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"DIY Disasters" ....TV's worst ever DIY show?
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:Jerry: wrote: for masonry - a hammer and raw plug 'chisel' (can't think of the correct name). Rawltool. One for each size of plug. Hammer drills didn't make then redundant on hard masonry - we had to wait for SDS for that. -- *The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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"DIY Disasters" ....TV's worst ever DIY show?
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message ... In article ews.net, :Jerry: wrote: for masonry - a hammer and raw plug 'chisel' (can't think of the correct name). Rawltool. One for each size of plug. Hammer drills didn't make then redundant on hard masonry - we had to wait for SDS for that. Indeed, I was still using the self same tool and bits in the 1980's when helping to renovate a late 1800's heavy-engineering workshop built out of blue engineering brick - nothing else would touch either brick or mortar... |
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"DIY Disasters" ....TV's worst ever DIY show?
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from ":Jerry:" contains these words: Rawltool. One for each size of plug. Hammer drills didn't make then redundant on hard masonry - we had to wait for SDS for that. Indeed, I was still using the self same tool and bits in the 1980's when helping to renovate a late 1800's heavy-engineering workshop built out of blue engineering brick - nothing else would touch either brick or mortar... I was using them (occasionally) on the gritstone my useless hammer drill made no impression on right up to when I bought my first SDS drill. Can't remember exactly when but it must have been at least this millennium as Adam (as Dribble then called himself) rubbished my choice. -- Roger Chapman |
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"DIY Disasters" ....TV's worst ever DIY show?
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:03:16 +0100, ":Jerry:"
wrote: DIY". No humour whatsoever; just good, informative house repair and renovation DIY. Haven't seen that one. Caught a couple of episodes the other day (kitchen and bedroom refits IIRC). IMO - if you want BASIC information it's probably OK but if you're looking for anything more, forget it. Perhaps it was just those two programmes but the host seemed to be attempting to educate total numb-sculls... Yes, it is, really. Having now seen 3 instalments, I'm not so impresssed, but I do seem to pick up about one useful idea per show, if I'm lucky, so I'll watch it, if I happen to be vegging out in front of the box, flicking through the channels serching for something half-watchable. I watch Tommy watsit's "Challenge" for the same reason. Rick |
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