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#Hkole icon cast tub for free

Also don't drill for more than 20-30 seconds at a time. About 20-30 pounds of pressure is enough - let the bit do the work. When drilling something this tedious I make sure that I am not applying too much pressure. You already have a decent size dimple in the one, so just use the right bit. Your larger bits will catch on the hole that is already there and jam or possible drill off-center. Starting small and working your way up isn't something I have had too much success with for metal (although I would use this for tile or ceramic or stone). You really just need to buy a Cobalt bit. You are basically just rubbing the metal off, which is not good as this could make the hole slight wider than you have intended. The only reason your drilling is prolonged is because basically your bit is toast now. Once the coating is worn off they are really just your run of the mill cheap steel bits. This is a fabulous way to give back to the environment and your community, whilst supporting those who don’t have composting facilities…yet.Well titanium bits are OK for thin sheet metal but note that the titanium is just a coating on the bit. Once your worm farm is established, I highly recommend listing it on ShareWaste – a brilliant app where people can connect with you and bring their food waste to your house. Suggested dilution ratios vary a lot – do some research online to help find what works for you. The worm tea should be be diluted with water before being used as a liquid fertiliser.

They will migrate down, allowing you to harvest the casting from the other end. Worm castings are perfect for growing seedlings in or adding to vegetable patches. When you’re ready to harvest your castings, start feeding the worms at the other end of the bath tub. Gradually, the castings will build up on that side of the bath tub. You don’t want food to rot before they get to eat it as this will attract other animals and will release greenhouse gases (which we’re trying to avoid!).īecause the bath tub is so large, I feed them on one side of the tub only.

Over the first few weeks you will get to know how much your worms can eat. Worms do not have teeth, so you will find they can consume a lot more if their food is blended up for them. We blend up food scraps for our worms so that they are easier to digest. FEEDING YOUR WORMSĪllow your worms to settle in for a few days before feeding them.

#Hkole icon cast tub for free

To keep the chickens and possums out we covered the whole bath with an internal door we picked up for free on Facebook. We then covered the soil with hessian bags (reused coffee bean bags) to keep the temperature stable. Your worm farm should be damp like a wrung-out sponge, but not too much water so as to drown them. Water your worms gently with a watering can.

A bucket underneath the drainage hole catches the worm tea.

Layer with compost, soil or manure and add your happy worms.

Make a cosy bed for your worms on top of the shade cloth with shredded paper.

Cover the rocks with a sheet of shade cloth or similar so that you don’t lose any worms into the rocks or down the drain hole.

Cover the bottom layer of the bath with drainage rocks.

Start by covering the plug hole/drainage holes with some chicken wire.

Firstly, we placed our bath tub on some old chairs we had in the shed. You could build a stand for the bathtub out of an old pallet – which would look a lot nicer – but we wanted to use what we had.

Chairs to act as a stand (free from shed)Įssentially you want to create a relatively weather-proof and predator-safe enclosure with good drainage for your worms.

Worms (1000 worms for $25 from Gumtree).

Compost/soil/manure (from compost bin/manure $2 on side of road).

Hay/shredded paper (free from chook pen/newspaper from local café).

Drainage rocks ($8 20kg bag from Bunnings).

Here are our building materials, which cost a total of just $79: For this DIY demonstration we sourced everything for our bathtub worm farm from our garden shed, Gumtree and Facebook Marketplace. You can really make a worm farm container out of almost anything – get creative with you what you have and just apply the same principles.