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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Hurrah for no more nails!Was attending a minor shin-dig at a mates house back when i was about 15, much booze was consumed and a great time had by all.
However one of the guests ventured to the off limits upstairs and managed to fall into my mates book case, turning it into firewood (good 'ol ikea quality!)
On hearing this news i flipped into the typical male 'lets fix stuff' mode and grabbed the 'No More Nails'.
Did quite a good job of putting it back together, it looked perfect but it wouldn't stand up straight no matter what i tried, then remembering the no more nails advert (if it can glue a chair to a wall it sure as hell can do a bookcase....right?!) and glued the whole right hand side of the shelf to his wall!
The incident was forgotten until about a year later when my mates mum decided to move his room around a bit as a nice suprise but ripped off most of the plasterboard wall whilst moving the bookcase.
Whoops.
(, Wed 9 Apr 2008, 13:02, Reply)
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