Don't walk away from a pressure cooker left on high.you might just return a little later to find your soup all over the kitchen ceiling
rover79,
Nov 10, 6:33pm
after 4 hours of raking up leaves into a pile in the middle of the lawn, dont think you are being safe by only putting a small amount of petrol around it, lighting a rag to throw into it (playing safe) from a distance, because no matter how small the amount of petrol, the fumes are all hovering around and in heap, all ready to ignite at the same time, thinking your 4metres plus from the garage is safe. because it is not, there is a very loud boom resulting in leaves flying everywhere and higher than the garage, all these leaves are now like floating sparklers, raining all over the place.
hezwez,
Nov 13, 6:07am
.and yet again.
tonijo,
Nov 14, 2:32am
658. woops. .
smoocher,
Nov 14, 3:32am
If your scotia board is dripping at the join do not let hubby poke it with a stick. The scotia will spilt and fall to bits.
smoocher,
Nov 14, 3:37am
When replacing the toilet float valve at the caravan, make sure you know where and IF you have a tap to turn the water off. Other wise, you end up with a fountain in the loo, going up your nose and in your eyes, while HE runs about outside looking in vain for the outside tap. The walls and floor in the loo were very clean though.
geoff_m,
Nov 14, 8:03pm
Phones in pockets Do not put cellphone in top pocket of shirt and lean over the 3rd story balcony when doing site inspections, unless the phone needed replacing anyway
vivienney,
Nov 15, 1:10am
Dont stand on chair balanced on a table to paint a high villa ceiling while holding a paint tin, unless you want it to all fall down on you.
vivienney,
Nov 15, 1:15am
Don't get too busy doing renos and forget everythi ng around you unless you wasnt to see what a large pot of cooking rice looks like the next morning. Hint: literally black,solid as coal and quite small. Thank God we still had a house the next day! I hid the pot on the roof for weeks til it was thrown away.
vivienney,
Nov 15, 1:17am
If you are 5'2" and gutsy enough to take on a huge jack hammer to take out your driveway. when it gets jammed under a large block of concrete dont leanall ofyour body weight over it unless it suddenly dislodges and tries to take out all of your front teeth for your efforts.
vivienney,
Nov 15, 1:23am
When using a rivot gun for the first time, dont let reno illiterate hubby give a demo unless you want to delay the construction of your do-it-yourself shed an hour to go and buy a new one.
wjrm,
Nov 18, 4:41am
When wandering round the garden, spot-spraying roundup, take your finger off the trigger when going down steps! If you trip, reflex action will make you press the trigger, and you might lose your new, precious, red cabbage tree that you just planted the week before!
40wav,
Nov 18, 12:25pm
When renovating and you have taken the chimney down so you have nowhere to attach the tv aeriel and someone tells you that with a concrete tile roof you can place it in your roof space (does work), just because the kitchen has no ceiling or battensso theres huge gaps doesnt mean you should take the opportunity to slide the gigantic aeriel up into the roof and promptly forget about it. When you want to move it again, and youve fitted a new ceiling, there is no way to get it back down.We have a freeview dish now but still rewiring house etc so every time I go up there I get poked in the ribs or the eye by it.
patsy3,
Nov 18, 10:47pm
Make sure you help your eldery parents clean the spouting before the next storm. Otherwise you will be holding a ladder in the p*ssng rain, in the dark, screaming at your 82yo father to get the bloody hell down, all the while having your head up his Y-fronts as he was semi-dressed when he decided in his wisdom to attend to the flooded spouting. Oh my word, horror at remembering it!
iamriff,
Nov 20, 12:58am
Before adding the last panel around the bath in the new bathroom, check to see if large fluffy cat has not gone exploring the new dark places (under the bath).then when you have spent three days searching the neighbourhood for the cat suddenly have an idea where he is and have to knock a hole in the kitchen wall to let said cat out.
iamriff,
Nov 20, 1:01am
After you have installed new cat door in back door from laundry, don't feed the local ducks on the back lawn near the cat door where they can see cats using said cat door.they will follow the cats to where the food is and you will have neighbour calling you at work to tell you there is a flock of ducks flying up and down your 40ft open plan lounge / kitchen.and crapping on the nice new oatmeal loopile carpet. Insurance company was not impressed.cheers
crab2,
Nov 20, 1:07am
wow this thread is nearly 4yrs old, I know cos I showed this to a client of mine who used to be a builder and it cheered him up a few weeks before he passed away on 29th February 2008
roys351,
Nov 20, 7:05am
dont cut the limb off a tree while you are sitting on it wasent me but my new boss i had to run off so he dident hear me laughting i have seen him do it again too
roys351,
Nov 20, 7:09am
when playing your first game of can a hole golf dont tell ya mate to chuck the putter
roys351,
Nov 20, 7:31am
dont spraypaint a roof starting from where you put the only ladder
fendie,
Nov 20, 7:56pm
surely this needs a 'jump to last page' click on it.If it has over 900 messages it will take ages to get to last one.
fendie,
Nov 21, 2:36am
thnakyou, I see it now has a 'last viewed' click. hooray
roys351,
Nov 22, 4:17am
i was still laughting when the ambo came
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