohagen! You got what you want!
Give these people AIR!
I... I've tried WD40. It doesn't work. Uh, basically, you push the button in, and for some reason, the catch doesn't... doesn't turn. And I know that it's not locked, because the button does go in and out, and it... you can lock it, and the button doesn't move.
Let me show you how this handle works when it works.
Let's go to my son's bedroom, and this will help you to do this technique that I'm about to show you.
But here we have... obviously, the handle is on a different orientation, but if I press the button and open it, it opens. And can you see inside? There is that catch there.
So when it's working, you push the button in, and the catch releases, and that catch sits inside this kind of square metal block here.
So when you close the window, the catch lifts itself up because it's got that kind of, uh, slide on it, and that's going to be crucial for our technique.
And then when you close it, it should click into place, and the click is the... the plastic button sitting in that metal kind of window.
That's... that metal bed. So if I press the button again, obviously, it opens.
So what we need to do is to get something inside that to lift that plastic catch.
Now, what I'm going to use is my Post Office travel money card, which was really good—it really works!
You can just load it up with money, but we're going to try it for this.
Now, I did try it with cardboard because I thought the gap would be too thin.
But a... a... a credit card or piece of plastic should be able to get in.
What we're going to do—can I get in closer?—so I'll try and get you as close as possible.
I'm going to slide the corner all... all the way in so that hopefully it pushes the catch up.
And obviously, you need to make it all the way through the... the... the handle.
And now you can just turn the handle! Ta-daa!
My family can breathe again!
Give these people AIR!
But now what we've got to do is replace the handle because obviously, if you click it... oh no!
We're going to push this open again like that—open it goes. We're going to...
Sorry, I'm just straddling the... the nice bamboo shelf in the bath.
We are going to pry off this cap with a very sharp flathead screwdriver, and underneath—hopefully that hasn't fallen down the... the plug hole—but underneath you have a... a screw there and a screw there, which obviously you can't get to if the handle is... is locked.
So use the card to open it, and then we're going to unscrew these two screws.
This might be one step beyond your DIY, but bear with me, I think this is going to be straightforward and easy.
We're going to undo... I've got my, uh, my trusty Ikea screwdriver as well, and we're going to take out these two screws, and it should just pull out like this. So there's the spindle in there that turns the lock in there—oh—yeah, obviously, I should... I should probably have opened the window first thing on it.
I didn't want to lose the screws out of the window.
You can open the window.
Now I'm going to look online on Amazon to see if I can find a new PVC window handle.
It is now one day later, and finally, my PVC window handle has arrived from Amazon.
I'll leave a link down in the description for a search to get you to the same kind of handles.
You can also get these in DIY superstores. I'm just being lazy, but you can get these in pairs or in greater numbers, so you might get a better deal. I've gone for two because I'm pretty sure this is going to happen again sometime.
This is the old handle, and this is the new handle, and can you see? The... I have to move my face. Can you see that the... the spindle size is different? So what I'm going to do, I think, is see if I can take this out. Oh, you can't—you can't take it out. Oh no. I am really hoping that this works and that this isn't too long for the hole. By the way, if your handle is broken and you've got the handle off and you still can't unlock the window, you can use this section here to turn the lock that's actually inside the window.
Let's use the old one to close the window, just pull it to.
Fingers crossed. I'll bring the camera closer now, we'll see if this will actually fit and if it'll actually work. So I'm going to put that square peg into the round hole...
But there is a square hole in there, and... oh, only just, only just. You can see that there's a bit of a gap. Don't know what I'm going to do about that.
I have tried with some pliers, and I cannot get this to budge at all. It just won't come out. You are going to have to find a hacksaw to... to bring down that length.
Ah, it's... it's never easy! Do I... do I... do I bother?
Do I bother?
Let's just do it for the video.
I'm going to mark roughly the length of the other one onto the new one. I think it's only a little bit over, so I don't actually have to take that much off. I am just using a junior hacksaw for this.
And I hate sawing metal—partly because it's so hard and takes a long time, but also because these metal shavings that come off, the splinters aren't great to have on the floor while we walk around with no shoes on.
This takes a lot of work.
