Why I love this dehumidifier. Meaco ARETE TWO 12L unboxing review

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Why I love this dehumidifier. Meaco ARETE TWO 12L unboxing 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.

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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...

First London bike after my crash... Back on Santander Cycle Hire after 13 years...



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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

he

Lo

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

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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!

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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!

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Hidden LEGO CITY TRAIN layout first run round the Garden Office!

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Hidden LEGO CITY TRAIN layout first run round the Garden Office!

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!

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Hidden LEGO CITY TRAIN layout first run round the Garden Office!



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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

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Best WATER BOTTLES on Amazon?! ION8 first impressions reviews and unboxing...

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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.

Best WATER BOTTLES on Amazon?! ION8 first impressions reviews and unboxing...



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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!

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How I put up IKEA EKET floating cabinet... for girl's bedroom MAKEOVER!

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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!

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How I put up IKEA EKET floating cabinet... for girl's bedroom MAKEOVER!



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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!  

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How to clean a Meaco dehumidifier filter! Arete One and Two

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How to clean a Meaco dehumidifier filter! Arete One and Two

If you have the MeacoDry Arete One 18L dehumidifier and Air Purifier, there's no need to buy a new filter yet! Here's how to clean the Meaco dehumidifier filter using just a vacuum cleaner! (I'm using the Miele CX1 cleaner). This seems also very similar to the 15L, 20L and 25L dehumidifiers. It's easy to clean, so here are my step-by-step instructions!

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Hello, welcome back to the channel. What happens to the filter on a Meaco Arete One dehumidifier after, say, 3 months, 6 months, or in our case, 9 months? How do you clean the air filter on a Meaco dehumidifier, and how does it all work and what does it look like after 9 months of pretty much continuous use? The new thing we're trying to make your family happy is to clean out a Meaco dehumidifier. I think this is going to be fairly straightforward. This is the Meaco Arete One 18L dehumidifier, and this is the filter at the back. I've not touched this. I've wanted to save this for you just to show you how much air it cleans. I'll put the camera close to the grill, and I don't know if you can see, but I've kind of poked through some of the dirt. That's how I knew it was probably time to clean this.

So what I'll do is I'll turn it off, and then let's just slide it out to the side. You can see how much dust has been picked up from the sides. This is really fine dust. We have a lot of mud in our house because our doggy Casper comes in with wet, wet paws from the garden, and he—oh, there he is, he heard his name—I'm talking about you. He comes in, shakes off, and all the mud then dries up and turns to this fine dust. You can see in the honeycombs. Can you see? If I give it a little shake, you can see how much is falling out, and it reveals the grill inside. So let's slide it out all the way. 

[Music]

And it's reasonably clean on this side, which is good news for the motor. But you can see some fur and hair has made it through. And then if I lift this up—this is going to be disgusting, isn't it? Here we go—whoa, it's completely gunked up over here. I've got my Miele, I think it's the CX1. I'll put it on screen now. I've got a whole video about unboxing and first impressions review there. But I've got the hose attachment on. Let's turn it on. I hope you can hear me. All of the dirt on this side is going to be on this side. So let's give it a little hoover, a little vacuum.

Oh, you can see it instantly lifts out all the dirt. It's really easy to run the attachment over the grill, just work it into all of those little honeycomb sections to suck out all the dust. And then I'll run it over the sides of the back, just get it into all the corners and just take off all the surface dust as well. A lot has built up over the 9 months that we've been using our Meaco dehumidifier. 

Flip it over, and we'll just give the outside a clean here. And of course, I've not thought this through, but now I guess all that dirt has now gone into our Miele vacuum cleaner, and I'll have to work out a way to clean that filter now. Basically, I'm just passing dirt from here to here to here. But now it's the fun part. It's time to clean this filter, this paper filter. You can reuse it. So if I turn the vacuum on, and then what I'll do is I'll just run the brush over it. I'll just work the brush in between these paper folds, and it really sucks out all of the dust that it's collected. It's doing a great job, and you can see instantly that the filter is turning white again, and you can see some light between the filthy flaps. 

I can also clean around the edges. This foam edging helps keep the filter in place and keep that suction and the air quality pure because only air can get through the paper grills. And over on the other side, what's supposed to be the clean side, obviously some dirt has got through because it's so clogged up. So I'll just give the other side a quick clean as well and just finally clean up around the edges. There, it's like new.

And this is the easiest of the lot, just running the vacuum brush over all the edges where you can see the dirt. You probably can't see this, but there are speckles on the white grills here as well. So I'm working the brush through just to clean everything out, ready for the filter to go back onto the unit. If you look inside, I can actually see some dust has got through to the other side. So I'll probably push the brush through just to try and suck out anything that's gone into the unit. But the filter's done a really great job considering we've not cleaned it for at least 9 months. 

We absolutely love our Meaco Arete One dehumidifier. It's served us so well just for this half a year already. We can see a big drop in mold around the house. To put it all back together again, it's really simple. We just flip over this grill, and then I'll try and keep it the same way so the clean side will be this side, and we'll just push that into place, and the foam will keep it sealed. And then we'll slide it back onto the unit. We're going to try and do this one-handed. Here we go. Wow, it goes on so easily and then just clunks into place. 

I am calling this a Dad Delivers success. I've got all my other Meaco dehumidifier videos, all the reviews and how-tos—those links are down in the description. Thank you so much 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.

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How to change BOSCH STRIMMER LINE in seconds! EasyGrassCut 26

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How to change BOSCH STRIMMER LINE in seconds! EasyGrassCut 26

How do you REPLACE a Bosch garden trimmer line when it breaks? I share how I change the strimmer line on our EasyGrassCut 26 in under a minute, with step-by-step instructions on how to fit a replacement spool for this grass trimmer. If you're looking for an easy tutorial on 

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How to change BOSCH STRIMMER LINE in seconds! EasyGrassCut 26



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So...

So, your Bosch Grass trimmer or strimmer has snapped the line. 

How do you fix the line on a Bosch Garden trimmer? 

I need to turn the power off first. There, I don't always remember. 

It's really easy. I'm going to go through this step by step, and we'll get your line back up and running. 

This is the EasyGrassCut 26, but this is pretty much how all grass strimmers work. 

You can see there's like a, obviously, the thing that spins around. 

On each side, there are these two buttons. 

If we squeeze them together, it lifts the lid off, and then underneath we've got the spool of line. 

What we're going to do is we're going to take this out. It's a bit difficult holding this at the same time. 

And then we want to feed out just a bit of extra line and make sure that the line in the spool is kind of free running. 

It does kind of spill out. If it does, you will have to wind it back up again, otherwise you're going to be doing this a lot. 

Inside the spinny thing in the middle—hope this isn't getting too technical for you—on the spinny thing, there's a little hole, an eyelet. 

What I'm going to do is feed the line into the eyelet, just over here. 

So I just curve that in—whoa, hang on. See that? That is exactly what I didn't want to happen. So we just tighten it up. 

I'll show you a close up of that. Can you see? It's gone through. And then we'll set the cartridge back onto the spool holder here, like this. I find it—oh no, it's the wrong way around. Right, so that's another tip. Can you see? 

It's got these kind of catches. That's the side that goes down. 

And then we can set the cartridge onto this spindle, there, like that. And I'm going to pull it tight just to make sure the line inside is nice and tight. 

And then to rewind it back into the cartridge, you just turn it anticlockwise. 

You can hear it clicking, and I'll show you why it clicks in a moment. 

But that will take the line back in, and we want it to be just about the same length as the protective guard there. So we've got a bit more to go in, but it's okay if it's a bit over because there is a blade or plastic notch on the protective guide. 

So when it spins around—let's tuck it in—when it spins around for the first time, it will catch that blade and cut it to the right length. 

If you want to feed it out again, there's a black button down here. 

