Poll: DIY
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is it a Thomson smg?CynderBloc said:DIY is awesome
Consoles alone, I've fixed 2 PS2's, a friends 360, my own 360, 3 friends PS3's and my own PS3
Plus, building your own memorabilia is far more satisfying than just buying it, plus you get to see it coming to life. For example:
Obviously it's a gun, but what gun? Cookies are up for grabs...
I have done, many times, although I prefer to either get someone else to do it or just not bother if I can get away with it. Results have been mixed, ranging from 'complete success that still works years later' to 'abject failure that never worked again'.
I'm a big fan of "do it yourself". When my mom said that she needed to have a chair repaired, I replied immediately: "Do it yourself."
SCOUT SCATTERGUNCynderBloc said:DIY is awesome
Consoles alone, I've fixed 2 PS2's, a friends 360, my own 360, 3 friends PS3's and my own PS3
Plus, building your own memorabilia is far more satisfying than just buying it, plus you get to see it coming to life. For example:
Obviously it's a gun, but what gun? Cookies are up for grabs...
plasma rifle off fall out 3?CynderBloc said:DIY is awesome
Consoles alone, I've fixed 2 PS2's, a friends 360, my own 360, 3 friends PS3's and my own PS3
Plus, building your own memorabilia is far more satisfying than just buying it, plus you get to see it coming to life. For example:
Obviously it's a gun, but what gun? Cookies are up for grabs...
I once fixed my old charger for my laptop with duct tape.
Worked perfectly well til it caught fire about 4 months later. The smell of burning tape was...horrible.
Worked perfectly well til it caught fire about 4 months later. The smell of burning tape was...horrible.
My stepdad built the room I live in.
For the last two years we've been trying to sell the house to avoid having to fix it. It's rotten, it leaks from around 35 different places, and today I have to move into a camping wagon because the fungus has gotten so bad that I haven't been able to sleep in there since last monday.
Leave it to the professionals.
For the last two years we've been trying to sell the house to avoid having to fix it. It's rotten, it leaks from around 35 different places, and today I have to move into a camping wagon because the fungus has gotten so bad that I haven't been able to sleep in there since last monday.
Leave it to the professionals.
Yes, I've renovated a couple of houses, done a lot of labouring, plumbing, plastering, decorating, destruction and construction and general fixing of stuff around the home.
I'm not a professional tradesman by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm not afraid to get the tools out to fix a problem or make things better.
I'm not a professional tradesman by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm not afraid to get the tools out to fix a problem or make things better.
The last time my family called a contractor, it involved remodeling the entire house, including extending the livingroom and converting the garage into a bedroom -- a proper one, not just a finished out garage. For pretty much everything else, we do it ourselves. This occasionally leads to problems -- for example, there is currently a large hole in the bathroom wall, because we redid it completely, right down to putting in a new tub, but then I had to move off to college before we could repair the hole we had to cut through the wall to put the new tub in with, and my dad and I are the only two people in the house who can actually do the lifting involved.
Other projects have gone better -- my parents tiled the livingroom, dining room, kitchen, porch, and one of the bathrooms themselves. We do our own plumbing, including everything from installing sinks and toilets to fixing problems with the pump. We also do our own electrical work, at least in as much as installing light fixtures and replacing electrical outlets counts as electrical work. We even do our own tree pruning each summer, and my dad and I built an awesome tree house when I was a kid, it was basically a screened in deck built six feet off the ground. I was really upset when the hurricanes came through in 2004 and knocked it off its foundations. Heck, the last time our washing machine broke, we actually diagnosed the problem, bought the part, and installed it ourselves. Doing it yourself saves a lot of money, even if it is occasionally frustrating.
Other projects have gone better -- my parents tiled the livingroom, dining room, kitchen, porch, and one of the bathrooms themselves. We do our own plumbing, including everything from installing sinks and toilets to fixing problems with the pump. We also do our own electrical work, at least in as much as installing light fixtures and replacing electrical outlets counts as electrical work. We even do our own tree pruning each summer, and my dad and I built an awesome tree house when I was a kid, it was basically a screened in deck built six feet off the ground. I was really upset when the hurricanes came through in 2004 and knocked it off its foundations. Heck, the last time our washing machine broke, we actually diagnosed the problem, bought the part, and installed it ourselves. Doing it yourself saves a lot of money, even if it is occasionally frustrating.