Things that look easy, but aren't...

[green genie]

6 hours ago, FrancisFogarty said:

Don't let anyone know you've got tools, because as sure as eggs is eggs as soon as they find out you've got a drill they'll want you to drill something,  knock something or screw something in.

Guaranteed.

Shirley every bloke homeowner has at least basic toolkit?

[BobyBrno]

The day before we left our son’s house in Sydney, he had a toilet blockage. Nothing messy, just slow draining after flushing. I said I’d sort it, just need the right tool. Off I went to the Mitre 10 store in Sydney centre and arranged to meet them all for coffee on Circular Quay. When I got it out of the bag to show them there was a scramble by them all to put it back!😊

[mickbrown]

2 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

The day before we left our son’s house in Sydney, he had a toilet blockage. Nothing messy, just slow draining after flushing. I said I’d sort it, just need the right tool. Off I went to the Mitre 10 store in Sydney centre and arranged to meet them all for coffee on Circular Quay. When I got it out of the bag to show them there was a scramble by them all to put it back!😊

And your son waved you off the next day muttering thank god that massive shitting monster had left.  😀

[Dimron]

4 hours ago, green genie said:

Shirley every bloke homeowner has at least basic toolkit?

TOOL TIME!!!!!!

Hers's mine, I'd be lost without it

Regarding power tools you need to standardise, I have Makita although deWalt are pretty good

[FrancisFogarty]

4 hours ago, green genie said:

Shirley every bloke homeowner has at least basic toolkit?

How basic is basic?

[gonzo]

[little whitt]

[donkeyshorn]

52 minutes ago, FrancisFogarty said:

How basic is basic?

Is that a makeup bag?

[Cheese]

I have a daft habit of buying tools to do one specific job, then never using them again. I always think "Surely I've got every tool I could possibly ever need now?", then a few days later I'm in screwfix collecting a set of offset spanners or a pipe cutter or some other shite.

[FrancisFogarty]

18 minutes ago, donkeyshorn said:

Is that a makeup bag?

They have various uses I believe. The one in the picture is a transparent toolkit bag to illustrate my lack of tools.

Honest.

[ZiggyStardust]

26 minutes ago, Cheese said:

I have a daft habit of buying tools to do one specific job, then never using them again. I always think "Surely I've got every tool I could possibly ever need now?", then a few days later I'm in screwfix collecting a set of offset spanners or a pipe cutter or some other shite.

I now have three pipe cutters, as each time I have needed to work on some copper pipe, I have been unable to find mine. 

Once I have bought a new one, done the job, I then put the new one away, so as I know where it is in the future. I put it in my plumbing box, next to the other pipe cutters that I was unable to find barely hours ago.

[Dimron]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

They make blinding dog chews!

[Traf]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

You still haven't returned my black butt plug.

[FrancisFogarty]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

You don’t want a transparent toolkit like that.

[FrancisFogarty]

3 hours ago, FrancisFogarty said:

They have various uses I believe. The one in the picture is a transparent toolkit bag to illustrate my lack of tools.

Honest.

Anyway, Mrs. Fogarty informs me that it’s a “toilet bag” but as I’ve not had a shit in it I can’t comment further.

[mickbrown]

5 hours ago, Dimron said:

TOOL TIME!!!!!!

Hers's mine, I'd be lost without it

Regarding power tools you need to standardise, I have Makita although deWalt are pretty good

I’ve got exactly that bag. But now all my tools are now in drawers in a workbench. 
 

Next step is to go full wanker and get some of that shadow foam

[Dimron]

4 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

I’ve got exactly that bag. But now all my tools are now in drawers in a workbench. 
 

Next step is to go full wanker and get some of that shadow foam

Next step is to go full wanker and get some of that shadow foam

Won't be the same without the risk of cutting open your fingers when you rummage (happened just last week)... I find stuff I long forgot about, next I'll send a pic of my tool shed... only I can find stuff in there

[frank_spencer]

My tool supplies are growing as my dad's are decreasing. Every time he pops round to help with some DIY task he leaves something behind.

[BobyBrno]

I’ve still got some spanner’s that belonged to my grandad. Doubt I’ll ever use them because they are all BSW (Whitworth) 

[kent_white]

Our in house tool box has got pink fluffy feathers on it! 😁

[gonzo]

There's a house clean with the best man shed/garage you'll ever see.

It's got everything from a vice to labelled drawers full of screws and fixings.

He must fuckin really hate his wife.

I know I do.

[Traf]

5 hours ago, gonzo said:

There's a house clean with the best man shed/garage you'll ever see.

It's got everything from a vice to labelled drawers full of screws and fixings.

He must fuckin really hate his wife.

I know I do.

You hate his wife or your own?
Or both?

[Zico]

got a tape measure in a drawer of random crap, including batteries, if that counts?

 

[Dimron]

16 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

I’ve still got some spanner’s that belonged to my grandad. Doubt I’ll ever use them because they are all BSW (Whitworth) 

Get yourself an old MG

[Dimron]

This is what happens when you attempt to fit new brake hoses to 30 year old worn and pitted pipes, piece of piss?

Edited Wednesday at 13:33 by Dimron