If I press that, you can feed it out one notch at a time, and then to wind it back in, just turn the cartridge anticlockwise. So I think we're done there. 

So what we need to do is put the lid back on. It's really simple. 

Just line up the buttons with the guide holes and just slide it down. 

Try and keep it level, otherwise it won't work. 

And that clicks on, so that is now good to go. 

You can see that the line is not going anywhere. 

What we'll do now is turn the power back on, and then watch out, make sure - I'm wearing glasses because it will fly off that excess bit of line on the first turn. Keep your hands and eyes away from it. Here we go, it's going to be noisy.

There, so now it's cut it to exactly the right length, which on this EasyGrassCut 26 is 26 cm diameter. 

And away I go around the happy hut. 

If you want to buy a replacement line, I have a link, an Amazon link, down in the description to the official Bosch trimmer line. 

I personally am using the official products now because I used my dollar store or pound shop trimmer line, and it just melted and just didn't really do the job. So I paid a bit extra, and this does seem to last a bit longer than the cheap alternative lines. But those are on that link as well. 

Give me a thumbs up or hit the subscribe button if this video is helping you, or say hi in the comments. I hope this sets you on your way to a bit more garden work. It's lovely to meet you, and right here on screen now is a video that YouTube knows that you are going to love watching next.

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How do you use a prompter for YouTube videos? How do you set up a teleprompter on a Sony ZV-1 camera? Which is the best budget autocue on Amazon? I share how I set up my teleprompter in my YouTube home studio, using the DESVIEW T3 prompter on my Sony ZV1 camera. I also use a Desview R5 mkii 7 inch field monitor to put the words on screen with Google Docs from my PC.

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Hello, welcome back to the Happy Hut, welcome back to the channel. 

I'm Neil, and in this video, I'm going to be looking at teleprompters. 

Are they any good for your YouTube channel? Do they work? 

Which is the best one, and how do I fit a teleprompter to my Sony ZV1 camera? 

This video is basically an excuse for an unboxing of this: the Desview T3 teleprompter for tablet, smartphone, iPad, or in my case, the Sony ZV-1 camera. 

We'll get to the unboxing in a moment, but let me show you my setup because it's working really well for me.

This is the Desview T3 teleprompter. 

Down here is the Desview R5 Mark II field monitor. It's a 7-inch field monitor. 

Now, I'm not—I've paid for all of this with my own money, so this isn't sponsored and it hasn't been given to me for free—but I do really like this setup. Uh, let me show you how I've attached it to the camera. I'll go through this in detail on the unboxing, but I have a wide view lens adapter—can't even get the words out—attached to my Sony ZV1 camera, and on that, you have a ring where you can attach filters.

Well, that means I can attach a ring that holds the teleprompter to the camera.

Let me show you setting it up. 

You take the ring that comes with the teleprompter and screw that onto the filter ring. 

Then you can take off the protective cover for the teleprompter, and it reveals this kind of groove thing that you slip over the ring.

So the ring holds the teleprompter on the end of the camera for you, and this is what it looks like through the camera. So you don't get to see what is being projected onto the screen.

Look, I can show you, I've got words on my computer and they go onto the monitor, and they are reflected in the glass. 

Now, it looks like the monitor is far away on the camera, but in real life, the way that the optics work is that these words actually fill the screen, so I can see that on there. 

But my camera is not showing it because of the way it's—it's the laws of physics—means that I can't actually show you what my eyes can see, but I can see this text really clearly. 

The way I've done that is that I have, uh, a PC under my desk, and an HDMI lead comes out from the PC, and you just connect that to the field monitor. 

I've also got a power cable going in—it's usually a bit tidier than this—but I've got a power cable going in to power the monitor.

Now, the great thing with a field monitor is you can do this with a phone, but with a field monitor, I can bring up a menu on the monitor, and in the menu, I can set the monitor to reverse the text. So I can flip the image horizontally. So I don't know if I can get the camera close enough, but it's actually projecting backwards what is coming out from my PC.

