How to destroy a leather sofa with electric foot rests in 12 minutes!

I had to dismantle my dad's 3-seater leather sofa before he could get his new IKEA Ektorp armchairs built. We couldn't donate this sofa because it's against the law if it doesn't have the safety tag still attached... and we couldn't afford to get it reupholstered: the leather is torn and the seat on one side completely collapsed. So the only way to get it out of the apartment and over to the tip was to take apart the foot rest motors and then destroy the sofa into 3 large parts which can be carried out to the car!

How to destroy a leather sofa with electric foot rests in 12 minutes!



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hello welcome back to the channel this is a funny little video about how we destroyed my dad's leather sofa his three seater sofa look you can see the three of us the men of the family working out how on Earth we are going to get this brown leather sofa out of his small apartment or flat as we call it here in the United Kingdom 

we knew we had to pull it out but we had no idea how we were going to get take this apart so the first thing we're doing is is tipping it up on its back and it has adjustable footrests mechanical electric footrest don't worry it's it's unplugged but we had to First somehow work out how to get the electric motors out from the sofa and then figure out how we take the thing apart or get it out of the out of the flat uh 

underneath the fabric oh you can see a nice shot of my uh my my clothing at the back could probably be a bit more uh better uh forgive me thank you for your patience but we're going to somehow work out a way to unbolt the electrical motors that drive the footrests and to do that we need to even find them so here's my sun and I are just trying somehow to locate where the motors are and how they're bolted to the leather Sofa underneath and this is going to be a bit dull but I'm I'm just trying to use my electric screwdriver to to power out the the different screws and we plug it in again just to we had to like move the footrest to different positions just so I could even get to the the screws that held the motors to the sofa my my dad granddad's uh very helpfully diving in with the uh the vacuum cleaner and this took forever 

I think I might speed this up a bit faster because it takes ages just to find out where the the screws were it turns out they were about 6 of them on each uh motor there were two foot rests we're now looking into the sofa on both sides it's so difficult just trying to just trying to find out where where these screws and bolts are so the two of us thought we we do a two prong attack and see if we could get both foot stool Motors out at the same time 

dad's back in with the Hoover it's great work dad and yeah and slowly but surely we start to remove more fabric to expose more by the way it's it was really nice it was really nice family day nice male bonding for the three generations of the mossy family here without a clue oh my God I'm so sorry I'm going to have to blur out the uh I've got to blur out the back of my jeans I've got real Builders bum going on here which was right for the for the toolbox and the the task in hand but you don't you don't need to see this I think this this blurring needs to be quite loud [Music] 

anyway this this took forever so if you've looked up this video to see how to destroy a sofa how to take apart a leather sofa with electrical mechanical foot stools I hope something here helps but uh it was just a painstaking exercise to dismantle it so I'm now unplugging the the motors but I have to plug them in again just to move the foot stool a small amount to be able to expose the bolts and the screw is holding the motor to the wooden frame of the leather sofa and uh it's really difficult it's just so hard I'm using combination of a cross- head screwdriver and I've got a wrench there and some pliers because some of the the bolts have to be held on the other side and I I've managed to get the right hand side loose so I knew we're on to something it was just a couple more screws holding the motors in place that stopping us from actually taking the motors out and then we could start cutting up the sofa but this was a bit of a breakthrough here this was the moment where I knew that I could get the right hand side footstool out so with a bit of help just to remove this one final Bolt 

the whole weight of the entire mechanism was just on one one screw there and I think that's that's now out so now I've gone over to the other side to remove the remaining screws holding the the mechanism in place and with a bit of help from my son to lift up the there like a pump action kind of thing that pushes the footstool out and locks into place we had to move that from time to time oh look at this I found uh my dad's Freedom pass he' lost that about 5 years ago 

he had free travel in London from when he was living in London and was convinced that he'd lost his freedom pass I think I I'll show it to the camera in a minute but uh I found that jam down the side of the sofa so if you take nothing away from this but this tip up your sofa now tip it up now and have a good rout around underneath because there'll be all kinds of gems from the the 5 or 10 years that that you you've had it this sofa is about 10 15 years old and we would have loved to have kept it going but uh to reupholster it would have costed hundreds if not a thousand and no one would take it because it didn't have the the the tag anyway we're tipping the the the sofa up as you can see and we've managed to get the left hand side sofa units out we can carry that outside which which is uh fantastic it was the best part of the day so we found an old lost Freedom

