DIY Living – Page 6 – CONFIDENT TO DIY

Fire Starters

Someone was kind enough to give me a home made fire starter when we were camping in Yellowstone after failing to start our fire with a store bought fire starter disc. The fire starter I was given worked so well that I came home and started making my own. Egg Cartons: The egg carton fire [...]

Roof Top Tent Replacement Mosquito Netting

This little project of mine has been years in the making. My Maggiolina roof top tent is an Original 17+ years old. I had to seam rip the old screens out and hand sew hook and loop (Velcro) into the window sides and door headings and onto the doors and windows themselves. The important takeaway [...]

Autohome Maggiolina Adventure Roof Top Tent

Our rooftop tent is around 15 years old and needed some TLC. This includes new foam weather stripping and trim edging to the roof of the tent. Supplies Note: The existing foam strip is 1.25”. I was sent the wrong size and I did install the 2” wide strip without any issue. Weather strip CAUTION: [...]

Fiamma F35 Pro

Wind Damage So on this last camping trip Eric set up the awning and left it out without any tie downs or anchors and then he left camp with a friend, even after me telling him tie it down first. A few minutes later a breeze picked up and flipped the awning backwards onto the [...]

Overlooked Camping Necessities

Sometimes it is the little creature comforts that can make or break a camping trip. Here are a few things that I have found extremely helpful. #1. Utensil Organizer Buy one pre made from ACT or Front Runner I made my own to suit my needs and space. These can either be made or purchased [...]

Companion Aqua Cube Troubleshooting

Today’s problem: Aquacube powers on but the pump isn’t activating. Also Blown Fuses! The last two times I have taken this shower camping and set it up for use it failed. First it was the battery then the fuse and now the pump. This shower has seen so little use and so much energy has [...]

Byrna Non Lethal Weapon

I am just getting into shooting for self defense. I ordered the green Byrna in case I didn’t like shooting it then I could give it to Eric. In 2019 the neighbors dogs brutally attacked one of our pets. In April 2021 Sophie, our 2 year old blue Russian was brutally attacked and killed by [...]

Arlo Wired Video Doorbell

We have had the doorbell installed for just under one year. For what it is worth our 5 camera Arlo system came with a free 7 day cloud memory for the life of the product and a base station that could back up video to a thumb drive. Within the first year that base station [...]

Arlo Wired Doorbell Camera Install & Review

For the Arlo user manual go to the PDF version online here. 1st problem I noticed was that there was not a user manual in the box. The next issue was that no where does it say on the box or online “hey home owner/consumer it’s a good idea to install 18/2 awg (gauge) wiring.” [...]

Living with Hard Water

When we moved from the PNW to Utah I had no idea what hard water was. I thought that our rental home at the time had a contaminated or broken freezer because every time we would have ice in a drink, the ice would melt and there would be giant flakes floating around in the [...]