PickVidsBest Home, DIY & practical skills Videos
The 61 Home, DIY & practical skills videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 5 introductory, 3 intermediate, 53 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Technology Connections, Kirsten Dirksen, Primitive Technology.
How to Make a $1500 Sandwich in Only 6 Months
A man spends six months and $1500 making a chicken sandwich entirely from scratch: growing vegetables, making salt from seawater, milking a cow for cheese, grinding wheat, collecting honey and killing a chicken.
Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces
A tour of Christian Schallert's 24 square meter apartment in Barcelona, designed so that it looks like an empty cube until he builds the furniture he needs.
Sepp Holzer's Mountain Permaculture Farm
Josef Holzer walks through his family's Krameterhof, one of Europe's oldest permaculture farms in the Austrian mountains, with fish ponds, terraces, fruit trees and grazing animals.
[787] LiteLok Gold Cut in 16 Seconds!
LockPickingLawyer cuts through a LiteLok flexible bike lock with cable cutters in about 16 seconds, one of several videos defeating the product.
This is Why Heat Pumps May NOT Be The Future
A UK tradesman's rant on the disadvantages of air source heat pumps, covering grants, heat pump types and whether they are worth it.
How Primitive Building Videos Are Staged
A video debunking popular primitive-building YouTube channels, arguing that their digging, concrete and construction are staged.
How to Heat a Swimming Pool with an Air Conditioner | Ask This Old House
A This Old House segment where Richard Trethewey installs a heat exchanger that uses waste heat from a central air conditioner to heat a swimming pool.
Urban Agroecoloy: 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre - Urban Homestead - Urban Permaculture
A short film about the Dervaes family, who grow over 6,000 pounds of food a year on a tenth of an acre near downtown Los Angeles.
[844] No Picking Required: Amazon’s Defective Choice
A LockPickingLawyer video showing that a padlock sold as an Amazon's Choice high-security product can be opened trivially, with no picking needed.
Your Home Can Survive a Wildfire
NFPA video in which wildfire researcher Jack Cohen explains that embers (firebrands), not the flame front, are the main cause of homes igniting in wildfires.
LED Christmas lights still annoy me. Let's try some more fixes.
Technology Connections complains about the harsh, overly blue color of modern LED Christmas lights and tries more fixes for them.
Breaking into a Suitcase with a Ballpoint Pen and What You Can Do About It
ITS Tactical demonstrates how a ballpoint pen can open a zippered suitcase without leaving a trace, bypassing its lock, and suggests countermeasures.
Which Penetrating Oil is Best? Let's find out!
Project Farm tests six penetrating oils, including WD-40, PB Blaster, Liquid Wrench and an ATF and acetone mix, on rusted bolts.