pet peeves

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.

Hello and welcome.

DIY wise, I hate fixing things while at the same time ****ing something else up!

Mottie said:

Hello and welcome.

DIY wise, I hate fixing things while at the same time ****ing something else up!

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Oh, the snowball effect...

Gaogier said:

Oh, the snowball effect...

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Or even the Domino effect.

Welcome to the mad house Gaogier.
Thank you for your signature. My stepson has Aspergers so I understand where you are coming from and there is no need to apologise.

My pet hate are cheap import materials, such as screws that shear off just as you are about to tighten the final turn, and people you have to call in to do a job that you can't then do it as good/bad as what you would have done if you had tried to do it yourself.

I do have to apologise for the way I speak/type. I have no idea the names of many tools. I am 32 (nearly 33) and a few years ago, I found out that Philip screw driver was a + screw I thought that Philip was a brand for a screwdriver, like Stanley, when asked can you get me a Philip screwdriver I would spend a while looking for a brand. If I don't know what something is called, I make a word up for what makes sense to me. Example a wishywasher, I needed one for my BBQ build, and the people in the shop had no idea what I was talking about. I can't show you want it really was as I don't know what its actually called. its a wishbone type washer.

Gaogier said:

Example a wishywasher, I needed one for my BBQ build, and the people in the shop had no idea what I was talking about. I can't show you want it really was as I don't know what its actually called. its a wishbone type washer.

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hmm, beats me so far, but:
wishbone:



washers:




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Buying rolls of wallpaper and finding you have 19 of 1 batch and one of another batch that is slightly different, or the same with any materials that need to match.

When I wallpapered our hall, stairs and landing, I asked my neighbour with the same house how many rolls of paper he had bought as he had just finished his. "Ten" he said so I bought ten rolls. When I’d finished, I still had three rolls left so I told him. "That’s a coincidence" he said. "So did I".