Amanda Whiffen

Love all these ideas! I sewed knee pads cut from an old, thick wetsuit into the insides of my gardening trousers. They stay put, wash well and have good flex.

I've had no problems with a combination of storing white rice, beans, sugar & white flour (in quantities which we can eat in a year) in sealed bags in an unplugged chest freezer. As long as the freezer seals are good it keeps the food safe from rodents & cool, dry & dark. Perhaps I've just been lucky not to have issues with insects. Chest freezers that no longer work can be picked up for free Thanks for the useful discussion!

I'll have a loft window open a wee bit all the time & I'm hoping that if I also open the kitchen window while I cook that that will create enough air flow to keep the house ventilated. My tiny woodburner will hopefully be more than enough to warm the house, even with a temporary air exchange during cooking. Thanks for your thoughts, much appreciated 🙂

Ooo, I like that idea! I'll think on that. Thank you 🙂

First time poster hoping for advice from the kitchen design wizards out there! I'm looking for low tech, unpowered ideas to vent or disperse moisture from cooking. I have a kitchen window I can open. I don't love extraction fans or range hoods.
I'd hoped to have a window above my gas hob but a combination of flamability issues (proximity of window frame to flame), oil spatters being hard to clean up & probability of gas getting blown out by drafts mean that's no longer my plan. What else can I do? Thanks in advance