• ParanoidPizzas@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    When I was 15, my dad purchased me a plaster saw (still have it) and handed me his drill.

    Then told me to make it look neat, but “don’t fuck up because your mother will kill us both”.

    I ran about 4 network points through the house.

    Nothing like fear to produce a 100% perfect finish 😉

    • TehDreamer@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      And then there’s me who just screwed up installing a new door knob. I stripped the threads on the screws cause I used the wrong size screws drilling. Now if the new knob fails in the future, I need to buy a new door lmao

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        1 year ago

        If it’s a wooden door that you’re screwing into, dab some match sticks with a little bit of liquid nails and gently hammer them into the stripped-out screw hole, and cut them flush with the hole. Once the glue dries, you can drive the screw back into the matches and it’ll have enough wood to bite into.

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        1 year ago

        If you can, re-use existing sockets! Old telephone or antenna lines can work! You tie the cable to the end of the old cable and pull it through the existing PVC pipe.

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          1 year ago

          That’s exactly what I am about to do in the house we’re signing for in few weeks (waiting for the attorney to give us an appointment).

          When I saw the phone jack’s in every room, all terminating down in the garage, I just figured it would be rude not too. Seeing as we will have 2Gb fibre, it makes sense