Bodge JobsIf you can't fix it with a hammer and a roll of duck tape, it's not worth fixing at all, my old mate said minutes before that nasty business with the hammer and a roll of duck tape. Tell us of McGyver-like repairs and whether they were a brilliant success or a health and safety nightmare.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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Dad'sMy Dad died after forty years bodging several jobs round the house. Some of his worst offences, only revealed when we started doing our own repairs after he popped it, include:
- five complete layers of bathroom tiles, one on top of the other, on all four walls, floor to ceiling - the room, small to begin with, was a foot bigger all round when we got them all off. The lazy bugger had fitted new sinks, loos and baths over the years progressively closer together...
- tin foil in every socket in the fusebox and accompanying scorch marks up the wall. (Clearly apprenticed to Fredz Grandad there....;-)..)
- painted a wall without moving the furniture - we found 'hole in the wall' style outlines of a bookshelf, armchair and a plant-stand..... A PLANT-STAND!!!
I mean ffs! And I fell for it when he used to pronounce 'If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.'
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I done a snort at the plant stand.That's a whole deeper level of bone idleness. Much respect.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 8:11,
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