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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Previous ownerThe previous owner of the house I bought was a DIY freak, but not very good. One of his better ideas was to install a rainwater collection tank and a pump to allow this to be used for flushing toilets. However he connected it up to the mains water system, meaning that the entire water system was contaminated with unfiltered rainwater.
But his greatest triumph was the heating system: he'd installed all the radiators and piping himself, and done a pretty bad job of it. But one radiator in particular just would not heat up, and no amount of bleeding or banging would get it to work. I traced the pipes back to see where the problem could be, and found a gap in the pipework! Looking around, I found a nice clothes rail in a built in cupboard that looked suspiciously like a water pipe... He'd removed a section of pipe, capped it off, and used the pipe as a hanging rail in a wardrobe. Obviously had his priorities right there...
(, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 20:57, 1 reply)
I guess hedidn't want his clothes to wrinkle, so he hung them up.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Tue 8 Apr 2008, 0:53,
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