pass oh Dad was choked it was here all the time he was looking everywhere for that so now we are taking apart the the right hand side of the sofa and that can go out out the back door ready to go to the tip because we can take these piece by piece in the car I haven't got a big car so I couldn't get the uh the whole sofa in and that then leaves the carcass oh Dad's having another go with the uh with the vacuum cleaner yeah I'm now thinking what on Earth do I do with the three seats of the Tre seater sofa so we removed that unit and just looking at the fill

this is about five years worth of of just stuff and spillages and a little bit of uh mold that's built up on on the wall there I'll talk about that in a bit here's sofa part two I'm going to somehow try and Destroy what's left of it the camera here we're in for the final push and I've got the jigsaw out it's a corded jigsaw and in my head I'm just thinking if I can make some crucial cuts on the wooden frame of the sofa then I could at least get the thing into three parts and I could get those three parts into the back of the car so it's a combination of Jigsaw and that's just plywood at the back my dad's offering me a hammer as you can see the the sofa is just built of plywood and foam and these these wooden struts so I've tipped It Forward just to get a different angle for the jigsaw to get in and I'm using the handsaw and and uh what else have I got there I didn't take the hammer and I'm just trying to work out where where are the easiest points to cut what's there 

I I pulled out the there switches on the side electrical switches that controlled the the motors I thought that might be useful to keep them with the motors maybe sell them on eBay I don't know is there much of a market for foot rest motors from sofas they're really good and they work really well uh so I've cut out all Electronics put that to one side and then back to removing this part of the sofa and I had an idea here where if I make a couple of cuts I could fold it down and that would help the arm just fold down in into the car so off that goes out the back door and I've got to cut what's left now in half dad's having a much needed uh sandwich break uh very crucially holding it for me uh this is what looking like at the back and uh

this going to cut here and cut all the way down there and then and then I can use the jigsaw or saw to cut through the frame and that will be the three parts we need to get rid of it and I'll take out the electronics here back to the jigsaw and the and the hand saw just get a nice angle on the camera and I'm using the knife that's the other uh piece of equipment I've got it's the knife to remove the fabric making those incisions into the leather of the back of the sofa there and there a lot of Staples in the thing 

I had to avoid the blade hitting the Staples so I'm just using the knife just to cut away any fabric I can and then this jigsaw just goes straight through the plywood and the wooden struts holding it together little bit of work with the hand saw I think that was just to get around the metal Staples that are in in the in the frame and then one final bit of jigsaw to cut this last Strut and that's it I've managed to segment divide this three sea sofa into three I'm pulling out the electronics bit little less carefully this time I don't if you can see the silver buttons there so I'm just trying to find those I don't know why I'm salvaging these it just it was just my favorite part of the sofa I think it' be a shame to let those Motors go to waste so I'll just put those with the footrest Motors and then little bit more cutting with the jigsaw so I can fold down this arm of the armchair for its final Journey to the the council tip uh you got to book in these days which is Fun Since Covid 

and then we've got a last section there so now it's just the clear up uh take everything out to the back door and get things ready for the Ikea Ektorp two armchairs I'm going to just clean the floor this is like 5 years is worth of spills that have gone down over the years and I need to clear a space because the Ikea Ektorp they're they're quite big these armchairs that are coming in I've got another video about these that link is down in the description I'd love you to see it those Ikea armchair builds with a separate foot stool no motorized foot rest unfortunately but time to gather up all the tools one final final clean and uh this place has never been this clean look at this amazing stuff uh 

just do a bit of uh merry Poppins with my uh trousers hanging down and that line against the wall there that is where I guess warm air was hitting the cold wall behind the sofa it's the coldest point in the room and I'm going to use a sterilizing fluid I'm just very carefully sucking up the dust around that back wall there all I'm doing is getting a cloth with Milton sterilizing fluid you know the fluid that you use for uh sterilizing baby bottles let's pull in the the Ikea boxes I'll move the camera and we'll just get the cloth and bleach these walls just do it really carefully you have to dab at the walls and not uh Splash it I don't want to Splash it on the carpets because that really would bleach it but can you see how clean the skirting boards are coming up and that it's on the skirting boards and the walls it's pretty uh revolting stuff here 

