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 missus and her mob..Whilst my family tend to the practical, my other half comes from entirely the other end of the spectrum. Odd, considering her mum's family were all farmers and her granddad ran a garage, but her mum is more likely to paint a shovle (don't ask) than dig with it and her dad thinks anything can be fixed with sellotape...
Aside from my beloved thinking that it was ok to keep putting air into a tyre that was running not just bald, but through the canvas and onto the wire and seriously considering putting a 42" plasma TV on a wire TV stand she had that was "pretty, but a bit wobbly as I put it together using a knife and could only find some of the screws", it is her dad that is the blinding source of comedy.
The thing is, he's useless, but he's very earnest - he spent 45 minutes reading the instructions on how to put a fan together before losing half the parts and handing it to me to "finish" (i.e. scrabble round the garden looking for the missing screws and put it together). He had a folding chair that didn't fold. For fifteen years. Until I pointed out that the arms were on the wrong way round - I had to fix it, as watching him try to use a screwdriver is just a case of waiting for the blood and trip to A&E...
He spent an entire day putting draught excluding tape around the front door. Fine, apart from the fact the door won't close properly due to the amount of foam in the door-jam and because he put it round the edge od the door-frame, not on the flat, it peels off when you open the door. Oh, and the letterbox he replaced works so well that the mail is left in a box on the doorstep....
But, his absolute piece de resistance was walking down the stairs, seeing a "useless" wire and, because he had some pliers to hand, cutting it away and pulling it out of the wall. Then wondering why the phone didn't work....
Then again, my best mate's wife used to wash the plug sockets and light switches with a wet cleaning sponge as "it brouht them up nice and white", so it's not just my family!
(, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 16:22, Reply)
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