SMALL Meaco 6L Dehumidifier: 360° Visual Tour and Design Review

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Looking for a compact dehumidifier for a bedroom, student flat, or small apartment? In this video, I’m sharing my best video footage of the MeacoDry Arete One 6L. This is the smallest unit in the Meaco range, and I’ll give you a 360-degree tour of its simple, wipe-clean display, the HEPA filter system, and its impressive friendly shape. 

SMALL Meaco 6L Dehumidifier: 360° Visual Tour and Design Review



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This is the MeacoDry Dry Arete One 6L compact dehumidifier and air purifier. It is... it's really nice. It's really small and as you can see I've got it sat on my daughter's desk here or by the wall. It's I think the smallest dehumidifier that Meaco sell and it is a bit of a marvel. I'm used to really bigger, much bigger dehumidifiers, but this 6L model is ideal for maybe smaller flats or even student accommodation or student bedrooms. They prevent damp, mould, and condensation. I've been using a dehumidifier for about 3 years now, and it is completely changed our home. This room that you're seeing the footage of was absolutely covered in mould in all kinds of different corners behind the beds and furniture. And since I've had a dehumidifier, I've not had any mould problems come back. They've been really worth it for us. When I unbox a dehumidifier, I shoot lots of footage of it for the review, the unboxing, first impressions review. That video for this model, the 6L Arete One from Meaco is down in the description. But when I shoot all of this footage, I thought it would be nice if I just share it with you. So, this is just a video of this dehumidifier from lots and lots of different angles, so you can uh judge for yourself if this unit is right for your home. It has a built-in handle, and it has a really simple wipe clean display, which is really nice. It's really compact and when I plugged in a power meter, I worked out that the running costs at the moment at time of recording work out at about 3p per hour, which uh obviously nobody likes spending money, but for us, it was much better to have cleaner, drier air, which is cheaper to heat, and also use it for the laundry. So you can put this in a room and have your laundry out and not have to use the tumble dryer, which has been the biggest revelation for us with all dehumidifiers. But you can do that with this one. It's also an air purifier. So there's a filter at the back, like a coarse wire filter just to stop dusting into the fan. But it also comes with a HEPA filter which I believe I've been told cleans the air and removes dust, smaller dust particles and maybe even mould spores as well. They're not cheap to replace, but I've replaced mine recently and it really helps the efficiency of the dehumidifier and it's really nice just to have proper clean air as well, especially as I really don't want that mould to come back. The best thing with a dehumidifier any dehumidifier, but particularly this one, is that it stops condensation. And where the condensation happens, that's where the mold starts to grow. So, this bedroom that you're seeing it in, I've recorded humidity at levels of around 83%. And I don't know if you can see on the on the display, but it has managed to bring those humidity levels down to nearer 50 55%, which is much better to breathe, much better to prevent the mold. Anyway, if you want to find out more, have a look in the description. There's a link to my proper unboxing, first impressions review where I go through everything. I'll leave you with more footage of this unit alongside some of the other dehumidifiers. All the details are down in the description.

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Best Dehumidifier for Cold Rooms? Meaco DD8L 360° Visual Tour and Design Review

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Best Dehumidifier for Cold Rooms? Meaco DD8L 360° Visual Tour and Design Review

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If you need a dehumidifier for a garage, conservatory, or unheated room, the Meaco DD8L 8L desiccant model could be the one for you? I’m sharing video footage of a complete look at its unique features, including the automatic motorized flap for drying laundry and the sleek, wipe-clean touch control panel. Desiccant technology makes this unit lighter and more efficient in cold temperatures than standard compressor models.

Best Dehumidifier for Cold Rooms? Meaco DD8L 360° Visual Tour and Design Review



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This is the Meaco DD8L 8L desiccant dehumidifier. And I've unboxed this unit, this dehumidifier in another video. There's a link to my full first impressions unboxing review. There's also links to this particular dehumidifier if you want to see how much it is at the moment. But if you're looking into dehumidifiers when I shoot these videos, I end up having a whole load of footage of the dehumidifier shot from all kinds of different angles. So, I thought if you're interested in the DD8L, maybe you'd like to see some of that footage and use it to judge whether or not this is a dehumidifier for your home. The full review is on that link down in the description. What I love about this particular dehumidifier, and why this one's different for me, is that it's a desiccant dehumidifier. So that you can use this in colder environments. It runs more efficiently in colder rooms. Dehumidifiers work by extracting water out of the air, and that means you get less condensation and less mould. It also means that the air is drier, which makes it less dense and easy to heat. But the problem with a dehumidifier is that it does work better the warmer the room is. This dehumidifier, however, works slightly differently. It has a desiccant inside and that's what draws the water out of the air, which means that it can do it more efficiently. So, if you've got something like a conservatory or a garage, you might want to go for something like this desiccant dehumidifier. A couple of things set this unit apart from the compressor dehumidifiers. You've probably noticed there's a flap at the front which can go up and down to direct the air and that's quite useful if you've got some laundry. It's nice to have the air kind of whooshed around in different directions or you can just press a button and have it stay open. It's your choice. It has a really sleek control panel. It has it's almost like a touch screen because it's flat. It's completely wipe clean which is nice. There's also a coarse filter at the back. So, there's a flap at the back which has a grill on it and that protects the fan from dust building up over time. But the other thing I like about this dehumidifier is that it's got a handle built into the back so you don't have an annoying thing to to pull up. You can just grab it. It's also, I found, for its size, much lighter than my other dehumidifiers. It turns off when it's full so you won't flood your your garage or your conservatory if it does actually fill up. And there's also a connection so you can connect a pipe and just leave the thing running. You can also use this remotely. I think you can use this with the Meaco app. It's really easy to empty the the built-in water tank. It's very discreet. You just pull it out as and when. There's even a little window on the side so you can see how full the water level is. This unit along with the other Meaco dehumidifiers has been designed to draw in air from the sides. So Meaco say that you can push this up against the wall and still have it work properly. The touchscreen display allows you to set the target humidity and it has uh laundry mode as well. So if you're drying some laundry, it can run at high speed and high power. I'll leave you with the the footage and the pictures to help you decide whether or not this might be the way to go if you're looking into dehumidifiers. Once again, the links to my full review are down in the description and also there are links for places where you can buy this.

