Make-n-Do

To progress my basement project, I’m upstairs preparing to move and re-build my dust-collection system. Reason being, the dust collector

Remember that red hand-operated forklift I bought a little while ago – the one that wouldn’t wheel with a load

A door probably shouldn’t take this long to finish. But, since it’s my first time making a door, I guess

I started this element of my bunker build more than six months ago. But, of course, I had to hold

This week I’m building a shield wall in the basement. The purpose of this is to shield the workshop from

This video isn’t very exciting (unlike all my other riveting episodes 😉 Yes, I really am just shovelling dirt and

This week’s video installing a special/secret door in the bunker is a significant event. It’s a small, old door, but….

It’s getting pretty serious in the bunker at the moment. I seem to be finishing up a lot of key

As per the title, I build a (faux) castle wall – very apt for an Irishman’s underground bunker. In the

In this week’s video, I finish the new steps leading out of my bunker excavations. I was worried that I

Using the space during excavation I learnt that steps were definitely a must have for getting out of the pit

Bags, bags, bags – so many bags! By the end of this video, I will have filled and extracted 19

More digging!!! I hate digging. At least I hate it now after all the digging I already did. But, digging

This week I set out to install a garden hose in a niche cut into the wall of my bunker

This week I get a little artistic in the bunker. Things are going in, instead of always coming out. I

It feels great to be putting things back into my excavations instead of always taking stuff out. This week I

It feels great putting things back into my excavations instead of always taking things out. This week I put walls

Digging is finished in my lift shaft, so now I need to figure out what to do about the groundwater

A mixed bag this week – dealing with floods, arches and freebies. Each bring with them their own negatives. But

We had some heavy rain recently. Not as bad as some, mind you – but enough to flood a man’s underground