Category: Recycling

  • To Thubprint

    Hello from the highlands of Wimborne Alberta. I hope, for you, the sunny days of spring bring a smile. Your YouTube Channel, Thubprint, has become a mainstay in my comfort viewing menu. Approximately once a week I throw tools into toolbox and pencil into office desk and kick back with a playlist of subscribed YouTube…

  • First Blog Post of 2019: E-Waste

    I’ve been researching e-waste and found some disturbing gaps in Canada’s handling of recyclable material.

  • GMC Reborn

    GMC Reborn

    This is my first video as a professional videographer. Haha.      

  • From Rotten Window Sill To Finished Millwork

    No pictures wer taken of the huge window coming out, or the new windows going in. It would have made a great blog post, however it would have been too long. It took most of an afternoon. I thought the old windw would be around 350lbs but it was more like 450 lbs. In order…

  • There’s Copper in Them There Bins, Part Two

    In part one of this two-part post I talked about my mad plan to cash in all the little scraps of copper pipe and wire that I saved from my renovation jobs. My effort was working out to $8 per hour based on my 1 hour test which ended with about 4 pounds of stripped…

  • There’s Copper in Them There Bins

    I’ve mentioned before that there is a lot of waste in home renovations. A lot of blogs out there talk about what should be done to reduce our waste. In the end it is our personal lifestyle that dictates how much we contribute to “Waste Reduction”. What I find interesting is that the people living…