I’m tearing down a plaster and lath ceiling hung from beams to replace with sawn boards sitting on top of the beams. Not only are board and beam ceilings nicer to look at, I gain an attic floor. The boards are sawn from trees cut from the communal forest two years ago.

to answer my own question, i’m installing some rainwater catchment barrels at my house hopefully this week. all but one (we have four) were sourced from local folks. once these are installed, i have purchased a zero-pressure drip irrigation system and am going to try to have that installed before the first big frost, usually about two or three weeks from now where i live. there won’t be any water in it this season, but it will be ready to go in the spring - or so i hope!

Recycled/repaired a sofa and a workbench, next planning to build better kitchen furniture with the materials I have left so I can replace the old bedside table with a plastic box on top that currently serves as drying station for washed dishes, preferably before it dissolves into kindling.

Finally ordered parts for a new ram pump and laid out my existing but dismounted pump to reassemble and offer to others for testing and use. I really should get the one left in the stream before autumn rain makes it impossible.

Happy DIYing everyone!

Finished the transparent greenhouse roof I mentioned last time, but had to do some further modifications against high winds. Seems solid now though (fingers crossed).

Well, I was working on laying a 4in isolated flexible airpipe to go from the first floor, through an airshaft aside the chimney down to the first floor to heat the ground floor with the stove on the first.floor (our living and bed room). Bought a thermal camera to see results (and winter optimization) but nothing happened. Turned out the pipe had ruptured inside the air duct. Now have to redo the work… At least I do not have to finish it tomorrow