It's been 2.5 years since I bought my MeacoDry Arete One dehumidifier, and I've never changed the filter. Meaco recommends changing it every 3 months. In this video, I'm doing the overdue and pricey task of changing the HEPA filter. I'll show you what a filter looks like after two and a half years of use, and I'll walk you through the simple, step-by-step process of putting in a new one with this honest review. I'll also share my own money-saving calculations ("Dadanomics"), and tell you why it's so important to protect the fan and mechanism inside these expensive machines.
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I am just a little bit too excited about this. I am going to change the HEPA filter in our Meaco dehumidifier so you can follow along and see what that's like. Because we bought this MeacoDry Arete One dehumidifier 2 1/2 years ago. Uh we got it here from Costco. It's the 18L one, which is the same size as the 20L and 25L dehumidifiers by Meaco Dry. Here's the challenge. Meaco recommend that you change the filters every 3 months, which means that I've missed out on this about 10 times at the moment. I'll show you what it looks like if you don't follow the recommendation and don't change your air filter. I'll show you how the air filter looks. Should we have a look around the back? So, this is the Arete One. The Arete Two is very similar to this. I'm dwarfed by this. I'm trying to get it all in one shot. So, I've got it on the on the kitchen table, but this is how the the filter comes off. There's like this plastic section on the back. This is the Arete One. The Arete Two is really similar to this. So, we just slide this off. And then inside, if I hold it up to the camera, that is how the filter looks after 2 and 1/2 years if you don't change the filter. I only hoovered this a couple of weeks ago just to get the big chunks of dust off the edges from where the filter sits. I actually made this video about vacuuming the filter area on my dehumidifier. It has a... a fine grill next to the changeable air filter and that really clogs up with dust. I got a lot of stick in that last video for vacuuming the filter. There was they were saying things like you shouldn't hoover it. You should change it. I get that. I get it. But the hardest part for having a dehumidifier for most people is these these are pretty significant purchases. The these things ain't cheap. And that's before you even factor in the running costs as well. So to spend, wait for it, £40 on a pack of air filters like this seems insane. I... I completely understand. I feel the same way, too. I bought these air filters with my own money. Uh I got them from the Meaco site. I was going to get the off-brand ones from Amazon because that's how I roll, and they looked okay, but it was really difficult to get the right size. you know, the exact correct dimensions for the exact dehumidifier. They are on there, but sometimes the listings are mis-listed. The dimensions, they just don't seem right for what they claim to be. Should we open them up? This feels like a real treat. So, I spent £40 on this. I mean, that's I was going to say it's a night out. Uh, they come sealed in a bag, and on the site, they say they can't accept returns if this bag is open. So, should we do it? Should we Should we do it? Should we open it up? This blows 40 quid. So you get three in the pack. So if it's £40 for three, you can see there's the official Meaco logo on the top there. £40 for a pack of three. I make that about 13 quid per filter. So for 3 months equates to about a pound a week uh if you change these filters every 3 months. Those maths are Dadanomics and I do them all the time to try and feel better about spending money on this. makes it more palatable somehow to put the the filter in. It's so clean and white. I haven't seen it looking like this for well over 2 years. So, I tend to I think you can put them either way round. They have ribbons on the side for helping to to pull them out, but I tend to just so I can remember which way round it is. I tend to put it in with the Meaco logo facing outwards and the ribbons can help you pull it out. Push it in. It's a really snug fit. So, you can see there's uh there's like a foam, a black foam around the edge, and that kind of compresses to to hold it in place. And then if you're doing this, I'd probably recommend running a... a vacuum around the edges because it should be gunked up with dust by the time you pull it out. I've already done that, pre-cleaned it. And I just run the Hoover over the the grill here. Also, before you do it, I do make sure that this honeycomb is vacuumed out cuz that really gets lots of dust clogged up. I think I've got some footage here from the last time that I hoovered this. I'll just push the filter into the tray. I mean, I think there's a particular way up it has to go. I think the notch goes on the outside and this just slides in like that until it goes clunk. The thinking also goes, if you're going to run one of these, why not purify the air at the same time? And I think this filter actually protects the mechanism. It actually protects the really super expensive dehumidifier. It stops it from getting clogged up, getting dust into the fan inside and the mechanism inside. We can't open this up. You probably could, but I wouldn't I wouldn't try it. I think it invalidates all kinds of warranties. I wouldn't know what to do in there anyway. they they don't open up easily, so we can't get inside to to clean it. To change the filter on a Meaco Arete Two, it's exactly the same process, but the filters are completely different sizes, and they're also different sizes for the smaller Arete One's as well, the 10L and 12L sized dehumidifiers. So, be careful that you get the right one. And congratulations, we have now changed the filter on a Meaco dehumidifier. I'm calling this a dad delivers a success. Thanks for getting this. I feel dwarfed by this thing again. I think it's the camera angle, but thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button if you've reached this point of the video. I really appreciate it. It really helps me to keep this channel going. So, thank you. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.
We love this dehumidifier. Here's why this MeacoDry ARETE TWO 12L dehumidifier & air purifier is possibly the best small dehumidifier on Amazon in my unboxing first impressions review.
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The thing I'm trying to make my family happy with is this: it's the Meaco Arete Two. I still can't say it—the Arete 2 dehumidifier and air purifier. This is the 12L version. I'll talk you through the different versions because this all started last year when I bought the Meaco Arete One dehumidifier—the 18L model—in Costco, and I did that with my own money. It was a huge expense for something that essentially sucks water out of the air. It felt like a really big investment, and it is hands down the best thing that we bought last year.
