....and be honest!
When we moved into our first house I fitted a diy burglar alarm system. I needed to get a cable from the front door entry/exit switch to the control panel 15 feet away, fitted in the under stairs cupboard. There was one loose floorboard by the front door as that was where the stopcock was and there were a few loose boards in the cupboard under the stairs. My 'idea' to save time, especially as I didn't want to disturb the hall carpet was to tie one end of the cable to the collar of our newly acquired kitten, put it under the floor and get my wife to call it from the hole in the floor of the under stairs cupboard. It nearly made it before it went walkabout, wrapped itself around one of the piers supporting the floor and basically went berserk, flipping about and screaming. The wife was doing the same too so I had no option other than to turn into the Incredible Hulk and basically rip the floor up (as well as the hall AND living room carpest) with whatever I could lay my hands on to save the kitten. I had to buy some new boards and underlay as they were totally destroyed but worse of all my time saving idea cost me the best part of a day in running around finding more underlay and floorboards the same width and thickness of the ones I ripped up. Lesson learned - in future use a fully grown, trained pet and not a stupid youngster when doing such things!
When we moved into our first house I fitted a diy burglar alarm system. I needed to get a cable from the front door entry/exit switch to the control panel 15 feet away, fitted in the under stairs cupboard. There was one loose floorboard by the front door as that was where the stopcock was and there were a few loose boards in the cupboard under the stairs. My 'idea' to save time, especially as I didn't want to disturb the hall carpet was to tie one end of the cable to the collar of our newly acquired kitten, put it under the floor and get my wife to call it from the hole in the floor of the under stairs cupboard. It nearly made it before it went walkabout, wrapped itself around one of the piers supporting the floor and basically went berserk, flipping about and screaming. The wife was doing the same too so I had no option other than to turn into the Incredible Hulk and basically rip the floor up (as well as the hall AND living room carpest) with whatever I could lay my hands on to save the kitten. I had to buy some new boards and underlay as they were totally destroyed but worse of all my time saving idea cost me the best part of a day in running around finding more underlay and floorboards the same width and thickness of the ones I ripped up. Lesson learned - in future use a fully grown, trained pet and not a stupid youngster when doing such things!
