Roomie’s Story of the Week - Booms
Congratulations to Booms who is the well deserved winner of a cool 20BB’s for story of the week - DIY Disasters.
Here is the winning story:
Hi all,
This is my story of our DIY disaster. About a month ago we were decorating the upstairs of our house, we had painted the bedroom walls, got the floors sanded and re-varnished and had just finished. We decided to paint the hall and landing so we started about 3 o’ clock. We hadn’t time to cook dinner so we ordered in a take-away. We were sitting down eating our dinner when our three year old son had to go to the toilet, so off he went. About 3 minutes later he appeared saying he was helping to paint, his man-united jersey and hands covered in paint. To say i wasn’t pleased was an understatement. Then the arguement began between my hubby and I, about who left the paint out, in the end men are always right so i took the blame. I washed his hands and changed his clothes. After eating we cleaned up and went back to finish.
When we got to the top of the stairs we found the paint spilled over on the carpet bad enough as that was the little monkey had ventured into the bedroom where on the floor was yet again his beautiful handiwork, and on the wall at the back of the room yet more paint (in big chunks). If i could have killed him I would have, but he just kept saying “but mammy I was helping am i not good” I was nearly crying not only with madness but the innocence of him. There was nothing we could do the damage was already done.
The floor in the bedroom was okay the paint just washed off it and we had to re-paint the back wall in the bedroom, but we had to replace the carpet in the hall, stairs, and landing which cost us 400.00.
We have now decided that in future we will get painters in to do the job, in the end it would probably work out cheaper.
Booms.
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