DIY Projects
Gaining DIY Confidence- The TLC Way “Ms. M’s Story” Part One
Background I met Ms. M at the Freeport Memorial Library in March, 2018. She attended class #3, “Your Home’s Interior”. Ms. M has owned her house for a number of years. As you know, our homes do not get newer. There came a point in time when it seemed that every time she turned around,…
Read MoreBuilding a Large Sudoku
It’s not always about building and repairing your house. Sometimes it’s about building things that help improve someone’s quality of life.
Read MoreBuilding a Greenhouse Shelter
Unquestionably, in every class I express my love and determination to maintain what I have worked so hard to renovate and build. This thoughtfulness also includes all the living things that I am responsible for. From my Koi in my pond to my plantings, I am dedicated to their well being. I love to garden,…
Read MoreOk, it did not go on, but they learned how to use the scientific method to find out what went wrong, THEY LEARNED.
Baron Of Whitfield’s DIY Story “Greetings Brian, I need your advice on how do I determine if the switch is faulty? I get a short in power when I turn on the switch the light flickers and turns off. Let there be light! I had this light switch in my hallway that after I turned…
Read MoreThe Great Planter Challenge
Other than my family, there are two things that I really love in life: a challenge and helping out other people. So, when one of my online students challenged me to build an above ground planter “online“, well, you know what I did!! Why did I label everything? Well As you will see from the…
Read MoreStay At Home Project #1 Update “Hardening Off” Really??
First tomato flowers of the season!!!!Yea
Read MoreStay At Home Project #1 Update: We are In Trouble!
Ok, so I completed the wire rack shelving and got the lights installed. Seeds were planted, covered with plastic to keep in heat and moisture for my babies. All right, they are starting to show me something, maybe they want to meet me? Yea man, looking good. Ok, so I told Hope that in order…
Read MoreDIY Tabletop Cell Phone Stand
I was talking to Billy this past week, you remember Billy from the “Royal Flush Episode? “ “You know Brian, I have too much of this stuff. Instead of just putting it into the Blue Bucket, any ideas how I can use it around my house? Let’s Make A Cell Phone Stand Here are the tools…
Read MoreStay At Home Project #1 Update: (seeds were planted March 15th)
Okay, so you are probably wondering what’s going on with our plants. Well, it came time to thin out the seedlings. I just couldn’t do it, I couldn’t kill any of them. So, off to the barn I went with all the babies. I ended up separating and transplanting ALL the seedlings. I doubled what…
Read MoreStay At Home Project #3 “Pegboard in my kitchen, are you kidding?”
If you guys know me, you know that I love to cook. But in order to produce a good meal you really have to be organized with your ingredients, spices and cooking utensils, namely, your pots and pans. So, where do you think we keep the pots and pans? You guessed it, in that beautiful,…
Read MoreStay At Home Project #2 “How Safe Is Your Drinking Water?”
I received a phone call from our son Matthew, he lives in Los Angles. “Hey Dad, why don’t you install an under counter RO water filtration system? So, you are probably saying to yourself, where is Brian going NOW, what is a RO system? Well, RO stands for a Reverse Osmosis. A Little Back Ground…
Read MoreStay At Home Project #1
Ok, you guys know me better, I am not just going to sit around all day and watch the news, trying to figure out where I am going to get my next roll of TP. I decided to get busy with the projects I have had on the back burner. So, here is my challenge!…
Read MoreBilly’s Home Repair Tutoring Session “The Royal Flush”
It’s difficult not to have the closest toilet working. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and have to go all the way downstairs to use a toilet. Now imagine doing that for 3 years! For the last 3 years Billy has been utilizing his downstairs bathroom because his toilet upstairs was leaking.…
Read MoreBrian’s To-Do List & Project Planner
Are your projects organized? Do you have a to-do list? Have you created a project planner? Well, its was time to remodel the shop and the first thing I did is I put together a To-Do List, a scope of work.
Read MoreMichelle’s Home Repair Tutoring Session “Light Up My Light”
TLC Confidence Scale Michelle, one of my devoted students, has been complaining about her uncooperative front porch light. She cannot see the key slot, she may trip on the steps, and over and over and over. So, I asked her a simple question, did you change the light bulb??? “Well Brian, of course I…
Read MoreMy Wife’s Hot Water Problem
Last Friday while I was enjoying my morning cup of coffee, Hope came into the dining room and asked me why her shower water was cold? Well, I kinda stared at her wondering what was going on. As you guys probably know, the heart of the matter is in the basement. I opened the door…
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