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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Electrified bathtubOh, how could I have forgotten about this?
I was living in a rather shitty Victorian 2-bedroom house at the time with a (Female) housemate. Me and another friend had spent the day installing a fetching stainless steel bathtub, and were sat downstairs enjoying a beer whilst the previously mentioned housemate went up for a bath.
All of a sudden, we heard a high-pitched scream from upstairs, and the poor woman came flying down the stairs, through the kitchen (stark naked), slipped on the tiles and banged her head on the table, then got up swearing to herself before muttering the immortal words...
"YOU FUCKING PAIR OF CUNTS! THE FUCKING BATH'S GOT LECCY IN IT!"
As it turns out, she had put one foot in the water and one hand on a tap and got a hefty zap.
It later turned out to be a grounding problem elsewhere in the house, so not really a disaster on our part. Didn't stop us pissing ourselves with laughter once we established that she was OK though.
(, Wed 9 Apr 2008, 11:24, Reply)
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