Like many homes here in the UK, the UK housing stock locks air in, and that kind of leads to mold. In our house, it was, uh, really big patches in really specific places. If you're watching this somewhere else in the world, I've had really horrible comments pointing out things that I'm pointing out on the videos, which is that the mold grows in cold places—cold, damp places in the house. And wherever you chase it, wherever you create air, open windows, there's still going to be patches in the house of damp collecting and condensating in the colder places of the rooms in the house.
We've tried so many things. Well, we tried opening the windows and keeping the heating on for long. It wasn't getting to the root cause of the problem, which is that there's a lot of moisture in the air in our houses. So when we saw the Meaco Arete One in Costco, within days it just changed how our house felt. It sucked out all the moisture, and I think it helped dry out the house as well, where for years, the walls had been ever so slightly not dry.
We were really happy with it, and I made a series of videos—they're down in the description—for the review and instructions on how the Arete One dehumidifier works. But then Meaco saw these videos and got in touch and very kindly said, "We've got the Arete Two coming. Would you like... would you like to try a model?" And I said, "Yes, obviously!"
I don't know if this is a good idea because we had the 18L model. I thought, "What if we try out the smaller model just to compare how things go, what it looks like, as well as to try out the new interface that the Arete Two has?" So Meaco has provided this model, but they've not said anything that I need to say at all. They've just said, "Here's the model, make of it what you will."
So this video is just an unboxing and first impressions review. I'm going to do a full review on this. I'll put the link in the playlist in the description if you want more details about the Arete Two. This is purely just a first impressions look at what this model looks like. So come closer, let... let me give you a tour of what comes out of the box.
And already I'm seeing some very, very exciting things. I didn't think I'd be excited by dehumidifiers, but this has absolutely changed our house, as you'll see in the other videos. The first thing I've noticed is a much bigger, nice, uh, kind of glassy display panel. The handle is here, and you have to lift it. There's a warning sticker on the top here that says you do have to lift it from both sides. But already, this handle feels even more substantial than the last model, and it locks in place.
The thing I'm most excited about, though, is here, and that's because on the Arete One dehumidifier, there's like an open grille to allow all the air to woosh out. The trouble is you drop things into it. I've dropped sawdust and wood chips—uh, long story—but you can, like, accidentally allow things to fall into the model. It looks as if there is... I think this is packing material because there's a cover for the fan, which looks absolutely fantastic. Already, it looks better, but I know that this will stop any debris or dust, just even general dust, from falling into the fan.
And this is where the Meaco dehumidifier pumps out the fresh, dry, cleaned, purified air. We have a free HEPA filter... is it HEPA or HEPA? I call them HEPA anyway. And we've got some instructions here as well, which is handy. There's a bucket that collects the water—the litres on the model. So this is a 12L model, and I think that refers to the number of litres per day on a standardized collection measure, so it just indicates the power of the unit. The actual storage capacity is different—I'll put it on screen now—the storage capacity of the water it collects for the 12L model.
There's an attachment so that you can fit a hose for it to constantly empty into, you know, directly into a drain. We don't do that; we just take the collection bucket and pour it down the toilet or down the sink. The larger models have a handle—a carry handle. There's a, like, a detector here so it knows when it's full, and the unit stops, so it won't flood—it won't just keep going and flood. So that's a nice touch.
And it looks really sleek, doesn't it? Um, it looks tricky 'cause I've got it on a table with slats, but there are casters here, so it does glide around the floor. We use ours on carpet and a wooden floor, and it's really easy to pull around. The 18L model is quite a thing to carry up and down the stairs. This... oh yeah, I can lift it with one hand. It'll be easier with two hands.
And then at the back, we have the filter. So air is drawn into the dehumidifier at the back here, and I'll slide this filter grille. So there's a fine mesh to stop larger particles of air, and then so that your dehumidifier doesn't gunk up, there's a filter that goes here.
So let's fit that now. So this is the HEPA or HEPA filter that comes with the dehumidifier, and that fits into here. And there are two tabs so you can pull the filter out when you need to clean it. There's some foam around the edge to keep it airtight. We can push that back into the filter holder, and it just slides and clicks. There we go, just slides and clicks into place like that. That is really smart.
I like the honeycomb design here.
Here are some features that it points out on the box. The MeacoDry Arete Two dehumidifier and air purifier has a premium LCD display, a unique chase humidity display. It's sleek and unobtrusive. There's a side air intake, which allows the dehumidifier to sit discreetly against the wall. We can easily clean the filter from the side without moving the unit. There's the new Meaco app, which allows for control via the app or voice commands. There's a hidden handle with sleek lines hiding a neat carry handle. The large window on the water bucket lets you see the water level clearly. Water can be emptied from both the left and the right side, with oversized ergonomic handles making it easy to remove the water bucket. And there are casters, which are hidden behind the feet that help the dehumidifier blend into any room.
Another thing to point out down here is that the power cable is 2m long, which we find really generous. And there's a special cord, uh, thing that you can coil the cord on. So if you have any extra cable, you can store it behind the dehumidifier.
We are indoors now to switch on the Arete Two for the very first time. Uh, this, by the way, is the Arete One, and you can instantly see the differences between the two dehumidifiers. You can see this is the display that I've, uh, lived with for a year, and it's... it's worked really well because it's really simple. But you can already see the improvements that have been made with this big display panel. But let's switch this on for the very first time.
I'll go through the quite obvious differences between the Arete One and the Arete Two. The size is different because this is the 18L dehumidifier, and that's a 12L one, so that will give you an idea of the difference in size with the, uh, the footprint and the height. But let's switch this on.