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Why 4 mins counts on my FAVOURITE day of the year

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Why 4 mins counts on my FAVOURITE day of the year

Do you struggle to stay on schedule when the clocks go forward? I am sharing my secret "Dad Savings Time" strategy to make sure my family is never late again. I walk you through the ritual of changing every clock in the house.

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It is 11:00 uh on a on a Sunday morning and uh I've got to go and pick up my son from his girlfriend's because he's walking the neighbour's dog. That's good because Casper gets on with her really well and um it's a special day today. Uh it's the day that the clocks go forward.

Usually it's my favourite time of year. Uh, I just I love it. I love the weather. I love the sense of anticipation. The time from now, the time from now to about June, I think it's... it's... it's I just come alive. This is spring. It's like sunshine's finally here. But walking Casper in the dark at 4:00 is is is never fun. So, this is really good. that finally we can do some sunshine evening walks and ah it's the greatest feeling. I've always been like this. I've got a feeling it's linked to my sleep apnoea because this time of year is the apparently is the time when your vitamin D levels are at the lowest which is why everyone goes sick to the doctor in uh it apparently it's March April and you'd think it'll be like in deep winter but it's because they reckon not many people talk about this it's when our vitamin D levels in our bodies are at their absolute lowest because we haven't had any sunshine. And maybe we've made that worse by being indoors, you know, as a society lifestyle. Or maybe it's just that I'm a spring person. I just absolutely Oh, it's the best. I don't mind doing these short trips because I know that it's basically I feel like this is all the time I've got with him until he gets a car. So, I really don't mind being dad's taxi. Hey, how you doing? Good. Do you mind if I film this for the vlog? Yeah. Oh, okay. Cool. Um, I'm filming it because why? You know what today is, right? Sunday. Um, you able to grab the camera and just it's it's rolling. Just get Casper. Should I open it? I hope you

This is the first clock we're going to do in the hallway. I love this one. Fake sort of 1920s look. This is how I change the clocks, though. The time is 1:43. So, I'm going to set this for 146. I never know whether to do three, four, or 5 minutes ahead. I... I'll split the difference. I'm an ADHD dad. So, this is my workaround for us not being late for everything.

It's like daylight savings time, but it's it's like dad savings time. GMT plus three minutes or four minutes depending on how I feel when I'm setting it. This is our vision board which we hate. Uh should we take down the vision board today? Yeah. Has anything happened from it? Nothing from our vision board has happened and this has been what it's long enough for there to be quite a lot of dust on top of this. Maybe the vision was to to attract dust. We'll have to rethink this. Should I just take it down? Yeah. Okay. This is big. I... I just thought we'd be changing the clocks in this video, but we're going to be destroying dreams. Oh, I really didn't think we'd be taking this down. My god. So, it's 1:47. That means this should be 1:53. There we go. And I'm going to put the vision board back up cuz I can't face having to clean behind it. Onto the favourite now because this is why I started this channel. I put a video up on a completely different channel for how to change the clock on an oven and it did really well. Like it still gets really stupid amounts of views and I link from that to this channel. So if you have joined this channel from that video, uh, thank you. It's 13:49. So that means I'll change this to 13:53. Into the hut and I'll set this clock for I think 13:57. My wife's dad used to change the clocks in in her house. Wasn't our house. That would have been weird. Um, but he used to do it apparently by calling Tim. And back in those days, the only place we could get the right time was by calling a phone number. Probably still works. I haven't thought of trying it. I bet it's a premium rate thing now. So, you'd call this number and you'd get this exact time over the phone and you'd use that to set the clocks around the house. So, I sort of do that, but I deliberately offset it by our family tardiness. I can't cheat with this one. I got a fancy clock from Little and this is radio controlled and there was famously a a big issue with the clocks in Lidl because they they sold all these clocks that were radio controlled, but they were they were from Germany, so they showed very accurate German time. I'm not sure pushing the clocks forward by an hour is um is a good thing. Four minutes is enough. Can I change the clock? I'm making a video about changing the clocks. People know how to change clocks. Dad, 

have you got...

I don't have any clocks. 

Uh I'll do the ones in the bedroom then. So, we've got this great clock here. Uh bedside clock. It's brilliant. It's a flip clock. So, it says on and off. And when you want it to be on, you make sure that the on is up. And then it shows the uh the alarm time there. When you want to stop the alarm or not have it on, you just turn it upside down. Isn't that cool? I'll put a link to it down in the description, but I don't think you can get these anymore. So, it's 14:02. I think I'll make this 14:06. And it's the start of the Easter holidays, so we don't need any of that. Oh, this is my favourite time of year. It's my favourite day of the year. This is a crucial one. The central heating clock. Traditionally, this should be the day where the central heating goes off until October, but it's uh it's a bit cold at the moment. Oh, it's got it's got it it automatically does it. So, there's this really good uh feature where it automatically changes it for you to save you time. And I've just undone that time saving. Finally, the car. We've got a really big problem with our display because it sounds like it's exploding. We think there's like a dodgy connection

[SOUNDS OF SPEAKERS] 

with the speakers and it... it it sounds like people are throwing bricks at the windows. It's really bad. I don't know why it's not stopping now.

Oh, here we go. Clock. Oh, that's really simple. There's a whole button here marked clock that I didn't see. So this is 14:08. We usually get late for football on a Saturday. So if I make this I don't know 1411...

