can you put up shelves?

[cheezy]

I need some shelves and feel it's a job I really ought to be able to do.
I don't have any equipment though (although could borrow a drill from someone I'm sure)
It seems a lot of money to fork out to pay someone to do it for me, it feels like a life skill that I've somehow circumnavigated but...I'm lazy and not very practical. I think this is something I should learn.

Can YOU put up shelves?

DP is very good, but I'm useless: sorry.

Nope but my 65 year old DM is fantastic with a drill. I know how it’s done but the prospect of drilling through something terrifies me.

Get on you tube

I learned how to rewire a 2 wired plug the other day. Didn't even know they existed!

Yes. I've put up walls to mount them on too.

Yes. I put up Ikea shelves. Parts of my walls are bloody concrete. I had to go and buy a hammer drill but I got them up. They are straight.

I haven’t tried but I’m confident I could if I found instructions. Look online, there’ll be a step by step guide somewhere

Yes I can do most DIY including tiling and a bit of plastering. I had to learn because my husbands were so useless and it's too expensive to hire people for everything.
It isn't hard, there are tutorials for everything on youtube.

Definitely, although sometimes I lack the upper body strength to drill through the brick! I'm the DIYer in our relationship and I learnt from my mum (v self sufficient single parent).

@LupinsNotLilys

Get on you tube

I learned how to rewire a 2 wired plug the other day. Didn't even know they existed!

FFS don't attempt to do this sort of thing by copying you tube. You could be electrocuted.

@mosquitofeast It's ridiculously easy, and obvious when safe. "Is there any metal or wires sticking out?". Don't be such an alarmist.

I watched a fair few videos to make sure, I'm a single mum and can't afford to pay for help, I've no family around. I have to do most diy/gardening/ odd jobs

Yes I learnt when I got divorced 😊

[quote TheHighestSardine]@mosquitofeast It's ridiculously easy, and obvious when safe. "Is there any metal or wires sticking out?". Don't be such an alarmist.[/quote]
It is not at all obvious, I have sat through the funeral of a young man who got this wrong. I am not being alarmist. You are being incredibly unbelievably ignorant to think it is something simple and obvious, when a tiny slip up can kill you

Yes I got my head round DIY after I kicked exh out.

Youtube is your friend

I find it hard to comprehend anyone could be so stupid as to attempt to learn a life threatening procedure of a random you tube video. The fact that another poster says they think it is easy and obvious, very clearly demonstrates how dangerous it is. Do people honestly , truly believe that if there are "no metal or wires sticking out "then it can't kill you? I don't know what to say. I very rarely have come across anything so ignorant.

I can put them up, but my walls are made of cheese, so they don’t stay up if I dare to put more than a paper clip on them! I even use these heavy duty metal plasterboard fixings. Have put up 4 shelves, making a right bloody mess of the walls in the process but thought ‘that’s ok, the shelves will cover it up’. Then as soon as any weight goes on the shelf, crash!!

@mosquitofeast what would you have done in my situation? Not after a fight I'm just curious

[quote LupinsNotLilys]@mosquitofeast what would you have done in my situation? Not after a fight I'm just curious[/quote]
I don't know what your situation was, but if it was an appliance you were fixing, I would have just taken it to an electrician or electrical hardware store. If it was in your house and unmovable, I would have called an electrician.

I do plenty of DIY, shelves, doors, curtain rails, etc, but never gas, and never electricity

Thanks everyone. I am inspired to give it a go.

@mosquitofeast unfortunately that wasn't an option for me as I couldn't afford it. I'm sorry to hear of your loss

Good luck op!

@SpartacusAutisticus

Yes, can put up shelves and do other DIY tasks (including wiring up a plug, which was considered a very basic life skill when I was growing up).

and guess what! It is now required that manufacturers complete this themselves due to the number of people who died attempting this basic life skill.

mosquito wiring a plug IS a basic life skill.Plenty of electrical equipment is still supplied without a plug (eg all pond or outdoor equipmet for example) it is really extremely easy and SAFE to wire up or change a plug.

Yes, it is easy, really. Always use a power breaker in the socket, though.

I was taught how to wire a plug in the early 1980s at my (all-girls) secondary school. I can change light switches too.

Can't do drilling or shelves though. Drills just sort of give up and die when they see me.