DIY disastersI just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 17:19)
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A few disastersFoot through the ceiling, living room, done that ouch my leg hurt. Cuts bruises and a few attempts at electrocuting my self, including blowing an entire phase in a block of flats. Extracting a car hub bearing using the oven as a heat source wasn’t very clever either, result bearing out kitchen wrecked.
My first attempt at DIY, I was lucky to survive. I was only 3 years old at the time and my parents woke up to find me in the living room with all the valves from the TV neatly arranged on the floor . Apparently I was looking for the people inside the TV. Yes the set was plugged in.
Our neighbor was lucky to survive his DIY. He lived below us in a block of flats. We were sitting down to eat when a huge fireball flew up past the outside widow. We rushed down stairs into the neighbors flat; he usually left his door unlocked. To find him standing in the kitchen with a confused look on his face holding a small pan. His hair was singed his face was black and all the plants in the window were melted. He had been heating some gun oil when it went on fire. So he turns on the cold tap and puts the pan under it. Boom. Luckily for him he did open the window first.
(, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:08, Reply)
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