Hi, this is my first visit here, and my first post.
I'm here out of sheer frustration as the rest of the post should demonstrate. So sorry for coming here and starting off with a rant!
I must point out my D.I.Y. skills are not exactly good. In fact, ask the WAF, and she'll use phrases such as 'useless', 'not very good' etc etc.
Anyway, let me tell you about my current DIY nightmare....
It sounds simple enough.... buy a 6 hook metal coat rack from one of the nations favourite retail stores, fix it to the wall... and hang stuff of it, and job should be done right?
Nuh-uh.
This piece of white painted metal, with its 6 coat hooks - is now driving me to despair!
On 4 separate occasions now, this - (gah, I can't even think of a non-expletive word to use for it) - has been fixed to the wall using various methods and every single time the 'thing' has come off the wall after any given time.
(And if the designer of hollow plasterboard ever lurks here ... seriously, stay well away from me .....!)
Attempt 1: 2 x Medium size metal cavity anchor - contents dumped within a few days of fixing, leaving some nice small holes and a bit of broken plasterbaord. Subsequently filled, and smoothed.
Attempt 2: 2 x Medium size metal spring toggles - lasted considerably longer (a few weeks), although the resultant wall damage was somewhat more disastrous than the previous attempt
Attempt 3: 2 x Large size metal spring toggles - I have no idea what my rationale was behind this. It lasted only as long as the previous attempt, but caused considerably larger holes.
Attempt 4: (By a DIY. expert - the WAF's dad) - 4-6 x Smaller plastic plasterboard fixings (various) with the coat rack secured on a batton of an appropriate thickness so that it doesn't protrude too much further than the adjacent door frame. Now this lasted months, probably about 4-6 months, but yesterday decided to give up the ghost.
So, I'll open up the floor to any discussion by coining the phrase quoted every single time this 'abomination' has dumped its contents on the floor:
I'm here out of sheer frustration as the rest of the post should demonstrate. So sorry for coming here and starting off with a rant!
I must point out my D.I.Y. skills are not exactly good. In fact, ask the WAF, and she'll use phrases such as 'useless', 'not very good' etc etc.
Anyway, let me tell you about my current DIY nightmare....
It sounds simple enough.... buy a 6 hook metal coat rack from one of the nations favourite retail stores, fix it to the wall... and hang stuff of it, and job should be done right?
Nuh-uh.
This piece of white painted metal, with its 6 coat hooks - is now driving me to despair!
On 4 separate occasions now, this - (gah, I can't even think of a non-expletive word to use for it) - has been fixed to the wall using various methods and every single time the 'thing' has come off the wall after any given time.
(And if the designer of hollow plasterboard ever lurks here ... seriously, stay well away from me .....!)
Attempt 1: 2 x Medium size metal cavity anchor - contents dumped within a few days of fixing, leaving some nice small holes and a bit of broken plasterbaord. Subsequently filled, and smoothed.
Attempt 2: 2 x Medium size metal spring toggles - lasted considerably longer (a few weeks), although the resultant wall damage was somewhat more disastrous than the previous attempt
Attempt 3: 2 x Large size metal spring toggles - I have no idea what my rationale was behind this. It lasted only as long as the previous attempt, but caused considerably larger holes.
Attempt 4: (By a DIY. expert - the WAF's dad) - 4-6 x Smaller plastic plasterboard fixings (various) with the coat rack secured on a batton of an appropriate thickness so that it doesn't protrude too much further than the adjacent door frame. Now this lasted months, probably about 4-6 months, but yesterday decided to give up the ghost.
So, I'll open up the floor to any discussion by coining the phrase quoted every single time this 'abomination' has dumped its contents on the floor:
VorTechS WAF said:It can't be that difficult to put up a coat rack, and no-one else has this problem... so why can't you do it?