This is the display panel, so bear with me. I'm assuming this is the on/off switch. We have a timer control as well with this, which I... I don't think we have with the Arete One. Let's turn it on.
Ah, there we go. So I've just hit the power button; it's come on now. The recommendation is that we lift this flap. Meaco call it a "louvre." They love their language, don't they, Meaco? So we got the... the... the Greek of the Arete and the louvre. I'll call it a flap. And it has two open positions—you can open it once; that's quite stylish. Or you could go full-blown. And I can feel the nice warm air coming out.
So this is the display. I'll close it so that I haven't got air blasting into my microphone. I think it's sampling the air—it kind of measures it first, and it displays the relative humidity on this scale here.
On first impressions, I sort of like just seeing a number. Look, when you switch it on, that's the relative humidity just shown as a really simple number. It's sampling it, so it's gone up to 52%. I'll turn that off. And here, we've got, like, a sliding scale, so you can see it instantly on this kind of graduated scale. And it says "wet" on the left-hand side and "dry" on the right. So we've got the high humidity at the top here—so you see 95 at the top, and where we're actually at, it looks like it's sort of 68%.
And you can see that the number 55 has a big ring around it, and I think that is the target humidity. So we are currently here, and the dehumidifier will keep going until the room brings that scale all the way over to 55%. So we can change the target humidity. So the current humidity of the room is here where this sliding scale is, um, it will keep going, dehumidifying, until it hits 55%. So I'm going to hit this button here, and this is where we can change the target humidity.
So humidity level—oh, this is a really super low-tech explanation as I understand it—is that 100% humidity is, like, wet. It's, like, really super humid. 0% is arid dry. So on airplanes, the humidity is actually 20%, which is really dry, and it's why you dehydrate when you fly. And I think for a normal house, I think the recommended target—I mean, everyone’s got a different opinion—but 55% to 65% is seen as a good thing. We're... we're about 68% because I'm sat right next to our laundry. I'll talk about laundry in a moment as well because we use dehumidifiers to dry our laundry now instead of the tumble dryer. And I think we're saving lots of money doing that—that's worked out really well for the last year with, uh, with our Arete One.
But you can set your target humidity by just pressing this button here, and it cycles from 70 down—each 5% each time—all the way down to 40%. And if I press it again, it goes to this infinity logo, and that means that the dehumidifier will just keep running. However low it goes, it will just stay on. So if you just want it permanently on, that selection is there. So I'm going to set it to 55%.
And when I say the dehumidifier switches off, it doesn't actually turn off; it's just that the compressor that extracts the water from the air—that turns off. The fan keeps going, and the air purifier keeps going. I think if we hold down this button—let's see what that does—right, so what that's done now is turn the dehumidifier off, but the fan is going. And because of the HEPA filter, that means you can just use this as an air purifier in the summer months, and it's always purifying air when it's dehumidifying as well. Hope that's clear.
Hold it down for 3 seconds to put it back into dehumidifier mode. So we're back to dehumidifying the air. So the heart is the ideal setting. Just as a reminder, it would be better if the humidity of the air were over here, but the actual target that it's aiming for is up here. And it's got the words "wet" and "dry" just to make that super clear.
So that's kind of cool. We've got the timer button here. Now, I've not used the timer button before, and it looks like I can just keep pressing it to set the timer. Over here, we have the night button, so if I press this, it goes into night mode, which I believe is a lower fan speed, and the display goes off so it doesn't disturb you. I think to turn it back on, I just press the night button again. There we go. And if you hold it down, you see the padlock comes on—that's a lock on the control panel, so I don't know if you want that for kids.
The last button is the laundry button. For laundry, it goes into high power. I don't know if you can hear that—I can definitely feel that fan has suddenly boosted up to high power. It keeps going for 6 hours. Now, we use this for laundry all the time with the Arete One. I think I've used laundry mode once, and the main reason for that was if you put it on laundry mode, say, at 10:00 at night, I don't really want it switching off at 3:00 in the morning because I want it to continue dehumidifying the room. So it's a really nice feature—laundry mode—but we don't use it. We just keep the dehumidifier on and just dehumidify the room as well as our laundry.
But that's just an overview—first impressions of how that's different from the trusty Arete One control panel, which now looks really tiny compared to this lovely display.
It's a very exciting moment now because I'll put on screen here—I’ve, uh, downloaded the Meaco app, which, again, is another new feature of the Arete Two.
Device added successfully, so I hit done, and there we go—oh my goodness! So on my phone, I can see the target humidity, which is 55%. Oh, look at that! When I hit the minus button, it changes the target humidity on the dehumidifier. That is incredible! I can increase it as well. It tells me that the water tank is okay and that we're not in the wet range.
And if I hit the three dots, it shows the different modes. So we have Smart Humidity—that's just regular dehumidifying. We've got the laundry mode—they call it Smart Laundry. So you can see the target has changed to 35%, and on the dehumidifier, it's switched to laundry mode on the indicator there.
What else can I change? I can put it into night mode so you can see the display's gone off. The other reason I wanted to get the 12L model was to just compare how it looks next to an 18L model. So I think the 10L and 12L models are this size—this height and footprint. If I go over the two, you can see there is quite a difference in size. The storage bucket underneath—I believe this stores 2.5L, this one here stores 4.8L—and oh my goodness, it's full! It's been doing really good work today drying all of our laundry.
I'm going to try an experiment now. This is just a quick experiment—it's not very scientific—but I do have a hydrometer from, uh, Amazon. I'll put it in the description, and it's saying that we're at 71% in here. So I've brought the 12L dehumidifier into her room, and I'm going to leave it here for an hour, and we'll see if this 71% goes down or stays the same or... we'll just see what it does. Uh, let's jump forward an hour.