To make this day my favourite day of the year even more special. There's just one more trip that I've got to make.

Hello. Hello. Hi, honey. Hi Lou.

What's up?

So, your friend went to McDonald's and got He got medium fries, a medium massive Big Mac, a medium zero Coke, one McFlurry, and one "no thanks". 

A no thanks.

One no thanks.

Oh!

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4 minutes of Spaniels playing...

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4 minutes of Spaniels playing...

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Here's 4 minutes of dog playing between a Cocker Spaniel and a Spaniel Golden Retriever...

4 minutes of Spaniels playing...



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Here are 2 dogs, a spaniel and a cockerspaniel playing for 4 minutes.

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CANCEL AMAZON PRIME with just your phone

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CANCEL AMAZON PRIME with just your phone

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I am showing you exactly how to end your subscription using just your phone, and I walk you through the real steps to quit Prime video for good.

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CANCEL AMAZON PRIME with just your phone



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You want to cancel Amazon Prime. I do too. So, let's do this together. We can do this on the Amazon app on a desktop, but the easiest way is to do this on the phone. This is the Amazon website. And obviously, make sure that you're logged in. Along the top here, there's this bar. And if we scroll across, look for the heading that says Prime. Here we have lots of advertising, marketing, propaganda for how brilliant Prime is. We don't need that. Let's scroll back up to the top and click on this arrow here. And that brings up this pull down menu. We're going to look for manage my membership. When we click on this option, there's yet even more marketing, advertising, propaganda. We don't need any of this. We need to click again on this option here, manage membership. And again, we have yet more stuff on this page. We don't need any of this. We need to again click on manage membership. Now this is where it gets interesting. We have two options down the bottom here. One is pause membership. I have no idea why I would pause my membership if I want to end it. I can't see what the benefit is of pausing it, but it's giving us that option before end membership. So, I'm going to click on end membership. Now, here it's uh starting to sound a bit like begging, but we've got even more information on what we get for our benefits. And if I click on see all benefits, it takes us back to that first page. We don't want that. So, let's go back. And we have to scroll all the way to the bottom to get to these three options here. Remind me later because you don't want to do it now. See more plans or continue to cancel. So, let's continue to cancel. Now, I've lost count of the number of menu screens we've gone through, but we still have three more options here. Remind me later. Keep membership or end the Prime membership. I'm getting sick of the adverts on Amazon Prime shows that I hardly ever watch and I'm buying a lot of stuff on Amazon because I have free postage. If I didn't have Amazon Prime, I probably wouldn't buy the stuff. So, I'm going to go ahead and end the membership. So, I'm going to click on the the bottom option here. Here we have another page telling me when the membership will end. There's an option to continue my membership. So, I'm not going to do that. I am calling this a dad delivers success. Congratulations. You've canceled your Amazon Prime membership. Say hi below in the comments if you managed to do this successfully. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next. Can you please help my daddy get 10,000 subscribers? Just click on his face. Thanks. Bye. Alright. This is going to be the proper one.


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The Real Cost Using a Flymo Mower

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The Real Cost Using a Flymo Mower

Have you ever wondered exactly how much electricity your garden power tools are pulling from the mains? I am putting a standard Flymo hover mower to the test on a 20m by 7m lawn to find out the precise cost of cutting the grass. Using a plug-in energy monitor, I track the kilowatt-hours in real time to see if the final bill is as bad as we might think.

If you are trying to budget your household energy use or just looking for a bit of motivation to tackle your own overgrown lawn, you need to see the final scores on the doors.

