Wednesday, 20 April 2022

WRONG place for our wifi box again! Under the floorboards deep dive...



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WRONG place for our wifi box again! Under the floorboards deep dive...



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[MUSIC]
Hello welcome back to my living room floor 
this is the dad delivers vlog it is just us trying to be happy with what we've already got and but I’m not happy so I’m going to deliver something today 
I made a whole video about this it's my wi-fi router box that is just strewn on the floor 
The video that I made showed me tearing up our floorboards and moving the wi-fi on the floor to the corner of the living room so that I could then put the wi-fi box up into the air 
Now this this is going to be a really dull video because I’m going to tear apart all of that work right now and I’m going to move the box that's here in the corner here
which guess what looks absolutely terrible so in this video I’m going to share me moving all of this from this corner here to look like this which I’m hoping in the edit will look much better once I’ve finished it 
it will look much tidier than this monstrosity this monstrosity of wi-fi box and ethernet cables and the reason it looks like this is because ah look I’ve hidden it all behind the door and down the side of the sofa and that means that to do this I need to do this 
which is tear up the carpet again for I think a third time and somehow pull the cables that are running to the corner of the room over to the room by the side of the living room door 
I know this is a strange video because it's literally just me moving some cables in our living room
it's really heavy 
but let's get started and I don't know what I guess I’m gonna have to just move the furniture and take up the carpet
I haven't told anyone that I’m gonna turn the internet off so when I turn it off let's see if we can hear any screams from upstairs 
now the downside to this is that I staple gunned it really well to give it a kind of good finish 
now I’ve got to take up all of that work which is tough but I think this really needs to be done 
oh now this is a huge result there are some holes here already from who knows what 
I think this house used to be used as a bed and breakfast uh about 40 years ago 
I think this might be the pipe work for bringing a sink into the room but I can use these holes so I don't have to drill into the floorboards for running the cables up
this believe it or not is a slight win for me 
okay I’ve definitely been lovingly attacked by my dog Casper hey Casper trying to help yeah 
that's really not helpful see the problem I have with DIY is that every every time I go every time I go down on oh and there goes my light every time I go down on all fours Casper wants to join in
dude this isn't helpful this really is can you show me love when I’m you know on the sofa or something quick oh good boy ah there goes my light now I’ve got to open up the hole in the floor that I created so if I unscrew this 
this looks really well planned but actually it was just a bodge job because I didn't want this bit of floorboard to fall through into the crawl space under the house there we go right now it should come up 
It works it works so these were two stilts that I fashioned to hold the floorboard and stop it falling into the crawlspace and I think some of you were really horrified in the comments that I was drilling in the corner underneath the power socket but I i know for a fact that the cables run across on the the skirting boards which isn't isn't my work 
I got some horrified comments in the last video like this one here which is what is going on with the bricks underneath your house um
I don't think they're load-bearing bricks but whether they are or not it probably shouldn't look like this 
anyway back to my hole in the floor I’m going to use this to reach my hand underneath and now I’m going to feed down the cables
that's great now I’ve got to feed them to over here
I don't I don't know if you can hear Casper he's the other side of the door he wants to come in
[DOG WHINING] 
yeah now what I want to do if you move all the way over here I’m gonna try and feed this cable to you okay yeah I’m ready 
With this we've got to get to the park now because everyone's in the car waiting for us uh 
so we're gonna go to the park and then come back and do the second cable 
and I think I’m sorry about the wind but I think I’ve got a solution 
what I’m going to do is get a metal ruler and I’m going to tape the end of the wire to the ruler and then I’m going to try to push the ruler towards the hole and then get my daughter to try and pluck the plug from the end of the ruler and Sellotape it to the end this is me trying it now obviously ah I think we're gonna do it we got it we got it it worked it worked so the the cables are now out of the the two holes I mean really I’d prefer it if the purple one was on this side 
Do you think we could pass it through without dropping it 
all right so I’m just going to pass it through I mustn't drop it I mustn't drop it 
it's the purple wire!
there we go got it and now I’ll cut a channel for the cables to go through the carpet grippers so that they're flush with the skirting board here 
I i know I should probably use a mitre saw here but all I’ve got is a stanley knife and a lot of patience so let's speed this up and I’ll just tap in the cables to the wall just to hold them in place
I wish I could tuck this underneath the the grippers but at least this holds it in place
so now I’ll put back the floorboard the precious floorboard that I have countersunk and lovingly crafted it's time to put this away for well until next time when I’ll inevitably have to dig it back up again 
uh I’m using a wallpaper scraper to edge the carpet back into the carpet grippers and tuck down any untidy tufts 
next I’m going to fit this ikea four-way plug
I’ve pre-drilled some screws and just hoping that it hangs on
there it goes okay so that looks good now 
so now I’ve got some power points to power everything that I need to plug in and now I need something to plug these switches into so I’ve got this 
it's a netgear ethernet switch I’ll show you the box in a second I’m going to put that on the side there plug that in there it means that I can hopefully plug lots of ethernet cables into my single cable socket on the router so I think they go in like this and now I can plug in my ethernet switches so that will be super tidy if I hide it behind the sofa 
I’ll put in our very old virgin media broadband modem and this box here is a power line for sending the broadband up to the happy hut through the power cables in the house 
and next our google home nest wi-fi router
I’ve made a whole video about this where we unbox it my son and I and that video is in the description and the link to these are in the description but this is the actual wi-fi box that sends the wi-fi around the house because this I don't think this was very good so this is much better 
plug that in watch it turn blue
the only thing left to do now is to quite obviously push the sofa back as hard as I can to cover all of this but it's all it feels like it's all neat and in one place let's let's get the sofa back 
it's all now tidy down the side of the sofa the sofa hides most of the worst of the cabling and best of all this is very technical but when I open the door ah it's completely hidden so now instead of having to step over a mass of cables as you walk in it's all hidden behind the sofa and
and I know I know what you're thinking that the the door is gonna block all the wi-fi signal I’m well ahead of you because the next phase is to run the cables over the door and to run the router out into the hallway 
that is gonna be phase three I don't think I’m ever gonna see the day where the wi-fi actually works in this house but you can take me one step closer if you can hit the thumbs up button just let me know that someone reached this point in the video I really appreciate it 
and if you want to take us one step closer to 1000 subscribers that'll be awesome but uh thanks for watching and right here is what happens next can you please help my daddy get 10000 subscribers just click in his face thanks bye all right this is going to be the proper one right

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Tuesday, 19 April 2022

Smashed my floor to get better WiFi... DAD DELIVERS VLOG



Our internet is terrible, so moving our WiFi router to higher ground to see if it improves our broadband signal... To do this I now have to move our ethernet cables... and to do that, I have to tear up our floorboards to get them to the right place from the hallway to the living room. Will I destroy our floors or will I be able to put them back together again? All here in my Dad Delivers Vlog...

