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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TilingNever having thought of myself as a DIY person, I'm beginning to learn now. I even own a drill, god help me.
In the bathroom, though, you can see the evolution of my tiling skills: if you look at that wall, the tiles are straight and - if I say so myself - not a million miles from professional-looking. But now look around to your right, clockwise over the sink and along the bath to the tap end. It's like looking incrementally back in time - an almost evening-by-evening record of the development (or, if you're moving to the right, the degeneration) of my DIY skills. There's a reason why I started to teach myself to tile on the bit of the wall hidden by the taps and shower curtain...
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 9:49,
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...That will be most helpful to archaeologists of the future who will be able to use tiling seriation to determine a relative chronology for the sequence of bathroom decoration. I mean, if they're not too busy decoding the mysteries of the great god Tesco.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 9:55,
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^I do hope you mean professional archaeologist and not Lady of the Night, Dr E.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 10:05,
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^^Your secret's safe wi... Oh, bugger.
:D
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 10:18,
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^Buggery is not usually a service I offer, though we all have our price.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 10:21,
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