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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We don't need a carpet fitterit was only a bathroom carpet - and a very small bathroom.
It seemed a really straightforward thing to do - lift the old carpet, use it as a template to cut out the new one, lay the new one.
Easy
Except we put the two carpets "face to face" and cut the wrong shape out. It would have fitted perfectly, but upside down!
We got round it by cutting the carpet into two bits, but that join annoyed me every time I looked at it.
The carpet (why did I even think carpet was a good idea in a bathroom?) was eventually replaced with easy clean vinyl. Which was cut into the correct shapes.
Lesson learned.
(, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 18:04, 2 replies)
Ah yesI did the very same thing the first time I ever tried to fit a carpet. Being a supposedly intelligent person did I learn from my mistake? I did exactly the same thing many years later laying vinyl. Ho hum.
(, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 11:11, closed)
linoyep, in the bathroom of my old house, luckily the kitchen was more than twice the size of the bathroom (yes being a skinflint i was using the lino which we had originally put down in the kitchen, lovely beech floorboard effect, and replacing the downstairs with laminate, it did look quite nice in the end)
(, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:10, closed)
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