DIY nightmares

[Kev Stephenson]

Been doing a bit of DIY today, decorating the spare bedroom in preparation for the new arrival in the summer. One of the jobs was to run the network cable into the room properly and sink the connection point into the wall.

 

So out came the hammer and chisel and the wall was marked up for the back box. After chiselling round the outline I tried to knock out piece by piece the waste only for the whole bloody block to fall straight out the back onto my bedroom floor leaving a hole 15 inch by 6 inch in the other room!!

 

Cue a bollocking from the other half and yet another job to add to the list - replaster the main bedroom that until lunch time today didn't need anything doing to it.

 

Anyone else had any disasters they are willing to admit to?

[Peter]

I'm sure Dean can trump that.

 

My brother and I set fire to a gas main in my parents kitchen once.

 

I'm sure Dean can trump that too.

[Stephen Blair]

I'm sure Dean can trump that.

 

My brother and I set fire to a gas main in my parents kitchen once.

 

I'm sure Dean can trump that too.

 

no matter what i say or even make up. dean can trump it.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Now now, come on boys, surely someone can beat demolishing an entire house at three year old

[Johny Walker]

my way round d.i.y is simple i dont do it

[Stephen Blair]

my way round d.i.y is simple i dont do it

 

d.f.y=done for you.

and dean, the top prize is all yours:001_smile:

the best i did was fall through my parents kitchen roof and broke my mums cheese plant.

[Jamie]

putting some boards down in the attic so i wouldn't fall through the roof i promptly fell through the roof. did a good job of repairing it, when i sold the house to my sister she flagged it up with the guy who redecorated the room and he was impressed. felt like a tit though.

 

Jamie

[Andy Collins]

When I first left school, I worked for a roofing company, and was told not to step between the roof joists. I did and ended up falling through the ceiling into the kitchen, bugger! In my defence the loft lagging was the bitty stuff that completely covered the joists, and I misjudged the spacings. I dont DO DIY, I leave it to those who CAN do DIY.

[tommer9]

Now now, come on boys, surely someone can beat demolishing an entire house at three year old

 

wow.......TOP effort mate:001_tongue:

[Stephen Blair]

wow.......TOP effort mate:001_tongue:

 

i know a lad who started as an apprentice joiner, his gaffer left him strip all the plasterboard off a bedroom in a customers house, he was instructed on how to tackle this from inside the bedroom. when the gaffer left, the young lad in his wisdom thought it would be much easier to work from above than below. he found the loft hatch, up he went and kicked the whole ceiling down in minutes. with a big smile on his face, already forseeing a huge bonus from his new boss, he climbed back down. when he went into the to see that nothing had been touched, it wasnt till he went next door he realised he had done the wrong bedroom roof:scared1: