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Most unpleasent DIY job ever
hwalkerh
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We are converting a room into our dining room. It is single brick and part of the meeting building regs means I have to paint bituminous paint on the walls. I somehow wondered if builders go to all the effort of getting this sticky thick paint worked into all the bumps and lumps of brick work.
Having done a full renovation of our house i think this has made it to the top of the list of most unpleasant jobs ever.
We are converting a room into our dining room. It is single brick and part of the meeting building regs means I have to paint bituminous paint on the walls. I somehow wondered if builders go to all the effort of getting this sticky thick paint worked into all the bumps and lumps of brick work.
Having done a full renovation of our house i think this has made it to the top of the list of most unpleasant jobs ever.
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Definately sounds like it,,, but you can be safe in the knowledge your house will be weatherproof saving you money in the long run at least :TOwner of andrewhope.co.uk, hate cars and love them
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I reckon rodding your drains has to be worse than bitumin!!:money: Martin Lewis Rocks!:money:0
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I reckon rodding your drains has to be worse than bitumin!!
Probably one of the smelliest jobs, least Bitumin can give you a bit of a high. Drains just makes you smell like sewage, I had to do it the other day for parents as we had some fat trapped there causing a backlog.
I was pumping for 10 mins, stunk like a rat for 2 days after
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Another vote for the drains, fitting a new toilet.
As soon as you move the old one and there's no trap to catch the smell you can feel your stomach start to churn.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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Another vote for the drains, fitting a new toilet.
As soon as you move the old one and there's no trap to catch the smell you can feel your stomach start to churn.
Vaseline is your friend in this situation.
I once learned that people involved in executions involving the electric chair smeared vaseline inside their nostrils to mask the smell of burning flesh.
Now whenever I have an unpleasant job involving toilets or drains I do the same.
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toilets for me. especially when you have just moved in and you know that the smell and !!!! residue are not yours!!You got to get through what you've got to go through to get what you want but you got to know what you want to get through what you got to go through.0
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worse than lath & plaster ceilings?0
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It's none of those - it's cleaning up next door's yard when your soil pipe has disconnected itself, pointed its way over the fence and it's been one or two flushes before you've noticed...0
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