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How 2 Review scours the World Wide Web looking for the best do-it-yourself projects to help you become more self-sufficient. Whether you are looking to save money, simplify your life, or even prepare yourself for possible economic hard times, you will find information here on everything from building your own solar water heater to raising your own food. Please enjoy your visit and feel free to cast a vote to rate the articles you find useful. We welcome your suggestions and recomendations for additional articles.

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Passive Solar Water Heater Handbook by David Bainbridge
Added: July 8, 2007 Rated 5 by 2 readers ( Vote now  1  2  3  4  5  )

Here's a complete book on building passive solar water heaters that you can download for free.


Photo: David Monniaux
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This PDF document is the complete illustrated text of The Integral Passive Solar Water Heater Book (ISBN 0933490038). This 104 page (8.2MB) book starts with basic design principles and takes you right through the complete details of plumbing and installation of a passive solar home hot water system. The build-it-yourself chapter even covers such seemingly incidental topics as how to safely get the components up onto your roof.

Having a solar water heater like one of the designs presented in the book, will not only pay for itself in electricity savings in a year or two, but will keep right on delivering hot water even when the power goes out for any reason.

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How to Braid a Rug from Craftown
Added: July 14, 2007 Rated 2.25 by 4 readers ( Vote now  1  2  3  4  5  )

Making a traditional braided rug is not terribly difficult, but it does require patience.


"The addition of a handsome, handmade article to the home is always a cause for pride. To be able to accomplish this easily and with satisfying results every time, is almost unbelievable. But such is the case when you follow these simple instructions for braiding a rug."

Here is a web page with the basic instructions for designing and making oval, round and square braided rugs. An additional web page located here is lacking instructions, but does have a nice series of photographs of making a round braid rug from start to finish. These two web pages, taken together, complement each other and give you everything you need to know to make your own braid rug.

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Original content copyright 2007 by Gary Shannon