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Weirdo

 

[Edie]

I like DIY

Are you really, really good at it? I'm shit you see, and therein lies the difference I suspect.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I had a great DIY job today.

We have squirrels in the attic. They get up there through holes cut for the eavestroughing, and also at a couple of spaces under the roofing tiles.

So I bought a can of this expandable spray foam. You spray it into gaps and spaces, and it expands and then hardens. I sprayed all the squirrel entrances that I could find: we'll see what happens around sunrise, which seems to be when they make a huge racket up there every day.

 

[moomoo]

I like DIY

Do you want to be my lodger?

 

[scifisam]

Moomoo- can't believe you don't know what a back2back is! I also cannot believe there is actually a museum in Birmingham showing how people "used" to live in back2backs! Just come on up to leeds and we'll fucking show you! There are thousands of us all slumming it right now in back2 backs ha!

I'd never heard of them either. It is funny to think of a museum of what is, basically, your house!

Houses up there cost a lot more than I expected!

 

[Pingu]

[four yorkshiremen]

right...


Mrs pingu decided to "decorate" the dining room. so paper comes off revealing blown plaster pretty much everywhere. In process of removing wall paper she starts picking at the ceiling paper.. when then also has to come off... aparantly. So whilst I am now cutting out bad plaster and filling in various cracks - for she doesnt like doing those bits its time for the hall to get a "quick lick of paint". Now the doors into the hallway are of the lots of small panes of glass type, and there are 8 of them. Mrs pingu doesnt believe in masking tape or carefully making sure you dont get paint on the glass - just scrape it off afterwards.

My arnt the Hallway walls looking drab? but what colour to do it? I know lets get fuck loads of testers and plop it al lover the wall.

Hey they have a sale on kitchen tiles.. I hate the tiles in the kitchen.. oops some seem to have fallen off...

so we have

dining room with bare plaster and ceiling

hallway that looks like joesphs dreamcoat with doors that appear to have been painted with a pasting brush.

kitchen with missing tiles and boxes of new tiles.

mrs pingu then announces that the house is getting her down and she is fed up with this D.I.Y. lark leaving me to sort it all out.

I hate D.I.Y. but aparantly just lobbing some money at someone to come in and do it all for me isnt an option...


Oh and aparntly the living room could do with a "freshen up"

Iam recovering from glandular fever and its not going to happen.

I am going to take my dogs and go live in a tent.

[/four yorkshiremen]

 

[ringo]

I had a great DIY job today.

We have squirrels in the attic. They get up there through holes cut for the eavestroughing, and also at a couple of spaces under the roofing tiles.

So I bought a can of this expandable spray foam. You spray it into gaps and spaces, and it expands and then hardens. I sprayed all the squirrel entrances that I could find: we'll see what happens around sunrise, which seems to be when they make a huge racket up there every day.

I've just done that where the little mices came in. Did you check if the squirrels were in the attic first?

I quite like DIY, but get bored if it takes too long and then have to rush/bodge the end bit.

I am never doing wallpapering again. Or plumbing in a new toilet again.
I don't do electrics.
I buy cheap paint brushes and throw them away after use. Normally I try to re-use and recycle everything, but this is my exception.


It's less painful if you don't try the jobs you know you can't/don't want to do.

 

[Edie]

Johnny- does that mean there are gonna be squirrels dying a painful death in your attick?

Also Pingu I've helpfully indentified your problem. It's the phrase "quick lick of paint". No such thing mate, that is the fantasy world perpertrated by daytime DIY shows. Good luck ((Pingu))

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

You could just do what my neighbor does for all that. She just trades sex for carpeting or whatever.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I've just done that where the little mices came in. Did you check if the squirrels were in the attic first? .

They go out in the day, come in at sunset. I did it before sunset. I wasn't keen on having rotting squirrel carcasses above the bedroom.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You could just do what my neighbor does for all that. She just trades sex for carpeting or whatever.

You mean I can fuck someone and they'll get rid of my squirrels?

 

[d15083d13nt]

I love all kinds of DIY but can't do any because the house is rented

re:back to back houses... I'd hate to be on the inside of that terrace, imagin how little light would come into your house

 

[twisted_angel]

I love DIY and im currently itching to get started again, this cottage was a renovation project and i loved doing it, learning as you go, alot of mistakes but the satisfaction of finishing a job and it looking good is great.
Keep at it Claire, its worth it.

 

[Edie]

You could just do what my neighbor does for all that. She just trades sex for carpeting or whatever.

Isn't this the bint who gets kicked about all the time? Thanks for the suggestion but...

 

[Edie]

I love DIY and im currently itching to get started again, this cottage was a renovation project and i loved doing it, learning as you go, alot of mistakes but the satisfaction of finishing a job and it looking good is great.
Keep at it Claire, its worth it.

I'm just jealous Twisted.

Mind you, got new stairs carpet fitted to day, £400 inc. fitting. Two blokes came, bish bash, job done in an hour and it looks That's the kind of DIY I like, little effort, maximum impact. I'm a lazy fucker me.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Isn't this the bint who gets kicked about all the time? Thanks for the suggestion but...

It does have its drawbacks.

Round II with the chick next door: She let him back in her house the other night to talk. She had trouble getting him back out again, but he didn't beat her up. He just stole her phone and used it to call a bunch of sex lines. She came over to my house asking me how to fix it (and she wanted $60 to get a new phone -- no, absolutely not). So I called the provider and got the phone line shut down for her. As soon as the phone didn't work any more he brought it back and threw it at her. <sigh>

I'm glad that my life is boring and I can lay my own carpet.

 

[lemontop]

I think I'd like DIY a lot more if I didn't have to work full time. I just can't be arsed doing anything when I get home after a day of teaching teenagers. Supposed to be painting the ceiling tonight. Can't be bothered.

 

[subversplat]

I love a bit of DIY but I am horrificly bad at it. I'll take some photos of my shelf putting up attempt later

 

[twisted_angel]

I'm just jealous Twisted.

Mind you, got new stairs carpet fitted to day, £400 inc. fitting. Two blokes came, bish bash, job done in an hour and it looks That's the kind of DIY I like, little effort, maximum impact. I'm a lazy fucker me.

And 2 men to perv at while they do the work sounds perfect..i have been getting it sooo wrong!

 

[Edie]

as a brief diversion:

used it to call a bunch of sex lines

You can have bunches of all sorts of weird things in the states can't you

These guys weren't worth perving over Twisted. In fact it paid to look away when it came to the 'bottom' steps. Wrong

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

as a brief diversion:
You can have bunches of all sorts of weird things in the states can't you

LOL!

Its just the neighborhood. For the most part the city is a decent place. The neighborhood I'm in is going through a gentrification cycle. I'm just an early adopter.

Besides if you think this is bad, take a look at this:

The Lincoln Police Department’s SWAT team burst into a downtown apartment Monday night and found two 17-year-old boys and 26 firearms, most of which were loaded.

“Most of these firearms were loaded, with rounds in the chamber,” Police Chief Tom Casady said. “The ammunition, hundreds upon hundreds of rounds, were sorted and laid out.”

The guns and ammunition were stolen early Monday from Scheels All Sports in the SouthPointe Pavilions shopping center, he said. Twenty-six guns were recovered, but more than 50 were still missing Tuesday.

...

He described the Scheels break-in as gang-related.

http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/10/03/news/local/doc47028fde2e899565600247.txt

(yep, my neighborhood too!).

 

[Edie]

Well what I really meant was that bunches are for flowers not phone calls. But yeah, teenagers and heavy arms is pretty