Bodge JobsIf 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.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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Caveat emptorI bought a wee house with my partner and we moved in towards the end of last year. We've found the evidence of numerous bodge jobs right through the house and garden - the whole place seems to be stuck together with No More Nails and silicone sealant and appears to have been painted by someone blind. So far we've covered over assorted holes in the walls and ceiling, painted over the badly drawn bums all over what was previously a kids' bedroom, taken down the pelmet stuck up with velcro that took half the plasterwork down with it, crow barred the washing machine out which had a whole fitted kitchen built round it and treated the porch which had got damp and been hastily painted over. We've still to fix the loft ladder which is so wobbly it gives you motion sickness, fix a two foot deep hole in the lawn that's been filled with broken roof tiles, remove chunks of 3/4 inch thick broken glass from the flower beds and paint over the mess that Ray Charles Painters and Decorators Ltd. left behind.
Still, it's our wee house and we do love it.
(, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 15:29, Reply)
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