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[gbb]

Thanks for that Gareth. I might as well just end it all now.


Nice Ferret box by the way!

Sorry, i know i shouldnt laugh....but i just did

DIY for me ?
Took a stud wall out to convert 2 bedrooms into 1, plus moving the sockets and making good where the old wall was.
Installing a full kitchen/diner. 4 days, 14 hours a day....the last day i was absolutely ****ed off with every screw, every nail, every everything.
Upgraded my bathroom, fitted a shower, all the usual electrics and plumbing.
Fit all my own carpets.

Just fitted an electric cooker...

I'll do anything, never in 30 years called a tradesman in to do a job...but accept i cant do it as well as a pro, but still monk to myself i cant do it as good as a pro.

If car mechanics is included, fitted (with the assistance of my SIL who used to work in garages) the cambelt, followers and water pump on my old Vectra SRI. Saved myself about £300.

 

[Baggy]

Fitted a cat flap through a 9" thick brick wall, including making good the exterior pointing (just don't ask how long it took )

 

[buggi]

i built some flat packed furniture once. does that count? o yea, i put a rail up in a cupboard when my ex couldn't do it coz he was a fake man

 

[HelenD123]

I skimmed the walls in my living room. It was a bugger to do but the end result is worth it.

 

[wafflycat]

I've tiled a bathroom before now.

[smug]
Made a decent job of it too.
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[Plax]

I'm quite proud that being of the feminine persuation I can do the majorty of things myself. I've put up curtain rails, wallpapered, painted, hung new kitchen cupboard doors, fixed minor holes in the plaster walls, put up flat pack furniture etc. My proudest though has to be putting on a new internal rim lock all by my lonesome. Drilled a hole for the door handle and everything.

I'll have a go at most things, only times I struggle is stuff that requires brute strengh when I have to get my dad or Mr Plax to do it.

 

[buggi]

ooo that reminds me. i accidently headbutted my loo roll holder off my bathroom wall (don't ask) and it left a HUGE hole which i polyfillered. my dad was well impressed with my diy skills trouble was, i did such a good job, the rest of the wall looked naff ha ha

 

[gbb]

Fixed my own TV years ago, way beyond the realms of what i should have been able to do...
Watching it one night...phhhht....

Bugger, we'll have to call the repair man.
Why dont you take the back off and have a look, said SWMBO.
What the hell do you expect me to find in there

So i did as SWMBO suggested.....looked at the circuit boards.... and found a large power resister (one of many) that'd broken its wire leg.
Soldering iron out....sorted

Of course, unfortunately...SWMBO was right

 

[simonali]

Fitted a cat flap through a 9" thick brick wall, including making good the exterior pointing (just don't ask how long it took )

Did anyone else read that as flat cap first time round, or was it just me?

I've just fixed my garage door which went twang/crunch about a year ago. I looked at the cables, springs, latches etc and thought "Stuff that, I'll just use the other door instead".

Took much swearing and throwing of tools and I've now used up all the patience I will ever have and there is none remaining for however much life I have left!

 

[Ashtrayhead]

I put some shelves up some years back. Later that night (when we were asleep) it sounded like a lorry had driven into the front room as the shelves (admittedly with heavy books on them) had pulled off the wall - taking great chunks of plaster.

Don't get asked to do much DIY. Just like i don't get asked to put clothes in the washing machine after i 'accidently' mixed colours with whites.

Hence all that spare time to go cycling.

You've only got your shelf to blame.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I knocked down a wall and fitted some gates so I could get my car into our back yard. This involved digging two 1' square holes down to about two feet through solid sandstone. I was quite proud of the fact that when the posts were finally concreted in and the gates hung, they fitted absolutely perfectly. When it was finished I must have stood for a good two minutes just opening and shutting the gates.
I'm pretty handy with most things; I'm about to decorate the kitchen which will involve a good deal of tiling, I'm in the middle of making a garden out of the concrete wasteland that was here when we moved in and I'll be converting my Citroen 2CV into a pickup truck (mostly because it's the easiest way to sort out the rusty rear end) and building a tuned engine for it later this year.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

You've only got your shelf to blame.

 

[lukesdad]

Building a 20m x 40m half sunk half raised menage almost finished. 3 12 x12 stable block very smart I must say (lukesmum likes them anyway )

In the process of designing and building my own micro hydro system Including turbine and generator, Very excited about that, sad I know.

Years ago built an ac cobra replica using a 5.2 V12 Jag engine mated to a shelved BMW project V12 gearbox. That was a buggar. Absolutely hate cars now tho still mantain Lukesmums and Bl---y lorry.

 

[Wigsie]

I'm about to decorate the kitchen which will involve a good deal of tiling, I'm in the middle of making a garden out of the concrete wasteland that was here when we moved in and I'll be converting my Citroen 2CV into a pickup truck (mostly because it's the easiest way to sort out the rusty rear end) and building a tuned engine for it later this year.

THAT thread will be useless without pics!

 

[Jane Smart]

When our staffy was a puppy seven years ago, she would chew holes in the walls in the kitchen. Minute I popped out of the room, she was the devil in disguise, so I became an expert at plastering walls and painting them again, before my husband came home from work, he never knew a thing and the dog stayed

She's still here now and a wee darling and very well behaved (for the record )