The Real Cost Using a Flymo Mower



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Hello. Ever wondered how much power one of these takes? It's an electric mower. It's a really standard Flymo hover mower. But how much does it cost to run? I'm going to test this out on our garden behind me. It's 20m by about oh, I don't know, 7m. But how much does it cost to use one of these? Uh, obviously your circumstances will be different, your grass length will be different, but I just wanted to get a rough ballpark figure of how much power, how much energy this costs to run. And I've got all kinds of hazards in the garden. There's uh where our washing line is. I've put this cane on because every time we take the washing line up, we always forget where the the crucial hole is in the middle of the garden. I've also got all kinds of Casper's toys scattered amongst the grass. So, we've got some tennis balls, which are the absolute worst because they get trapped between the blade and the the mower motor. I've also got probably some presents from Casper where we've not taken him out and he's just done his business, done his thing. We also have this lovely apple tree and pear tree and they are starting to drop. It's not fully It's at the end of August, but the apples are starting to fall off the tree, and these don't go very well with the blade either. I've got some edging to do as well, but I'll probably do that after I've mowed the lawn. This is uh I guess this is the mow with me video I've always wanted to make. And I don't know if you can see the the length of the grass. I'm trying to show it as best as possible on screen, but I've managed to get away with only mowing the lawn twice this summer. Um, I... I could say that I'm doing it for biodiversity, you know, to help the insects and birds, but uh I can't get away with it for much longer. I do actually need to mow the lawn, especially up by the... the Hut cuz uh it's getting really long up there. I really don't want Casper squatting between the blades and scooting on this for much longer. He he also keeps getting grass seed in his hair, his hair? His fur. That's what dogs have. If you're a dog owner, obviously you know that is really not good. Some dogs have even had grass seed growing in their ears. So, we're now balancing the cost of energy on the Flymo mower with the cost of a vet bill. The way I'm going to be measuring the the energy use, the electricity use is with this plug here. I can hit the button and it cycles through the watts, the kilowatt hours. That is what we're charged for. And over here, we're on I worked it out from our latest build. It's 23p per kilowatt hour. So that will give us a total obviously not including the uh standing charge which seems to have doubled in the last year. But just for the electricity alone uh so it's zero at the moment thanks to my zero gardening. I am starting off in the near corner of the garden partly to be near the camera and partly because I can't face tackling the rest of the 20m ahead of me. Uh it's also shaded as well. So, I don't want to get sunburnt or heat stroked. Yeah, this is a really nice start in the corner of the garden. And it's also where the grass is the shortest for some reason. I don't know why. The hardest part here, I should really leave this to the trimmer, but I'm mowing over the stepping stones that my wife very, very kindly put down. It's beautiful path up to the happy hut. Even though the blade does hover over the stones really nicely, sometimes it just hits the wrong angle and the blade hits the edge of the stepping stones. I'm just going to stay in this corner, but I think the suspense is building up now. I really want to know how much this is costing before I tackle the rest of the garden. Let's take a look at the other power that took. Let's see. Okay, 0.074 kilowatt hours. Okay, we're well on our way. Have we racked up any money? 1p. So, as I say, your circumstances may be different. Your mower might be different. I'm out of breath. Just from this small corner of the garden, that cost me 1p according to my calculations, which might not be the best, but I've got a very good feeling about this because yeah, this could be under a pound. Now, it's time to tackle the slightly longer grass around the monkey bars. It's the monkey bars which uh it's one of the first videos I made on this channel putting up these monkey bars. It must have been oh like 5 years ago. Uh but I... I didn't bother cutting this part of the lawn last time which was a few months ago. This is the longest grass. It's also probably in the sunniest part of the garden. And maybe that's why these grass stems have lots and lots of seed on them. And that seed is just flying up into my face as I'm mowing around the monkey bars. I keep telling myself that the more mowing that I do here means the less trimming or strimming around the monkey bars or the edge of the trampoline and edge of the garden. So that's a good morale booster just to keep me going with trying to throw this flymo over as many square meters of grass as possible. And come have a look. Let's see what it looks like now. I think that looks much better. Uh, I've left that patch there because this is this is Casper's massive hole. Look at that. He every time we fill it in, he just I mean, you can stand up in it. It's an absolute trench. Uh, so I used the strimmer for around there. But most importantly, most tantalizingly, how much power did that take? So, let's have a look now. 186 W. So, that means it is done 4p. So that section by the monkey bar cost us an extra 3p. Tackling now the area that is that always grows the longest in a tuft. The area around where the laundry washing stick, what do you call it? Washing line. Rotary washing dryer stands. We've got the cane showing me where the hole is because oh my goodness, we've lost this hole so many times. We've got the cane today. I'm going to take the cane out and just push forward. See if I can get a few more meters in. I'm actually against the clock now because we're due we're supposed to go go-karting. We booked some go-karts at 3:00. I think we need to be there extra early for all the safety briefings. So, I think this might be the last section that we do for now. And what can I tell you? I so don't want to do the mowing right now that we've just taken off for a few hours down to team sports carting in Gossports. Oh my goodness. This is fantastic. Uh, these are electric go-karts. I think I might release this as a as another video. So, I've gone from riding lawnmowers. I think I can now go back to pushing the lawn mower. Wish I could sit on it. Anyway, better better finish the lawn now. The total so far is just 5p. So, 5p for pretty much half the garden. Definitely a third of the garden. And the bit I need to do now is this stretch here. Let's start the the mower up. The problem with this section of the garden is because it's between two trees. It is really dusty and there are lots of sticks here. Lots of little sticks that get caught up by the Flymo blade. It copes with it, but it's just not pleasant cuz you got these sticks that just fly around and the dust that it kicks up. But I think this is the second worst part of the garden for grass seed for Casper's fur. So, if I can just take this down, I won't have to do it again this year, probably. So, we'll look at the scores on the doors or the energy on the the meter. That was one penny to do everything you just saw. So, we're up to 6p's worth of energy. Next, I'm out of breath. I think it's from holding the hover up um from trying to, you know, avoid hitting the the sticks and the dirt. And I can see I've missed all kinds of patches, but generally I've got it down. Now, we're on to this section. uh the section around the hut. I am really glad my son is doing this section of the garden because this is I think probably the most challenging. I really need a break. So this timing could not be better. The other bad thing is as well as all the other challenges of the sticks and the balls is that Casper likes to dig holes. So we've got trenches, hidden trenches in here that you can fall down and that you have to get the mower over and not have the mower fall down it. And my son is doing a brilliant job of taking down all the nettles that have uh that have grown. I think as well as a trimmer, I need to get my weed whacker to pull them out by the roots. But I've not found gloves yet to cope with the nettles that it manages to get in any pair of gloves that I've bought. Uh so I'll leave that job until the winter, I think. Uh anyway, he's making mincemeat out of all this grass, which is I'm just so thankful that he can he can do this. I really needed the break right now. Yeah. So, so it's gone from 6p to 10p. So, we're now up to 10p and we're in the final section. So, all that's left now is just the corner, the tree corner, which is covered in apples and balls and sticks. Great. Yes, I've done it. I've done it. I'm finished. Let's find the final total. take you over to the power adapter. I'll put a link, by the way, I'll put a link to this energy monitor down in the description where you could uh get one on Amazon. So, the grand total is 13. 13p to do all of this. Wow. Most of it, as much as I could bear for 13, honestly, I thought it would cost a lot more than that. And maybe it's a sign of my particular mower not being that powerful. It might encourage me even to do this more often. No, I'm calling this a Dad Delivers success. What do you think? Are you putting off doing your garden? Say hi in the comments. It be great to hear from you and great to hear your attitudes to the garden. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.

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Our Search for the Perfect Induction Hob - 30 OPTIONS!

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Our Search for the Perfect Induction Hob - 30 OPTIONS!

30 electric induction hobs visual reviews, with me just pointing a camera at them in John Lewis, Oxford Street London. Looking for a new electric induction hob? Browse an entire department store's worth in this one video! Includes brands: Smeg, Siemens, Bosch, Neff, AEG, Miele and Samsung.

After 5 years, our IKEA BLIXTSNABB induction hob finally gave up (literally revealing its electronics). Whether you’re looking for minimalist touch controls, a matte finish, or even hobs with physical knobs, I’ve got it covered!

Our Search for the Perfect Induction Hob - 30 OPTIONS!



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Are you looking for a new induction hob for your kitchen? So are we. Have a look at this. This is our IKEA BLIXTSNABB induction hob. And yeah, we've revealed a bit of the electronics here when a member of the family had enough of it. We've had this for about 5 years and we've Oh, I I think we've had a bit of a hate hate relationship with it. So, it's awful that this has happened, but actually it's probably time to get a new one. Anyway, I went to John Lewis in Oxford Street in London to look at 30 induction hobs. I'm going to show you everything I saw. This is for looks only with these induction hobs because I'm shallow and also because none of them are plugged in. Here's an induction hog. This is the Smeg. Oh my goodness. SIM3964D

1,600 quid.

Looks nice. Very minimalist control.

And this is I don't know what this is. The Siemens. Looks good. I don't know what this is. This the Siemens one again. Minimalist controls. Then we have the Bosch PIE631BB5E 60 cm induction hob. Oh, I like that one. Nice big obvious rings.

And I guess you select the ring there. And then there's the up and down button there. This one is £499.

This looks kind of solid. I think Bosch and Neff are the same thing, aren't they? It's the same company. They got the same address, I think. And this is a Bosch PIX631HC1E for £700. So, we got two big rings there. And we've got a multi-use area here. And that's what the controls look like. Oh, hob shopping. How many people will see this? Oh, right. So, these are Right. So, these are the value ones. So, we got a Bosch series 2 PKE61RAA8B 60 cm one. It looks exactly the same as the £500 one, but it's £244 and we've got four rings. Simple controls there. It's a Bosch.

I think our one might be a bit wider. I think our one is this... is that shape. There's another 60 cm here. Oh, with knobs. Oh my god, it'll be so good to have knobs. This is 233 pounds. There's a warming button. Oh, I love the knobs.

Okay, moving on. This is the Bosch series 6 PIV831HB1E. Yeah, this is the size we need. Simple

controls. This one is £900.

And then the Bosch PXV... Oh, I should show you the the signage, shouldn't it? So, that was that one. This is the Bosch PXV831HC1E 

three pot areas, and a multi-function area with simple controls.

So, what size is this one?

I can't tell.

I think these are gas hobs.

Where's one here? So, this is the Bosch PUG61RAA5B hob for £285

with the minimalist control. Look at that scratch. That's just being on display. That's how it'll end up in our place.

It looks like only one has one ring has the boost. Maybe that's the cost. And then £359

for this Bosch. Doesn't say what model it is. There's the controls. I think that's too short for us. That looks like a 60 cm one, but there's no labels. There's an AEG one. Again, no label.

Think there's a gas. Oh, right. So, this is AEG. This is £750. TK85IM00FB.

That looks like the size of ours. Does it say 78 cm?

Doesn't say the width. So, I'll show you the label again. It's a bit faded. Oh, yeah. Width is 78 cm. Wow. Some of them look bigger even though they're standard 78 cm size.

And then this is the AEG IKX64301CB.

That one is 279. I don't think it's 78 wide though.

And I love this one. It's nice and matte matte finish. It's too short for us. This is £459.

The John Lewis code is 890611.

And then underneath,

oh, I love this. I really like this. I like that it's matte black. I wonder if it scratches less. These are the controls. And this is John Lewis number show you 890504

I think for £769.

Really like that one. Bridge zone SaphirMatt.

So onto the next wall of hobs. This is the Neff T66NUX4A0 and it's got a... a matte finish. I like that. Looks really good. Very minimalist control and it just looks like it's all uh multizone.

So this is the Neff N70 T66FHX4L0. It's a 60 cm width one, £700. Just lots of multi-zone areas and a weird control there. That chip. That's how easy it chips. That's why I want this kind of thing. I don't know if it's more expensive. And then did I do the one underneath? Can't remember. No. So this is the Neff T56FHS1L0 £550 multi-zone area two pot area. These are 60 cm ones. Two pot multi-area.

It's that one. T66FHE4L0. The other one is that one.

Sorry about the wobbly, shaky footage. It's the best I can do. Right now, we're on to the Oh my god, this looks really wide for me. The width. Let's have a look here. It's a Neff T69. Hasn't got width. This looks way wider than 78 cm.

That's £1150. The next one's £900. That looks like a 78cm. Oh, this width is 80cm. So, we've got a bit of extra. I wonder if it fits a 78 hole. We've got three pots. Control multi-function area. That is this one here.

The next one. This is for a grand, the Neff N90. I mean, it just looks identical.

That's that one. And then this one, the Neff T58. Oh, it doesn't open. Don't want to break it. Looks identical.

£920 for a Miele

Four hot areas. That looks like a bit of a dead area. Maybe put things for cooling there. Nice simple controls. That's this one. The KM7373.

These are two I think they're 60 cm ones. Yeah, this is the Miele KM7361FL for £850 four pots areas like before. And this one, KM7464. This is for £1,500. It looks identical, but it's got a chrome edge to it. So, I suppose that protects it, which might be worth a bit of extra money. Two pots, one multi-area, but I think this one is 60cm wide. Okay, two more drawers around the corner here. We've got the John Lewis JLBIIH806. This is for £480 reduced.

This looks okay. Uh so John Lewis branded. Um lots of pot areas. Got one, two, three, four, five pot areas and five separate controls in the John Lewis font there. I don't know if that's coming across on camera there. It's shiny surface. Bit difficult to to do. That looks like a contender. I don't know who makes them though. this. There's always a problem when John Lewis stuff goes wrong cuz it's not made by them and then they have to refer you to someone else which is a pain in the hole. Then we got this John Lewis one just a different width with four pot areas and Samsung. Wow. Samsung product. It's a 60cm one. So that's the John Lewis one there. Pause the video. We got the Samsung NZ64 hob there

and it's got the Smart Things thing on it. I don't... I hate smart things. I just want to press a button and it works. And then I think these are gas hobs. Let's have a look. Yeah, they're gas. Oh, happy days. I remember. Then that's a invisible one there.