The great thing with that is that I don't need any other apps.

I can just use Google, Google Plain old Google Docs!

So this is a Google Doc with my script on. I've got the zoom into 200%, and I've zoomed into that on my PC. 

And I can even hit F11 here, and that will fill the screen with the text. 

And then while I'm talking—so I hold the camera and talk at the same time—I can scroll the text. 

So I can say that “WhatsApp can be a complete pain sometimes, especially when someone adds you to a group chat”.

And I can just scroll through my script as I'm reading it.

I can do it at whatever speed I like. 

I can make this text bigger or smaller. I've got full flexibility. 

The other way that I use this setup is that I can put Zoom calls up onto the monitor, which means I can look at the camera.

I can give full eye contact to the screen throughout the call without having to awkwardly look up and down during the call. So this has been so helpful for me, and it's helped me to make so many more videos because it means that I can project the text or the image that I want to look at while I'm recording actually in my eyeline, and it's really helped.

It's not cheap, but I've been using this every day.

So this setup—I wish I'd gone for this setup earlier, but I tried bodging it with a phone and a cheaper teleprompter. I wanted to treat myself because I was using it so much.

This is how the Desview T3 teleprompter arrives. 

I'll just give you shots of all sides of the box.

It's a really nice, uh, bit of packaging, even though it's a plain brown box, actually makes it feel quite premium. So I'll open up the package, and we have a user guide.

I guess this is going to be all the adapters. 

Let's open this up.

Yeah, look, all the adapter rings and foam fillers for using it with a smartphone.

I’ll be using mine with a Sony ZV-1. 

Cleaner cloth, uh, there's more holders in there.

We have a teleprompter remote, and then the big thing in the box is the teleprompter itself.

This really nice foam packaging. But the main reason I wanted to buy this particular teleprompter is this. This is crucial. This ring here.

I don't have that on my other teleprompter, and other budget teleprompters do not have this.

This—between uses—if that's open—hang on, just trying to open it up to demonstrate—there's like a lip here on it. It says pull. That's really helpful. Not following that at all.

That just slides on. 

What happens is, if that's open, dust gets into it, inside it. So I'm constantly having to clean inside the teleprompter screen. So to cover it up for protection, this has a nice tray, nice branded cover that just slides on like that.

So we have the two cold shoe mounts. Again, I'm going to be using that. I'll put a ring light on one, and I can put my—you could put a monitor, or I could put my wireless mic receiver so I can see the levels on there. 

The other reason I wanted to buy this one is because of this nice big gap down here. 

I've got a nice chunky Desview field monitor that I use for—oh hello, you can see me—I use a field monitor, and the monitor is just too close to the glass on my other budget teleprompter. 

The different-sized foam cutouts for pressing against a smartphone if you're using the smartphone to record rather than the smartphone to do the cueing and the word projection. 

And we have all these different adapter rings, and they all come individually wrapped, which is a nice touch. Look up here, I have a pretend setup to find your ring. I'll open the 52 mm. 

Let's see if this one fits. Like a glove.

So the idea is for this to—sorry, this is to simulate your camera.

This smartphone holder isn't actually a smartphone holder.

You can pull it out this much for a phone, like—I'll demonstrate.

This is a Samsung S20, but you can stretch further by pressing this button here.

It gives you an extra extension, so this can hold up to, I think it says—you'll have to check this, but I think it's an 11-inch tablet. 

The instructions aren't very clear, but what we need to do is loosen this, which then drops this holder section like that. And that reveals an area where we can put the bolt in. 

So I'll slide the bolt through here, line it up with the bolt, and just screw this in. The holder is firm, and I can now push this back up. But what's great with the T3, the Desview T3, is that you can adjust the height.

We are good to go. 

So if I take off this protective holder—hang on, I could just slide it out. There we go. 

The way you mount it onto an SLR, DSLR, or mirrorless camera—or I do it with my ZV1 with the ring adapter—slide the teleprompter onto this ring, and that holds it in place like that. Let me show you what it looks like side on, and this looks really good. 

