Have you got any funny DIY stories/disasters etc. Do you love DIY, or hate it?
We are on our third house in ten years. I used to like DIY. Not any more!

I was once killed when my house collapsed after trying to fit a plug! It was hillarious!!!!!!!:hihi:

I'm into 'Damage It Yourself'.....

I've done the cliched stuff :

Put foot through bathroom ceiling.
Assembled furniture that wouldn't have looked out of place in 'Nosferatu'.
Hit various fingers with various hammers.
Grabbed the hot end of a soldering iron...and didn't let go....
'Used up' various of my dad's tools.....don't believe anyone who says you can't 'use up' a screwdriver. It all depends upon what you're using the screwdriver for....

Now, if I can afford it, we get professionals in and Mrs P. is much happier...as am I...as are the cats....the neighbours...the emergency services...:)

Joe

i fitted my shower and had to have the floor board up at top of the landing to run 30 amp cable . on putting back the floor boads i hammerd a nail streight tro the central heating gas pipe lol!!lucky gas fitter lives next door so did not cost me few pints o beer at local steve>>

Originally posted by JoePritchard
I'm into 'Damage It Yourself'.....

Or 'Destroy It Yourself' ......

My Dad's always enjoyed doing diy around the house, but the rest of the family are less keen on his efforts ....

My sister tells the story of a boyfriend (now an ex-boyfriend)coming round to visit, and saying "I see your dad's been doing diy again" when a door-knob came off in his hand!

Needless to say, Dad didn't find this too amusing! :D

StarSparkle

Originally posted by steevie/d
on putting back the floor boads i hammerd a nail streight tro the central heating gas pipe lol!!
I did that - it's the only time I've really messed up, though. Not having a plumber living next door, it cost £90 for an emergency plumber.:(

having carefully removed a floorboard and broken into the upstairs ring main to add a new socket, I was replacing said floorboard and had difficulty screwing into crumbling ends. I decided to screw into the middle of the board end and shoved my drill straight through the new cable underneath. Mr Strix has now banned me from power tools one week in four :roll:

we've just taken a chimney breast out of the bathroom, much fun with hammers, not much fun carting the rubble away.

If I stop posting suddenly it's because the house has fallen down and crushed my pcs.

Don't forget the RSJ....;) :D

My finest moment was in my early twenties.

I lived alone in a rented house and decided one day to paint the living room.

I bought the paint (red) and set to it. I did as far as I could reach then left it for a couple of days until I could borrow some step ladders. Then did the rest leaving a "tide mark" halfway up the wall.

I then approached the area near the window and thoroughly bored with the whole thing by this time, painted around the curtains as I couldn't be fagged to take them down.

This still causes much hilarity to my dad. Needless to say I am not allowed near a paintbrush.

Oh yeah, and the time my father in law sawed through a gas pipe underneath my kitchen. I was 8 months pregnant at the time as was left with my thumb covering it while he went to buy something to fix it!