It is now 2 hours later, and let's check the hydrometer. I forgot it was supposed to be an hour, so it was 71%. It's now—don't know if you can see this—press the button... oh! 59% in 2 hours! So it's dropped about 12%. And you can see on here, the reading—well, actually, the reading here says 55%. I'll probably go with the Meaco reading—as being a bit more accurate. So if you're interested in how much the humidity can drop, it's, say, kind of a regular-sized room. The door was closed, and my daughter's in here breathing, so that's going to add to the moisture. But thanks—thanks for helping me with the experiment! But that is the kind of humidity drop that you can expect with a Meaco dehumidifier that's 12L.
Something else I've noticed is that it's... apart from the nice warm air that comes out from the compressor extracting the water from the air, it's also, I think, really quiet. Um, it's going—I think the fan is on high at the moment—and this is so much quieter than our 18L Arete One. It's... it's... it sounds like a low hum. I think this is the kind of very low-level white noise that you can sleep with. So if you're looking for a dehumidifier to actually be in the room with you, I'd probably go for more of a 10L or 12L model than the 18L, 20L, or 24L models.
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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!
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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]
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!
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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!
Alright, this is going to be the proper one, right?
I'm assembling this IKEA EKTORP ARMCHAIR in real time on camera. If you need assembly instructions, I have a step-by-step first impressions review of the Ektorp armchair and foot stool in video link down below.
How do you put up an IKEA HOPPVALS blind? I've put up about 8 Hoppvals and finally sharing how I'm replacing another one of these cellular blind installation! Sharing how I install my next IKEA Hoppvals blind in the Hut with step by step instructions...
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Hello, welcome back to the Happy Hut, and we're going to fix this today.
Have you or are you thinking of getting the Ikea hoppvals cellular blind?
It looks like this on the Ikea website and in real life, it looks like this.
Let me get the camera.
So it's really clever. It's um, usually looks better than this, but it's got like these cellular um, things that contract.
It's like a fabric blind that kind of concertinas up when you open it, and there's a mechanism in here so you can pull it up and pull it down.
So going down's not a problem with this one, but as you can see when I try to lift it up, it gets a bit jammed. So I've bought a new one.
I've been using this daily for about 2 years now, and I've gone through a few of these.
They are good, they're really good, but they do have a really finite life. So I'm going to show you how to put up an Ikea hoppvals cellular blind. It is really easy, so hopefully you can follow along step by step.
Now I'm going to take this old one down, and I can show you how to do that as well. So the catches that we're going to fit, there's one here and one on the other side here, and they have buttons on them.
So if you press the... press the button in, it releases a catch. This is really difficult to do with one hand.
Let me put the tripod on. All we need to do is to push this catch in, and then you can rock it off the bracket, kind of push it off the lip at the back.
I can do this on the other side as well, push the button in, and then it has enough space to come off the metal bracket.
The problem with the Hoppvals, I absolutely love it, but over time there's like a string and pulley mechanism in here, and over time the string wears and there's like a... a coating for the string - wears down and that gets caught up in the in the pulley system.
So it works like a dream, and I'll show you. Look here's some uh, footage of future me opening and closing the Hoppvals blind from Ikea like nobody's business.
But this old one that's been going for a few years, the cord is all jammed up in the mechanism here, so it's time, it's time to move on and thank it for its service.
I have got a brand new Hoppvals on the desk here.
Let's open it up. Comes in some uh, different colours. I've gone for white to try and keep the inside of the happy Hut Bright.
Oh, look fantastic!
Look, they've completely changed it.
So well, this this is really good news.
So this I... I had... I haven't even put this up yet. I... and I endorse this blind.
Thank you Ikea because instead of you saw the old mechanism, it's now been replaced by a really large spring.
Oh, that's fantastic.
And the cord is much thicker, so hopefully that will last longer and it goes over the four pulleys over here.
So when blind goes up and blind goes down, I can't do this one-handed.
So when the blind goes up and blind goes down, let's see what happens to this pulley.
Can you see it? It pulls it along here, and it's counterbalanced by the the spring. So it pulls down really evenly, and then when I push it up, the spring takes up that slack.
Oh, this is going to be really good. So the only next bit which might be difficult is how to put the brackets up.
So you get a little box with the brackets - just open them up, and you also get a pull which goes on the end of the of the blind.
I'll show you how to put that on in a second, but you get these two brackets. So when you push the button, it releases the catch, it makes this gap narrower, and that means you can rock the... the top lip of the blind off the brackets.
Let's take down these two old brackets, and I can talk you through how to site the brackets, you know where to put the brackets on your wall or ceiling.
So just take this one out.
The great thing with Hoppvals blinds is that because they have this thing, they can clip anywhere to the bracket which means we don't have to be too precise with where we choose to put the brackets, just so long as it's anywhere in the middle to to hold it up.
So I try to put mine sort of near the outside just to take the weight on both sides, and the brackets - they have a couple of holes, a few holes in the top so they could be screwed to the ceiling which is what I've done, or there are a couple of holes on the side there so they could be screwed to a wall if that makes sense. So you've got some options there.
I've chosen to do it from the ceiling, and I've got a nice wood ceiling, so it's really easy to screw them in.
And I've put them... the width, I've put them apart is just literally anywhere on the inside, so you don't want them too close and in the middle, the further apart then the more... the more weight the more force they can take.
So let's get the other bracket down now.