So what I want to do now, obviously, is put it on the camera that you're watching right now. So I'm now on my phone. I can do this one-handed. Hopefully, just slide it off the ring. There we go.

And I can now mount the teleprompter onto my ZV-1 so you can see the view from the camera.

But on the side, all I do is line up the teleprompter with this ring and just pull it on into place. 

I'm doing this one-handed, which isn't helpful, but here we go. 

Click, and on it goes. And oh, that looks so good.

So the greatest thing for me, for the Desview T3, is if I take this off—just slide it up like that—I do not want dust going into that hole. 

I can already see some is getting in there, so slide that in, click, and then I can put the protective ring on, and that will stop dust, pollen, and debris from going into the teleprompter while it's in storage. 

That unboxing was recorded about 3 weeks ago.

I've been using this setup every day, pretty much every time I put the camera on.

I've used it for Zoom calls for my day job, and I can just read the text straight off the camera, straight down the barrel of the lens, so you get the full effect of me speaking fluently as if I know what I'm talking about because I've planned it in advance and I've put the script on the screen. 

If you have any questions, leave a comment down below. Just say hi, it'd be lovely to hear from you.

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It really helps me to keep this channel going. 

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My best first CAMERA BAG on Amazon! Pgytech Onemo 25L Backpack unboxing and first impressions review

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Why I chose this as my first ever camera bag from Amazon: the PGYTECH Onemo 25L backpack. I'm trading in my bag that piles all my gear on top of each other for this stylish Olivine camoflage backpack.

I'm planning on using this rucksack for my small gear: Sony ZV-1 camera, Lacie hard drives, DJI Action 2 camera and DJI Mic wireless microphone system. I'm also using the bag's extendible section for my Macbook Pro, bulky notepads and scripts. 

It's fantastic, and here's my unboxing first impressions review.

My best first CAMERA BAG on Amazon! Pgytech Onemo 25L Backpack unboxing and first impressions review



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Hello, welcome back to the channel. This is my unboxing first impressions of the PGYTECH OneMo camera bag, camera backpack, and oh my goodness, this is a big moment for me. I wanted to capture it on camera because I have never bought a camera bag before or backpack for a number of reasons. Firstly, cost. Spending that amount of money on a backpack does feel slightly alien to me, so this is a new experience. But also because I share how I make videos here on YouTube, and I'm not really into that Peter McKinnon, Matti Haapoja Gerald Undone world of cameras. I just, you know, appreciate them, but I've never been into the big cameras with the interchangeable lenses. I know you might feel differently, and this is why you're getting a backpack, but I like my small cameras. But I did need a camera backpack that doesn't just pile everything on top of each other. I've got a lovely rucksack—well, I had a beautiful rucksack, but the zip broke. So then I bought a quite expensive, for me, rucksack, and this rucksack is gorgeous. I love the look of it. I love the build quality and the quality of the zips, but it just means I heap everything into the bag. My bag is just a heap of stuff, which is not good for the equipment. So I ordered this, the PGYTECH OneMo backpack, and look how it comes out of the package. Look at this. So this is what you get when you spend a bit more money on your rucksacks—a new experience for me.

And look, do I have to say this again? But I bought this with my own money. It's on offer at the moment because there's a new model, the OneMo 2. I'm way behind in reviewing this, but it might be an option if you're thinking of stepping into the world of camera backpacks. And wow, would you look at this for an unboxing experience. Look at it, it's gorgeous. I have to now undo the stitching on the top of this paper bag. Oh, that was a lovely few moments though, wasn't it? Let's take this off, so I get rid of that, move that there. This is how it comes out of the bag, and so we've got nice paper packaging, but there is the reassuring plastic packaging here. And I've gone for the olivine camo, or I think it's called olivine camo, olivine camo. When I was checking this out online, I didn't know how this would look. It's the only thing I see you. I like my bags to be slightly plain, and having this kind of Star Trek logo, uh, stitching on it, paneling on it, didn't quite sit comfortably with my wanting to keep things down on the down low. But in real life, it looks really stylish, and with the olivine—or olivine, is it? I call it olivine camo—these pouch edges kind of blend in really, really nicely, and they're magnetic, so you can put things in there. So I can put my knife, my steak knife in there.