So that's it. Those are the the hob options in John Lewis right now. Oh man, I haven't seen one that's leapt out.

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Our Log Cabin Failed... THEN We Found The FIX!

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Our Log Cabin Failed... THEN We Found The FIX!

What happens when your DIY garden cabin project completely collapses with warped wood and extreme heat? My son and I tried to build the BillyOH Winchester cabin from Garden Buildings Direct to give him a teenager workspace, but twisted timber and rubbish floorboards left us with a structure that would not hold together.

After getting nowhere with customer support, we called in a local builder to save the project. I show how he fashioned a solid timber frame to fix the alignment so windows can finally fit, taking us one step closer to clearing the computers off our kitchen table... Here are some tips if you want a wooden garden office, pod or workshop.

Our Log Cabin Failed... THEN We Found The FIX!



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Just before I put the camera on, there was this clang - crash!

It happens... right, let's go back to the timelapse. Man.

So, end of day three and didn't think we'd get this far, but we got the window frames up. The we're on to some of the warped boards and they they were really bad. Um, this one is down in that end and just up in the air here because this one is so warped, but it's looking good. We're supposed to have done the floorboards, but because we don't have the technical details, uh, I haven't put those in yet. And actually, it's a lot easier putting the ladder on without wibbly wobbly floorboards.

It's the final rafter to go before the roof.

So, I'm showing this to my son for the first time. This is insane. Look at this.

This looks a lot better than whatever... we did. We did. Oh my god. He's like... "Oh wow." And the the window fits in here. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that amazing? This... when we put the one on the back. Yeah. Yeah. So, that was the roof. It was really... Oh my goodness. So, when I started this vlog, it was to try and capture things around the house. Observations as a dad. This is the start of a series of vlogs. I don't know how long I'm going to keep this going, but I'm going to try and capture something every day. And today I'm capturing this which a builder has built. It's... It looks like a tiny house. It's amazing. And all of it is to fix something that didn't work out so well. Look. So, we tried building this. It's from uh... it's called the BillyOH Winchester cabin. And it's... Yeah, it's meant to look like this. And in reality, it looks like this. Except it didn't look like this. We did, Joe and I, managed to get it all the way up to the roof. and we built the roof. We even got the flooring down. We just needed to get it to a point where someone who knew what they were doing could finish it off. And unfortunately, I think because of the materials, uh, it didn't work out because the walls that were straight when we put them up, but in the extreme heat, the walls have kind of now look like this. Let me go closer. The walls now look like this, and they just weren't holding at all. So, we couldn't get a window in. And I think it's peculiar to this this size of cabin because if you have a bigger cabin, you can have bigger walls here that hold the window. But all we had was just like a pile of pile of bits of these put on top of each other. They just didn't they didn't fit at all. We've paid for this with uh money from my dad who uh left us last year. So, we thought, you know, we treat treat ourselves and give my son somewhere to put his PCs, but this has been going on since uh since June. This has been going on for about two 2 and 1/2 months. The wood was twisted at the beginning. I'm not that fussy. It's okay. I know that wood is a natural product, but this stuff had like knots and big holes in it. the the floorboards weren't floor, they were holes and they didn't lock into each other. So, I tried contacting the company. Again, this isn't a grievance-based attention farming video. Uh, it's just our journey that I contacted the company and said, "Look, can you help us out?" Because these floorboards, they're really not. And they just sent back usual icy shrug of indifference. So, Garden Buildings Direct thought that these boards were good enough. I'd beg to differ because if you've got floorboards on the floor and you got big holes in, you're going to see underneath the shack and there's water under there possibly. Uh I just need proper floorboards and they they refused and I know I'm not experienced at this but it's been very disappointing. The BillyOH Winchester I... I wouldn't recommend it. So anyway, so now I called a local builder who couldn't believe how they were supposed to go together. So this afternoon he's fashioned this. It's like an Amish building, isn't it? It's like an Amish barn that we're going to raise. And it's also um I don't know. It's like one of those things from the the Black and White movies where I stand there and the whole thing can fall.

I'm so excited about this because it's a proper frame now that the that the window will fit. We we didn't have that with the BillyOH Winchester from Garden Buildings Direct. Yeah. So, this is this is what it should look like. And this is what it shouldn't look like. So, hopefully we'll have a place to put all of this.

One or two computers. We've not seen the kitchen table since November. It's about uh 10 months ago. We are days away from getting our kitchen table. All of that is to get the kitchen table. Can't wait. Casper, what do you think?

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How a Movie Set Builder SAVED Our Log Cabin Disaster

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How a Movie Set Builder SAVED Our Log Cabin Disaster

It is day two of rescuing our Garden Buildings Direct BillyOH Winchester log cabin. After the original walls warped wildly in the summer heat, our builder got to work fashioning a completely custom, square timber front to replace the wobbly original logs.

I show the dramatic difference between the twisted original wood and the new rock solid frame. With perfect joist cutouts and a structure strong enough to hold even me, we are finally ready for roof joists and cladding. Check out how a former film set builder is turning our DIY disaster into a proper garden room office pod thing.