I'm trying not to disturb the the mold spores should really be wearing uh uh face guard but uh I'm hoping if I just do it quickly enough and with enough sterilizing fluid it will obliterate the the the lights mold that had grown behind the the sofa this room is just going to be so much more clean and healthy uh despite my poor lack of clothing there hanging out the back thanks for hitting the like or the Subscribe button it really helps me I really appreciate you coming along for the ride and right here is a video where I replaced the leather sofa with two Ikea Ektorp armchairs [Music]

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I'm putting together this IKEA EKTORP ARMCHAIR and FOOT STOOL step by step on camera in this video. If you're looking for assembly instructions, or a first impressions review of the Ektorp armchair and foot stool, this video is just for you! I do some steps wrong which might help you avoid them when you come to build the EKTORP. Good Ikea Luck everybody!

Fantastic Armchair build! IKEA EKTORP assembly and step-by-step with FOOT STOOL!



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Hello, welcome back to the channel. How do you assemble an IKEA EKTORP armchair like this one, or this one, or even the footstool? How does the IKEA EKTORP arrive when it's delivered, and how do you put the covers on?

Hello, welcome back to the channel. I am going to put together this. It's an IKEA EKTORP armchair. If you wanted to see how to assemble a two-seater or three-seater sofa, sorry, I haven't got you covered with this, but I think they're put together in a similar way, so this might give you an idea of how the EKTORP works when it arrives from IKEA. I'm putting these together for my dad's flat, but first, we've got to clear this area. 

This is what it looked like before. We've got this, uh, I think it's over 10-year-old leather sofa. IKEA, in my country, unfortunately doesn't get rid of the old sofa when it delivers its new stuff to you, so we've had to, uh, get the toolbox out and figure out a way to take this down to bits, down to at least a size where we can get it out of the house and down to the tip. And then it was time to take the jigsaw and the saw together. 

Don't worry, the IKEA EKTORP armchairs are coming up, but this is footage of us, uh, trying to clear the area. Uh, we took, uh, a jigsaw and a handsaw to the frame, and finally, we managed to get it down to some bits where we could get it out of the flat. So now we've got the area clear, and IKEA have been. The IKEA fairy has come to drop its droppings here. This is how the EKTORP armchair actually arrives. We've got two of them, which is why we've got the two boxes, and we've got a box over there for the footstool. So they're actually really small and easy to deliver. The covers arrive separately, and, uh, they weren't able to put it on the same delivery shipment, so they ship these by courier separately. Your situation might vary wherever you are in the world.

