May 9, 2008...4:18 pm
Doing your own home projects
I’m listening in as WBEN’s Tom Bauerle hosts a show on do-it-youself home projects — or not.
It’s particularly interesting, considering my new home and the handful of projects I want to take on, despite my difficult in remembering the difference between a Phillips head screwdriver
and the other one…
Anyway, some people have success stories, others have the home horror stories. The horror stories are the ones that will have you cringing.
This one professional called to talk about bad or cheap mountings of the flat screen televisions. As someone who plans to get a big flat screen with his Bush money, I’m not even considering a mount — even if it was done professionally.
Stories of $2,000 televisions crashing to the floor are enough for me to just get a stand. It may look nice on the wall, but I’m not taking that chance with the mounts. Plus you have to cut a hole in the wall and string your cords through so they don’t show from behind the set.
Or, you could just can the whole traditional flat screen idea and approach the fad this way: 
It’s not worth taking a chance, especially when I can’t get the washer to work right at the hose spicket and I continue to flood my backyard…
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