Broken chairs and leaky taps...
Every night I lie in bed in white fear that the TV in the bedroom will fall off the wall in the night. When I put the thing up it took a total of three trips to B&Q in order to get the correct bolts to go six inches in the wall to hold it up. It's big you see. Now one of the bolts wouldn't go in which basically means that the stand is a little precarious. This put me in a difficult position... I mean if I removed the stand and moved it somewhere else then I'd have to fill the four large holes I'd made in the wall. I opted to leave it with just three holes in. Now, when I turn the TV off to make the red light go away the stand wobbles in a "look at me" kind of way. Disturbing. I now await the night that my foot is broken into sixteen pieces by a 60kilo TV falling onto it from 7 ft up. Cheers for this.
On a similar theme there are one or two other DIY adventures that I have undertaken that I'm not quite confident of. We have taps in the bath that you have to massage in a certain direction otherwise you will no longer be able to get hot water... ever. I did that. There is also a pipe sticking up in the conservatory that if moved slightly will piss an arc of water five feet in the air. I've learnt not to touch this.
I'm what you'd call a highly confident precarious DIY master. I'm the one you'll find in A&E with a nail through my foot. At least I'm willing though eh?
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I REFUSE to put anything together. I am a proud member of the Directions Inspire Yelling Association (also, ironically, DIY)and I will NOT use them. Luckily, i'm a girl and I can usually sweet talk my way into getting guys to do it for me.
I'm not sure you have that luxury.
I thought that was you I was sitting net to in A&E that time I got the phone and the iron mixed up.
you know, my father always made a point of showing me everything there was to DIY, but i alwayss forgot cos i never had to do it myself. but since i got my place and my father moved south, i've learnt to do a lot of things myself. mostly, it's not so hard, so keep faith and you'll be just fine!
True, at least youre willing. I have a TV on the wall as well, but, its far enough away that its not going to fall on anyone, unless theyre sitting on the floor underneath it for some reason. I will undergo some repairs and fixes, but im not afraid to say 'this is out of my league' either.
Is this the offending wall bolt?
Toggle Bolt?
DIY is not my area either. I seem to be able to stuff anything up, even with step by step instructions.
It's a gift I have, I suppose.
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