Smashed my floor to get better WiFi... DAD DELIVERS VLOG



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You got the other one yeah hey well done really good right then do not drop them 
[DRILLING NOISE]
I’m Neil and for some reason I thought that you would like to see under the floorboards of our house 
this is the dad delivers vlog we try to be happy with the things that we have already got and right now we have got this hole in the floor which is sort of caused by me 
we're having a new kitchen done one of the brilliant ideas that I had was that we put the tv here and that we'd asked the electrician to put an ethernet connection there 
and he did it and it's great and there's the socket there except we then decided we didn't want to put the telly there so we said could you put a cat5 ethernet socket over there 
and so we did and that is where the telly is going to go so hopefully we'll be able to plug the telly or the telly box into that ethernet connection because let's face it aerial connections are going to die aren't they
we got a aerial socket put in anyway because I’m indecisive and weak and the electrician really kindly surfaced the wires where the wi-fi box is and the wi-fi box is basically on the hallway floor 
we hate it because we keep tripping and keep tripping up over it and it means jamming the cables under the door
is your wi-fi box like this 
is your wi-fi router just like on the floor in the middle of you know wherever the nearest phone connection is
my brilliant idea for broadcasting it around the house the best place for it would be to be in the air that's the idea that we put the wi-fi box there that I fashioned some kind of shelf all I’ve got to do is move these internet ethernet cables look they've come up through the floor and there's one is black and one is purple and I think each one of those cables corresponds with the socket in the wall there and there my brilliant plan I’ve not thought out yet is that if I could somehow get the wires to emerge there then I could run power cable and ethernet cables up the wall behind some trunking drill a hole through the wall there oh I’ve not thought this through this is going to be so difficult and then the wires will all emerge this side ready for putting the wi-fi box up in the air up there 
I might be wrong but I thought you'd like to watch me drilling a hole in the floor and you'd like to see under the floorboards in our house there's some really weird smells that have come from under here over the years because I reckon this is the place where things come to die oh wow look at that
[MUSIC] 
that doesn't look healthy that is what's holding up the floor there oh Casper's going to have a look hi Casper okay
[MUSIC] 
should I go back down under the floorboards
okay here goes oh right that's where the sink under the stairs goes it goes out straight out to there so I’m hoping there's no cables under here
[MUSIC] 
into the joists - I could lift it up now somehow
I think I probably need a hammer or something to pour it up so Casper's getting ready to go out and predictably all my tools are in that covered there which is blocked by everything 
I’ve got a big screwdriver oh it's not that big but as big as there and try and prise it up before I give up and then try harder to find the hammer I now use the wallpaper scraper and the screwdriver in conjunction so two wrong tools oh no it's stuck there 
right so I think the choice is there because it won't move any further than that
[SAWING NOISE] 
i don't want it to fall down so I’m going to try and hold it with the screwdriver here
[SAWING NOISE] 
okay we're through HURRAY look at that so yeah I did hit a nail with the jigsaw 
the other problem I now have is that when I put this back it's just gonna it's just gonna fall straight through
a terrible idea so I have no idea how I’m gonna put this back on and if you saw through floorboards you probably already knew that can you see there's a joist there and that's what this is resting on but I can't lift this up at all it's completely like welded
do you think you want to try some real life minecrafting over here
it's like digging holes and stuff 
I need to pass the wire from under there and put my long arm which comes about here 
if you could put your long arm underneath and grab it then we've at least got the cables to this side 
so let me show you the solution from up here
the internet wires the ethernet cables I’m going to reach under pass them through to my son there they got the other one yeah hey well done really good right then do not drop them because that would be a big pain
[BANGING NOISE] 
so here I’m trying to somehow get that last bit of wood floorboard up but I don't think it's cut I think that's just like some kind of score line there so I’m gonna have to abandon this but that won't stop me from banging that chisel there
[SAWING NOISE] 
oh it's so close I i can't get lower it's got to be dead straight to get through and this isn't dead straight I’m just so close I’m so close but I think I need to remove these carpet grippers 
I just don't want to lose the carpet grippers because that's what's going to hold the carpet in the corner 
I’m now using the biggest wood drill bits that I’ve got and just drilling lots of holes lots of small holes to make one big hole
what a mess 
so I’ve got an exit hole there for the ethernet cables which are currently here
[MUSIC] 
oh here got one of them hey yes yes got it what'd you do 
what have you done
I’ve got the cables to come out the floor at the exact place where we want them
now this is where it becomes a bodge job or do I do it properly the the cables are tangled around the the gas pipe yeah 
so I have a choice now either feed them back down the hole redo it but do it where they have cleared the gas pipe or do I just leave it like this because I’ve sorted or I’ve got enough cable 
oh what would you do would you do it again and do it properly it'll only take a few minutes to to fix it properly but ugh it means undoing absolutely everything you've done so far and then redoing it it's not a good moment
[SAWING NOISE] 
I’m cutting these planks so that I can then screw them underneath the hole where I need the floorboard that I’ve ripped out to sit back in on so it's like a kind of a shoe kind of a base for the floorboard to sit but such is my perfectionism that look I mean I’ve even countersunk the screws there just so that it's all flat this will make no sense to anyone in the future like 50 years from now when they find this
I don't know what they're going to make of it hopefully they'll see this video so this is in place now I’ve got these two boards completely screwed in that should take the weight now I need to get the fighting over minecraft uh I need to get the original floorboard if you can hear me and then I’ll lay it down and hopefully the perfect crime
I’m really pleased with that I should screw this down but I cannot be bothered I just want my dinner 
I couldn't do it I couldn't leave it so I’ve kind of counter sunk another screw if it gets in focus I’ve countersunk another screw onto the loose floorboard but not loose now so that is really solid
[MUSIC] 
it's all nearly back to normal
[MUSIC] 
so the cables are now tidy right in the corner so now it's ready for the carpet to be pushed right back down
[MUSIC] 
so that's it it's all done so I’ve got the cable there that can then the next stage will be to trunk it up the wall through some trunking and then oh man then I’ll have to build a shelf here and run the cables through the wall 
to do that without hitting that switch that electrical switch there 
that would be phase two I’ll put it on this video here but in the meantime this is what youtube thinks you should be watching next thanks for watching me not destroy the floorboards of the house
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Monday, 18 April 2022

How to fit a toilet seat: IKEA TOILET SEAT KULLARNA review & unboxing & instructions



How do you change a toilet seat in the bathroom? Can I fit an IKEA KULLARNA round toilet seat on a SQUARE toilet bowl? I try just that by replacing an IKEA Kullarna wooden toilet seat for my square B&Q plastic toilet seat. Will a round soft close toilet seat even work on our rectangular bog? Will it take me under 4 hours? As you'll see in the video, I have big problems with removing our old toilet seat... but after that it's plain sailing with step-by-step instructions for fitting an IKEA Kullarna to your toilet.