I think you're meant to put two screws in. It's chancing it a bit to just use one, but I've been doing that for about 5 years now, and it seems to have worked which shows how good the system is.
And the advantage of putting two screws in is that they are they have to be perpendicular, they have to come out straight, it's dead straight you don't want it wonky.
Let's get the other bracket in there, we go, so now we have, let me show you closer, we have a dead right-angled bracket, one there, and one there, there I could even put another screw in the wall here, this is absolutely not going anywhere, it really works well.
The brackets are really nice and strong.
To get the blind onto the brackets, we are going to hook the blind over the back lip of that bracket there, and same on the other side, and then you can just kind of force it, and the spring will snap the button back in.
Obviously if you push the button in that's even easier, but I only had one hand, so now that's absolutely dead solid.
And if I hold the camera back, I can now pull the blind down and demonstrate just how smooth this is, it's so good, there's a spring in there now, amazing.
I'm going to tear off the sticker, well it's left a nice bit of uh, residue there, and now I can use this tag.
This is where you're really supposed to pull the blind down, I'm going to put it in the middle and I'll hook this at the back, hopefully I can snap it on, let's see if I can snap it on, I think the way to do this is to force it on and get it to snap, it's going to feel like it's breaking, but trying to slide it on really didn't work for me, so let's let's see if I can force it on this way.
Yeah there you go, you just force it over like that, learn from my mistake.
And then you can shimmy it around once it's on.
And then to put the blind back onto the brackets once again, I'll hook it from the back on the brackets, and then I'm just, I'm going to push the buttons this time.
And that will hold your Hoppvals blind.
Let me get the old blind, just to say I am calling this a dad delivers success!
How do you delete a Netflix Profile on your phone? I show you step-by-step how to remove and delete any Netflix profile using an Android Phone, iPhone or iPad with the Netflix app.
But please note we can't delete the main profile for the Netflix account, there has to be one main profile for the account to exist. Hope this helps!
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Hello, welcome to the channel.
I'm Neil and the new thing I'm trying to make your family happy is delete a Netflix profile using just the Netflix app on your phone for Android iPhone or iPad.
In the Netflix mobile app, when you're logged in on the lower right hand side, tap on "My Netflix".
It doesn't matter which profile you're in.
On the upper right hand corner, you can see this menu.
It has three lines or looks like a hamburger. Click on this and then click on "Manage Profiles". That brings up all the profiles with icons of pens on to edit them. Choose the profile you want to delete. Scroll down and you can see the button "Delete Profile". Don't forget you can't delete the main profile for the Netflix account. So if I go into Frank's profile there's no delete profile button. If you can't do this on the app, I've got another video down in the description where you can open the browser on your phone and sign into netflix.com to delete your Netflix profile. Congratulations, you have now deleted a profile on Netflix. I'm calling this a Dad delivers success. Say hi in the comments, it would be lovely to hear from you. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the Subscribe button, it really helps me out. And right here is what YouTube knows you will love watching next after watching some Netflix!
How to sign SMART TV in to NETFLIX! Step-by-step I share how to connect Netflix to Smart TV from your phone, PLUS how to sign out and remove your Netflix account from your TV. If you're signed in on someone else's Netflix account, this video will walk you through how to login with your own account to add Netflix to your TV. All by using just your phone, the QR code, or regular Netflix account and password.
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Hello, welcome back to the channel and welcome to our living room!
I think this is the first time we've done a nighttime video like this because we are going to sign in Netflix. Oh, I’ve got cramp!
We are going to sign Netflix into our smart TV, and I'm going to see how long I can sit in this position. Not long, I think.
When I became a dad, I became IT manager for our family, and I'm no good at IT or being a manager, but I can make your family happy by connecting Netflix on a smart TV.
I'll show you how to do this with a phone using the QR code to scan on screen and without a phone just by typing in our Netflix login.
I'll also show you how to log out from Netflix on a TV and how to remove a Netflix account from a smart TV.
The first thing we need to do, obviously, is to go to Netflix on the TV.
We've helpfully got a button to fire up the Netflix app on our Smart TV.
Oh, by the way, I made this whole video on how to create a Netflix account from scratch step by step; that's on screen now, or there's a link to that video down in the description.
If you have an account, the first thing we need to do is to click on this button here, “sign in”. So I'm going to use the arrow keys on my remote, and I'm going to click on “sign in”.
The easiest way to sign in is to use this QR code.
I feel like a really bad weatherman, but let me show you the longest, hardest way to do this first.
We can use our remote to click on this tab here, “use remote”.
So I'm going to click that, and then I'll click okay.
This way we can use the remote control to type in our Netflix login.
We'll just type in our username here, and you can click on the button down here, “forgot password”, if you want to reset your Netflix password for this email.
By the way, it does remember the last email address you used on this, so if you've been using someone else's account, you might want to come down here to this box here and click on “remember email” and uncheck this box.
But happily, there is a way to do this without having to remember your password.
If you have the Netflix app on your phone and if you're logged into Netflix on your phone, we are going to click on the left arrow, and we're going to move over here to “use phone”.
For “use phone”, it brings up this wonderful page where we have a QR code.
We have some stormy showers over here in the southern region, and up here, there's a code that we can type in.
Let me show you the QR code way first.
All we need to do is open the camera on our phone.
If your phone scans QR codes, for me the camera has to be set to photo, not video; that doesn't work, so we'll set it to photo.
And then we'll point the camera at the screen until it locks onto that QR code and it brings up the URL, and I'll just tap on that.
And that opens up my Netflix app and this message here: “To sign in please confirm the code below matches the TV”, and now I can just click on the “sign in to TV” button, and it says we're all set!