We've gone for this fetching blue, but they're really easy to put together. So the first thing I'm going to do is open up this box and take out all the bits inside. It's really easy. It's like three or four really big parts that just bolt together. So I'll take out the sides. These are the two sides of the armchair. It's probably what makes the armchair shape and armchair shape. And we've got a bag of feet, and then this is the base of the armchair. Oh God, right, you do need to have some kind of upper body strength to get it out of the box. Take this out. I think this is the, uh, base cushions. Take that out, and then the other cushion. Sorry, that was the back cushion; this is the base cushion. This is what you're going to be sitting on, hopefully for the next 15-20 years. Get rid of the box over there. The first thing we'll need is the bag of legs, because it's got the bag of bits inside. The first thing we'll need are these two bolts. They have a thread, a long thread, and a short thread, and I think the short thread is the one that goes into the hole here in the base of the arm of the armchair. I'll just put that in here and twist it in. We'll need to do this four times, so it's two bolts on the two arms of the armchair or sofa. Then we use the same bolts with a washer, like this, and we're going to put it on just one side, one corner. So I'm going to do this corner for this arm of the armchair. Whoa, this lighting is really ominous, isn't it? There we go. So then we'll do the same on the other side with the other arm. Now I can open up the armchair so the back kind of hinges back, and I'll just lay that on the floor. All we need to do is line up the bolts at the bottom of the arm and guide them into the holes. Obviously, have that bolt at the back because that bolt will go into the back of the armchair. Then I'll do the same on the other side. I'm out of breath just removing the arm. Just guide the bolts into the holes at the bottom first, and then the bolt at the back should go in. There's quite a generous hole for that bolt at the back to go into. Now we can tip the armchair onto its back, and that will expose the bolts underneath that we're going to bolt into place. What we'll need for this is this bolt turner, what do you call it, a bolt thing, and a nut and a washer. So put the washer and the nut over the bolt at the bottom, and then use the metal screwing device. We'll just turn that and push the bolt into place. I'll do that for all four bolts which are showing at the bottom of the armchair here. I've messed it up there. There's always one instruction I forget. I didn't put the plastic washer onto the bolt on the side of the arm. I'm going to have to now take the arms off, and I'll put the plastic washer onto the side, and we will get the arms back into place. Whoa, there we go. So this is the washer you don't want. This is the washer we're supposed to have. Now we can put the bolts on, the nuts, to hold the bolts in place for the back bolts. And then, where's my bolt thing? I've lost my bolt thing. What's it called? Say in the comments if you know what this is called. I bet it's a really obvious word, isn't it? It's like a wrench for bolts. Let's put this in now. I found this a bit tricky, so you might want to follow the actual instructions which say you're supposed to do the back first. Because if you do the other bolts first, it kind of locks it into place and it doesn't give you enough thread to have the nut bite where you need it to bite. Now, finally, it's the super easy bit. We get to screw these feet, these four legs, onto the base of the armchair. That will bring it up to the right sitting height. They go in really easily. The bolts just go into the four holes. It's super clear. So we just get these feet on, screwed in tightly, and then we can tip it back up and put the cushions on. Yeah, but we are not finished yet. So here is your white armchair. Maybe you want it to look like that. We've got to do the covers now. Oh, by the way, this is the packaging that you'll be left with as you go through your IKEA build. I think there's a kitchen in there somewhere. Now, this bit is really easy to do, even with me with my split fingernail catching the fabric. But the great thing with the IKEA EKTORP sofa and armchair is that the covers are totally removable, and you can wash them really easily. So if you wanted to clean your sofa, it is really easy. All you have to do is unzip them. So here I am packing the back and the base into the zippered pouches. There's lots of big zips. This bit isn't so difficult at all. The covers all come together in one batch in a small box, and they go on just like this. In a moment, we'll be putting together the IKEA EKTORP footstool. And now we're putting on the back cover, the main cover for the EKTORP armchair itself. It's really simple, really straightforward. You just hook one end of the cover over the arm on one side, and then you can pull it across and pull it taut, and then hook it over the other arm of the armchair. There's helpfully a strip of Velcro so that at the base of the armchair, it holds the cover in place. Now, I think you're supposed to iron this before you put it on, but I just couldn't wait, so I've just put it on anyway, and it looks pretty good as it is. But you can iron the covers before they go on. Ours seem to have had the creases fall out. I think that's because we opened up the package a day or two before we've actually put this together. Finally, I get to sit down. The base of the armchair is the wrong way around, so let me show you how that works. There's a zip at the back. Obviously, the zip actually guides which way around this goes. So this is the proper way round. And that's it, we've got an EKTORP armchair in place. Should we, should we, do you want to see the footstool? Should we do the footstool as well? All of the bits that we need for the EKTORP footstool come in one box, so let's unpack it. We've got four kind of side panels that we're going to bolt together, and there's a whole other cushion section, so we'll put that out of the way to start with. And all we need to do with this is the trusty IKEA Allen key job. There are eight bolts, and we're going to screw in the bolts so that these four panels come together to form a box, like a box frame. And I'm putting them in loosely to begin with, just so we can line up all the bolts. It might be a bit difficult doing that if they're locked in already, so I'm just going to keep them nice and loose. I've, uh, learned my lesson from previous IKEA things you put together. I don't want to be undoing these, so we're just going to put them in loosely. And the four panels

come together. The holes line up with the holes in each panel. The bolts go in, and I don't know if you can see, but there is a line of Velcro that goes all the way around. That Velcro helps you line up the panels and put the panels the right way around and have them the correct way around. So if you can keep that Velcro line consistent, I've got them along the bottom there, and then we can finally tighten all the bolts to lock this frame into place for the EKTORP footstool. 

Now we can open up the top cover, and we'll bring that over and put on these four feet. We won't actually see these feet. This is the lid, and this is what we'll put our feet on. So this is the underside of the foot part of the footstool, and now this is the top section that goes on top of the footstool. So just flip it over, and then it sits. Those little feet sit on the wooden legs. The cover comes in its own box, and this is a bit strange, isn't it? Oh, it comes in two parts. So there's like a ring part and a footstool part with a zip inside. 