The reason I wanted this is the side access. I really miss just being able to reach into the side without having to open everything up or having everything piled on top of each other. So let's open up. This is the first pouch, and there's an RFID-protected zipper pouch here actually in the flap. And I can, like, you can put all kinds of small things there. I'm missing that from my current rucksack, so this is a huge addition. The only thing I'm scared of, having spent my own money on this, is that there are a few reviews that said that the zips have failed, which isn't a good look because obviously, as soon as one zip fails, the bag is pretty much cut. But we've also got these anti-theft loops so that you can just delay anyone wanting to just unzip your bag very quickly while you're out and about. That loop will slow them down. And then there's the bottom pouch here, and we have three battery holders. I don't use batteries, but I'm sure I'll use these for something because I carry a lot of gear around with me.

And inside, let me put it out here. I should open it all up, shouldn't I? Show you what it looks like. But I just wanted to go for the pouches first. There's an olivine camo shoulder bag. Let's open up the shoulder bag and see what's inside. And we have a shoulder strap for the shoulder bag, and that is adjustable, but obviously, it does slide around. This hook goes over this hook, I guess. Tell me in the comments if I'm wrong, but that looks like the strap for the bag fitted. And then inside we have, oh, there's a pouch on the top, so you can store things in there, which is really handy. Acres of room in here. It's another pouch for more gear, and inside we have these adjustable Velcro panels, the dividers that divide up the bag for you. The Velcro or the hook and loop strips are on the side there, so you can configure this whichever way you want. This one has a little shelf so you can have an upper and lower level. There's a really handy handle on the side here, so you can carry it hand-carry it without the shoulder strap. Let's put that back into the OneMo backpack. So this can just slide into the side pouch or the side panel of the backpack. It goes in like that, really snug. What I love already, just first impressions, is the handle on top, which I'll use a lot, but there is also a handle on the side. I haven't seen that on any reviews that I've watched, and I've watched a lot of them, but there is a side handle in case you want one of those, and it blends in really nicely.

The shoulder straps tuck into two pockets here, so you can pull them out. This is going to be a game-changer for me because I leave this on the floor of the living room every night when I bring all my gear down from the happy hut back to the house, and they just flail all over the floor. Dog treads on them, everyone trips up on them. You can just tuck these in, and there's a chest strap for when you're really running for the train. For me, that would be really helpful. But there's also a pouch here, a zippered pocket with really nice lining. I love the colour of it. I'm not into army military-looking stuff, and this doesn't look too, uh, GI Joe. It's just a really tasteful dark green. On the other side, there's elasticated straps for putting, uh, lens caps. Again, I don't really use them, but that might be useful for tucking something in. Plus, do you know what? I really want to wear my Action 2, my DJI Action 2 camera. I've always tried to find a way of attaching it to a shoulder strap, and I think this might be the one where I'll be able to do that. So while I'm walking around, I can film my journeys.

This is the front section that expands. Wow, this really is first impressions. So it looks like that for extra room. And inside this pocket, there's, uh, elasticated—wow, this is elasticated—that can hold gear in place. I'll be using that for stuffing coats and things in, I think. So the main section, I really wanted to be able to slip my laptop in and out, so you can open it partially and tuck your laptop or tablet in there. I'll put my exercise book as well. I do some handwriting, and that section is subdivided as well. Don't know if you can see inside. This is the moment you're wanting to get to, I'm sure. Here it is opened up, and straight out of the box we've got, uh, a sticker. I think it's a PGYTech sticker, and it already comes with the two halves divided, which is lovely. I won't be changing that. That is one key feature of the bag for me. I think I'm going to be using the bag for other things, so I'm going to take out the shoulder bag. Much though I love it, this is going to be so good for keeping my headphones, my wireless mic, my camera, and all the leads that I need. I wasn't, on the videos I've watched, I wasn't too impressed by the way this kind of looks like it was saggy or not put in very well, but actually, I kind of like how it means that this door here, this flap here opens, and there's like a really nice tall section here, so that might work for when I, you know, go out with my ZV1. I have a wide lens attached to my Sony ZV-1 or ZV1, so that's going to be really nice. Just grab and go from the side there.