I... I've sped this up. I started off with bits of wood between the clamp and the handle to protect the white coating on the handle, and then in the end, it was so much faff, I gave up and just put the clamp on directly just to hold it in place so I could get maximum sawing in.
In the end, I have to use some pliers to snap it off. Hey, got it! So now it should be the right size.
Back in the bathroom, and pretty much for the same reason... for the same reason, the new handle comes with new screws, but they're longer, so I don't want to chance it.
I'm going to use the old screws to put the new handle in place, and we'll put the square peg into the square hole inside there—that's the actual lock.
And you can see now that the handle is now flush with the window.
Kind of worth the sawing!
And now I'll put the old screw in, and then I can open it—oh no, no! You're kidding me. You are kidding me. Oh, look...
Okay, I thought I'd broken it, so I've put it on the wrong way. Now I can open it, yes! [Music]
And finally, you can cover up the screws with these caps.
Let's try this again. We'll test it—window opens, window closes, handle locks.
I'm calling this a Dad Delivers success!
That was a really hard one. I don't know why, but thank you for saying hi in the comments or hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. Good luck with your window, and right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next!
The first complete run of my secret hidden Lego City trains layout around my garden office, with a Lego City Cargo Train. Sneak peek at a longer video about building the loop using FAKE Lego track for my Lego City train layout. I can finally build the Lego City railway from here!
BUY fake Etarnfly Lego City train tracks HERE! (Commissions Earned from Amazon)
THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!
yeah now there's a oh...
I've run out of track!
Ow!
frottage!
Come on you want to see this don't you, so uh let's find the remote control.
I've got it paired up
so I'll just take it back and this is for running it through the the tunnel
oh and my son shot this so he he built the track and he shot this footage of the train making it through the tunnel
He had to take the pantograph off the the top
I've adjusted the tunnel
I think the tunnel slipped when I pushed the armchair back so uh I've adjusted it now
hopefully it won't hit the ceiling
let's see if it makes it through the armchair
go on, away you go
yeah
let's go backwards full speed
okay I think... the Tunnel of Love is a success!
I don't know why I'm calling it The Tunnel of Love
I love it that's why!
there great we've done it
that's the loop
remote control here
see if we can make history
we'll see if we can make the train go around
I'll put it on four and hopefully it won't hit a cable or something
oh no ah!
I can move these cables and I'll pin them as well
right so it's into the tunnel
it's through the tunnel
it's going under the bench
it's so hidden I can't push the camera under!
we're across the front door that was the first phase
and now it's going to go under this bench
and it's going to go into the armchair tunnel
will it make it out the other side?
yes!
we did it!
we did it!
I've done it!
I wish it were lit better
I... I'll get you a... let's get a light going thing
got a nice light there
I've done it!
I cannot believe after all these years of thinking about this that I've finally managed to get the Lego City train tracks hidden... a hidden layout all the way around the happy hut
it... it looks really small but it it's taken hours to try and path this layout all the way around all the cables and boxing it in
I... I just can't believe this train is doing top speed over so much fake Lego Track
the fake Lego Track - the off-brand track works and it's magnificent
and it has really got me out of a hole because this would have cost me a fortune to have done this with official Lego Track
and even better the train runs really well over the flexi track
over the flexible tracks - the fake flexible tracks - that's the section that has meant that I can link one end to the other and the train just Glides over it without a hitch
I know what I need to do now: I need to get some kind of cork underlay I think
just to help
I don't mind the noise but it would help it run more smoothly I think
and I also need to now put in some... some points I can put in some station platforms and have some pass through Loops where I could put other trains
I can start buying trains now!
and I've got my eye on the Lego streetcar which I need to motorize
oh I can't believe it - should I make it go faster?
Let's uh I'll put it on seven here we go get remote
right just pushed it all the way up this is top speed
we are good to go
I am calling this a dad delivers success
thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the Subscribe button it really helps me to keep this thing going and do you know what I think there might be one or two Lego train videos coming up in the future now this is running I can't believe it's still going
What is the best water bottle for kids on Amazon? My favourite is already the ION8 range of plastic and metal bottles and travel cups - I've bought 5 with my own money. Now ION8 has sent me some of their range with the new 2.0 lids: a Stainless Steel travel mug, Recycled plastic cycling bottle, metal flask and plastic water bottle for school... I love the colours and the design and give my first impressions reviews of the new range.
THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!
Hello, welcome back to the channel, and this is a really special day for the channel. Take a look at this! I have never, ever been sent anything from a company for the channel, and the good people at ion8 water bottles have sent me these. I... I am really into water bottles. They are such a crucial part of our day-to-day family life. That sounds a bit overblown, but it's true. I mean, they... they need a water bottle every day, I need a water bottle, and I actually made a video about the ion8 bottle from Amazon because I was a big fan. It didn't taste plasticky, you didn't have the usual ends, and the lid is fantastic. And I've been using this ion8 water bottle pretty much daily for about 3 years. And I don't know if you can see—if I go close—the lid is marvelous, but the clip on the back, over time, wear and tear, just being smashed around daily, um, has kind of, uh, given up. But the lid still works. The timing could not be more perfect. So thank you, ion8. You... I salute your... your reaching out. Let's see what's in the box. This is really exciting!
The first bottle in the box isn't a water bottle. It is an insulated steel, uh, reusable coffee cup. And the reason ion8 got in touch with me is because they have new clips at the top, new lids. Uh, so there's a brand new design. And on this blue bottle, you can see that the handle—the clip—is recessed into the lid, which is a really nice touch. The second new feature I've noticed is that the button that pops open the lid is lockable. So if you push the button up, it locks it in place, which is handy. And then on top of that, you've got the ion8 clip that also stops the lid from flying up. So you've got two fail-safe systems there—two layers of protection. And inside the lid, uh, you can see there's a really, uh, generous sipping hole. I don't... what do you call it—a hole that you drink from? And also an air hole, so that, uh, you can drink unimpeded.
Let's take the lid off. Just unscrew the lid. It comes, obviously, with a bit of, uh, silica gel. You can see it's insulated steel, so there's a steel inner inside the bottle to keep your coffee, or hot drink, or cold drink hot or cold. This travel mug also has fantastic grip around the outside. It's like a rubberized grip, and we have that rubberized edging along the lid at the top. So, really stylish, and obviously, it comes in a range of colors. It is 360 ml, which is 12 oz in the US of A and elsewhere. Should we see how it pours? So, in goes the third of a liter, and here's the shake test. This is with no triple-lock protection on. Here we go. If I open it and give it a pour... so that's the kind of flow—whoa—that's the kind of flow you get with the coffee, the insulated steel travel mug.
Let's see what's next in the box. What should we go for? Let's go for this—ooh—this is a green, really nice green Recyle bottle. It's called Recyle because it's a transparent, carbon-neutral plastic, partly made from plants. So, we have some grooves on the side for grip, and you have the water quantity measures on the side there. So, you can actually follow how much water you're drinking in a day. The lid is the new feature lid. It has got a name—I'll put it on screen now—for their new technology, their new LIF lid technology. But we've got the recessed carry handle, which is really nice. Also, the triple-lock, uh... lock, what would you call it? I don't know. I'm like... I'm like the iJustine for water bottles. I really like... I like this role!
So we've got the triple lock, which means you can slide the button up, and you can flip the loop up to stop the lid flying off when you least want it to. And it's a plain water bottle. It's a really nice design on the water spout, and, uh, an air hole to... to let that in. And in the lid, we've got these kind of rubberized grommets that basically keep the holes covered up and keep... keep it watertight. What I really love about these water bottles is... I just... oh, we just went through so many water bottles where the kids would chew the end—I would chew the end—of the nozzle, and over time, you just get those little micro bits of plastic in your mouth. That's... that's not good, is it? With these, because it has a... a different kind of plastic, it's not chewable, but it's... you know, it's a... it's a really great water spout. That is way more than I thought I'd be talking about water spouts today!