Now, I think the first thing we're supposed to do is iron these, but I'm not going to bother with that 'cause I'm going to live dangerously. So I think the deal is that we put it over the footstool. It's kind of like a big skirt, and then it reminds me of someone I used to go out with. So we put the big skirt around the edge. Let me bring you a bit closer, get the camera. I've tried to get the seam on the actual corners of the footstool, and then this line of Velcro comes in really handy 'cause we would pull this over, make it nice and taut, and that will hold the cover in place. Again, these are removable, so we'll be able to wash these if we knock a glass of wine over them or something. We'll do this all the way around. 

Next, we'll do the footstool part. So I'm going to put this on its side, and then we're going to open the zip. And again, you can iron this first. Don't iron this gray bit because it will melt, and there's a no ironing sticker just to show you in case you forget. And it has, it looks like, two zips. Yeah, two zips. So we'll put the corners over and make sure that this kind of beading is around the edge. Make sure that's nice and tight at the top there, and then we'll just pull it over. Oh no, that's not the right way to do it. The right way to do it is to do the corner first, the corner that doesn't have any zips, 'cause you won't be able to squeeze it in otherwise. And now we can flip it over, and you can see it really easily goes in now. Now you do it the right way around. Yeah, and there is a right way to do it, so you have to do it in a particular order. There we go. Wow, it's looking really, really sharp, isn't it? Oh, and look, so there's special holes there, special ringlets. So I put the feet on too early. Let me get you closer, and you can see my mistake. And now these ringlets should line up with the holes for the feet. It might be a bit of a stretch. I think the hole's back here, so if I—I'm doing this with one hand—if I force it over, you can just about get it to bite in. So we'll flip it over now, and this can just sit on top. 

Time to try it out. And yes, it works! This is how it looks. It feels super comfortable, and the footstool really is at the same height as the seat on the armchair, which is golden. 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 channel going, so thank you. And right here is what YouTube knows you are going to love watching next. Can you please help my daddy get 10,000 subscribers? Just click on his face. Thanks, bye!

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How to CHANGE Flymo Mower BLADE and lower it with spacers... step-by-step guide



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Oh damn it. Hello, welcome back to the channel. It's that time of year. Got some nice lens flare from the sun in the background. It's time to get these out, the mowers. I say plural, that one doesn't work. So this video is how to change the blade on a Flymo Hovervac 270, or 250, or 260. 

Let's have a look underneath.

I'm changing the blade. You're probably doing this as well to fit spacers, so if you want the blade to be lower to the ground, lower to the grass, get the grass shorter, you need to fit these spacers. And you can choose how many you want to fit. I'm going to go for all three because I want a buzz cut. I found, I don't know if you found this with your Flymo Hovervac, but I found our one just feels a bit underpowered. Maybe it's not underpowered, maybe it's just that the blade needs to be closer to the grass. So that's what we're doing in this video. It's just a quick video to show how I'm doing it, and hopefully that might help you. That's the new thing we're trying today.

So you will need these spacers and this blade tool. It's much easier to do this earlier on in your ownership of the Flymo. I had some comments on the last video I made, a video for how to change the blade on the Simpliglide 330, and some of the comments said that they just could not budge this bolt here. This is how we're going to do it. I'm going to see if this one works because I've only had this a month and I've used it once, of course. But we're going to see if it does budge, and if it doesn't, I'll suggest some things to try and get it moving. If you haven't got one of these tools, it's not essential. So I don't know if you can see it in the sun. I'll put a link down in the description for getting this on Amazon or online, so hopefully that will sort you out and probably some spacers as well. 

