You just get them involved and make it fun if it involves me and my brother.
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How to teach the kids DIY
Sep 16, 2014
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That looks reminiscent of sending small boys up chimneys in Victorian times.
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Hey - I did exactly that for my uncle in the 70's in his Fulham house, but it was an aerial cable...
I *love* underfloor crawl spaces - every house should have one.
I do hope that the comment "that's plumber's s**te" wasn't literal.
Owain
I do hope that the comment "that's plumber's s**te" wasn't literal/q
Sadly that wouldn't surprise me....
Looks like good fun for all though :-)
Jim K
Do you always f*ck this and f*ck that in front of little kids?
Adam is a Yorkshireman.
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I was 6' tall when I was an apprentice. It was not good fun. Spiders live under the floorboards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No one said f*ck. There was a bollocks and s**te used. - those words are in the dictionary and they are allowed on Countdown.
I have't watched the video yet, but did you have them do the "hold the other ends for the insulation test" test? Or is there a minimum age for that one?
43 seconds into your last link.
No taking boards up to lay a cable (and I don't mean that in the Viz sense!)
When I lived in California I had to crawl under the house from time to time to run cables, check the sump pump, etc. Always felt a bit nervous as we were only a couple of miles from the San Andreas fault.
My brother said Chuffing hell.
Yes of course he did. My mistake.
You're spoiling them. That's a crawl space, it's clean and also warm and dry. Proper training requires a bath afterwards!
It was good fun - and we could have done the job in half the time if we had not made it good fun for the kids
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