Representative DIY #2

My DIY skillz are teh awesome. Just the other day, I came over all motivated and decided to do what I’ve been planning to in my head for a long time. I put the tumble dryer in the cupboard and made it vent outside. I can now dry clothes overnight in inclement weather. Yay!

Here is a blueprint.

And here is the result.

Pretty amazing eh? Let me walk you through it, step by step.

The hole in the floor was cut (by myself) using a mini electric jiggly saw thing. It’s a square hole for a round tube. I solved that later on. The tube itself needed to be joined onto the hacked-off tube protruding from the back of the dryer. This was solved with sellotape. Extra-wide sellotape.

The tube needed to be hard-up against the vent, so string was pulled through the holes in the vent using a cut up strip of plastic from a racing car toy. Once enough string was fed through enough holes, the tube was pulled up against the vent and tied permanently and securely using several bulky-looking knots.

The aforementioned square hole was deemed a bit windy, so with my trusty DIY scissors, I cut a round hole in a bit of silver cake-presentation card. This was secured around the tube against the floor and secured in place once again with extra-wide tape.

The result, as you can see, can only be described as utterly splendid.

3 comments June 14th, 2008