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What DIY successes and disasters have you had? (lazysoci.al)
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Once tried to paint my front door and fucked it up so badly that a professional had to sand it down. Cost me more than a workman would have done in the first place.

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[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Where I live buying another door would be cheaper than having a pro show up at all. Travel pay already would be more than a door lol.

Success: Fully renovated (roof to floor) my detached garage entirely on my own in a single summer (zone 3b climate, so that's a 5 month window before COLD) Including a fancied up tired cracked and pitted garage floor with a hard black tar basically. Built work benches myself too from scrap found at our local dump. They don't care if you take things here so long as you aren't being a dick and bringing attention to it. That and pallet scrounging. Saved lots. The white paint and new lights go a long way on their own vs the water stained browning 70's drywall and 2 naked 60w bulbs for a 2.5 sized garage.

Failure: The worst isn't so bad. An expensive computer had a lemon motherboard and it fried a lot of out of warranty reused parts plus an impossible to find GPU. Spent hours cramming it into a stylish mini case only for it to die a week later and kill a very expensive covid GPU.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just be careful with the reused wood. You have no way of knowing what chemicals seeped into it.

Wear a proper mask when sanding or cutting it, and I'd proabably seal it with a few layers of Killz or something along those lines.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Good points for future reference, too late this time.