/diy/ - Do It Yourself

why are slavs are masters of jury rigging

>>1307315
Set the Lada to stealth Lt Sergai, we have capitalism to run over

>>1201538
Years ago my parents ran a general store out in the bush, place was about 100 years old and had about that many years of extensions and stuff to it, the original house adjoining the shop and they bought it off some old folks.

First 'secret' door was from the living room into a bathroom hidden behind wood panelling that you just pushed the wall and the door swung into the bathroom en suite area. That was 'kind of cool' in a strange kind of way, but mostly unnecessary.
Second took a lot more fuckery to find.
>So they where wanting to expand an area where some drink fridges where, replace 2 fridges with one big one.
>I got my tape measure, measured from the front of the store to the back of the house which adjoined it
>Calculated the wall thicknesses
>Somewhere there's about 3ft missing...
>Did a second to be sure
>Did the internal measurements and yeah, there's 3ft missing behind the fridges

Had a good hard think about it for a while, told my dad and we figured, 'fuck it' and took a hammer to the wall behind the fridges, hell its not like it would be seen after a new fridge was put in
>BAMF!
>Holy shit!

Shined a torch in there and sure enough there's a fairly big space about 3ft by 10ft in there full of a hydroponic grow lab!
Had all the lights wired off the power points where the fridges would go, water was gravity feed into the beds from a big drum and probably about a half dozen fertiliser beds. Called the local copper to come down and have a look at it, he's just shaking his head and muttering about 'knew those old bastards where selling dope!' but he was never able to prove it.
The really clever thing was the door into it was just a little 2x2ft panel in the back of a built in wardrobe that you pushed and it slid in a little bit, then across on these really good castors. You'd never see it, hell you'd never really be looking for it either.