“You can now enjoy Netflix” on my Smart TV, and we can see that it's... it’s triggered up the Netflix logo.
This might take a while if the kids are all on the Netflix.
Oh, here we go!
Young Sheldon, fantastic.
If your camera doesn't do this or you can't scan QR codes, you can type in the web address URL that's on your TV screen into your phone's internet browser.
And all we do now is to type in the code that's on our TV screen.
So now your Smart TV is connected to your Netflix account. Congratulations!
And there's no need to sign in because this is now on our Netflix login.
Here is how to sign out your Smart TV from a Netflix account.
We're going to go into one of the profiles, so I'll click on here.
And then on the left-hand side of the screen, we have these icons.
We don't need any of those.
We're going to move the cursor down, whoa, down these icons here and bring it over to the right-hand side of the screen to highlight “get help”. I do need to get help; this is true.
If we scroll down, we'll use the down arrow to go down all of these menu options, all the way down past “contact us”, “check your network” right down to the very bottom. You can see this option here, “sign out”.
And now I can click okay on the remote, and it asks do we want to sign out, so I'll click “yes”, and that unlinks your smart TV.
It logs out from your Netflix account.
I am calling this a dad delivers success, a living room success!
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It's the FINAL part of my vlogmas how to build an L-shaped bench for the kitchen. Please let it be the last part.
Cleaning off some mould, fixing on the bench side panels with brackets from Amazon, cutting a hole and fitting a double power socket, sewing and upholstering the bench cushions and varnishing the plywood. If you're looking for an L shape dining table seat or chair as a kitchen or living room idea, this might help avoid some mistakes in advance!
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Hello welcome back to the channel
This is the dad delivers Vlog where we try new things to make your family happy and it's usually quite a difficult task that isn't it?
But today I'm going to be finishing off one job
I've got so many jobs to finish but this is the L-shaped bench
this is an L-shaped bench day and this is vlogmas so yeah we've got some nice snow happening in the background to make us feel all vlogmasy
But vlogmas hasn't been going well
The idea of vlogmas is to put out a video every day in the run-up to Christmas and I've been... I've been filming every day like a good ‘un and the problem with my channel is that the jobs that I've been doing haven't been finished so I've not been able to release a video
I've got half finished jobs all over the house so we've got insulation for the windows that's going to happen next to get rid of the the cling film
I've got the the hooks back up but that was a wall of mould so I'm editing that video now so today the one I'm going to finish off is the big one it's down here
it's the L-shaped bench - the famous L-shaped bench
let's have a Flash Forward montage and I'm hoping that you're currently seeing me screwing together the sides of the L-shaped bench
I'm hoping there's going to be some varnishing maybe some filling some holes on the side of the bench
looks nice and Christmas in here but this is going to be a wreck area
let's move the kitchen table back with all the stuff on it
let's move that back to reveal where I'm at with the L-shaped bench project and it's not looking quite as good as I'd left it in the other videos
because I don't know if you remember... I started off with building a frame for the L-shaped bench just using stud work and made up a design so that these flat boards could go on the top and that would be our L-shaped bench in the corner
then the... the... on the last video the... the next stage was to put sides onto the L-shaped bench and I managed to get these bits of plywood
cut them to size and put them on but I had a real problem putting them on with the brackets that I had
I just had any old brackets and it's sort of okay but they're not bolted on properly
what I'm hoping to do today - it is three o'clock I want to get this done by five o'clock uh we'll see how that goes but we've got a few jobs to do on this to finish it off
so since we last saw the L-shaped bench on the video we've had these made!
my Unstoppable amazing wife built these
I took an Ikea mattress for my son's bed that was from another video - the teen Bed video - and I cut up... well I had to measure the mattress to size which was really difficult because it's... it's squeezy and squashy so you can't really get an accurate measurement on it but I tried anyway and measured it out and then here's some footage of me using a saw I think
I used a saw to cut them up
this was in sunnier times - it seemed so long ago now but I cut the two bits of mattress into these two seats so then the next difficult bit was to get some kind of cover onto them
and the way my amazing Unstoppable wife managed to do that was to get our Ikea sewing machine which is useless
it's brand new and it just didn't... it just couldn't cope with this fabric at all so it was a really long job to measure it up, cut it out and then somehow sew the pieces together
it turns out because we love this fabric but it turns out that it's quite thick and the sewing machine couldn't cope so we had to get these special like denim needles - the bigass needles that could cope better with the fabric
anyway managed to get them together and the... the pads look amazing
followed some instructions on... there's some useful YouTube videos out there
I also want to fill these holes and somehow family proof it because already look all our heels... oh hello Casper! hello!
um our feet and heels and dust and mess and food are going all over them so I want to find a way of protecting them
oh one more big job I've got to somehow get power out because we've got two power points that are blocked in by the L-shaped bench so I'm going to somehow bring power to the outside
yeah that's a 2 hour job isn't it?!
this is absolutely disgusting - have a look at this - so ah, I just left the board on loose at the back and it's warped
but because it's the coolest part of the room look at it!
it's just revolting - the mould - we have got mould everywhere in this house!
