How you can fit a ventilation / "MVHR" system into your house - complete guide

DIY retrofitting insulation in cavity behind plasterboard / drywall (with fire-retardant foam beads)

DIY Insulating the ceiling above my kitchen with aluminium bubble-wrap and rockwool

DIY Retro-insulating cavities behind plasterboard / dry wall with polystyrene / styrofoam beads

7. DIY MVHR: Fitting ducting to ceiling vents

6. DIY MVHR: Wiring the system

Flying at the Long Mynd in winter and the strongest winds I've yet flown

5. DIY MVHR: How I fitted ceiling vents to my ventilation system - Easy and cheap to install

4. DIY MVHR: Attaching the ducting to the MVHR unit and turning it on for the first time - success!!

3. DIY MVHR - Installing the MVHR unit, electrics and condensation drain. All straightforward

2. DIY MVHR - Installing ventilation pipes from loft to ground floor - much easier than I expected

1. DIY MVHR retrofit - Fitting the piping from the loft to the ground floor

Milk Hill first hang glider flight - low wind with bottom landing

Long Mynd Hang Gliding, with a bottom landing

Hang Gliding at Selsley in winds slightly too light for me to top land 12/9/24

First four hang glider top landings

Learning to Hang Glide

How to insulate an old air vent

How you can DIY External Wall Insulation on your house - complete guide

Mistakes in External Wall Insulation that could easily have been avoided

How to DIY insulate an old front door with no previous experience

25. How to fit and tear off the strip on an APU bead

24. How to DIY a top coat of silicone render round a window reveal and remove the APU bead

23. How to DIY silicone render - Surprisingly easy and gives a beautiful flat finish

22. Priming render with topcoat, protecting windows and installing verge trim on a sloping roof

21. Using expanding foam tape to seal around the edges of insulation boards

20. How to insulate below the damp course - a very easy DIY job

19. How to DIY render around the porch - all the lessons learned so far

18. Stop bead: Fitting and rendering - a very easy DIY job

17. How to fit insulation around a flush window frame - very easy as a DIY job

16. Insulating over pebble dash with no previous experience - turns out it's very easy

15. Improving uneven render with a thin overcoat - with no previous experience (very easy job)

14. Big reductions in energy use after installing DIY External Insulation on house

13. DIY rendering and beading around a window - A very easy job even with no previous experience

12. How to join and fit an upstand verge trim - quite a simple DIY job

11. How to DIY insulate around a recessed window - fairly easy to work out how to do it

10. Working out how to instal and join verge trim - a fairly simple DIY job

9. How to render external wall insulation with no previous experience - turns out it’s okay to DIY

8. Pinning the insulation to my wall - Also a very easy DIY job

7. Sticking insulation onto the outside of my house - Yes it’s okay as a DIY job

6. Cutting insulation boards to size - two key things I learn help make it easier

5. Painting on a quartzite primer - this has been the easiest part so far

4. Working out how to fit the starter track for my DIY External Wall Insulation

3. How I worked out what DIY External Wall Insulation to buy

Sealing the joins on insulated plasterboard to prevent cold spots, condensation and moisture ingress

Solar-sailing the Hebrides: Eigg to Loch Aline past Ardnamurchan Point and through the Sound of Mull

Solar-sailing from Tobermory, past Ardnamurchan Point, to Eigg in the inner Hebrides

Solar-sailing Loch Aline to Tobermory through the Sound of Mull in the Inner Hebrides

Solar-sailing Oban to Loch Aline - across Loch Linnhe and up the Sound of Mull

Fort William to Oban, tacking down Loch Linnhe: Sailing the Hebrides using only renewable power

Solar electric setup: Sailing the Scottish Hebrides using only renewable power 2022

2. DIY External Wall Insulation: Extending the hosepipe tap so I can fit insulation behind it

1. DIY External Wall Insulation: Moving and replacing pipes (inc. cast iron) and wall attachments

Speeds of 3-4 tonne sailing boat powered by electric motors in real-world conditions

Single-handed sailing, Whitehills to Inverness, (with dolphins) helped by a Solar Electric Motor

Solar powered through the Caledonian Canal (Part 1) Inverness to Fort Augustus via Urquhart Castle

Solar powered through the Caledonian Canal (Part 2) Fort Augustus to Invergarry Castle to Ft William

Review of Torqeedo 2.0 / 4.0 powering a 3-tonne sailing catamaran with a solar charged Tesla battery

7. Solar electric sailing: Speeding up a normal sail with renewable energy - Peterhead to Whitehills

6. Stonehaven to Peterhead - showing how renewable electric power improved a sail-boat passage