So what we're going to do is line up the bolt. It's like a wrench, a plastic wrench. I can't do it one-handed. Let's put the camera down over here, and I just—whoa—just turn it around so you can see. And if we go in close, I'm going to line up this hexagon—is it hexagon? Tell me in the comments—and we're just going to turn it anticlockwise. I'm going to hold the plastic thing that spins around above the blade. I'm just going to try and turn it. Obviously, you've got to keep your knuckles clear as the blade—wow, this is not easy. That is not budging at all. Wow, to everyone who left a comment, thank you. I absolutely feel your pain. It'll be much easier to do this soon after you bought it, I guess. I don't know what this mark is. It looks like a pen, some kind of quality control pen mark. And I'm going to try and get as much turning motion up here. No, that is not turning. I got this for my birthday, a huge can of WD-40. I'm going to try and use this to try and loosen it, so I'm going to stick it down the side. This is just my suggestion. This isn't what you're supposed to do. And I'm going to see if that will help work its way down into the bolt. It's probably a bit much—oh damn it, I actually cut my finger on this sharp, uh, turning spinny plastic disc, not the blade. So now it's nice and greasy as well as, uh, not budging. So be careful if you do use some kind of lubricants. Obviously, this is going to slip off more easily now. It's like this isn't thick enough. Okay, as you saw on the screen there, now I put these on. Um, I've also, I've got my old Simpliglide turning key because, I don't know, it just feels just a tiny bit more solid and stronger. So that doesn't help you if you haven't got one, but let's try this. I'm going to hold the disc here away from the blade and see if I can get this open. Get my fingers away from the blade. If it slips, I don't want my hand to go over here. Ah, there we go, finally. So the technique, maybe the WD-40 helped, but because it's like a lever action, if you could put all your strength on the end of the turning key, that gives it maximum force or torque to turn the bolt. And it is just a brute strength thing. Uh, so sorry if you can't get yours budged. Maybe some of this might help. Something that someone else left a comment to say that they got to this stage and they found that the bolt was just turning and turning. Let's see what happens here. So you turn it anticlockwise, and they said they got so far and they couldn't pull it. It just kind of kept turning. So I'll show you what the bolt looks like when this comes out. Alright, so the bolt, I don't know if you can see, if it's just turning. The screw does go all the way up to the bolt at the end, so you do need to keep turning and turning and turning for it to go all the way out for me. Now we can take the blade off, and helpfully it's got a little inscription. I don't know if you can see this. It says "this side to grass" on one side. So obviously this is the side that we'll need to see when we put it back on. Now we can get the spacers, and they look like little Connect 4 things. You can stack them up because they have sticky out things and recessed buttons. I put them together. The buttons should match the holes. You just keep turning them till they lock together like that. I'm going to put all three on because I want my buzz cut for my lawn. There we go. So all three are pressed together, and there are dots and holes. Let's bring the camera over. There are the same dots and holes on the motor here, and reassuringly this comes off as well. Let me show you underneath. That's all that's underneath. Grass in there, let's take that out. So obviously it's this way up. Oh, I don't want it to fall apart. Doing this with one hand, holding the camera. Now we can get the stack of spacers and slot the dots onto the recessed button holes like that. Oh, that's really quite, quite proud there, isn't it? And then we put the blade back on. So I get the side that says "this side to grass" here. They lock onto these notches here, like that. There we go. And then I get the bolt, and it's got—oh, I got to do this one-handed—there we go. Now I can turn the bolt as far as possible. Make sure the spacers are this side of the blade, not on top, because this is what now pushes the blade closer to the grass or closer to the ground. Gloves back on. We can tighten it up with the bolt. So I hope this works for you with the supplied bolt turner. Turn this around as tightly as possible. I should have probably put some WD-40 on the bolt for next time, but hopefully there won't be a next time. I think, I think that's it. So time now to test it on the grass.

If you have the Flymo Hovervac 250, 260, or 270, look at this. You absolutely must fit the spacers. It's so much better now that the blade is closer to the ground. Before, it just felt really, like I said, underpowered. But with a lower blade, it gets through the grass so much more tightly, and it's really lifting up lots of grass, which is amazing. And if you're worried that it's going to maybe hit some paving stones, here's my test here. You can see the Flymo Hovervac just glides over these stones, and it—it just—the biggest fear, isn't it, that the blade, a lower blade, might hit obstructions on the ground. But for me, I'm finding that the hover works, and it just, it just floats over them. So this is really good news. Look, look, look, just look at this. Just went over this stone without, without a beat. It just hovered over it, and that was right in the grass. I can even lift the mower on its side and run it along the wooden runner that runs along the ground down by the side of the hut. And that blade is going really up against the wood without hitting it or without being obstructed by it. It's a really close cut without anything bad happening. I was a little worried when I first bought the Hovervac that I'd made a terrible mistake because compared to the Simpliglide 330, the Hovervac just felt like it wasn't cutting any grass. I thought maybe it was the smaller blade or maybe the smaller motor, but these spacers, that's the thing that makes the difference. So I need to now put something in my review on the Hovervac—there's a link to that in the description—just to say that you need to lower the blade to get the most out of this Flymo mower. 

