Hello
I want to know what your pet peeves are when doing anything DIY related.
I will tell you mine.
When a whole appears in a plasterboard wall, and people replace the plasterboard "quick and right" where they get a some paper and trace around the whole, they then use that paper and trace on the plasterboard replacement then cut out the shape to fit into the hole. I hate seeing this on YouTube, Facebook etc on how to fix plasterboard walls. How I would say you should do it is square up the hole, then cut the square of the plasterboard and it should fit like a glove, where the tracing way seems messy, never fits first time and waste of paper.
My second hate, when I had a kitchen wall brought down so I could use my wheelchair in the kitchen the guy over pilot drilled into wood for a screw, he said I will show you how us trade guys fix this. he took a box of matches out, cut the igniter part off, and put the rest of the match in the hole, then screwed in the screw, it was the door threshold, I can walk but need a lot of morphine (which is what I am now doing) I tripped over the dodgy work mans hack.
We couldn't get a new workman as it was council funded. I sat on the floor a few days later when pain was under control again, I then unscrewed the screw, removed the match, used my drill and drilled a hole bigger added wood glue and put in a dowel - about 10 years on, never had another problem with this.
What are your pet peeves would love to know how to do things correctly.
I want to know what your pet peeves are when doing anything DIY related.
I will tell you mine.
When a whole appears in a plasterboard wall, and people replace the plasterboard "quick and right" where they get a some paper and trace around the whole, they then use that paper and trace on the plasterboard replacement then cut out the shape to fit into the hole. I hate seeing this on YouTube, Facebook etc on how to fix plasterboard walls. How I would say you should do it is square up the hole, then cut the square of the plasterboard and it should fit like a glove, where the tracing way seems messy, never fits first time and waste of paper.
My second hate, when I had a kitchen wall brought down so I could use my wheelchair in the kitchen the guy over pilot drilled into wood for a screw, he said I will show you how us trade guys fix this. he took a box of matches out, cut the igniter part off, and put the rest of the match in the hole, then screwed in the screw, it was the door threshold, I can walk but need a lot of morphine (which is what I am now doing) I tripped over the dodgy work mans hack.
We couldn't get a new workman as it was council funded. I sat on the floor a few days later when pain was under control again, I then unscrewed the screw, removed the match, used my drill and drilled a hole bigger added wood glue and put in a dowel - about 10 years on, never had another problem with this.
What are your pet peeves would love to know how to do things correctly.