Superglued until doomsday
Over a decade ago i moved into a little flat converted from an old outhouse.
Damp and a little mouldy in places, but it was cheap and would do for a while.
It was attached to the main building by a short corridor which had been blocked off and left as a kind of utility area.
There were rows of drilled holes along each side wall that looked like there had previously been shelves there.
Not owning a drill and thinking some new shelves would be good , i thought I'd just use the existing holes.
Screwed in the first set of brackets, gave them an experimental tug and they fell straight out of the wall with a little puff of crumbling plaster.
After some thought about this, I vacuumed the loose powder out of each hole, squirted in loads of superglue, hammered the rawl plugs in and screwed the brackets back in as quickly as possible.
Waited a while then tugged again, result, they didnt move.
Happy new shelves.
The building was condemned a couple years ago and was boarded up.
I went past there about 5 months ago and in spite of its now vandalised state all the shelves bar 1 are still on the walls, and one had 2 breeze blocks sitting on it.
Superglue, you gotta love it
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 16:46, Reply)