I'm something of a DIY God myself
I'm not afraid of flatpack, for a start, and I built the back garden myself. A patio, raised flower beds, decking, walls, fences, the whole 9 yards (it literally is, too). Big complicated stuff like that, no problem. However, when I first learned to use a roller, things went a little... wrong. I hadn't realised the problem of splashback and didn't believe in using dust sheets, so my carpet was nicely covered in teeny tiny little white paint spots.

I have a relative of a similiar DIY bent, and she's almost as good as me. Apart from the last time she tried to fit lino in the bathroom. She took out the old piece of lino to use as a template (after washing it, of course). She placed it down, drew round it, and then cut out the resulting piece of lino. She then tried to fit it in the bathroom, only to discover something had gone rather wrong. She'd put the template down the wrong way round, so now she has a nice piece of backwards lino she can do precisely bugger all with. Oh well, something else for me to fix...

Mind you, I'm not entirely scot free. When I was digging out the concrete so I could put down some proper foundations for the patio, my fork (don't ask) got caught on something. Something that wouldn't move, no matter how much I tried. So, as all blokes will do everywhere, I gave it a mighty shove. And then... **CRACK** water started spurting everywhere as a section of pipe went skywards. I'd taken out our water main. Whoops!
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 3 Apr 2008, 22:38, Reply)