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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WallpaperingI hate wallpapering. I just find it an eminently displeasurable chore and will avoid it wherever possible, preferring to stick to paint that can be changed readily. Plus you get to paint cocks and tits and stuff, which always brings out the inner 8-year-old and livens up an otherwise mundane task.
My ex mum-in-law (who, by contrast was a wallpapering tour-de-force) had a friend who was determined not to come the ‘helpless girly in distress’. Not for her the ‘getting a bloke in to do it’ route, oh no. In a valiant declaration of her female independence, she decreed to everyone that her bathroom needed decorating, and she was going to do it herself. So off she went to the DIY shop, and back she came with paint, wallpaper (a lovely striped pattern), paste, brushes, and a pasting table.
She set to on her decorating mission, and eventually finished. Proud of her work, she would show it to friends, who would nod and declare that yes, seeing as she’d never wallpapered before, she’d done a good job in sticking it to the wall – no air bubbles in evidence, on nice and straight…
Apart from the bits behind the toilet and the sink, where sometimes the striped pattern ran vertically, and sometimes it ran horizontally. She’d cut the bits of wallpaper to fit the fiddly little awkward areas and just stuck them on. Apparently it looked a bit like a kaleidoscope gone wrong…
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 8 Apr 2008, 16:08,
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I know someone who did a bathroom border without using a spirit level, or anything at all as a guide. It was so far out, if you sat on the toilet you actually started to veer sideways, as your eyes were telling you you weren't upright.
It was her first wallpapering attempt as well.
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I once readthat in a typical British living room, success at interior decorating was defined as getting motion sickness while sitting on the couch.
Didn't see that myself while over there, but... *shrug*
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 8 Apr 2008, 18:00,
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@ LoonThat's because you weren't staying in a typical British house.
I'm classy me!
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girlinthehole, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 19:18,
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