When pet frogs get out of there aquariam in the night, do turn the light on if you have to go to the loo in the middle of the night as finding a squished frog between your toes next morning is not pleasant. It did happen.
annafin,
May 4, 1:38am
Can't remember if I put this up already. When moving all the furniture into the one room which is not to be carpeted, you should wait till 2am the night before to move the piano into the kitchen. It will help you find the one rotten board in the floor that needs fixing. Then your tennage son can help you lever the piano back out of the floor, and wife and other children will never know. Except for the hole in the floor. thanks Dad.
botim,
May 4, 3:07am
When you remove all the internal doors in the house and take them outside to repaint them at the same time to save time, remember two things - that big gusts of wind can blow through at any time and settle dust, leaves and twigs on the wet paint, and all doorslook the same and it's tricky trying to remember which doorhangs where,and which way up they go when rehanging after re- repainting. MrsTim
lisa.g.1,
May 4, 5:48pm
When making concrete . Do not leave your cellphone in an unbuttoned top pocket. It does not like swimming in concrete!
hezwez,
May 4, 7:26pm
and after an exhausting tramp don't walk straight off the track across the beach fully clothed into the Tasman for a dip, either. Cell phones don't like sea water.
s.patete,
May 4, 11:53pm
Getin a bit far down the list Theres gota be more
purplejo,
May 5, 4:48am
listen to people outside the car. friend did me a favour and changed my oil filter. He and partner were looking in the car whilst I started it and we didn't know why the oil light was still on. Friend's wife was being ignored - she was the only on ewho could see the oil coming straight out the car and onto the driveway. Wrong oilfilter
nikki38,
May 5, 11:13pm
Wow its great this thread is still going. the only one I can think if is don't quickly think you can paint with crawling babies around who will follow you and rub their hands all over the wall then proceed to crawl over the carpet.And it was twins.
sooby,
May 5, 11:13pm
when its time to clean the oven. .make sure the oven cleaning 'professionals' you hire don't get their costic chemicals onto your nice Rimu topped island bench & also painted joinery. It becomes quite a long drawn out process to remedy once insurance, joiners & painters get involved, all the while you are missing a pantry door. For added insult to injury, the cleaning 'pros' tried to use steel wool to try to cover their initial marks which made things worse & then lied about it!
donclaridge,
May 6, 2:39am
flatpack kitchens Even when installing a flatpack into a very small kitchen, it's better to put the units together in the kitchen rather than in the dining room, because otherwise you find that you can't get the damn things in the tight entrance, and you have to dismantle them again.Oh, and if the buytnol plumbing is just that little bit too short, don't pull it.It tends to stress the joins, which then break at midnight and your hot water cylinder creates a pool under the house that you get to crawl through in the morning.
rhos1,
May 6, 5:13am
Back door latch finally snapped and needed replacing. Much time and many trips to hardware place later . [- partner went shopping, couldn't bear to watch]. Returned to discover latch kit had been inserted, and thoroughly screwed in place - but upside down and back to front. Now it is necessary to use the key and/or bolt to secure the door each time it is used, to provide some slight sort of security.
natasha14,
May 6, 4:56pm
And watch walking up a ladder with a tin of black paint, cause if you miss the rung you will find yourself prostrate with your wordly good sandwiched on on to the rung, black paint to Africa, and your girlfriend change colour.
hmck,
May 6, 7:41pm
don't let your flatmate take the thermal backed curtains off, wash them in cold water in the washing machine and then put them in the dryer - all you get is a big ball of stuck together gooey icky material and no curtains.Also, when you take your net curtains down and wash them don'ty expect to get them all back at the right windows the first time round - I always end up with some too short and some too long and unmatched pairs becuase they're all the same pattern and all my windows are slightly different widths/lengths and I take them all down and wash and muddle them together!And I don't learn from this!
daisydreams,
May 6, 10:07pm
When cleaning the chimmey with your chimmey sweeper make sure you have attached the brush head or you will spend all day trying to get a brush out your chimmey.
cp.71,
May 6, 10:29pm
home made beer Someone brought Dad a home brew kit. First batch was very good. Second batch we put in too much sugar, and we were rotten after 2 glasses, But still very nice to drink. Third batch was too sweet, so we left it in the garage. The third batch also blew it bottles resulting in the bottle top being lodged in the wall and the garage stunk for months. when we took the tops off the third batch it sprayed everywhere. Mum put her foot down and there was no more home brew; after the neighbours complained about the stench.
sooby,
May 8, 5:02pm
whenworking late into the night to finish building your house, make sure when you go to install the doorknobs on a internal door that you measure from the same 'top' end both sides, or the inside knob height will end up a different height to the outside knob height!
hmck,
May 8, 7:31pm
Don't get grumpy with the old lawn mower that's given you grief since 2 days out of its warranty, dig a big hole, put lawn mower in hole and throw a match in the petrol tank - they explode about 8 feet directly up in the air and you have no eye lashes or eyebrows (It's not a good look!).But it is fun especially when you really hate that lawnmower.Now I pay a nice man to mow it for me and I never have to worry about the wheels falling off again.
hmck,
May 8, 7:34pm
And don't assume that when you get a new hot water cylinder that all is right.At about 2.30am a week later when you wander into the laundry you'll discover that the old one had actually leaked into the cruddy chipboard floor for many months and made it very wet.You realise this when you suddenly find yourself standing on the ground under the house having gone through a hole.It certainly woke me up!
cinderellagowns,
May 9, 9:50pm
#469 - hmck - that's just your inner design voice trying to tell you to GET RID OF THE NET CURTAINS! Listen to the voice hmck, listen to the voice.
hmck,
May 11, 10:06pm
bump and yes, Im looking at blinds rather than those d*** nets!But they were free when I moved in and I couldn't afford to replace!
pico42,
May 11, 10:18pm
When going to do some work on your classic car with big block engine and fixed radiator fan, dont just push the car cover to the front of the car against the garage wall so you can get in and start it. Your puzzlement at the odd whump sound followed by high pitch squealing will soon be replaced by curiosity as to where the car cover has gone, followed by two hours with a craft knife picking the said car cover out from in and around the fan/alternator drive belts and pulleys. However, once the car is running, you can duck down to repco and buy another car cover.
s.patete,
May 11, 11:48pm
Just found on page 2 cant let it die its to good.
bonny91,
May 12, 12:00am
Wow, I can only sigh when I read these, do they really happen to the average person. Ok if you believe in a "next life" you better learn quick, cause you will be just fated to be doing the same blunders over again if you still working in your comfort zone. Think on "What could happen if!", but hey I love a laugh, so carry on guys. Cheers.
bonny91,
May 12, 12:14am
OK, its not going to help anyone but, 20yrs ago my washing machine almost caught on fire, I came inside, saw smoke pouring out of it, panicked and called the appliance people, unfortunately there was only the answer phone on and I left a calm message asking what to do, "My W Machine is on fire can you tell me what to do!", they rang back and asked if I had called the fire dept!, Ok by that time I'd unplugged it, but I made the appliance man's day.
smoocherpete,
May 12, 4:39am
cp.71 I remember something like this Except it was inside, under the stairs. It was like a chain reaction, one bottle setting off the next, boomf, boomf, boomf. Glass and beer everywhere. The bloke concerned could hardly clean it up for laughing. The place stank of homebrew. He used to boil the hops as well, I'm not sure if that was worse.
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