How to fit a toilet seat: IKEA TOILET SEAT KULLARNA review & unboxing & instructions



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four more turns
breathe Neil breathe 
I’ll try
hello welcome back to the channel and welcome back to the vlog and welcome to our bathroom!
this is the dad delivers vlog 
wow it's really echoing here
this is the dad delivers vlog where we try to be happy with what we've already got and I’m sharing my experiences as a dad and today I’m gonna be stumbling through this
it's - oh that’s the bigger one - it's the IKEA Kullarna toilet seat and today I’m gonna I’m gonna attempt the impossible 
I’m going to try and replace a square toilet seat with a round toilet seat 
I’m gonna bend physics
I’m gonna... I’m gonna do the impossible 
I do not know why we bought a square toilet
well I say we it was me I chose this 
I know why
it's because it was cost effective 
it was cheap and then I realised it's cheap for a reason 
nobody wants a square toilet!
it is ridiculous! 
toilets have been round since Victorian times since the industrial revolution 
I thought we would get more toilet for our bucks but this soft close is... is... is... 
well it's a bit no close isn't it?
as you know this is the second worst job that a dad can do in a house
the first worst job obviously is trying to find parking while your child has gone to accident and emergency in hospital 
you know fumbling around for change that's the worst job 
the second worst job is this
changing a toilet seat 
I know there are worse jobs in the home but look at this 
this has gone really not very well
there's a there's a crack here 
this is why men don't put the seat down
because you know you know the wear and tear is eventually going to lead to the day where you've got to change the thing 
you just don't want to do anything to shorten that finite life and... 
and end up like me on my hands and knees in the bathroom fitting a new toilet seat 
and so we have salvation in the form - the round form of the IKEA Kullarna round toilet seat 
this is an unboxing I’m going to open it like a pizza I think 
let's see what's inside ah it is it's like a delicious pizza that you can sit on and it will comfort you
we've got some crucial instructions some protective cloth ah and the toilet seat itself 
there's the crucial bag of bits
  
now I don't I don't know if this is even going to fit our toilet 
there's a bit of jeopardy in this video because this this video could end very quickly 
now I’m running the camera in real time
now I’m running the camera in real time 
let's take this away I think that's an IKEA product too ding! 
so the first step is to remove this monstrosity from our frankenstein toilet 
oh gotta reach up
oh there's only one way this rust has happened oh and the problem with toilet seat rust is that it stops the nut from turning on the thread 
I’m trying to force it through the toilet seat rust 
oh man
oh this is hard 
now the other problem I’ve got with this situation is that I might have to keep all of the bits because I might have to put this seat back ON
okay this should work 
it won't move
oh got it! 
there we go that's removed but I’ve got to be super careful and then hopefully these will come off?
Urgggh! 
none of my allen keys fit and I’ve not given the gift to myself of keeping the actual allen key for this actual seat
I... I think I did keep it and then I threw it away
I can feel the last rust coming off the bottom just four more turns
breathe Neil, breathe 
I’ll try.
Got it! Woah! 
you've birthed it 
I’ve got to do the other one now
that's taken 30 minutes 
for the other side I’m going to use a hacksaw to try and get through here to get to the screw
[SAWING NOISES] 
okay that didn't work so now just forcing it out by just bending it as hard as I can without trying to crack the toilet
well cracking the toilet would be a bit of a relief right now
but hey you got it! I did it! 
it's gone!
Uggghhh! 
next I’ll clean it with with this
next goes on the Kullarna toilet seat from IKEA so this makes it my IKEA dad vlog
this is my one of my IKEA dad videos 
I’ve got a whole channel over over here
we get a bag of bits and the first job is to fit these things to the bottom of the seat on the hinges 
just like this you press them down on the silver or chrome hinges there 
next you need to choose your hole and you do that by measuring the gap between the two holes in your toilet bowl - your toilet basin there
mine is 148 millimeters which matches these sections in the instructions
so that's how I know where to put the bolt and then these plastic nuts go onto the bolts
now it's time for the reach around - the filthy toilet reach around - And put these nuts onto the bolts 
it's a bit difficult to reach around and hold the bolt on 
dropped my nuts!
final part we're nearly there we just need this thing to tighten up the bolts so I’ll just twist this around and that will lock the nut on the bolts underneath the toilet bowl
and I think this is it 
I think I’ve managed to sort of do it
it's not quite what I wanted but this is the Kullarna IKEA toilet seat and it sort of works with the square bowl 
It’s coming out but it has a soft close lid for both... both the seats and the lid and this isn't quite what I wanted but it... it's at least it comes out as far as the front edge there 
obviously it's square so it doesn't fit the seat at all but I’ve got a toilet seat that isn't cracked and that might actually work and not crash down in the middle of you know what 
and it's good, it feels solid and oh my goodness check out the chrome fittings there on the on the hinges
we will never see them this colour again! 
that is going to turn into rust over time I’m sure but I’m just going to enjoy it while it lasts 
so that's it I hope this helps
it's a very specific problem I’m trying to find a round seat on a square toilet bowl 
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Sunday, 17 April 2022

Can you day trip to London with dog? And car, kids and Grandad...



Hard day trip to London with the dog. The car. Our kids. And Grandad.
It's a little bit difficult when you can't all go into places.
It's a Dad Delivers Vlog! Where I try to share all the mistakes I make, so you don't have to.

Covers visiting and parking in Central London, treating John Lewis Oxford Street like a theme park... cheap and free things to do with the kids in London... spending a lot of money with the family in London and a tiny bit of where not to eat with the family on our day trip.

Can you day trip to London with dog? And car, kids and Grandad...



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hello i'm Neil and uh you might recognise the location in the background this is London England, united kingdom and uh i'm i'm stuck here with the dog walking walking casper around cavendish square which is in central London and it's just behind a really giant really giant it's a moderately sized department store called john lewis the family have gone in this is our day trip to london dogs dogs obviously aren't welcome in in stores or anywhere so i'm stuck outside with the lead and the camera so i thought my dad delivers vlog starts right here i've been making some videos about the i was just gonna say the smooth ride but it's a struggle struggle being a dad anywhere in the world but particularly here in the uk maybe this is it maybe this is the day that i start vlogging regularly about some of the little struggles the little issues and how i don't cope with them very well maybe cataloging on video all of the mistakes that i make oh as a family so casper's pulling me pulling me around the square he's not been to london before this is good isn't it it's like some kind of bad disney live action movie isn't it what would be the worst thing that could happen if i were to make a video every day and just catalogue how a year works there's a little time capsule we got into the car uh two weeks ago to do this and uh look i even got i thought that would be the video to start on our unplanned day trip to london by car say hi everyone hello

and it didn't work the turbo blew on the car had to have the engine completely repaired but it's two weeks later and we've done it again and we knew this would be tricky to come to london with a dog and we knew that one of us would have to wait outside everywhere we went whoa pigeons so the biggest shock was well we've obviously not been here for a couple of years because of the whole pandemic thing we just saw the parking prices we've come on a sunday good job we did because i i was braced to spend a lot of money on parking to make a you know special day trip treat london like a theme park look at these prices i've been very familiar of it you know since the age of five but that that hourly rate right there that is that is something special and on top of that i've got to remember to pay the ULEZ and congestion charge we're going to spend good Saddiq Khan money it's it's good to know that out-of-town-ers can uh can help out the poor people of london we're happy to help you know spend some money from the other shires to support the metropolis in its hour of need i've just realised they've put bars on the benches and i thought oh that's nice it's to divide up the benches to mean that more people get to sit on them it's not it's to stop people sleeping on them it's a it's an anti-homeless device okay i just got a call from my long-suffering wife they're going to come out and they're going to relieve me casper so i get to go in and see granddad my son they've both gone missing casper and my long suffering wife have a a very special bond and she told me yesterday that some hairs got caught up in casper's bottom so he was having trouble going to the toilet so she um helped him

