Showing posts with label home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home. Show all posts

Friday, June 25, 2021

Home Security cameras

 I feel in this day and age you need to do all you can to protect your home as much as you can, from the day we moved in to our house I wanted a security camera, I also wanted one that was wireless that I didn't need to run cables all over the house to power them and to a unit to record the footage, all the wireless types I could find were a cloud storage type of deal and quite expensive.


My friend recently told me about a system I had never head of when I was looking called Eufy, so I looked into them and their capabilities, and they seemed to be what I wanted and a little more, but  for the price I felt still expensive.

A few weeks ago Amazon had an offer on for two cameras and the base about £150.00p, so I decided to buy it. On paper, they sound good


  • 16gb memory in the hub
  • 1080p camera resolution
  • up to 180 days of charge from the camera 
  • human recognition
  • zone setup 
  • easy setup
  • app based set up and usage
to set the camera up it was quite easy, you need a smartphone and the app the link below may help you if you get this kit, but I did find it all quite easy 




When the package arrived it arrived as above all you needed was a 5 mm drill bit and drill and a Philips screwdriver to fix the cameras to the wall, it even came with templates to drill the holes for the camera mounts.

The setup of the app and the base and cameras was quite painless and the updating of the firmware on the items was all painless 


The cameras came with approximately 3/4% charge in them according to the app, so I charged one fully and the other I left with its original charge. I will see how they last when in use and update you as it goes.

Monday, February 4, 2019

Pre planning the dining room floor


Seems easy enough and gives you the basic idea for fitting the laminate to the floor I'll find out when I get that far

The plasteres have returned!

Well today they returned and to my surprise the house has had all it's plastering done. 

Now we have to wait for it to dry, then I can get the skirting boards down and ready the front room for carpet fitting.





Thursday, December 20, 2018

Man tool No:3

So another gadget I got. A distance laser measure it's brilliant. It can measure.



I purchaced it for approximately £15 from AMAZON.

Apparently this unit will calculate square meter and cubic meter

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

The damp issue

Ok now rising damp I don't know much about it but it ruins the walls and the plaster on them.

Time to research the damp issue, I found this video about rising damp and how to treat it.


This is where I purchased the damp cream the cheapest at the time.

Man tool No:2

Ok I purchased another man tool this time it's a cable and pipe tracer from bosch.

The bosch truvo cable detector. I haven't used it much but I feel when stripping the damp walls this will be a valuable tool as it will aid finding power cables before the sds drill dose trying to remove the damp plaster.

I have used it a few times and it works very well with power cables

I purchased the finded from AMAZON

Autel MX tpms sensor

  this is the new tpms valve that can be programmed by the autel unit i purchased this cost me £25.00p from amazon, it is dual frequency and...