look at it! just disgusting so now I've got to clean the board
I'm hoping if I varnish it then we won't have this kind of a problem but oh my goodGod this is a toxic health hazard
I have put a face mask on now because the spores just go everywhere and look at it
it's just covered in mould
I use this Milton sterilizing fluid - you know the stuff that you use when the kids were were babies
this stuff - I don't know if it's the right stuff for mould but every time I've used this and I've cleaned a lot of mould from the house recently
it has not come back when I've used Milton sterilizing fluid on the patch of mould so I'm now oh my goodness just getting it everywhere
but I'm just getting it on the cloth... on the board trying to remove as much mould as possible without disturbing it too much and watching it go poof into the air
the little black clouds of mould spores
this is death liquid to the mould
if you know a better way of removing mould then please leave it in the comments below but this stuff has just been perfect for the mould that I've wanted to eradicate
I've got a second board behind the other L-shaped bench
I don't think I can use this it's just too small but I better clean the mould off before I put it in the garage or something
and while the benches are out we're going to take this opportunity to swap this really expensive power socket for this one!
a white one - I’m hoping we'll be able to use the silver one on the outside later on
I'll just do this now just that I've got it
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the next thing that I'm going to do is put wood filler into these screw holes
I've got this stuff off Amazon and I'll just scrape it on
and if I do it now hopefully it will dry before I put the varnish on
so here I am spreading it in and just using the the trowel - the wallpaper scraper - to keep it off off the edge of the holes
I'm only doing it on the screw holes that you can see on the outside I won't bother doing the ones behind because you know I'm a Craftsman
and now something I've wanted to do since the last video
I'm now using these really nice brackets that I got from Amazon
I'm just using them to make the panels on the side lie a bit more flush with the stud
it's really difficult getting the power tools in between the stud work to try and get them in but these are much easier to do than the L-shaped brackets that I was trying to do last time
so I think they're going to look really good as well
even though you can't see them on the inside
this is a really dicey moment now I'm trying to fit the power socket onto the end of the shorter bench and to do that ah I took so long to fit these exactly
the first step is to measure out the power socket and to try to centre it
and it's difficult to judge because I've got a lot of stuff at the back of the socket that needs to be accommodated by this hole
so the hole can't be too big otherwise there'll be a gap and it'll fall through
and it can't be too small because it needs to be big enough to accommodate all the socketry at the back of the socket so I'm taking it my best guess with my pencil measuring it out
and now the scary scary bit
I'm drilling holes in the edges of where I think the cutout's going to go
and once I've drilled these holes through I've then got a space for the jigsaw blade to get in and I can now carve out this middle
this is too late now this is either it, or very much not it
but I'm going to cut out this centre section here and hope that the double power socket fits
it goes through and yes!
it fits it's a perfect fit
it looks like it can sit on there
I’ll have a box behind it as well and hopefully that will grip and hold the power socket in place
it's time to sand down the the filler now
it's not quite dry but I'll just take off the big bumps and edges just to flatten it down a bit and get ready for the next step that's coming
and now what do you think leave a comment below
I've got to coat these with something to protect it from our... you know our boots just kicking up against it when we're sitting down there
do I use protective oil or do I use wood varnish ah!
I don't know why I'd much prefer to oil these
I'm going to have to go with the varnish because of the scuff marks
it just feels like this is more of a protective seal
I'm going to Varnish them and we'll just see how we'll go with that
this now is the job that I'm absolutely dreading
yep it's starting to Varnish and I have never varnished before in my life
I'm reading the instructions I know I've got to do two to three coats and I've got to leave an hour between each coat
and I'm also painting with the grain rather than Against the Grain even though it's plywood
it's really hard work because it's... the benches are filthy and I've cleaned them as best as I can
I don't think it's good enough so I keep picking up fluff but I'm managing to to get the varnish on without making too much of a state of it
I'm doing the obvious bits that you can see, and the obvious bits that’ll get kicked by our shoes while we're sitting on the L-shaped bench
but I'm also now thinking well maybe I should be doing the backs because if I do the back of the bench, then it won't get wet and it won't get mouldy
so now I'm painting inside and I honestly thought I could do the whole bench with one tin and look I've used the whole lot so I've put a second and third coat on the really obvious bits that you can see
oh and I forgot! I forgot to paint the the stuff that we sit on
the two Furniture panels that I cut to sit on, which is the actual top part of the bench
yeah I've got to do a good job with these because these benches take a bit of a pounding from our delicate behinds
have a look at this! it's now 11 o'clock - five to eleven - the whole family have gone to bed
I've been doing this for eight hours or... I had something to eat and I had to recharge the camera a couple of times but I've been at this for eight hours
but it's okay because I've got everything varnished
I've even managed to fit properly a nice box and a little extension lead for the power sockets
what I'm going to do now - let’s speed this up - I’m going to reassemble the boxes... the two benches I'm gonna bring them together and I've also got to find a way of kind of bolting them together
I thought I could keep them loose but over time they just drift apart
they're like tectonic plates - they want to make their own way!
I think I've figured out a way to fix them together and I'm just going to Loosely screw them together just so they hold hold tight and don't drift across the kitchen while we sit on them
I'm calling this a Dad delivers success!
let me leave you with some beauty shots
I'll try and shoot it from as many angles but I think this is pretty much the end of the L-shaped bench project
I am really pleased with how these have turned out
it just looks really inviting it's covered by the table so you never get to see the work that went into this
the hours... but I think we've we've managed to make some storage and make a nice soft area for the corner of the room
I have no idea what we're going to do about the mould
I think we're gonna have to get some kind of dehumidifier for the kitchen or something
anyway if you've got any comments... are you having a go at this?
please leave a comment and... and don't forget the previous two videos are down in the description - if you've got to this point thank you for being so awesome by hitting that thumbs up button or even the Subscribe button and right here is what YouTube thinks you want to be watching next! can you please help my daddy get 10000 subscribers just click on his face thanks bye! Alright this is going to be the proper one right?