she's a doggy doo doo doula

they've all had enough so i'm now going through it all by myself

which isn't quite the christmas trip that i had planned oh well

well that was a complete washout it's not the same by yourself on a family day to london so we're gonna go somewhere else now to find something to eat wow so london south bank is over there just dropped off the family i don't know if i got that on the dash cam there and bizarrely i've managed to find somewhere just around the corner this never happens in london it's only uh it's only a yellow line look so that means i can use it on a sunday which is great so casper and i we're gonna we're gonna go for a walk just you and me again isn't it yeah see if we can get some south bank action i used to work in this building here it's uh it was the tv station for london and uh made a few programmes here over the years it's so strange seeing it all boarded up and now scaffolding to take it apart

oh man i'm beginning to sound like a 50 year old already but oh it's weird seeing it so we're in Pret and i've got the dog hiding under the table we're outside it's not warm and it's a bit busy the queue is about double digits in there so it might be some time before we get some food okay slight problem we need to find a toilet don't we so we're going to try in here

oh here we go here we go here we go so they were great toilets that was really good that worked out well didn't it so now we're going to go back to Pret A Manger - no toilets - see where we can what we can do with the dog whoa and see what we can do with the dog and granddad

you know who'd have thought that having a car granddad two kids and a dog turns out it's slightly stressful so we got some food look at this steak and chips they went with the steak and chips i i went with some too so it's um bankrupted us somewhat but at least we got some steak and chips so that's a win

so now it's the the drive home hour and a half stuck in traffic on a sunday how was it out of ten joe score out of ten

stella what was today do you give it a score out of ten today is score out of ten for today a nine? oh brilliant how's the steak and chips joe 
ten.
Ten? Brilliant that's a win here's here's another video i don't know if i'm gonna keep doing this 
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Saturday, 16 April 2022

How to put up IKEA Hoppvals blind - review



How do you put up or take down IKEA Hoppvals blinds?
And why are they currently the biggest security risk in my garden office?
It's been 5 years since the Happy Hut went up! In this video, I share how the office went up and try to improve the safety of my garden pod by moving the Ikea blinds a bit closer to the window so you can't see inside..

My blinds are protection! Or... How to put up IKEA Hoppvals blind - review



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hello welcome back to the happy hut and this video is about the happy hut because today I’m going to be putting up this! 
it's the IKEA Hoppvals retractable blind it's like a cellular blind 
I’m not actually putting it up 
I’ve already put them up in the hut - they're fantastic - all I’m doing is just moving them five centimetres closer to the window
[ACCORDION MUSIC]
never had one lesson! 
in reality I don't think this video is about the IKEA blind but I will show you how they work 
this video might be about the hut itself or even maybe the security that I have for the hut 
I’ve got a problem with the happy hut and it's this 
I’m not sure this footage does it justice 
you can see into the blind - the blinds kind of block out what's inside and just for security it just doesn't feel right that you can see through the cracks at the side 
I’m not sure that moving the blind from here to here a bit closer to the window is going to stop someone who wants to break in 
If someone wants to do badness to the hut, they're going to do it, aren't they?
I’m doing this course - this filmmaking course at monthly.com (studio.com) 
it's the Casey Neistat filmmaking course 
you don't need to focus on your private life to tell a story with depth so as you're searching for this more premeditated idea for our next movie, know that ultimately you should choose a story that's compelling to you 
you're supposed to share something a bit more personal about yourself and I feel a bit awkward about that because this hut is incredibly personal to me 
even though I’ve shared it with hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and this is I think this is why I love the place 
you and I get to experience this through videos like this 
there's a difference between sharing the hut publicly and feeling like someone might come here and do something bad to it or break into it 
the first thing I realised was that this hut is literally five years old - almost to the day when this hut was put up in the garden 
I’ve got some shots of it here 
it took a day for a team of men to put up that took six months after we actually saw the thing 
here's our visit to I think it was the grand designs conference or exhibition 
there were huts there, but this one kind of leapt out 
this is a hut that doesn't look right 
the windows just look all wrong 
there's just something about the feng shui - the shape of it 
I don't know what it is 
these huts didn't look good but this hut looked amazing 
and here it is in... in... in real life! 
it's actually a... it's a barbecue hut from Finland and actually if I tilt the camera up I can do this - can you see there's a... there's a chimney at the at the top there 
it's actually designed to do barbecuing in it but I didn't need it for a barbecue 
I just needed a space to do some work when we... when we moved here 
I was thinking I’d love to be on YouTube 
but how could I compete with Californian blondes reviewing Gopros beside their swimming pool dressed in a bikini?
I had this thought I think about two years and then I realized I’ve got a place as I’ve sat in there going “I’ve got nothing to show or share with YouTube” and I was literally sat right there when I was thinking it 
let's get these blinds moved and I’ll get rid of that gap and I’ll show you how it's looking at the moment 
let's go inside
so let the camera adjust 
this is how the hut looks today five years on 
I’ve got an IKEA standing desk that is adjustable look 
you can get the handle out and raise it 
I think I’ve raised it about twice and they were both to make videos 
I haven't really worked much standing up but I like the idea of it 
I’ve got my drill my special drill but... dusty... but let me show you the problem 
it's over here so I am going to move this hook all the way from here to over here and that will fix all of the security issues here in the happy hut
removing the IKEA Hoppvals blind is really easy 
you just push this button here 
it's like a catch and that releases it on this side and you can kind of twist it off 
so if I push the button there it just releases it like that 
oh it's a bit of dust there 
we've also got a few neighbours in here 
that is a huge spider just under that gap there 
wonder if he’ll come out 
I think that's his exoskeleton there
[MUSIC]
Uggh gotta get rid of this
[MUSIC]
I think I need just a proper screwdriver
[MUSIC]
Do you like these running shots? 
gives it a sense of urgency 
right here is my precious toolbox - angelic chord - there is the screwdriver back to the hut
[MUSIC]
so let's try the screwdriver on this really tough bit of wood 
this is just in as a pilot hole and now I’ve got something to drill into 
all I need to do now is to hook the Hoppvals onto the clips and then just push them up so they click 
there we go job done 
oh that's perfect 
and now I need to do exactly the same but on this side 
we're in a really special week at the moment 
this is the one week of the year where it's the end of the cold winter and it's just the start of the super hot summer so the temperature in here is just right 
I’ve got to do this today 
and now I can clip this one on
[MUSIC]
It works! it works 
so let's now see how much I can see down the side of these blinds from the outside 
I don't know if I can do this in daylight but I... I can see already whoa...
can't see a thing 
you cannot see a thing 
let's take a look on the other window 
oh that's fantastic 
you can't see my printer gobbling up ink 
I really appreciate you being here for me waffling on about this building 
I’ve had to do this to break the drought
I haven't put a video up on this channel for I think six months now and it feels good to finally get some stuff out of my head and to finally fix those blinds 
and obviously if you want to see what happens next 
there's a subscribe button and here's what YouTube thinks you should be watching next 
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How to RETURN something to Amazon for a full refund! UK step by step


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Friday, 15 April 2022

How to RETURN something to Amazon for a full refund! UK step by step



Sending an item back to Amazon? How do you do that?
For a refund? I return something to Amazon UK to get my money back - in fact, I send 2 items back and show you how I do this by sharing the step-by-step process along the way.

