Wiring and weetabix
Wife once asked for me to put up a coat rack.
I duly started drilling with an old handdrill and managed to drill through the earth and live wires embedded in the wall.

BANG, off the chair I went. When I recovered I found the drill welded to the wires in the wall and the main fuse blown.
One quick call to the leccy people who told me "£65 for each 15 minutes it takes to fix" followed by my "Feck off you money grabbing bastards."
So I made sure the electric was off, chisled out th plaster with an old screwdriver, wrapped electrical tape round the two wires and hey presto it all worked again.

Slight problem, no plaster, no money.
So I made up my favourite breakfast cereal, weetabix 3 tablespoons of sugar and warm milk. Only this time I only used a little milk.
Spooned it into the hole in the wall and it set like cement.
Bit of paint the next day andno problems with it 20 years later.
(Captain Spacker I lick windows, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 10:07, 6 replies)

On the downside
There was someone else who built their house from food, and we know how that ended...
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 11:29, closed)

That's ok
my wife the witch moved out with me so no witches there anymore.
(Captain Spacker I lick windows, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 17:13, closed)

I'm glad that someone has done this,
as I'm always thinking that weetabix should have some sort of construction application, when I find myself chiselling it off the wall/floor after breakfast with the kids.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 18:59, closed)

also
if you use it as plaster, if you become poor, you can eat the wall.
(Captain Spacker I lick windows, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 19:21, closed)

Not me but my brother...
did a similar bodge job on the wing of the Volvo he was selling. Only he used some mud from the garden - smoothed off and painted over it looked a treat, apparently.

Got a call from the purchaser a couple of weeks later - the bloody thing had only gone and sprouted hadn't it?
(karnuvap, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 19:09, closed)

straight out of "minder" i reckon!

( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 14 Mar 2011, 7:45, closed)