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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Rewring...I was having some building work done in my last house, and it involved rewiring the kitchen. The builder called an electrician. The electrician came around and refused to touch anything until he'd disconnected the whole house from the mains.
The reason? The kitchen was in an extension. Whoever'd wired it up had seen fit to run the ring main out through a hole in the dining-room wall, along the outside of the house, and back in through another hole in the kitchen wall. Some of the contacts were fashioned out of bits of wire coathanger.
Apparently that's not safe.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 10:58,
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