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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The flip sideA new house (to you) is a bewildering landscape. Generally speaking it will have stuff 'built in'. This square meter-age is uncharted territory: camouflaged angst. You don't know where the wires or pipes run, or how things are fixed to walls.
Monbison's answer has reminded me of this subclass of shite DIYer, the elusive, lesser spotted work-maker, leaver of poisoned chalices , who bequeaths a legacy of skinned knuckles, sweary bollocks, broken claw hammers and bent hacksaw blades.
Whilst most diy disasters are from inappropriately weak fixings/tools - and this tends to be manifest all too quickly - for some inexplicable reason, some utterly inept people have a tendency to over egg the diy pudding to a bewildering extent.
This would be great if it could be applied to quality fixtures, fittings AND furnishings, but it seems, almost without exception to apply to impromptu brackets for nasty shelves.
It's as if, through childhood inculcation, the phrase 'you could hang yourself off that fucker' was the only one that resonated with them, no style, no taste, just a desire to fix things to walls that no man can tear asunder.
(, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:17, Reply)
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