Get a Hot Composter For Free With This Trick
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- This video sent me on quite a journey. I had a crazy idea of making a hot composter from a household item.
The issue with cold composting is the restrictions on the items you can put into it. If you have a normal sized garden you don't generally produce enough waste to fill a cubic metre compost bin. That's the size to produce compost of the right temperatures to sterilize weeds and diseased plant matter.
With a Hotbin costing around £200 I thought I'd give this a try and see how I got on.
Let me know how you get on with it!
If you want a neater looking one than this here is the link to Niall’s Homemade bin • How To Make Your Own H...
Awesome idea - and a brilliant re-use of what is pretty awful waste if not recycled properly! You had me wondering halfway through because I thought it'd work a treat... and then it did! Worth every single one of those disco dance moves at the end! Boom!
Haha I'm glad it helped you experience the journey with me! I got trolled by someone on TikTok because he said, "I wasted his time"! He didn't watch the end. Thank you for the kind words, Niall.
@@tecmow4399 eh, let em troll.....they are missing out!
I’m giving you a big fat like for the dancing at the end of the vid 😆
🤣 forgot about that
FANTASTIC VIDEO .Been there done it and messed up along the way its all part of the joys of gardening.The 4 thousand plus viewers who didnt give this a like are not gardeners.
Full marks for effort, well done you.🤗👍👏🏼
God loves a tryer
Awesome idea that it’s in two sections. I’m dreading that day when I’ll have to tackle emptying my homemade hotbin that I had made according to Niall’s video. I was so overambitious that I made it 80cm deep and I cant reach the back from the front of the hatch door without getting half of myself into the bin itself. Will be quite a view if it collapses on top of me… 😂
Please record this 😂
Keep an eye out for someone chucking out old decking or wood effect hollow soffit boards for cosmetic cladding. The thin sheet metal on the fridge will rust pretty quick outdoors.
It's still looking fine with the paint on it about a year on but I can see what you mean. It's not designed for the great british weather ! So far I can't any signs of it rusting though. I might clad it in the future or make a little shelter for it.
I came looking for Compost ideas and learned how to spray paint a fridge - Bonus!
😂 lucky for you then! You’re welcome
BRILLIANT! I love how candid you are about the process, sometimes we have an "uh-oh" moment thinking we did it wrong or wasted all that time and effort. BUT look at you making it work!!! Loved the dance party at the end!
Yeah it was a bit of a journey. I often have seriously bad judgement so I’m familiar with dealing with it. Glad you enjoyed the dancing 😁
What a fantastic idea. Cant wait to see what modifications you might do to it next!
Thanks, Neil! I'm posting a video now but it doesn't really need any modifications at all! That's the great part about it!
It's good that you actually troubleshooted it and showed that it actually worked it is better than most of the (how to) videos out there!
Thank you. I didn’t want to just keep the excitement to myself! 😃 I want everyone to be able to do it 😁
Good ideas. Great video.
Very entertaining and informative.
Love the cute drawings! 7:19 😂🌱
Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed the sketches 😂
Love it. Great idea and awesome video
Thanks Tim! It’s still going strong about 10 batches later 😁
@@tecmow4399 very jealous. I think my wife would kill me if I tried that. Really need the compost as well as I have a decent veg plot at the back and try to do no dig (layer of compost on top each year). Great work
Omg how are you so hot? That little dance at the end, I had to take a break. 🤣
I loved this video, but respectably, who has space for a fridge in their garden, I certainly don’t. I have a tumbling composter for convenience and to suit my spacing, however I’m fully aware I’m not going to get any sort of temperature in it, so need to be careful what I add in.
Whatever situation works for you. It’s true, not everyone can use a fridge or wants to have one. They’re also just lying around everywhere near where I live so they’re easy to get hold of for me. If your tumbler works well for you and it’s what you have space for that’s great too.
Excellent video, honest and fun,what a great idea, I would of sprayed it green tho lol, I'm new to hot composting and I can't get my heat up either so I'm going to add more nitrogen and water, thank you 😊
Great video, failing is as important as success, it pushes us to understand the process. Green waste is what generates the heat as it breaks down. It also generates the water needed for the bacteria. The brown waste, woodchip, cardboard etc absorbes the water to self regulate. It acts as a wick providing moisture when needed. You could even fill one side, leave it for a few weeks then turn it into the other side and start refilling the 1st side again. That means the stuff at the top that didnt get the heat, goes to the bottom to get cooked. The fridge is a great idea, shame about the dancing though.
Haha 😂 love this!! I have limited space so decided to build a hot box (with manure) but changed my mind and turned it into a flower bed (for pollinators when the veggies sprout next spring). I have unlimited horse 💩 which is handy but not much space. I have one bit of the garden left that I could possibly fit an old chest freezer in (if i can find one!) It would be perfect for compost 👌 . How many holes did you drill in the bottom and what size drill bit? Thanks for these comedic vlogs they're fabulous and very informative 😊
I’ll bet he was well pleased you took the fridge. Saved him from having to fly tip it somewhere - only when his health improves though.
Saved him a few quid otherwise the council would have charged him 👌🏼
so weird I had this lightbulb moment the other day about using an old freezer and went looking to see if I could find anyone who had done it already.. I did not find then this video popped up (good old algorithm I guess) but I reckoned it had to work and better then the polystyrene type.. so thanks for this and I think you deserve the dance .. if I had tried myself and it worked I would be dancing too... Yay!!!!
Is there a video discussing the compost you got from this? Thanks!
I’ve shared some on other social media but I can make a UA-cam video if it’s helpful for you 🥰
Just came to tell you I made a response but I’ve seen your comment on the video already 😁👌🏼
How many and how large holes did you make on the bottom?
Hey there! Would it be possible to build a pallet wood box and fill it with a cheap insulating material to make similar condition? My family dont want a fridge lying in the corner 😂
Absolutely! Yeah a fridge isn’t that attractive in a garden 😂
@tecmow4399 I have the pallets. Do you have any cheap suggestions for building the insulation for it? Polystyrene is pretty expensive in 5cm thick boards.
Do u think an ice bucket will work too?
Do u add animal manure? Of any kind?
I don’t have easy access to any but I would happily add it if I did
Or urine … your own is best in this case 🤣
Can u get free coffee grounds from your local barista? They r green additive for compost!
I probably could if I asked the local coffee shops yes. I have a fair few coffee grounds from my own caffeine addiction that go in there already 😅
Poor worms fled! Lol
It was gettin hot in there 🥵
matey thought you were DHSS , back checker..lol
Tried googling but I still don’t understand what DHSS is 😂
3:25 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😁 glad you enjoyed it