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If you can't fix it with a hammer and a roll of duck tape, it's not worth fixing at all, my old mate said minutes before that nasty business with the hammer and a roll of duck tape. Tell us of McGyver-like repairs and whether they were a brilliant success or a health and safety nightmare.

(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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bedroom door on the piss?
bought a house many years ago and started to do a few bits to tidy it up , now this house is made like most others but uses a steel frame not timber.
so far, i have found and sorted heating system pipes that run along the top of the steel frame, with the floor boards resting directly on top of them. found out about this when we had a rather large wet puddle in the sitting room all the other floor boards are very thick but the ones on top of the pipes are very thin bastards
our main bed room door is seriously on the piss with a 3inch gap at the top and a perfect fit at the bottom, no idea how they did that, tried putting a new frame and door in but door still had a gap , turns out that the last owner had moved the wall by several inches and not squared it up so when the put the door frame back in it didnt fit, fixed with a new wall and another door frame .

a wall unit in the kitchen never seamed to level or straight didnt wobble or move but when it was taken down it was fixed only to the plaster board with a couple of screws and what looked like a box of matches stuffed in the ever growing screw holes not even a wooden batten or stud to fix to .
a plug socket that worked some times and other times blew the main fuse found out that a picture hook nail had gone through the cable fixed with another nail under neath to lift the picture enough so the short didnt happen

oh ho we loved that house every new diy job was an epic adventure that started in one from and usually finished some where else

happy times but now thanks to autism that i got of a guy on ebay everything is just peachy
(, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 20:38, 3 replies)
a lot of this doesn't make sense

(, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 0:38, closed)
Line breaks are not a substitute for full stops, you fucking mongoloid.

(, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 10:06, closed)
oops
that would be a mongoloid with a keyboard to you
(, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 18:09, closed)

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