The Vent and Rant Thread

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

OK - demolish shed carefully BUT leave floor intact
Prop sides and roof on bricks next to the old shed floor, and at the same height.
Hey presto - one deck, no shed

Thankyou, and thanks to pshynk and WDE as well. At least I know where to start now - not here!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by Peverel

You may have just invent the next growth industry that will save us all from the recession!!!!!!!

It could be called Credit Crunch Conversions

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Far worse for me is getting the inspiration to do something and not having the talent to be able to do it!

For example; I keep looking at the big shed in my garden and thinking that I should get rid of it and put in a nice decking area instead. Only problem is that I am the world's worse DIYer and just wouldn't know where to start

Take evening classes. That's how I started cabinet making. I went from ten thumbs to two in no time. Then you learn by yourself.

Wishing is next to lazyness.

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Take evening classes. That's how I started cabinet making. I went from ten thumbs to two in no time. Then you learn by yourself.

Wishing is next to lazyness.

You now, I would have stopped after losing the first couple thumbs. I admire your perseverance.

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Wishing is next to lazyness.

My mantra for the day (hopefully much longer).

[Patricia]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Take evening classes. That's how I started cabinet making. I went from ten thumbs to two in no time. Then you learn by yourself.

Wishing is next to lazyness.

Evening classes are very useful. My daughter wanted to meet some potential partners (she's single but was thinking that this might not be ideal). She went to a woodworking class. She's still single because the class was full of gnarled elderly men. But she has made a rather good bookcase and learned some new skills.
A bit later she tried a class in plastering. This time it was full of young men. But they were all married and wanting to learn skills in order to do up their first house. The result is that my daughter is still single but can now do some woodwork and some plastering and rendering. This is very useful because she's bought a house in need of some attention. So forget the men and learn to do it yourself.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Take evening classes. That's how I started cabinet making. I went from ten thumbs to two in no time. Then you learn by yourself.

Wishing is next to lazyness.

Didn't you post some pictures of your cabinet work on another thread? If they're the ones I recall then you are talented at that kind of thing and that was not just learnt surely?

Seriously, I am all thumbs. I don't even own a drill any more because I just can't use them (we have a large, quite expensive painting in our toilet simply to hide the massive hole in the wall I made when trying to put a mirror up - "Simply mark and drill two small holes", it said in the instructions; yeah, right!). The wife and children leave the house when I come home with a piece of flat-pack furniture. I once called my father over to the house to help with a shower pump that wouldn't turn off only to find that I had left my electric razor turned on on the side of the shower and that was the noise I thought was the pump running.

When I say I don't know where to start, that's probably not entirely true. I know the theory, I just don't have the aptitude to put that into practice.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Didn't you post some pictures of your cabinet work on another thread? If they're the ones I recall then you are talented at that kind of thing and that was not just learnt surely?

Check out yvan's handiwork here. This link will expire within 24 hrs... 23 hrs 59 min 59 sec...

(note if the link doesn't work, just do an attachment search with yvanleterrible in the 'Search by User Name' box)

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by nrapallo

Check out yvan's handiwork here. This link will expire within 24 hrs... 23 hrs 59 min 59 sec...

(note if the link doesn't work, just do an attachment search with yvanleterrible in the 'Search by User Name' box)

Thanks. Found a number of examples of yvan's work and I was correct - he is seriously talented!

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Thanks. Found a number of examples of yvan's work and I was correct - he is seriously talented!

Is he ever! I missed some of those posting. They're gorgeous! (the squirrels, too)

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Evening classes are very useful. My daughter wanted to meet some potential partners (she's single but was thinking that this might not be ideal). She went to a woodworking class. She's still single because the class was full of gnarled elderly men. But she has made a rather good bookcase and learned some new skills.
A bit later she tried a class in plastering. This time it was full of young men. But they were all married and wanting to learn skills in order to do up their first house. The result is that my daughter is still single but can now do some woodwork and some plastering and rendering. This is very useful because she's bought a house in need of some attention. So forget the men and learn to do it yourself.

This post cracks me up

Tell your daughter she should do some volunteering for Habitat for Humanity. That way she can use those skills and maybe meet some young men

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Didn't you post some pictures of your cabinet work on another thread? If they're the ones I recall then you are talented at that kind of thing and that was not just learnt surely?

Seriously, I am all thumbs. I don't even own a drill any more because I just can't use them (we have a large, quite expensive painting in our toilet simply to hide the massive hole in the wall I made when trying to put a mirror up - "Simply mark and drill two small holes", it said in the instructions; yeah, right!). The wife and children leave the house when I come home with a piece of flat-pack furniture. I once called my father over to the house to help with a shower pump that wouldn't turn off only to find that I had left my electric razor turned on on the side of the shower and that was the noise I thought was the pump running.

When I say I don't know where to start, that's probably not entirely true. I know the theory, I just don't have the aptitude to put that into practice.

That's where the guidance of an instrutor comes in. It's the basis of all trades. The eyes learn quicker than the brain. TV shows help also but they don't answer back.

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Thanks. Found a number of examples of yvan's work and I was correct - he is seriously talented!

Very appreciated and I hope I didn't insult you.

Originally Posted by nrapallo

Check out yvan's handiwork here. This link will expire within 24 hrs... 23 hrs 59 min 59 sec...

(note if the link doesn't work, just do an attachment search with yvanleterrible in the 'Search by User Name' box)

Hey! I didn't know that. Thank you again Nick!

You know, you should write an MR user manual.

[DixieGal]

And it is always more fun to go things with someone else anyway. Give some thought to taking a class or getting the neighborhood guy with the great deck to come over and help you. FUN!

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

You know, you should write an MR user manual.

Thanks, but, but, ... that's like documentation and to a (casual) programmer causes instant brain freeze...

[Angst]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Evening classes are very useful. My daughter wanted to meet some potential partners (she's single but was thinking that this might not be ideal). She went to a woodworking class. She's still single because the class was full of gnarled elderly men. But she has made a rather good bookcase and learned some new skills.
A bit later she tried a class in plastering. This time it was full of young men. But they were all married and wanting to learn skills in order to do up their first house. The result is that my daughter is still single but can now do some woodwork and some plastering and rendering. This is very useful because she's bought a house in need of some attention. So forget the men and learn to do it yourself.

I'm a single male. Send her by my house. I could do with a nice bookcase. Maybe she could clean the house too!