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How to RETURN something to Amazon for a full refund! UK step by step



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hello welcome back to the happy hut! 
you have bought something on Amazon and you've instantly regretted it and you're wondering if you can send it back? 
it's tiny! 

not only that but send it back for free and get a full refund 
me too because look I bought these two items here and they're no good 
I need to get them back 

all you need to do is just tick a few boxes, put the stuff back in the box that it came in, and get yourself over to the post office 

I don't know why I’m being so aggressive! 
...and take a lovely trip to the post office 

you and me are gonna do this together and we're gonna get our money back! 
this is the dad delivers vlog where I try to do something new each and every day and this is new 
because I haven't sent TWO items back at once so we'll see how that goes 
the first thing we want to do is to make sure that you are logged into your Amazon account 
I’m in the UK so this is what my Amazon homepage looks like 

but if you go up to the top of the screen there you can see this menu “returns and orders” 
so we'll click on that and that opens up all of your orders from the past three months 
you can change how long back it goes here 
but the item that I want to send back - well the two items I want to send back - are right here 

they are a vans backpack and a Spigen screen protector 
shall I tell you what was wrong with them? 
no I’ll save that I’ll say that but later on but the first thing you want to do is to find this menu item here “return or replace items” 
so if we click on that and it opens up all of the items that were delivered as part of that delivery and oh my goodness this was quite a haul 
I bought some things for my daughter but I also bought this backpack 
so I’m going to tick on the box for the backpack and then I’m going to click on this menu here 
“why are you returning this?” 

if you click on the menu it... it brings up all of the possible reasons that you're allowed to select so we've got you found a better price... they're missing parts or the package was damaged... or the item is defective 
but I think the one that fits me most is that it's not useful for intended purpose 
we thought from the photo that it would be the size for a schoolboy but it's more like a little handbag unfortunately 

you can put details in this box here but I’m not going to bother doing that so let's go down to the second item that I want to return 
three pack of samsung galaxy s9 screen protectors 
it was so dumb: the listing says samsung galaxy s9 plus screen protector 
I thought that meant an s9 PLUS a screen protector 

I thought it was an additional thing I didn't realize there was an actual phone called the s9 plus 
there's a help article down here for why don't I see all of my items 
you might want to pause but I’m just going to continue now and that brings up a summary 
“how can we make it right” 

so I’m going to choose refund to Amazon account balance on both of them 
and then we're going to tick the box here 
yes please issue my refund to my Amazon account 
lots of different options for sending things back 
the one I found the easiest even though they recommend hermes drop off is to drop it off return it to the royal mail 

and what's great is that they'll sort it all out I’ll show you the process in a moment so I’m going to choose Royal Mail drop off, print in store 
and then we'll click on “confirm your return” 
so here we now have “your return summary” 

Amazon have sent me an email 
here's what the email looks like 
we've accepted your return request 

it takes a while for this email to arrive so don't worry if it doesn't appear instantly but it gives you this QR code on the screen here the idea is that we'll pack up the items and we'll go to the post office and they will zap this QR code and then they'll take it away for you 
you don't have to label it, you don't have to... you don't have to do anything 
it's fantastic 
here if you want to pause, here are the instructions for how to take it to your nearest post office 

so I’ve got an idea:
should we pack up the items go to the post office? 
let's see if this works! 
I’m going to let you know if I get paid in a minute in a moment, that's after I’ve handed it in at the post office let's go in 

“Cashier Number 2 please”
Lovely hi
I’ve got an Amazon return? 
perfect, there we go. Put it on the scales

Lovely send that in.
that's it thank you
it was THAT quick! 

look I’ve got proof of postage let's find out now if I get the money back 
that was at 3:20 
one hour 40 minutes later I get this email from Amazon refund total 4.99 and for the vans backpack I got 28 pounds back so we did it! 

if you hit the subscribe button right now nothing will happen whatsoever but you'll be taking me closer to the 1000 subscribers mark which we're trying to hit so thanks so much if you are kind enough to hit that button or even the thumbs up to help other people find this 
right here is what youtube thinks you should be watching next 
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Thursday, 14 April 2022

PREMIER INN London City Tower Hill vs Farnborough - look inside hotel room



Candid traveler video of Premier Inn room comparing London City Tower Hill with Farnborough: what does it look like inside the room? I try to swing the camera round for a 360 hotel room tour, to show the bed, the bathroom the shower (what are the showers like at Premier Inn hotels?)

PREMIER INN London City vs Farnborough - look inside hotel room



0:00 Premier Inn London City Tower Hill: hotel room tour review - family room actual video
1:00 Premier Inn Hotel London City Tower Hill: window view
1:35 Premier Inn family room bed review
2:30 Bathroom review Premier Inn hotel Tower Hill London: how powerful is the shower pressure?
5:55 Room tour of Premier Inn Farnborough, Hampshire UK

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hello so welcome to my Premier Inn 
let's turn the lights on - you have to put the card in to make the lights work - but this is what the Premier Inn London city tower hill looks like as you come in 

Sorry, I’ve left my face mask on the on the bed so I thought I’d give you a tour of the room literally as... as I go in so you can see what it looks like 
sorry it's a bit dark but it's nice 
it's nice subdued lighting 
let me step into the light and see if I can turn some more lights on 

there's a light switch by the side of the bed there so not all the bulbs are functioning but that's okay 
it's good because I kind of like the ambience 
let me give you a 360 spin around the room 
I believe this is one of the family rooms 
I think I picked this up for 110 pounds for the night which is I think quite a good deal for something in central London 

I’m in the lower ground floor so it's the -1 floor and uh this is the bottom floor 
I was a bit worried about that but then I thought well actually it's probably a lot quieter down here 
there are two windows that seem to look out into the street 
this is a quick time jump 

this is the morning after and I’ll show you the view from the window 
this is the view from the window obviously you know it's a city budget chain hotel 
you're not here for the view you're here for the for the nice room - the nice warm room for the night - 
but if you are curious about the view situation this is what it's like on this floor 
so let me draw the curtains to make it look all nice it... it feels really clean 
you know sometimes you go into a chain hotel a budget chain hotel and it I don't know there's just um it's like a lip service to cleanliness 

this does actually feel really clean 
the surfaces feel properly clean 
the curtains aren't dusty which is usually something else that you get, and the bed looks confidently clean 
uh there's some give in it 
Shall I throw myself back on it?

yeah I mean this this feels like a firm soft bed so it's not one of those ones that feels really clapped out 
it does actually feel like a really good kind of firmness there 
and then underneath because it's a family room I think there's a pull-out bed here so you have to move the side table 

let me pull this out for you to show you the pull-out bed and I don't know maybe they provide a mattress if you check in with... with a child or family member 
so this is where the magic happens... into the bathroom and it looks really clean and well appointed 
there's a nice lighting here 
a clean sink and hello! 

