Jenn demonstrates how to clean up a garden; Ross explains how air filters can catch unwanted air impurities and demonstrates how to build a DIY one; Tom and Kevin build an Adirondack chair.
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Jenn Nawada demonstrates how to clean up a garden by pruning, dividing, and defining the edges; Ross Trethewey explains how the MERV air filtration rating system works and how air filters can catch relevant and unwanted air impurities. Then, he demonstrates how to build a localized DIY air filter; Tom Silva builds his first Adirondack chair with Kevin O’Connor using a set of plans.
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How to Clean Up and Expand a Garden
To redefine and expand the garden area, Jenn lined the garden bed with gray cobblestones. These were sourced by Plymouth Quarries [https://www.plymouthquarries.com/index.php].
Most of the plants Jenn used in the garden were already existing and just needed to be divided up. However, Jenn did select a few additional plants to add some color and textures to the garden, including tickseed, echinacea purpurea, garden phlox, coreopsis, and heather, which she got at Mahoney’s Garden Center [http://mahoneysgarden.com/].
How to Make a DIY Air Filter
Ross built the air filter using four, 20x20x2, MERV-13 air filters, which Ross got from Filterbuy [https://filterbuy.com/]. He duct taped the filters to a cardboard box and a 20-in 3-Speed Box Fan, which is manufactured by Lasko [https://www.lasko.com/], though any 20” fan would work for this application.
Expert assistance with this segment was provided by Neil Comparetto.
Build It | Adirondack Chair
Tom used the Classic Adirondack Chair Template and Project Plan from Rockler [https://www.rockler.com/] to figure out how to make all the different cuts. The plan comes with cardboard templates for the different pieces of the chair and some project plans to use as a guide.
Tom built the chair out of 5/4-inch x 6 foot pressure treated decking material [http://thd.co/3nK536o], which can be found at any home center or lumber yard. Any rot-resistant lumber would also work well for an Adirondack chair.
To cut and shape the boards, Tom used a combination of a 1-HP Steel Frame Bandsaw [https://amzn.to/3bDvFDS] from Delta Machinery [https://deltamachinery.com/], a router table, and an Industrial Table Saw from SawStop [https://www.sawstop.com/].
The other tools and materials Tom and Kevin used to build the chair, including exterior rated screws and drill drivers, can all be found at home centers.
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14 Comments
Adirondack chairs were not designed with older people in mind. Tom and Kevin will discover this for themselves down the road a few years. I wish the last scene had run a few more minutes to show them getting up from their chairs.
Why show us this in the winter? 3/4 of the country is freezing. Derp!
Is there an episode on beginer tools for getting started with a decent work shop and bench?
The cube air filter! Ha! 😊👍
They're foldable and can recline. For beach use..really miss Roger
Why would a MERV 13 filter "seize up" a motor? Maybe if it was plugged to the point of passing almost no airflow, but even then that process would take lots of time and the homeowner would have been aware that the heater/air conditioning was not working well. Source: I am a retired HVAC mechanic.
The coronavirus may just go through the filter and not get trapped. The virus is about 120 nm, or 12 microns. Be careful to get the proper filter to block coronavirus.
I follow another YouTuber who just stacks the filters on the back of the fan and then hangs it over his bench in his workshop.
14:25 take that to a cigar lounge… let's see how good it eats cigar smoke!!!
I was at Home Depot today getting some last minute Christmas lights and they were already busy clearing out one end of the seasonal sale space and putting in spring gardening stuff. the smell of next years potting soil was in the air and I thought "Ah progress". Merry Christmas everybody and I hope you all have the most productive new year and growing season ever in 2023. 🙂
Great information and building ideas.
Stop being obsessed with being "safe" (which is an impossibility anyways) and pay more attention to your God-given and constitutional rights that are being violated.
The four filter box, box fan filter is a good concept but missing a bit on the implementation.
Make the box fan part of the original four vertical sides and then place the fourth filter on top of those four walls.
Now, place the unit in the same room as HVAC air intake with it situated so that it blows the air in the direction of the air intake.
In this configuration and placement, the unit becomes a whole house air cleaner every time the HVAC activates rather than a single room air intake.
That's weird, at my home center there's a huge sign, "DO NOT CUT PRESSURE TREATED WOOD INDOORS."