FabSwingers.com forum: your worst DIY job

By *riskygaz OP Man
over a year ago

birmingham

Well I have just been and got some loft boards and legs, to board out part of the loft for a bit of extra storage space, a job I am really not looking forward to doing, moving around all that itchy insulation

so what is the worst bit of DIY you have had to do ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cleared a room of horrific artex before plastering. Truly horrendous work.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

None, I love diy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I made bunk beds on my own, not awful in the grand scheme of things but i was nearly beaten by the end!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was once asked to do some basic gardening by my parents. All I had to do was clear the ground where our new summer house would be.

Within ten minutes of digging I managed to slice open a vein in my hand and had to go to hospital.

I am not a good manual worker.

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By *aughty1978Woman
over a year ago

north west

I got stuck in my loft for a few hours looking for a joist to skrew my sex swing into. I was too scared to get out because the ladder wobbled and I'd left my mobile in my bedroom so I couldn't ring anyone for help. When I finally got the courage to do it , it was easy haha

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By *riskygaz OP Man
over a year ago

birmingham

"I made bunk beds on my own, not awful in the grand scheme of things but i was nearly beaten by the end! "
some times its the little jobs that drive you crazy, flat pack furniture is all ways fun lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I got stuck in my loft for a few hours looking for a joist to skrew my sex swing into. I was too scared to get out because the ladder wobbled and I'd left my mobile in my bedroom so I couldn't ring anyone for help. When I finally got the courage to do it , it was easy haha "
hope the swing is attached properly lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Worst job is clearing blocked toilets

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cleared a room of horrific artex before plastering. Truly horrendous work."

And probably full of asbestos.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I tried to wire in a new light switch in my bathroom, when I turned the election back on, the fuse in the fuse box went bang and sparked. I had to get an emergency electrician xx

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By *aughty1978Woman
over a year ago

north west

"Cleared a room of horrific artex before plastering. Truly horrendous work."

Spent 4 weeks doing this on my hall stairs and landing defo the worst diy job I've had to do.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think the worst job out there is re-insulating the loft. To be fair, I've only done it when getting paid to do it, but it's never enough. Hideous job!

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By *eepster1Man
over a year ago

birmingham

D I y it's got to be wanking it's hard to do but got to be done lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cleared a room of horrific artex before plastering. Truly horrendous work.

And probably full of asbestos."

No, I had it checked before I started. I know all about the dangers of that stuff.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I think the worst job out there is re-insulating the loft. To be fair, I've only done it when getting paid to do it, but it's never enough. Hideous job!"
uep agree I had to do it for bosses daughter for her mortgage and it was hot sweaty and the crawl space to gain access would of challenged a dwarf contortionist

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Cleared a room of horrific artex before plastering. Truly horrendous work."

Artex is the work of the Devil

Sooner knock all the plaster off and start from scratch.

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

"Well I have just been and got some loft boards and legs, to board out part of the loft for a bit of extra storage space, a job I am really not looking forward to doing, moving around all that itchy insulation

so what is the worst bit of DIY you have had to do ?"

Did our loft a few years ago in the middle of August itchy as a bugger but sweating my oojahs off as well.

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

I once owned a Land Rover Defender.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Cleared a room of horrific artex before plastering. Truly horrendous work.

Artex is the work of the Devil

Sooner knock all the plaster off and start from scratch."

Incidentally some fucker who lived in this flat before me decided it would be fun to decorate it in textured paint. Not just one wall, but the entire flat ffs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cleared a room of horrific artex before plastering. Truly horrendous work.

Artex is the work of the Devil

Sooner knock all the plaster off and start from scratch.

Incidentally some fucker who lived in this flat before me decided it would be fun to decorate it in textured paint. Not just one wall, but the entire flat ffs

Very classy

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By *radleywigginsMan
over a year ago

northwest

I once build a canoe from a plan I 'adapted' from the Internet.

I visited a boat boat builder to ask some advice and was told to be careful, boatbuilding is addictive...

He must have meant the chemicals because it took a hell of a lot longer than I anticipated.

Did it float? Yes, for about 15 seconds..

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By *riskygaz OP Man
over a year ago

birmingham

"I tried to wire in a new light switch in my bathroom, when I turned the election back on, the fuse in the fuse box went bang and sparked. I had to get an emergency electrician xx"
I have done a bit of DIY electrical work, you have to double check everything to make sure you got it right lol, I am intending fitting a light in the loft, if I can figure out all those wire across the loft floor lol

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"I once owned a Land Rover Defender.

Peace of piss those things. Was in the CCF (REME section)at school, spent all Autumn stripping it down to every last nut & bolt, Spring Term we built it back together again, Summer Term we drove the shit out of it round the school grounds. Should probably add that I went to Kingham Hill School in the Cotswolds which has quite a big acreage

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm fucking horrific at DIY... I do try though. I once tried to put a picture up, hammered a nail in and I managed to take a huge chunk out of the plaster.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Removing all the roles after one had cracked leading to water damage behind them. Took absolutely ages as it turned in to sort the whole bathroom out

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By *andVBCouple
over a year ago

Wrexham

Cor blimey, where to begin?