If we open it up, you can see the lid twists off. And let me show you inside the lid. All the lids are like this. There's like a... I don't know the word for this—is it a rubber gasket? Well, it's not rubber, but there's a gasket in place to keep the waterproofing in place when you do the lid up. So, that's really handy. Let's do the P test. So I don't know if I'll pour in wa... this is 24 oz, which is 750 ml, so 3/4s of—oh no—I left the, um, the moisture sachet in. Wow, this is a... a lot of water, which is good. I mean, this is pretty much what I should be drinking. Uh, so I flip the lid, and we'll do a PO test. And let's do a... a shake test. Completely leak-free. I've got some bits from where I've mispoured it. Let's put the lock on. Triple lock on there—that'll be good in a school bag. I really like the size of this. 750 ml is pretty much what I should be drinking in a day, and a really nice design, really comfortable to hold. I think I'm going to treasure this one. I'm going to have this one for myself, I think.
Let's look at the next... the next one in the box. This is a stainless steel... oh, this is a beast! This is a canteen. This is a 40 oz—that's 1.2 L—stainless steel, leak-proof water bottle. The thing with this is it actually feels quite light for something that's stainless steel. So, we have the triple lock lid and integrated carry handle that fits into the recessed section for it in the lid. And if I open this up, you can see it is pure stainless steel inside. And like the other ion8 bottles, it is dishwasher safe, which is handy. They're easy to clean, and they don't keep any smell, or odor, or flavor. That said, I've not encountered that with the other plastic bottles, but it's even more the case with a metal bottle. I... I can fit this in my rucksack. So, it's... it's a stretch, but I can fit it on the... the side pouch of my backpack.
Let's do the spill test, and this feels really heavy when it's filled up. This is like 1.2 kg. Better not drop it on my head. Nice spill—fantastic! And that's without even putting on the triple lock on the lid. And it pours like this. We... we could be here for some time because there is a lot of drink in here. Uh, I also love the... the... the shape of the spout. It means you can get it at just the right angle without the water pouring out of the air hole on the top. Um, I think... I think you've got the... the gist of this now.
The next bottle is—wow—this is quite a striking blue. It's a leak-proof, slim water bottle, vacuum-insulated, so it's got double walls. It's made of stainless steel. We have the... the... the ion8 cap that you've become familiar with now from the other bottles. So, it's got the triple lock, and it's also got the recessed carry handle. This bottle does feel a lot slimmer than the others, so this might be good for maybe on a bike—you know, to put it in your bike rack or the side pocket of your rucksack or backpack. And if we open up the lid, you can see that's, uh, super clean, really nice brushed metal there. ThermoShield—it's called Prograde ThermoShield stainless steel. It's extremely durable, lasts for years, and is carbon neutral and fully recyclable. This refillable and reusable drinks bottle is food safe, odor resistant, and easy to hand wash. It protects the temperature for hours and keeps drinks fresh and full of flavor. There—you wouldn't have guessed that I just read that from their website!
Let's do the... the shake test, and we'll do a little pour demonstration. I love the spouts on these—they're really satisfying. Hey, I don't know if, um, ion8 sent me some other things as well. They also sell accessories. So, we have a wrist strap, which I guess is designed to fit the ion8 bottles specifically. Let's have a look. Okay, so it's like a rub... a like a wristband with a nice fetching embossed ion8 logo there and, I guess, a loop to fix it to the bottle. Let's try and put one on. I don't know how quickly I can do this, but in the bottle lid, can you see there's a special carry handle hole there? So if I put this through, I think if you feed the... the strap through the cable like this, it then fixes the wrist strap to the bottle. There! That looks really fetching, doesn't it? Look at that!
Oh, there's also this straw, which is designed specifically for the 500, 600, and 750 ml bottles. Let me show you. It's got a special screw attachment at the top, and this is designed to fit the... the water spout exactly. Now, you just push it in at that, and then you can fit that on the bottle. The straw appears here, which means that when you're drinking, you kind of... you can suck on the water spout. So it's like a giant sippy cup, which I... I kind of like the thought of.
I am calling this a Dad Delivers success! I really like these water bottles already. I bought this one with my own money, and now it has a wrist strap, which is kind of cool. Thank you, ion8, and thank you for being the first company to send me stuff. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps us to keep this channel going. So thank you, and right here is what YouTube knows you are going to love watching next!
