- - 30. Check... except for 13, I dont f*ck up ;-) and 12. my inlaws don't / won't buy me presents :-(
Do I get a badge for my tool belt?
Do I get a badge for my tool belt?
(shamelessly stolen from another group)
Do bookmarked on-line trade only catalogues count instead?
Back of an envelope is more professional.
Mainly because I keep forgetting where I put the last one
Do I get extra points for actually using everything in there, even the unusual stuff?
They don't even see me. The blokes in the electrical wholesalers, plumbers' merchants and builders' merchants do know me though.
Only in fluorescent lighting tubes.
I think I put my first one in when I *was* a child.
Only when there is an audience
That's what the side pockets in Army surplus trousers are for.
Even better, I know which part of the hinge to rub it on.
Who? (See 21, I think)
Everyone who knows me has learned, from long experience, never to buy me anything that looks like it may be something to do with anything I am interested in.
Not necessary. I do a better job than they would anyway.
Too true
Do I get extra points for it being a 1400kg box van trailer that will take whole 8ft x 4ft sheets?
Invaluable tool that.
What is B&Q?
I have three, one short, one long and one laser on a tripod, just to check I got things right by eye. I always have.
In the spare bedroom actually. The shed is full.
There are people who don't?
Isn't that some form of television? Who gets time to watch television?
For use by people or by cows?
and a garden incinerator
Pubs? Holidays?
Probably, somewhere, among the other useful stuff
There are jobs that need two people?
You have mates after giving them the benefit of your opinion on their DIY?
More like every day I notice that little bit that I didn't get quite right, but which nobody else would even know was wrong.
I think you mean finished
I usually put them in that way, so why not?
Colin Bignell
But brilliant anyway.
Except - what is Sarah Beeny, Denso tapeand 'Discovery Home and Leisure' and 'H&L +1' ?
Mary
In my case I leave the tin of WD40 in the shed. The next time I need to get into the shed the padlock's gone a bit rusty....
In theory we have a pair of scissors in every room.
Why does Einstein's theory work and ours doesn't?
Mary
Mammary mass-enhanced DIY show presenter on: 'Discovery Home and Leisure' (endlessly repeated DIY "how to" shows on satellite & cable) and
Erm, .. Ah, ... I don't know!
Keith
Yep, I also forget where they are so keep plenty.
Have two toolbelts in fact but always forget to use the bloody things.
I still look in the Collins DIY manual today, I'm not ashamed.
No chance
Absolutely!
I wouldn't touch it but I'm sure it's probably better than the minced s**te purporting to be a sausage in a stale bun the hardcore DIY/Tradesman eat out of the mobile cafe outside.
I think DIY'ers use a level more often than tradesmen judging by the work I've seen.
And everytime you try to clear it out to make space you still can't let it go - it'll come in handy one day!
favourites
Yep. Sad, I know.
Yep
Nope, not anymore. HSS get their tools back and on time, I rarely did.
Denso tape is gungy stuff you wrap around copper pipe before burying it in concrete or plaster.
Can't help with the others though.
Colin Bignell
Like the time the bloody couriers shut the garage door in such a way as to jam it securely. And guess where the crowbar was? Now moved inside to understair cupboard both on this and security reasons. I eventually solved the jam by the judicious and carefull application of brute force and much grunting*.
Peter
And the straw has always gone missing.
M.
LOL
Of course, a real DIYer wouldn't admit to ANY of this being true. a'hem... ;-)
Andy
but the Collins "Complete DIY Manual" is the sign of an amateur (c;
LJ
MBQ
Is that to stop people using it to get in, or so you can grab it on the way to the door? :-)
You make me wish we had a television.
I tell lies.
I admire honesty though :-)
Mary
"nightjar .uk.com>"
Oh that stuff, thanks. I didn't know it had a name ... apart from 'that gungy stuff ... ' etc.
Mary
The answer of genuine expert.
Colin Bignell
"nightjar .uk.com>"
If you live with 'em long enough ...
Mary who only associates with the best
Both, since people other than myself close the garage door and there is no accounting for other people's incompetence. What of course is more infuriating is that said others are actively disinterested in discovering how easy it is to close said door without jamming it. Such miscreants are however quick to complain to yours truly when it is stuck. /end rant.
Peter
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