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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So many storiesI've got so many stories for this as I'm a walking Darwininan mistake waiting to happen:
Very Homer-esque - Can't quite get nail sorted so hold nail with thumb, hit thumb with hammer so to start the nail off. Much pain and screaming...
Pure idiocy - I'm in a hurry so I'll not clamp the piece of wood to anything when drilling it - cue wood spinning round with the drill and cracking me in the elbow.
I do wonder - line up junior hacksaw having replaced the blade with a nice new shiny one - blade slips and kicks and drags it's way onto my hand. Twice. It's still not healed properly and this was 2 weeks ago.
Painting - I painted the floorboards of our Nursery a month back and I did the old "Paint as a filler" (I can't be the ONLY one that does this can I?) - first coat looks good and I'm rather pleased. I go to the bathroom for the loo - which is beneath the nursery and there's paint EVERYWHERE - turns out the floorboards aren't quite so sealed and the paint's come straight through.
Did I learn? No - 3rd coat and the GF has paint dripping in her hair. I'm not popular still about that one :o)
Just ouch - full sized saw - line up carefully, pull back and saw........ And another blade kick straight onto my other hand.
Wallpapering - I was papering the nursery and thought I was doing really well - I stepped back and realised that one sheet didn't line up and, frankly, was obviously not square - not even close. Even though I'd marked it up with the spirit level - the adjustable level - which had been adjusted to 15 degrees **sigh**
Circular sawing - Again, a careful line-up and marking and then POWER - pressed the power button without realising how powerful it was and it skipped out of my hand, at speed across the door, digging into it and marking it horribly where it really shouldn't have been marked. It fell onto the floor in a shower of sparks and bangs - it was returned to B&Q as it mysteriously stopped working...
Belt sander - Very much like the circular saw - always keep a tight grip on these as the first time I used it, it shot out of my hand, across the room and tore the plug out of the wall, shorting the house out.
Light switches - All I can say is that touching a "Live" wire to check whether the power's off instead of going downstairs and flipping the fuse - is a BAD idea.
Light switches 2 - Same switch, nursing a sore hand, I use a power tester light pointy thing - which promptly blows up and shorts the house out. Again.
Cables - Never leave cables trailing - I tripped over a cable which somehow sparked up an orbital sander. On my nice new kitchen table. **more sighing**
Somehow, I'm still alive with no broken bones....
:o)
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(, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 8:37, 1 reply)
Paint fillerNo, you're not the only one
(, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 12:46, closed)
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