Home Improvements (grunt, grunt)
Sunday, February 18th, 2007 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanAh, the joys of DIY.
Assuming that I have wrists of steel (which I don't), then my screwdriver is clearly made of Kryptonite. I was quite right about the inventive use of English whilst trying to get these damned curtains sorted out.
I have drilled the holes in the woodwork, but because the brackets are so close to the ceiling, it is impossible to get a decent grip on the screwdriver unless you have impossibly, tapeworm-thin, fingers. Abandoning that screwdriver, we hunted around for the other screwdriver set: the angled, posidrive set. Well, that was better, but not by much. I got the screws a little further in before the Kryptonite worked its magic on my weedy wrist muscles. This led to the fall back position of so many home improvements: a trip down to B&Q to purchase an electric screwdriver. Of course, that comes with a minimal charge already in it, which is not enough to do more than push the screws in a little further before giving up the ghost.
It needs 7-8 hours' charging before I can reasonably try again, but the initial trials were impressive enough to convince me that we have the proper tool for the job (amazing how hit and miss it is identifying such). Later on tonight we may actually have curtains hanging in the computer room. Or I shall have drilled additional holes in the wall and screwed myself to the ceiling. I wouldn't rule it out at this stage.
On the plus side, I have successfully hung a picture without unwarranted blood or breakage.
Assuming that I have wrists of steel (which I don't), then my screwdriver is clearly made of Kryptonite. I was quite right about the inventive use of English whilst trying to get these damned curtains sorted out.
I have drilled the holes in the woodwork, but because the brackets are so close to the ceiling, it is impossible to get a decent grip on the screwdriver unless you have impossibly, tapeworm-thin, fingers. Abandoning that screwdriver, we hunted around for the other screwdriver set: the angled, posidrive set. Well, that was better, but not by much. I got the screws a little further in before the Kryptonite worked its magic on my weedy wrist muscles. This led to the fall back position of so many home improvements: a trip down to B&Q to purchase an electric screwdriver. Of course, that comes with a minimal charge already in it, which is not enough to do more than push the screws in a little further before giving up the ghost.
It needs 7-8 hours' charging before I can reasonably try again, but the initial trials were impressive enough to convince me that we have the proper tool for the job (amazing how hit and miss it is identifying such). Later on tonight we may actually have curtains hanging in the computer room. Or I shall have drilled additional holes in the wall and screwed myself to the ceiling. I wouldn't rule it out at this stage.
On the plus side, I have successfully hung a picture without unwarranted blood or breakage.