How a Movie Set Builder SAVED Our Log Cabin Disaster



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It's sunset on day two of trying to rescue our terrible garden buildings direct BillyOH Winchester cabin. It's actually BillyOH NO! Winchester cabin. Look at this. It's up. It's up. Let me spin the camera around. Ah, finally we have a front that's actually square. That doesn't warp in the sun. that doesn't have gaps in it. Well, it's obviously got big gaps, but they're for the window and doors, but they're true, so they're gonna fit. And just to show you how bad the walls twisted in the heat, look, this this will really show up on camera. So, we've had to overhang. Say we, our brilliant builder, uh, sorted this out. Look at this. Look how that wavy Davy line of the wall goes. That is how twisted it was. Um so it's almost like a feature now. Um it's like um it's character, isn't it? It's nice bit of character now instead of just gaping hole. Gaping holes for walls that weren't walls. Don't know how we're going to sort out the the floorboards, but yeah. Look at this. That is how badly twisted. Look. I mean, there's a blooming gap there. Um, awful. But anyway, the front is fantastic. And it turns out, uh, our build I'll run some footage of the of the frame going up. And it really was like that Buster Keaton thing where if it falls over, uh, you clear the door frame. But we we lifted it into position. He spent about well he he must have spent a day and a half designing and fashioning this front because it had to fit exactly the joists. Uh which I can show you now. Look the joists and they just fit perfectly in a way they did not do with the Garden Buildings Direct uh BillyOH Winchester. Uh they're all gaps and this was all wrong. It was just off. Um, it wasn't anything we had done. It just it's just not straight. So, now it's perfectly straight. And the the gaps for the joists for the roof to go on tomorrow. I think we're going to get a roof on tomorrow. It's lucky we've got uh a week of good weather. Another week of no rain. Let's go back to the footage of the uh the frame going up and we had to push it into place um pretty exactly. So he he actually put a like a doors stop actually screwed it in so that it would push against it. We knew it would be in exactly the right position. Go back to the footage. And what you probably can't see is that there's a line of silicone uh down the side as well. Obviously it'll be it's all going to be screwed in to place as well, but the front is absolutely perfect. And the windows are in exactly the right position and it's centered. Even though the walls are wavy davy all over the place walls, we know that this front is is is perfect. And so it's going to look so good. I think obviously it doesn't yet match the log cabin look of the the rest of the of the shack, but uh I think we're going to I think he's going to clad it with feeder edge boarding. I think it's going to look really good. But underneath it, it's insulated, it's solid, and it's square. It's perfectly square and perfectly straight in a way that it has never been. I mean, look, look, we I can show you now. This is how it came from Garden Buildings Direct. They just didn't these pieces, they just didn't they look straight, but when you put a pile of them uh in a row in a column, there's no way that that was going to be a perfect fit. It I mean just it just they just kind of teetered on the edge and the height of them didn't match the height of the boards on the right hand side. So, it's a bit difficult to explain, but you've basically got a pile of blocks like it's Jenga, and the windows and doors are going to slam against this this thing that wobbled, and that I can really push this. It's totally solid. I can hang off this. I tried hanging off the other one just to kind of try and bring the the boards together, but this is totally 100% solid now. Turns out the builder used to work on film sets. Um, it does look like a film set build when it went up. It was just so perfect for this garden and for what I do in this garden with the video making. Uh, so I love that little part of the story with it as well. And it looks great on the decking that our brother-in-law made as well. I'm just so happy with how it's coming together. We were so worried that it wasn't going to work. Also, I think the the look of the the cabin, it was the the best that we could find for what we could afford, but the um it just looks a bit twee... it looks a bit like a sort of, you know, Daily Mail supplement, garden furniture ad kind of design aesthetic to it. It's not offensive, but it there's just something a bit old about it. And what what's nice about what we're doing now is I think it's going to look a bit more I don't know what the word is. It's not rustic. It's going to look homemade in in a good way. So, that's the update on day two of rescuing our BillyOH Winchester cabin. Really pleased with how this is going to come together. It's it's obviously taking so much more work, but at least I know that work is being done properly. I'll try to keep updates coming on the channel. I'll put uh I'll put these in a playlist, I think. And that's on screen now. Also on screen is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next. Oh yes, it's going to stand.

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I Pushed Our Log Cabin Project TOO FAR

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I Pushed Our Log Cabin Project TOO FAR

Part 3 of rescuing our Garden Buildings Direct BillyOH Winchester log cabin, tackling the completely buckled roof and rubbish floorboards. The original summerhouse roof boards warped so badly in the summer heat wave that they pulled the walls apart, forcing our builder to make an entirely new plywood and felted roof frame.

With a cold brush-off from customer service to furious neighbour complaining about the noise, I'll see if we can get solid barge boards, new felt, and proper window frames for the garden pod office.

I Pushed Our Log Cabin Project TOO FAR



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This is the third update now of how we're trying to rescue our Garden Buildings Direct BillyOH Winchester log cabin or as we've dubbed it BillyOH NO! On the previous videos I explained how us putting the roof on actually made the front totally buckle in the heatwave and the warped boards the they were just so twisted that eventually the walls kind of twisted the front off. to the point where it was impossible to put the window frames in. We could put them in, but we couldn't attach them to anything. We got some help from a local builder who has managed to build an entirely new front for the log cabin. And turns out he's a a former set builder on film sets. So, we now have a garden cabin that's effectively a film set, which is what I wanted for this channel. And I think I showed this on the last video. over here. You can see how bad the walls warped in the heat cuz that is a straight line. And yeah, you can see just how wavy uh it is. Look, I mean, I put my finger in the gap between the the logs there. The next big thing was I didn't put it on camera. He he managed to build a roof as well. So, the roof boards were completely useless. They're completely buckled in the heat. They were too thin. I've got them under the tarpaulin in here. Don't know why I'm protecting them, but they completely buckled under the heat and that's what was tearing the front of the walls off. So, he's built this completely new frame at the top here with plywood and we've managed to Can I get the camera up there? We've got uh roofing felts and I I went out and bought some new roofing felts as well because I think the stuff we had was total crap. So, it it's watertight, which is great cuz we had a little bit of rain yesterday. We're in the middle of a heat wave, though. So, it's mainly the heat that we're protecting the uh the cabin from. I've got a big job today, and that is Well, it's not big. I've got to put down the floorboards that we took up. These ones on the top look good cuz I've selected them. Underneath there are all kinds of atrocities. We've got I can point one out right here. We've got like big holes in the floorboards from knots, but I've also the tongues on the tongue and groove disappear to nothing. So, the boards don't lock into each other. We I tried contacting Build Garden Buildings Direct and try to explain the situation and can you help me out with some extra floorboards? They said no. Um the knots are there for a reason. But on their videos, the the floorboards they use are of course completely pristine so that you can't see down through the floor into underneath the log cabin. That's the whole point of a floorboard. The first thing I need to do is to remove these three floorboards. And this looks like a really simple job, but it's taking a bit of bit of work to get this final floorboard out. But the reason I'm spending so much time on this is that I can't mess around with these floorboards. I've only got a very specific number that are any good and even that is short of the number of floorboards that I need. So I need to get this out really carefully because I don't want any more damaged floorboards.

