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BPOTN

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:32 pm
by etaoin22
I dont have the energy to wait till tomorrow or to compete with the franchise BPOTD.

But I have to remount a towel rack which I leaned on while lifting myself up in the smallest room in the house, and tore out of the drywall.

I couldn't find the little yellow doodads which allow the thingamabob to be screwed in, so I had to go to Canadian Tire. Discovering that they weren't called doodads but plastic anchors (or ancrage en plastique, dans la langue de Molière) although I am quite sure they didn't make aristocratic palaces from gyprock.

I bought a pack of varying sizes and colours so that I can shove the largest one which will go in the pre-existing hole, rather than doing the job in the fashion Mike Holmes would.

But for sure I am not doing the job tonight -- many other things precede, and if the towel rack could wait several months, as it has, it can wait till tomorrow. But I have to make sure I put the pack of doodads I bought where I remember I put them, unlike the last pack. So it is all a matter of remembering where i will have put the
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anchors away, my friends, anchors away.

Re: BPOTN

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:30 pm
by SportsFan68
LOL!

That was a long way to go for the payoff but worth it!

Re: BPOTN

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:50 am
by mikehardware
It's important to check those drywall dodads out carefully before you use them, since they tend to degrade over time, especially in northern climates. Please check the package for the manufacturing date. I'd make a recommendation, but since I don't know your
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Anchor age, I'll ask ya.