DIY tips you've picked up over the years.

[Majorblue]

Get someone else to do it before you get a bollocking for fecking it up by the Mrs

And we have a winner.

Wholeheartedly agree through painfull experience.

[Butterwick Blue]

Measure twice cut once

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Through the thin tin that holds the bristles together?

Yes, probably just need 1 hole.

[NYCBlue]

I can’t vouch for it but If you try please keep us updated

It worked as well as, if not better than anything I've tried so far. I should have had the patience to wait until I got soluble Aspirin though. Getting all the powder residue out of the nooks and crannies was a bitch.

[Gofer Blue]

Measure twice cut once

Top tip which I learned many years ago.

Also from many years ago, when using patio picnic bench to support a plywood sheet always check that there is sufficient overhang before applying circular saw! Say no more.

[goats]

If your cutting timber and the saw in jamming a bit, run two streaks of Fairy Liquid either side of the blade, it goes like shit off a shovel then.

Good to know

[dandywarhol]

My next door neighbour was using cutting wood in his garage.He shouts Man Utd are 2 up,like as if I care.
Must have been a good half an hour later he,s running round his garden shouting.
I shout whats the score now.The reply no I've cut my figure off.
He ended up down in Swansea having it reattached.

[superfeathers]

It worked as well as, if not better than anything I've tried so far. I should have had the patience to wait until I got soluble Aspirin though. Getting all the powder residue out of the nooks and crannies was a bitch.

Well the mrs will be pleased her hack has made it over to the US and been a success. Not sure though whether it needs to be soluble - I’ve only ever watched and not tried it myself

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

If you can afford it, always get a proper decorator in. When the kids were small and money was tight, I’d do my own wallpapering after work. Up stepladders at a ridiculous time of night, fagged out. Coming home from work next day, looking up and noticing a shite bit of trimming, tear it down and start again, false economy. When I could afford it, it was great leaving for work in the morning and the decorator coming in, getting home from work, he’d gone, the job done and I could have my tea in peace.

At your service

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

Do it nice or do it twice!
Spedger

[NYCBlue]

Well the mrs will be pleased her hack has made it over to the US and been a success. Not sure though whether it needs to be soluble - I’ve only ever watched and not tried it myself

[Heathblue]

If you can afford it, always get a proper decorator in. When the kids were small and money was tight, I’d do my own wallpapering after work. Up stepladders at a ridiculous time of night, fagged out. Coming home from work next day, looking up and noticing a shite bit of trimming, tear it down and start again, false economy. When I could afford it, it was great leaving for work in the morning and the decorator coming in, getting home from work, he’d gone, the job done and I could have my tea in peace.

Sludge is up for it,

No income tax, no VAT
No money back, and no guarantee
Black or white, rich or poor
We'll cut prices at a straw

God bless Hooky Street
Viva Hooky Street
Long live Hooky Street
C'est magnifique, Hooky Street
Magnifique, Hooky Street

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Sludge is up for it,

No income tax, no VAT
No money back, and no guarantee
Black or white, rich or poor
We'll cut prices at a straw

God bless Hooky Street
Viva Hooky Street
Long live Hooky Street
C'est magnifique, Hooky Street
Magnifique, Hooky Street

Been on the piss all day ?

No wonder you are struggling with the energy bills

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

One I learnt recently is that WD40 removes expanding foam.

Another is that putting a screw in the end of a mastic nozzle after use keeps it dry. 👍

Surely you want to keep it moist?