nice big mirror and again, usually in budget chain hotels you have I don't know sort of mould or bits of sealant missing but this all looks very very well kept
uh very clean sink and a soap dispenser but this is the... the shower has a nice plastic door there
whoa Clank!

sorry next door! 
and yeah it looks really super clean 
there are some kind of bits missing from the fittings but it's very clean 
there's a gel dispenser there and a clean shower head which is all that you want isn't it but another sort of bit missing there 

but you know overall it's really clean and looks well... well maintained there's a little seat if you want to sit down which is nice - and ponder life's thoughts 
so the door goes like that 
crucially let me show you what the shower pressure is like 

I’ve got it completely turned up 
you know it's moderately powerful it's great 
it's not a power shower 
that's powerful enough for a substantial shower which is I guess one of the only things you really need in a budget chain hotel room 
clean towels 
and there was a bath mat which I laid down on the floor there 
very clean toilet as well 
and new looking seat so the seat doesn't look damaged which is which is wonderful and there's the flush 

so that's pretty much the tour of the bathroom 
for the price it's it's really not bad at all and it feels clean that's the most important thing 
let me show you around the... the rest of the room which is obviously - I say the rest of the room - I mean all there is left there's a mirror... armchair...

there's some coffee making facilities 
again sorry it's so dark 

we've got a kettle and what's in here? 
there's a couple of tea bags and some milk and coffee sachets 
a couple of glasses and mugs and then over here is a desk area with a chair 
there's loads of space in this family room so that's a distance of about a meter and a half, two meters between the bed 

let me give you some geography 
there's a bed and the desk area 
I’ve messed it up charging up my phone and laptop 
there's a tv with remote control a hairdryer which as you can see I probably won't need but it's nice to have so we've got all the freeview channels 
look there's a control panel here 

I’ll switch it on 
you've got a heater and air conditioning going on there 
a couple of nice pictures to soften the mood 

this is the hang up area with fixed hangers and then what's great about this because one bugbear I have with the Premier Inn chain is they have these fire doors that go KA-CLONK through the night 
uh there are nice open corridors here so I’m hoping for a quiet night without people coming in late with the clunk donk 
let's have a look in the corridor - I’ll be quiet, I’ll just point the camera out the door.

And if you want to see a comparison between the Premier Inn city hotel with a regular Premier Inn hotel: this is the Premier Inn Farnborough 
we're comparing the city hotel family room with a regular room in the Premier Inn Farnborough 
let me give you a little swing around the room 

so this is what it looks like when you walk in - first walk in - obviously I’ll trash it myself but this is first impressions review of the Premier Inn 
it is really cozy and tidy! 
it seems super clean 
up here in the... the luggage rack and wardrobe area we've got some spare soft pillows 

that's great we didn't get that in the city hotel 
there's a little fan up there I guess for the summer months maybe 
and desk area 
but we get the... the welcome documentation and menus over here 

there's a generous tv screen that's wall mounted rather than on the table nice mirror - hello! 
and there's a couch / spare bed so in the other hotel in the family room that was kind of pull out on casters 
this one is a couch that's already here so I wonder if this is a family room? 
let's take a look out the window before we go to the bed where the magic happens 

so obviously a trademark Premier Inn signature car park view from the window but that's good 
that's what you get with a value chain hotel and this is the bed 
it looks super clean 
super inviting 
with a usb port right next to the bed they know exactly how I roll 

and like a main light switch from the bed that's good and then a little side lamp 
wonderful art and we have got a heating control so this is the heating and air conditioning 
you can set the room temperature there 

the main difference is that obviously all the electricity in the city hotel was by the door and you had to put your key card in to make anything work but let's flip the switch and take a look at the bathroom 
oh my goodness this looks nicer than the city hotel 

so we have - hello again it's me - we've got a nice big mirror 
super clean sink area with our soap dispenser 
and lovely inviting toilet there 

and then this is a marked difference from the London city hotel but we've got a shower with shower curtain and an actual bath! 
oh it's a tub you can have a bath! oh that is super luxury and my goodness is this clean 

I don't know if it's new sorry we've got a fan noise going on here 
but this is lovely 
and I’ll just do a power test so we've got the tap for the bath and we pull the switch! 
that's a nice sprinkle there 

Not a power shower but uh not exactly a trickle either 
that's a lovely inviting shower there 
so my goodness that that would score highly on my imaginary scorecard there with the shower 

if you made it to this point of the video why not hit the thumbs up it'd be lovely to hear from you in the comments below and if you're awesome enough to take me one step closer to a thousand subscribers thanks so much for subscribing and right here is what YouTube thinks you should be watching next! 
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Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Did someone COPY your vid? Creative Commons or YouTube licence? Which is best? YouTube Copyright tab



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Did someone COPY your vid? Creative Commons or YouTube licence? Which is best? YouTube Copyright tab



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Should I choose the YouTube licence or creative commons licence in my videos? 
And what is the copyright tab in your YouTube studio?

How does it work exactly and what does it do? 
I’m going to go into the copyright tab with you and show you how it looks differently depending on whether or not you're monetized and I’m also going to explain how I might accidentally be giving myself a copyright strike on my own videos on my own channel.

It's a slightly bizarre situation I’ve got myself in but it's because of this that I found out how the copyright tab works so let's dive straight in 

this is my YouTube studio 
this is my channel dashboard and down the left hand side here you can see all the different tabs that you have 
I’m going to click here on “copyright” because my channel is monetized 

I have nearly 5000 subscribers 
this is how my copyright tab looks if your channel isn't monetized so you have under 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours watch time this is how your copyright tab will look right now 
and I... I know that because I have a channel which is under 1000 subscribers it's my dad delivers vlog and there's only one tab on the top of a copyright and you can see here it's just “removal requests” 
“nothing to see here yet”

What is good is that on the top right hand corner even if you are not monetized you can issue a new removal request and it brings up this form: “request video removal” so that you can issue takedown requests on other people who have infringed your copyright by using your videos 

And if you want to pause the video these are the details that YouTube will need but if your channel is monetized or you want to see what happens to the copyright tab when you become monetized this is how it looks 

I have four videos on here 
this is quite embarrassing because there are four videos where YouTube has spotted other YouTubers using my material 

there are four videos except those aren't other YouTubers... they are all me 
these channels here the dad delivers vlog, ikea dad and Neil's trains and stops they're all my channels 
I have uploaded videos to those channels that are already on my first channel but the great thing about this is that I get to see exactly how this copyright tab works 

what I didn't do was delete them from my first channel just in case something goes wrong so I just unlisted them or set them to private and what's really interesting is that YouTube has automatically spotted these four videos on those other channels and that's where it arrives in the copyright page 

