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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Bought my first house last yearThe house is something of fixer upper, the previous inhabitants having favoured pink, yellow and pastille shades of blue, as well as all the bathroom and kitchen being the original 1985 fittings and hideous.
So anyway, I ripped out the kitchen, cleaned up the unholy mess that was left and installed all the lovely new units from Ikea in just a couple of days. Laid a lovely new floor in the living room and just last weekend my plumber friend came over and we pulled out the revolting old pink bathroom suite and fitted a lovely sparkly white suite.
In all everything's going swimmingly so far, just need to put the floor down in the hall and paint the walls and the job's pretty much done.
So the disaster?
Mortgage with Northern Rock. Got a 110% mortgage on the place coz it was going for a steal and I knew for a fact I could increase the value by a fair bit by ploughing that extra back into it and then remortgage to drop my repayments. Now it looks like I'm stuck paying way more than I can afford for the next god knows how long coz it's almost impossible to remortgage at the moment....
Still, at least thee bathroom isn't pink anymore...
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BlueHaze Chutney. All good., Fri 4 Apr 2008, 16:05,
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...I predicted that house prices would begin to fall mere moments after I signed the papers for my first house last year. Whaddaya know...?
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 16:09,
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we were actually signing the contractsWhile the shit was hitting the fan for Northern Rock. I was pretty confident that everything would be alright, and they wouldn't collapse. But I'm still kind of stuck for the time being....
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BlueHaze Chutney. All good., Fri 4 Apr 2008, 16:11,
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bumI paid top whack last year and now must work until i'm about 100 to pay off a house that is rapidly losing value...
still, you've got to laugh.
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My fault.I too bought my first house not long before it all started going downhill. At least I know that how the house looked before I got it, and how it looks now...with the repaired plaster, decent paint, and proper carpets...is different enough for me to hope for some value increase if I ever sell.
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