This is my unboxing of the IKEA KNIXHULT wicker rattan table lamp. Assembly instructions and trying it out on the window shelf for some home decor ideas. I also talk about how the L-Shape bench is going, show our IKEA haul and sound out how a Costco membership video would go down?
THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!
hello I'm Neil welcome back to the channel - it's the Dad delivers Vlog where I try new things to make your family happy
let me put some lights on
we've not done an unboxing video in a while have we?
there's probably a good reason for that
I think all my friends hate them
they are really polarizing as well aren't they because if I'm opening something you're not interested in... it's time... it's time to switch off so let's see how long I can keep your attention for because we went to Ikea
right so this is the other problem, it's been ages since I've made a video from my poor little Ikea dad Channel
look there it is languishing away I think it's got 400 something subscribers but look how long it's been since I've uploaded a video
I think I'm gonna close it down
what do you think let me know
uh don't tell the Ikea dad subscribers but I think I should do all of that on this channel and the Ikea videos that I do... do on this channel seem to do really well and today we went to the... the big blue and yellow store
let's just sit here
I've not used this as an area, so this is the L-shaped bench that I bent... “that I bent?!”
That I built! let's give it a try
it's not quite finished yet we've got to make some um seat cushions
I've been cutting up uh foam and put the... the sides on... on the last video so that went well
I think there might be one more video left where I varnish it and fill some of the screw holes on the side there
this looks bleak doesn't it but we got something to go... this is what we're unboxing: it's to go on the... on the Shelf there if I've got that in shot and it's this!
it's the Knixhult wicker lamp.
I hate wicker.
We managed to purge our house of wicker... We... I managed to purge the house of wicker but this has been chosen by the person who actually has a good design or... anything in the house that you see that looks good isn't... isn't my doing and the advice is that this will finish off the... the nice wooden shelf our new wooden shelf by our new window really well
um so let's open it up and also I can show you some of the other things that I've got in... with in Ikea today
it was our daughter- it was our daughter's fault
she had football today
it's Saturday and uh it usually involves driving to really Bleak places and watching her and her teammates get injured but uh I know there's no “but” to this...
they lost four nil
they played really well and I think this team were a whole division above them
there was some weird fixture problem
if you're not familiar with the Grassroots of women's football in this country it's basically 11 year old girls and 50 year old men just screaming “down the line!”
“down the line!” like that means something so the lionesses have actually overcome more hurdles I think to... to achieve their status in... in football
but anyway back to the IKEA haul
uh should I show you some other things
I got a bag which I use for the... the laundry which is good and these other things they're from Costco and I've been putting off making a video about costco
do you want to see a video about how to join Costco in the UK?
is that... is that a thing?
because look I managed to get... I'll show you... we got a lot more than this
I've got some Oat-y milk and we've got you know a catering pack of chewing gum... massive bag of Casper food and some Dentastix
but this is the... not from us... this is the Ikea haul with some random drink
my daughter... I just wanted to cheer her up a bit - I got this nice Heather - some lucky Heather
I think the team might need that and a nice pot
I got these really expensive hooks
I don't know whether to put them on the... this is really vloggy today this... this video isn't it?
I don't know where to put them on the door here, outside the... the bathroom so we can use that for coats for our hallway
before my hallway project comes together
that - I'm trying to make that the next video uh that would be over there so I think some coat hooks here would help but it might also just make the whole area look disgusting in a way that it's nice and clean and empty at the moment
feel free to put your interior Decor device down in the comments but I was thinking if I've got some couple of flip down hooks that could be a place for hanging up dog leads and... and big coats and anything else
got some sponges that I like I love these ones
and some bulbs for today's main attraction the Knixhult wicker lamp
there's not going to be much else to this video other than opening it up so ah let's see what comes in the Box
Wow okay so it's... it is wicker - to take it out of the cardboard so you get a dome thing - a hat or maybe that's... that's the base isn't it and that goes onto here so that opens up like that
Get rid of the box
I have been taking ages editing these videos which is why they've been coming out not so very often
I might as well just ramble and let you enjoy where... where things go instead of me trying to cut them down and make them all super whiz-bang
I've got another Channel which is all about just traveling around London and everywhere on trains
I literally put up a video of just me pointing at some trains and it gets hundreds of views
I lovingly craft these Vlog videos and um that sounds like I'm whining I'm not but I just wonder if I should make these videos a bit more loose and a bit more chatty
but anyway so we've got a base here
I need to find a plug
let's try down here
and the trouble with the L-shaped bench is a bit difficult at the moment to get to the plugs that are behind it
okay so we’re plugged in
I swear I've got boxes of these somewhere but we bought some more... it's uh what do you call fear of... of bulbs
it's a bulb anxiety
whoa a little uh sneak preview there
I think this base has to go on first like this
I love this shirt but it's got this thing where when I move my elbow it just tears some more off the uh... off the arm here
let's put the lid on
and then you just open this up - like that so you open up the legs to lock it in
ah it's all landfill isn't it
and then... ah nice... nice uh fabric cord here
the cable is about a metre and a half long so it's really not long enough to reach to the window I think I've got some more plug sockets down here give me a second I'll pretty it up for a end shot
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that's my shirt
I mean it's you know it looks like lollipop sticks or coffee stirrer sticks
Oh some dead flies there but that looks nice
gives a bit more light around here
I'll run some beauty shots
I want to thank you for hitting the Thumbs Up Button if you reach this point of the video
if you're getting value from this Vlog content but do tell me if you want to see the Costco membership how to
it's the best I can muster for a beauty end shot
maybe some close-ups of the... the Shelf that's nice