You can see along the top here we have the tab “matches” but what's really strange about this is that I have probably about 40 to 50 videos on those other channels that are duplicates on this channel so at first I couldn't work out why only four videos were appearing in my copyright 
and then I looked into the details and I’m gonna do this now just so you can spot the thread 

the first video that it’s found, I had a look and just scroll down I just want to show you this thing here: licence and distribution 
Standard YouTube licence 

the second video it spotted was this ikea play kitchen and if I scroll down the licence is standard YouTube licence 
now you might be able to spot a thread here because the third video disabled train toilet door yep yet again standard YouTube licence 
if you click on this option here you have a choice you can either choose the standard YouTube licence or the creative commons attribution licence 

I was a big believer in creative commons because I think if people can share my videos that's a good thing 

it will spread the word and it might encourage more eyeballs to come to my channel than if I do not give them creative comments but for these four videos for whatever reason I didn't select creative commons I chose the YouTube standard licence and I think this is why these four videos have shown up as a channel copyright match 

just to test this theory here's another video this is my “how to buy online postage” and that hasn't shown up as a match and that very definitely is over on my dad delivers channel 
but if I scroll down to the licence and distribution, sure enough the licence on this video is creative commons attribution 

I have a theory that if you set your licence to creative commons it's giving permission for people to use your video so long as they mention in their description the source of the video - which is the attribution part 
but because I made this creative commons it hasn't shown up as a copyright match 

You might want to use this information you might want to set your videos to the YouTube standard licence - if only just to have this tool pick up and see who is using your videos elsewhere on YouTube 
my dad delivers vlog channel is at 796 subscribers I do not want anything to stop this channel being monetized so I don't want the YouTube algorithm to think or know that there are other videos out on YouTube that I have used on my channel 

I’m basically going to delete these videos the duplicate videos from the original channel this is a huge step for me 
these videos have got tens of thousands of views so if I go to the first video this is changing your clock on a Volkswagen car... this video has had 13000 views in its lifetime 
it just abruptly stops there where that's where I set it to private 
you can see the spikes actually because it's setting a clock video: these spikes are where people have looked it up because the clocks have gone forward or backwards 

If I click on the three dots up in the top right hand corner there's the option “delete”
This is the nuclear option for it 
hit delete 
I understand that deleting is permanent and can't be undone 
delete forever 

Boom it's gone! oh that didn't feel good but I’ve got to protect my new channel 
I do not want my monetization at 1000 subscribers to be stopped because it looks as if I am pirating videos from other channels even though these are my videos 
It's just I keep the channels separate 
Just to reassure myself I’m going to go back to the copyright tab and worryingly it's still there the VW... it's gone! 
I’ve got to go through now all the videos that haven't been matched and delete those 

Down here is my new playlist where I list everything to do with running your YouTube channel and some of the features of YouTube studio and up here is what YouTube thinks you should be watching next 
Can you please help my daddy get 10000 subscribers 
just click on his face thanks bye! 
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Tuesday, 12 April 2022

BEST Flymo strimmer? Mini Trim ST garden trimmer review and unboxing



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BEST Flymo strimmer? Mini Trim ST garden trimmer review and unboxing



Trying out the Flymo MINI TRIM ST grass trimmer for the very first time. It's great! 
This Flymo strimmer is longer and taller than I thought it would be, as the handle is assembled after unboxing.
Taking it out to cut the grass round the edges of the garden, against paving stones, fences and around trees. The strimmer line is pretty tough and lasted longer than I expected.

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Whoa it's a bit windy! 

Hello welcome back to the happy hut: is this the Flymo mini trim ST... is it any good?
Here's some random footage of me using it for the very first time and in this video I’m gonna be unboxing - this is a bit of a spoiler - but I’m going to be getting this out of the box, putting it together and giving it a spin around the garden 

I’m recording this before I’ve used it for the very first time - how's it going to go?
Buying anything for the garden for me comes from a place of fear and of not wanting to waste any money and I didn't know if it was gimmicky that the mini trim is... is mini 

I think my biggest worry was, if it's too small will it will it reach the ground?
Will I have to bend over to... to use it, so we'll try that out 
I didn't realize how controversial the word strimmer is 
I’m going to use the word strimmer because I like it but also so that YouTube offers it to people searching for the word strimmer... 

Just holding this up for this intro, it's really light 
It doesn't say on the box how heavy it is 
I’ll put on screen now how much it weighs after I put it on the kitchen scales but it feels really, really sturdy and good to hold 

This is what comes inside the box 
Get the lid open... oh wow it's really well sealed I need my knife 
It's the steak knife, the trusty steak knife 
Open this up 

This is what comes inside the box we've got some documentation which we will carefully read...
there's some bits in a bag in the distinctive Flymo orange 
I... I recognize this from a strimmer...
I’ve got a cup of soup behind here 
It's not that warm at the moment 

Inside the bag and it's been folded down to get it inside the small box 
actually my biggest worry I think was that the strimmer would be this size but it's not because this pushes on to here I guess of course it would help if I read the instructions
it's a bit windy 
I need some more soup 

And Flymo, again with the instructions! 
Look at the size of the type on there 
I’m holding it right up to the camera 
oh my goodness I... I can't read that, it's like an eye test 

This is a plea 
I’ll put some sad music on 
Flymo I love your products but would it kill you to print at 10 point - or at least 12 would be nice - so I can follow the pictures anyway 

You do push these things together on top of the shaft 
Shaft!
[MUSIC: Shaft! 
Can you dig it?]
And it just clicks together like that 
I’m not sure how you would release it - maybe that's permanent and look there's the trimmer line on the side there 

The next thing we can do is twist on the safety guard 
Let me hold it up to the camera for you 
Tthere's a notch on the top there - goes onto here 

I think it's the only way the notch can go and you've got to really twist it hard till it clicks like that and I don't know if you can see but inside the safety guard that's actually a blade 
I think to keep this at the right length so when it spins around for the first time it will lop off... whoa it's!
I think it's had enough! 

I think maybe it's time to do some strimming.
Here it goes wish me luck I’ll do the first one on camera 
so you push the safety catch down and then you can pull the trigger 
oh and there's a bit it's going to fly off the end so I’ll probably hold it down away from my face 

This is really challenging terrain for any strimmer 
I’ve got a wooden base around the concrete and the grass grows up the side but I’ve got these big rocks here - these pebbles that are decorative but they fall off and the dog likes to lift them and put them in the grass 
We've got all sorts in the grass as well - look here's a there's a teddy bear that's been there for quite some time by the looks of it 

The trimmer seems to be coping with it really well by the way 
this is the dad delivers vlog 
it's where I do something new every single day and today I’m trying to not waste our money on a Flymo mini strimmer 

here we go - the nettles - nettles are coming down here we go
okay I’ve got a difficult bit now 
this plant pot let's see how it copes with the olive tree pots

[STRIMMER NOISE]
let's do some of the fence as well

[TRIMMER NOISE]
it's got some big weeds coming
well after that the cable is still pretty much the length it was when it started it's only lost a couple of centimetres after some pretty heavy duty work 
the power cable is 6 metres long 

I think that's quite incredible I mean I still need to get an extension lead out to get it around the garden but six metres is pretty generous and winding up the cable is really great because there are these built-in giant lugs here so you can wrap the cable around
[MUSIC]
super tidy!
[STRIMMER NOISE]
let's try around the tree now
[TRIMMER NOISE]

his shot of close-up of me using the handle basically the the handle the trigger doesn't work unless you press this safety catch 
you just pull the safety catch in and then you can pull the big handle up and that makes the strimmer go
[TRIMMER NOISE]

