DIY tales

Ah my smoke alarm is not working so need to get a new one (and it ain't the batteries :D ).

1 - go out an buy a replacement
2 - get out ladder, climb and remove the old alarm
3 - descend and get new alarm
4 - climb and mark the screw hole of the new alarm on the wall.
5 - descend,(thinks nows the time to try my new portable electric drill rather than the hand drill)
6 - climb apply new drill bit to marked area, skids off the surface and remove area of plaster
7 - descend and get pollyfiller
8 - climb and apply filler
9- descend and get smoke alarm
10 - climb and remark screw holes
11- descend and get hand drill
12 - climb and drill holes
13 - descend and get smoke alarm
14 - climb and start to apply smoke alarm. Realise the new one is square, the last one was round
15 - descend to get paint
16 - climb and apply paint to area
17 - descend, and get pencil
18 - climb - mark screw holes again
19 - descend to get hand drill
20 - climb and drill holes
21 - descend and get smoke alarm
22 - climb and fix smoke alarm
23 - descend - have a beer
24 - climb and test - it works, put ladder and drill away, clear up fallen plaster, clean carpet of spilt filler and paint. Sit down, relax and have another beer.

 

So whats the problem then? Bit like"It was on a Monday morning that the gasman came to call" :D
Anyone remember that one?

 

Remember it? - I've got the original recording - Flanders and Swann, "At The Drop Of A Hat"

I had a neat 'experience' when I decided to change the washer on my kitchen tap. The stopcock was a bit stiff so I hit it with a hammer only to hear a terrible hissing noise that sounded like gas escaping. (The pipe ran around the back of the gas cooker). I panicked and ran off to get my neigbour who came and investigated - there had been a kind of a repair on the pipe behind the cooker and the reverberation from my hammer blow had ripped it apart!

It took him about 6 hours install a new stopcock and then repair the damage (not easy to repair a water pipe that's almost out of reach)and me another 6 to clean up the flood.

 

sounds like you deserved that beer, Fran, after all those aerobics! (Jane Fonda, eat your heart out!!)

 

Glad to hear I am not alone Michaelmasdaisy I don't think DIY et moi go together :D

Yes Pete I remember "It was on a Monday morning when the gas man came to call" - love that pair, - for me Flanders and Swann, were what Noel Coward was to my parents :D

 

Did they also do the banana boat song, or was that someone else. Dayo Daaaayyyyeeeeeooo and dont sing about spiders. :D

 

Brilliant :D :D :D

 

Good one Nathan, Harry Belafonte, But who did the comedy version?

 

"Too loud man" - I can hear that voice but can't remember the name

 

It's on the tip of my tongue!

 

My dad thinks it was Spike Jones

 

You (or your father) could be right Dalbui - that name rings a bell. As I recall the song the singer goes further and further away til he's the other side of the door - which is then locked.

Crash " I come through the window.....Dayoh, dayoh - daylight come and me wanna go home"