I've had to lay a new water-main as the house was still on original lead. 16m trench down the drive, stihl saw to channel the garage floor to get it to an appropriate part of the house.

Then find the house plumbing was almost entirely lead too.

The downstairs was so damp we had to cut back to brick up to a meter off the floor.

The kitchen chimney was coming away from the wall (making a hole in the roof), water had been coming in for 2 years. Got shot of chimney and repaired the roof.

Had to dig up and replace the kitchen floor as it was just quarry tiles straight on dirt/gravel.

Almost done now though, just got the conservatory floor to parquet, upstairs bathroom to plumb in and carpets to lay in a couple of rooms.

Then hopefully I can get on and replace the garage roof before it collapses.

I'd never done DIY before we bought this house!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Artex...that's why over boarding was invented ...loft insulation use kingspan neater more effective ...worst diy job ?....having sex with the ex mrs

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"I once owned a Land Rover Defender.

And that, my friend is where you are wrong. Technically, they are a piece of piss, and I imagine, if you owned one which was routineley stripped and reassembled, paying attention to cleanliness and lubrication, life would be peachy.

This leads to the phenomenon where you decide that you will fix whatever it is that has gone wrong on the fucking thing this week yourself. You've checked Haynes, all you do is unscrew four bolts and take the thing off. Easy!

Except those bolts haven't moved since 1996, and the vehicle has been used on a farm. Inexplicably, all the bolts are mild steel. Two of the bolts come off with WD40. Brilliant. The third and fourth WILL NOT FUCKING SHIFT, and the dried mud keeps falling from the chassis and gewtting in your eye, and you have skinned your knuckles about three times....And when/if you do get it off, it's stuck in the chassis or the electrics require you to have Mr Tickle arms...

I once took an angle grinder to a fuel tank on a defender.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"None, I love diy"

Same here.

Even built my own bed - and I don't mean putting together a flat pack from IKEA, I mean designed and built from scratch.

Built my own TV cabinet too.

Rebuilt a conservatory.

Built walls in the garden, custom built my shed, rewiring, plumbing....

It's all good

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By *aughty1978Woman
over a year ago

north west

So far so good

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Removing 30 years worth of Ivy from the gable end of a house. That stuff sticks like shit to a blanket

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Trying to fix door handles to door .. had a couple of spare screws but they bent over when i couldnt screw it in .. then i used a hammer.. big mistake as it bent the screw and it was useless. So I found some pins and hammered them in .. just to hold the damn door handle in place. It doesnt look professional, neither does it look aesthetically pleasing to the eye, but it does the job.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Painting the little awkward details.

Seriously, I'll take any big, dirty, physically-difficult job over those faffy little jobs you need to do to finish a room.

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

Managed to put a lawn mower blade through the lawn mower.

Managed to dig a tracked mini digger into a hole I dug - then bust it's door off, costing the person who rented it £250.

Wearing trainers doing some 'demo' and stood on a piece of wood with a nail in it - I couldn't even swear for the shock of it.

Took some tiles off a wall, which led to the plaster coming off, which led to me putting my chisel through a gas pipe. I then though I would rectify things by 'having a go' at plastering and skimming.

I am not that good at DIY on the whole.

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

I am useless at diy

I am not that manual - luckily my old man is though I made my bed & desk, and layer laminate myself

I even changed a plug socket and also changed the Bath plug

Now give me electronics or network cabling happy days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All of them. I'd much rather get a man in.

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"All of them. I'd much rather get a man in."

*insert predictable double-entendre here*

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

"All of them. I'd much rather get a man in."

What to sort out your plumbing or give you a hammer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The first and last time I attempted wallpapering. My old house didn't have a plumb or straight wall, I have no patience and a bad temper.

It apparently was like a comedy sketch with me standing on the paper as I walked up a step ladder More than once and ended with me slapping random pieces of wallpaper on the wall before storming off to the pub.

I ended up getting a decorator in

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rebuilt my house. New walls. Plumbing. Electrics. New bathroom. New floor joists and boards.

Took 12 months. Multiple cuts. Bruises. Broken nose. Broken knuckles. Put my back out twice.

Total labour of love, but it nearly broke me!

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"I once owned a Land Rover Defender.

I once took an angle grinder to a fuel tank on a defender.....

Best post of the year already

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

I'm relishing DIYing my house! There's a fair bit to be done until I am happy with it but I've created a spreadsheet so it's manageable. I've unearthed and brought back to life some Minton tiles, plastered and painted and need to sort out the butler sink now and the garden and sorting out my library room (I'm really fussy about bookcases).

The one part I'm not attempting is rewiring so that would be worst part.

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