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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MikeNow Mike seems like a good DIY dad's name. And it was.
Mike (aka dad) decided to completely strip the bathroom for all it was worth and start again, new tiles,lick of paint for the ceiling and (in celebration of the forthcoming 21st Century, he always was a bit behind bless him) a new power shower.
I was about 14 at the time, and often sat stropping the way only spotty 14 year olds do, in my room which happened to be next to the bathroom. Enter Mike the builder, ready for a day of gauging a trench in the wall to hold pipes for our new shower.
Cue me, merrily stropping away in my room.
Next enter hammer, spectacularly, through my wall. It slowly disappeared through taking much wall with it. 'Shit' utters Mike, as he looks through the hole in the wall from the bathroom and sees yours truly with an utter look of 'OMGWTF!!!111oneone!1'.
The new lack of wall angered Mike, so it was left there for about 3 months.
To make matters worse, whilst sitting on my bed, the new 'window' in the wall gave me a lovely* sight to whoever was on the loo. Or in the bath.
I won't even mention the smell.....
*god damn awful
(, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 19:50, Reply)
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