I should have mentioned this earlier obviously there's a link in the description if you want to buy this very garden strimmer - the Flymo mini trim ST - that link will take you directly to the right amazon page so you can see how much it's costing right now 
and let's put it around the stones and see what it's like around the stones if you go back down
[TRIMMER NOISE - LINE BREAKS]

oh the trimmer line snapped off so let me show you how to pull out some more line 
oh no I’ve got grass all on my clean jeans 

what you do is you push these two lugs in and lift the cartridge out and then you can feed the spool through the hole here and then push it down until it clicks 
ah I can't believe I did that to my jeans 
oh man it's like the only clean thing I’ve got on 

I love it 

I... I think this trimmer and or strimmer gets a thumbs up from me 
it's nice and light but it feels substantial in a way that my Bosch strimmer doesn't 
that other strimmer feels a bit insubstantial it feels like he just got everything on the end of a thin metal pole 
and I like it so much that I might even use it more than twice this summer!

if this video is helpful please hit the thumbs up button or if you hit the subscribe button you take us even closer to 1000 subscribers which is really kind of you so thank you and right here is what YouTube thinks you should be watching next 
can you please help my daddy get 1000 subscribers just click on the space thanks bye 
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Monday, 4 April 2022

How MUCH YouTube pays me at 5000 subscribers



0:00 How much do YouTubers earn? What does YouTube pay at 5000 subscribers?
2:10 How much I earn from YouTube in One Month
2:50 What are Impressions on YouTube?
3:01 What is a good CTR Click Through Rate on YouTube?
4:10 How much YouTube pays for 1000 views?
5:05 Which countries pay the most on YouTube CPM and RPM - money per 1000 views?
5:31 How much I earn from YouTube per 1k views: what is a good RPM on YouTube?

How MUCH YouTube pays me at 5000 subscribers



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How much money does YouTube pay me at 5000 subscribers?
hello welcome to the beach I’m... I’m Neil and I’ve got to get this done before the tide comes in so we'll see how quickly we can get through this 
but hopefully the waves aren't too... aren't too loud for you 
let's put up on the screen now this is my YouTube studio app 
as you can see I’m not quite at 5000 - I’m going to release this when I hit 5000 subscribers - but oh, I’m so close... so close 
I know exactly what you want to hear and that is how much money do I get each month from YouTube at 5000 subscribers and I promise I’m going to get us there as quickly as possible 
But you can see already that every 28 days I get 100 dollars 
that's obviously not the same as a calendar month and it's about half of what I used to get and I’ll explain why as we go 
if you're a regular on the channel you'll... you'll know why my revenue is halved but on that front page we also get latest video performance so that one's doing quite well and there's my latest comments 
thank you so much for every comment that you leave: obviously YouTube bumps my videos up so I really appreciate any uh hellos that you make 
hint! 
so let's click “view more” and go into the studio app and really go into the analytics so you can see these tabs along the top here 
we've got overview: “looking good your channel got 21000 views!” 
I don't think that's good and I don't think anyone with a YouTube channel thinks what they're doing is good so I must take heart 
and the next card along is “watch time” 
I’m doing about 644 hours a month and I hope that you are comparing your channel to mine and... and feeling good about how your channel is doing 
obviously we shouldn't do it 
we shouldn't be comparing how our channels are doing because it's completely out of our hands 
the only thing within my hands right now is to get more videos out 
underneath the card you can see the videos that are getting me those hours and that's the number of views that I’m doing right now in the last 48 hours 
the number of subscribers 
I’m doing about five to ten subscribers a day at the moment which has just been usual for the last two years that's what it's been at and this is the metric that you want to see right now 
I... I know... it is the estimated revenue so it's telling me for March I got 115 dollars, which is very very average at the moment 
if I go into this card and bring up the last 365 days it's sort of averaged at this level but if I go to lifetime that is how my revenue looked 
down here you can see there was a time long ago where you could be monetized for under 1000 subscribers and that's what this little bump of money is there 
but that is what my channel has done since becoming monetized two years ago 
and oh I miss those peaks I really miss those peaks! 
let's go back to the home page and back to the tab at the top and we'll go to “reach” 
I promise we're going to get to revenue as quickly as possible but let's skim through these 
the impressions 113000 impressions 
my click-through rate my CTR is 7.8% 
and if I go into this card it sort of hovers around that level for the month but if I show the last 365 days you can see a clear increase from 6% about a year ago up to the eight percent that I’m doing now and there's a really good reason for this and a really good reason why my revenues dropped and that's because I removed half the videos from my channel 
I niched down pretty much a year ago and I removed 150 roughly 150 videos from my channel that had nothing to do with YouTube or creating things on YouTube and I’ve got to remind myself that this is why I did it 
guys is there any chance you could like play one groyne away? 
look this is what I’m dealing with by the way 
sorry my kids are playing... playing next to my camera sorry my dog is now attacking the camera down here 
I hope he doesn't wee up the tripod 
by the way my name's Neil Mossey and I’m a development producer helping high achieving creators and performers just like you - high five - to get ideas out of your head and out onto here on YouTube to make the world happier 
and at last we can get to the tab that you wanted to see 
this is the revenue tab so my estimated revenue for this month is 100 dollars and you can see how that compares with the last six months 
my top earning videos are like I say that how to link and add channels pulled in eighteen dollars and my zoom recovery video did ten dollars 
man I’d love to get some more videos going that break the ten dollar barrier per month that would be really nice wouldn't it 
so I got 90 cents from YouTube premium 
I’m not sure that's good news for creators, YouTube Premium 
it's so clear how much money we get from ad revenue is it 55 to 45 percent split? 
we have no idea how it's shared with... with the premium yet 
if you know how the premium revenue breaks down please leave me a comment 
it just seems very dark and kept from us at the moment 
this is a really interesting card hidden down here 
top geographies by CPM 
now this has changed greatly in the last year 
Australia is paying for my videos $21 per thousand views 
it's incredible 
Switzerland beats the United States as well 
I always thought the US paid the most CPM and RPM but it looks like Australia is doing almost double the amount of money per thousand views than the United Kingdom 
if I scroll along my RPM which is revenue per mille, this is how many dollars YouTube pays per 1000 views 
I’m getting five dollars per thousand I’ll go into this to show how it changes over the month 
I’ve got a day there - look at that - where I got eight dollars per thousand views in a day 
it'd be really good to bring that level up somehow 
here's my question for you 
what RPM do you have on your channel 
if you want to share it 
it'd be really interesting to know what kind of dollars per thousand views YouTube is is paying you 
it does fluctuate obviously but there are things that you can do to influence it 
I’ve got you covered - I’ve got some videos coming up - they're going to be appearing right here and this is what YouTube thinks you should be watching next! 
thanks for joining me on the beach and my goodness we managed to get through it before... before the tide came in 
Can you please help my daddy get 10000 subscribers 
just click on his face thanks bye! all right this is going to be the proper one right?


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