The next job is to sort out the floorboards that we've got. I've got this system going where I put good boards to the right hand side, bad boards to the left, and the ones on the left have got things in them I think that make them unusable. The floorboards on the very very left hand side are the worst. Moving right to the best, and then on the right hand side, I keep that graduation going so that the very best boards are to the right on the right hand side. I'll show you the problem I've got that Garden Buildings Direct think is okay. Let's put the camera up. Look along here from here to here. No tongue. Don't know if you can see this on camera, but no tongue here. No tongue at the end to lock into the groove. There's no tongue whatsoever from here to here. So, there'd be a gap. Oh, and uh there's a hole there from here to here. No tongue. No tongue from here to here. And there's a big crack from here to here. Big hole in the floorboard. Big hole in the floorboard. And another one here. Big hole in the floorboard. Hole. Hole. No tongue from here to the end. Big hole. Big hole. There's no tongue from here to the end. No tongue from here to the end. So that doesn't interlock. No tongue from here to the end. Oh, and there's a nice hole here to see you with

I don't know what to do. I think what I'm going to do cuz that's not enough boards on that side to do the whole shack. But I think I'm going to try and put the nice ones sort of in the middle. So, those ones you'll see. And also, I'm thinking those are the ones that will take the most traffic. With my floorboards sorted, this is I thought this was going to be a breeze, and it wasn't. Uh, it was very tricky because the some of the floorboards just weren't in a good condition. I've got to choose and mix them up so that the the boards that have the tongue missing at the end, that that tongue is towards the other end. It's not at the entrance. And I'm also choosing that the not so good boards for the edges. And then as I get into the middle of the shack, I'm trying to favour the floorboards that are the straighter ones, the ones with fewer knots and the ones where the tongue is is okay to go into the groove. So when it rains, it will go onto the deck. You know that they are going to soak up moisture. They are going to curve up. I've moved some battens to near the door. because of the way I put it up, um there isn't that much of a lip for the floorboards to rest on. So, I've put some batterns by the where the door is going to be so that they don't curve up just at the point where you step into the shack, you know, have a bit of extra uh support under there for feet coming into the front door. I'm trying to nail that. I'm not nailing all of them because it's pretty late and I don't want to be causing that much noise. It's now sort of 7:00 on a Sunday. Yeah, this is this is hard work and it's so much quicker with another pair of hands. If you're having to do anything like this, don't do it by yourself. Get someone get someone to help you. But the boards are so warped, we've got to put nails in just to hold them in place so that the later boards that go in aren't going to be uh you know gappy. There are some gaps where there's the tongue's missing. Stop. Stop. Why? So, something bad just happened. I've had to come away from the house to record this. Um, we got yelled at. Well, we didn't get yelled at. My wife got yelled at. I didn't get it on camera, but uh someone banged on the door like really bam bam bam and uh complained about the noise completely reasonably cuz it was half 8, quarter to 9 and we were still hammering. uh needed to get it down for the builder coming tomorrow morning, but um yeah, it didn't go down well. Told that it's been going on for weeks, which is kind of true that they're trying to enjoy a meal in the garden and all they can hear is banging. And they weren't they weren't from like next door or the next door to that or the door next to that. This was from like way up the road. It has been going on for weeks. I'm sick of it, but I can't do it when it's 34°. We're in a middle of a heat wave. This this like the hottest temperatures ever recorded for July. But it's really embarrassing for my wife and my wife had to take the brunt of it as well. She just came in. She's like, "Stop, stop, stop." So, uh, but at least we've got the boards down. They're ready for the builder tomorrow morning to uh start work on the windows and doors. It's the end of the next day and I wanted to end the video on a on a bit of an up because we've got some developments with the shack. We're calling it the shack now, I think. Take a look at this. We have proper barge boards on and I love how I love how they look. I think they look great. And you probably noticed it's had a bit of a... a facelift. We've got the felt which I believe protects it from moisture. stuff is going to go on top of that. So, it's all still to play for. It's just looking great. And also, uh, he managed to finish off the the floorboards as well. I still need to nail quite a lot of nails in. You can hear it creaking. My son and I didn't we've not done any down the side and a lot in the middle that haven't been done yet. That's a bit of banging, I guess, but we can do it during the daytime and I'm going to space it out over the week as well. We also have some window frames. They're work in progress. But look at this. Look how good they love the the overhanging lip. Can't wait to see how that works out. And we've got the door frame as well. So now there's something proper to fix to instead of the the wobble wobble. The doors instead will have a proper frame to attach to that does not wobble wobble through. Sturdy sturdy. On screen now are all the other videos with our shack, our build. If you want to follow this journey, thank you for making it this far and hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. Really helps me to keep this channel going, to keep these videos going. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.

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The Shack Is Finished! Our Garden Cabin Transformation

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