What I really like about the Flymo Hovervac 270 is that it feels to me just that bit lighter than the Simpliglide, so it's a lot easier for me to throw it around the garden and to swing it around the grass and to hover. I think the Turbolite is even lighter than this one, and I really want to try that out. But for now, the Hovervac seems to be doing the job, especially now that I've moved that blade down. I am calling this a Dad Delivers success. Thank you for saying hi in the comments or hitting the thumbs-up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going, so thank you. And right here is what YouTube knows you are going to love watching next.

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How I CLEAN my USB C port: EASY remove fluff from USB-C socket on mobile phone...

How do you SAFELY clean a USB C port... or remove debris, fluff or rice from any USB or 3.5mm headphone socket of a mobile phone or laptop? I share the best way for me to clean out a USB port and 3.5mm jack of our Samsung mobile phones.

How I CLEAN my USB C port: EASY remove fluff from USB-C socket on mobile phone...



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Hello, welcome back to the Happy Hut.

Do you have a filthy phone? 

Is your phone jack, your USB-C socket, your port - is it gunked up? Have you got something in there? 

I think I might have something that might be able to help you. 

You are seeing footage of my method for getting filth and fluff - pocket fluff - or removing anything from any USB-C port.

As you know, you don't really want to put anything metal in here, and if you have something really thin, it might snap and just leave an even worse blockage inside your USB-C port.

Because the thing I'm helping your family with is how to clean a USB-C port!

Now, as a dad, I'm - for some reason - responsible for all the phones in the family, which means, by the way, fixing their screens. 

There's a video down in the description for sorting that out. 

But from time to time, you can get something caught in the USB-C port; maybe it's fluff from your pocket, or maybe you've tried to dry your phone out - which is a whole other video subject - but maybe you've used rice to clean it out, and a tiny fragment of rice might have got into your USB-C port.

What I use to clean my USB-C ports are these: they are regular straws, they're paper straws, but because of how they're coated, I've got another camera down here - this might be easier to see - they're paper, but they are really super stiff. They're treated with something. So, I'm hoping to use this, and all I do is - just get my scissors. 

We want to make like a really super sharp point, so I'm going to cut this in half, lengthways. 

It might take a couple of cuts to get right.

There we go, and then we flatten this out. 

So, I might make this a bit sharper, so I'll cut it again, lengthwise, so it's almost like a flat pick, like a toothpick there. And this is really quite stiff. 

You can use plastic straws, but there's something about the paper ones where they just kind of have more stuff stick to them.

So, here's my filthy USB-C port. 

I'm going to dive in, and it might take me a few tries; it's kind of hooking fibres and dust out. 

So, if I take my lovely wife's phone - my lovely wife's not-so-lovely phone - and look, I mean, look how my family treat their phones.

How come mine hasn't broken once, and yet, every member of the family has smashed theirs?

Anyway, that's for another video. 

So, I'm going to dive in with this and use it like a hook. 

You can use plastic straws, but I find the paper straws are kind of - they're a bit rougher, so they kind of pick up dirt a bit more easily.

Look, you can see some dirt there, and you can kind of give it a rub on the side that makes connection with the inside of the USB-C jack. 

That's looking quite clean, isn't it?

I mean, look, it's a bit of dirt coming out. 

Let me try my daughter's phone.

Or I think I can see bits in there. 

Here we go, and you might need to do this more than once. 

Oh, there you go. Look at that. You see that filth? This is like a "clean with me" video, isn't it? 

Cleaning my family's phone jacks and ports.

So, this will help the connection. 

Look at that! Look! And I'm thinking, if you're looking up how to clean a USB-C port, your ports might be a bit more filthy.

I keep my phone in my pocket, and it just picks up so much lint, and - oh, look at that! Look at that! It picks up so much lint and basically filth, pocket filth.

I'm going to make another one now, probably use the other end.

I don't know how we ended up with so many Juice Box straws; we just did.

How are my kids drinking their juice boxes? 

They just slam them into their mouths, 'cause the straw just gets in the way - too much time. 

There we go, that's nice.

It's really good for lifting out grains of rice if you've done that thing of drying out your phone, and you've got a tiny bit of rice in your port. This might hook it out.

You can also use this to clean out the 3.5 mm jack if you're lucky enough to have one.

I really miss mine on my Samsung. 

Just twirl it around.

I am calling this the "dad delivers success!" 

I hope this helps.

Let me know in the comments if this does work for you, and thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the Subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going and pay for some more phones as well. 

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