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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Just don't startIf anyone lives in a Victorian house, just don't go there. Because of the huge rush to build everything in 1897, houses are not well made. People have not subsequently added to that.
We did a complete rennovation of our house over the last year and a half, just me and my other half as we didn't have enough money to pay other people to do it.
We started taking the woodchip off in the kitchen- the plaster started coming off
We started taking the plaster and lathes off- there's massive dry rot in the walls
We ended up having to remove the entire wall and rebuild it.
However, I am now a master craftsman in wall building.
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Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 20:39,
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We have a victorian house.The people we bought it from modernised it throughout, although they kept victorian styling. Nothing really needs doing. Its lovely.
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Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 21:01,
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I'm doing up my own victorian houseand despite the brickwork being kind of wonky, it's very well built indeed.
most of the plaster is shite, but it'd be fine if some idiot in the 70s hadn't decided to put woodchip up
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 8:46,
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yeah, what is it with the damn woodchip?I've got it too - in my kitchen, which means all the steam and grease sticks to the woody chips. I fully intend gutting the kitchen and removing walls at some point so I can't justify redecorating it, other than a coat of paint over the top.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 9:08,
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I sympathise...I bought my 1887 house about 4 years ago now. To this day there are no pictures on the walls or shelves because the bricks just crumble away when you drill, screw or nail in to them.
But it does still have it's original windows with the original glass. When you look out the window it's like being drunk because of all the imperfections in the glass.
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My Victorian houseDoes not contain one single straight line or right angle as I found out when having a new kitchen & bathroom fitted last year.
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