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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My first rented houseon my first day in my new student house I went on the lash with a few friends. I got back home at stupid o'clock in the morning and yeast logic made me think my debit card PIN was my alarm code. After trying to throw stones at the box making the noise I went in and ripped the control box off the wall. Satisfied that this stoped the noise I went to bed.
It ended up costing me £150 to get the alarm replaced.
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CowJam, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 15:04,
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sounds familiar...reminds me of going out on the beer with my brother-in-law (who until recently was a drunken student - my student days were drunker, but are behind me). We get back to his house to find the alram has been going off all day. Neighbours not best pleased. Also, they were made nervous by the mob of drunken yobbos trying to get into the house with the alarm blaring (us).
We get in, at which point one of our number decides the best way to silence the alarm is to go outside with a curtain pole and knock seven bells out of the alarm. It works, after a fashion (alarm falls off wall). Neighbour goes hysterical and threatens to call police, at which point the pole-weilder says "it's alright love, I'm already here". God bless the Met....
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Similar thing happened to my fire alarmthat thing went off all the time, day or night. If I opened every window in my flat, and closed the door between my kitchen and the alarm, it would STILL go off every time I cooked something (that's just normal cookery, nothing ever got burned), even if it was just shreddies for breakfast.
Every time it went off my flat was filled with it's eardrum-piercing, high-pitched siren, and every time I had to fetch a chair to stand on, then hold the button for 5 seconds to turn it off, only for it to start again a minute later.
Eventually I smashed it to death with a hammer, I'd rather burn alive than listen to that again.
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^ ^My fire alarm kept going off in the middle of the night. I pulled it out of the celing and cut the wires.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sat 5 Apr 2008, 19:15,
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