And we've got all these compartments. We have extra straps, and they're really nicely labeled. Let me show you what comes out of the box. This looks like there are two dividers. Actually, it's just one where that opens up like this, so you can double-tier this compartment. And then there's another loose compartment here, and again, that folds down into a shelf. And then put that here just for a demonstration. That is going to be so good for carrying gear around. You see the rain is falling. Going to test this waterproofness. Let's zip it up. Finally, just on this first impressions explore, just show you underneath. This has got a hard-wearing—it's almost like a rubberized bottom. Don't we all like a rubberized bottom? There we go. And it stands up fresh out of the box. Who knows if it'll do that when it's full of my gear?

And we've got a strap that opens up here. I guess you can use that on luggage. Yeah, this is really nice. Now the big test for me, because I'm really going to use this, I'm not going to put tripods in here so often, but what I will use is my half-litre water bottle. So I've got a giant water bottle, and that goes in super easily. I've not seen this on other videos. This is how it does it. There's an elasticated strap here, an elastic strap. I didn't quite know how this works, so it's lovely to see it in real life. So that will hold the water bottle in place. Absolutely amazing.

I've not opened this side panel. Let's open this up for you. There's an elastic pouch here, or strap for holding cables or other bits of gear. Another zip and another pocket. Well, I don't know if you find this, but you know I carry other things like hand sanitizer and tissues, all of that gear, uh, pens, pencils, Sharpie markers. They can all go in there. At the moment, they just pile into the bottom of my rucksack, so it's so good to have them, give them a home.

I was really, really wary of spending three figures on a backpack. I know this might be second nature to you. You might be in a part of the world where you can afford that quite comfortably, but for me, it's a giant leap to spend this amount of money on a rucksack. And my first impressions review is this is a hit. I absolutely love how this looks. It feels really well-made, and it doesn't really come across either on the PGYTech website or on Amazon. The pictures really don't do it justice. It is really smart looking. The edging on the zips look really waterproof. It's raining now, just throw some water on. Oh, welcome the bag. This is me on the train. Oh no, spilled my coffee, and it just looks really, really waterproof. There's more space down the back behind this pocket. One of the labels is actually the instructions, so I'll give you a quick, uh, squiz through these. It shows you all the different things, things to do, and how to fit those waist straps and equipment straps so you can have different combinations for your gear.

I think I found the rain cover. There's a Velcro section here. There's another pocket, another pouch. Here's the rain cover. Now I need to get this on. I don't know if it's showing up, but the rain is starting to get gradually heavier. But there's this amazing rain bag that fits perfectly. I've never had a rucksack that has been properly waterproof. That is so good. I should wear it, shouldn't I?

The big takeaways for me, the big pros with the OneMo backpack, is just being able to tuck the straps, the rucksack straps, into these pouches at the back is going to be heaven for me. And the other huge things for me are the side access panels, those doors, to just be able to grab pieces of equipment as and when are going to be crucial. And easy access to slip my notebook, my exercise books, and my laptop into the back just from the top is that I'm just going to be using that the most, I think. So wearing it for the first time, stand back. Oh my goodness, that is so comfortable. I know it's empty. I can adjust these exactly how I want them. It does feel really good. It just feels so comfortable. You can pull these straps down to tighten the arm straps there. And this is pretty much the same size as my standard rucksack, so it's not too big, but it does expand at the front. If I did need to put heavy coats or big items on there, I know that I can strap them on and carry them really easily. Oh, that feels really good.

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