- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
In today's video I'm going to be sharing with you
10 home hacks that will make life a little bit easier,
and I'm also gonna be showing you
three smart home products from Honeywell
that will make you more comfortable
and connected to your home, even when you're not there.
For my first hack, I'm gonna teach you a way
to put on a duvet cover without breaking a sweat.
We have a super king size bed and it is always
a big ordeal to change the sheets.
But there is an easier way and that way is,
first turn your duvet cover inside out
and lay it on your mattress with the opening
at the foot of the bed.
Then lay your duvet cover on top of that sheet
and match up the corners.
You can even safety pin the two top corners
of your duvet if you want to,
but I just tend to hold it really tight.
Then, start at the head of the bed
and start rolling the duvet like a burrito
down to the foot of the bed.
When you get to the end,
put the end of your duvet inside the cover
and unroll the burrito back up to the head of the bed,
and voila, your bed is made and you haven't had
a full-on workout.
My second hack is the Lyric Smart Thermostat.
This is such a cool little gadget.
It adapts to your schedule.
It saves you money on your energy bills,
and it makes your home smarter.
This thermostat was so easy to install
and it looks really stylish with its touch screen,
but my favorite thing about it by far
is that it links up to a Lyric app on your phone
so you can control the heat in your home
anywhere, any time.
If you're out for the day or you're on holiday
and you want to turn the heat up in your home,
it is so simple to do that.
You just click on the app and change it.
But if you can't even be bothered to go to the app,
it has this really cool technology in it
that is called geofencing.
So basically when I leave my house,
it will turn my heating down to what I've chosen
for it to be on when I'm out so that will save me money
on my energy bills.
And then when I'm on my way home again,
it knows that I'm coming home
and then it turns the heat back up so that when we get home
it is at the perfect temperature for us
to be nice and comfortable.
How genius is that?
And you can also have it on multiple devices.
So Matt also has it on his phone and he will often
turn the heat up or down when we get into bed at night.
But you can even set like night settings
so that it will go down to a nighttime level of heat,
again saving you money on your bills.
And it even works with the Apple Home kit, Amazon Echo,
or Google Home, which is actually what we have.
And I have found that I have been using this a lot
because my hands are always full holding Jackson
or groceries and things like that.
All you have to do is shout out
and turn the heat up or down.
Okay Google, set the heat to 21.
Hack number three is a game changer if you ever struggle
to get a full bin bag out of your bin.
All you have to do is put a bit of masking tape
at the bottom back of your bin
and then drill a hole through it.
And that will help to release the trapped air in it
and make it much easier to get bin bags out.
My next hack is another smart product,
and this is the Lyric Wi-fi Security Camera.
This provides so much peace of mind,
and it basically means that you won't miss out
on anything that is happening in your home,
even when you're not there.
It is so easy to install that I even I did it,
like you don't have to do any DIY,
you will be able to install this yourself.
And it basically is a security camera
that links up again to your phone on the Lyric app
so that if there is even any movement or sound
in your house when you're not there,
it will record it and you can check it
and it will also notify you.
So you can get an email if anything happens in your house
when you're not there,
or you can even have it running when you are here
if you wanted to.
I was thinking you could even use this
as like a nanny cam.
If I was out at work one day,
I could like check in and see what the boys are up to.
And if you're on a holiday,
it can even recognize like smoke alarms and things like that
and email you if there is any movement in your home.
So it is just so clever.
I feel so secure having it,
and it even has geofencing as well.
So again, when I leave my house,
it will turn on notifications so that if anything happens
while I'm out, I will know about it.
It is so clever.
The picture on it is so clear,
and we've also had some fun with it
because you can even talk both ways.
So if you have pets, you could talk to them
through the camera if you saw them on the couch
or something like that or if you had teenagers.
I just think this is such a clever thing,
really reasonably priced,
and I have loved using it.
I feel very secure having it.
My fifth hack is a way to silence noisy cupboards.
So if you have cupboards that are really noisy
because the kids slam them all the time,
this one is for you.
All you have to do is get a hot glue gun,
put a few small blobs of glue along your cupboard,
let them dry first,
and then when you close them, they will be nice and quiet.
For my next hack,
I want to show you our retractable clothesline.
When we moved into this house,
there was a huge clothesline in the garden
that was basically like a tree that went round and round.
It took up so much space
that I found this retractable one online.
All we did was nail it to the side of the house,
and now I can just pull out the lines
as and when I need them,
I can dry out clothes,
and I can just retract them right back.
My next hack is a brand new detector
which will help protect your home from any water damage.
This is the Lyric Water Leak and Freeze Detector,
and basically it's this little gadget that goes in your home
and it monitors moisture and dampness.
So if you had any leaks in your house
or any frozen pipes,
it will notify you and again,
it links up to the Lyric app on your phone
so if you are ever on holiday or away from the house
and there was a small leak that started,
it would notify you direct to your phone
before it became a bigger problem.
And this little gadget really resonates with me
because when Matt and I were younger,
when we went on holiday,
we actually had a leak in our apartment
and when we returned,
the damage was devastating.
And if I had had this little thing installed
in our apartment, I would've been notified by email
and I would've been able to send someone over
to stop the leak in our flat.
So yeah water damage can just be so costly
and so much hassle
that I have loved this little gadget.
Next up I wanted to show you these little LED lights
that we had installed in our main bathroom.
This was Matt's idea and when we redid the bathroom,
he asked the electrician to have it so
that we'd have a main light
and then these little LED lights.
Whenever you turn off the main light now,
these little LEDs just come on automatically,
and it's a perfect nightlight for our boys.
For hack number nine, I wanted to show you our spice rack
because I get so many compliments on this little spice rack.
I found it online and basically it attaches to
a cupboard door.
So if you have unused space in your cupboard,
I actually use the cupboard door of our sideboard,
then you can put all of your spices there
and it looks really organized and it's very easy to use.
For my final hack,
I wanted to show you a really easy way
to sharpen scissors.
All you have to do is get a big piece of tin foil
and start folding it up.
Keep folding it until it is much smaller
and that way it is thicker to cut through
and then just cut through it with the scissors
and this will sharpen them.
Right so that is it for this video.
I really hope you enjoyed it.
Let me know in the comments which out of the three
smart products was your favorite.
I have loved using them.
Thank you to Honeywell for sponsoring this video.
There is a prediction that in the future
all products will be smart,
and I honestly feel like I am well on my way now
to actually living that future.
I feel so comfortable, so secure,
and connected by having these three on my phone
wherever I am.
So yeah I'll put all the links in the description bar below
so that you can go ahead and find them if you want to,
and thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you very soon.
Bye guys.