/r/DIYfail
Perfectly good ideas executed... poorly
Be mature!
Try to post a picture of what your fail is "supposed" to look like along with your original picture.
Redneck DIY posts not allowed. This is a place for actual attempts to make something nice, but got severely screwed up along the way.
Tell us what happened! It only has to be a sentence or two
When you post be sure to include how you made it in the image album or comments
No cartoons/Memes
Please for the love of God use original content. While it may not be required 90% of the time it will be removed.
No food fails unless it is truly a fail on your end. (Not a grab for karma)
No art fails. We don't want any potato Jesus.
Please feel free to share ideas on how to improve crappy DIYs that you see submitted.
All links (either in a text post or direct link) must link directly to the image.
No advertising (duh).
Special thanks to /u/nitengale329 for designing/r/DIYFail's Reddit logo, and to /u/foobgoof for adding the "chair" to the logo.
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Wired backwards. Non-UL outlet, cut wires short AND stripped the screw heads
07:17 UTC
Does black sharpie override manufacturers instructions?
01:56 UTC
I’m sure it won’t burn
00:10 UTC
At least it's leveled...
Walls are Tabique (portuguese old way to do walls)...
14:35 UTC
Not sure why this keeps blowing out.
Need advice.
12:06 UTC
15:46 UTC
Who put the walls that close to the fan?
13:43 UTC
Quality costs extra
22:10 UTC
Cutting through pipe to fix a leak under my bathtub...
Apparently almost died cutting through a pipe to fix a leak under my bathtub because some genius ran electrical wires right next to the (leaking) pipe
16:46 UTC
Shed of Doom -10 years later
10 years ago pictures were circulating of a spectacularly bad DIY shed built, dubbed the Shed of Doom.
Whatever happened to that shed?
00:25 UTC
How’d they do?
I spotted this trampoline being installed a few houses down from me.
00:05 UTC
How's that new backsplash coming along?
12:13 UTC
When your condo doesn't have a pool
13:36 UTC
Amazing work
17:15 UTC
Structural spackle?
22:54 UTC
What to put on the shelf? Ideas?
18:52 UTC
Glueing paper roll holder with cicaflex-221 to tiles. I… don’t know how else to keep it in place as it dries. Behold, my beautiful work:
No, I had no duct tape either. I can’t wait to see how terrible it looks once I remove all the tape. Pray for me.
20:20 UTC
Previous Homeowners’ TV Mount
Here is what the previous homeowners had the mount anchored to.
14:27 UTC
Battery Change fail
I damaged the quartz coil when I tried to open the watch to change battery.
Fossil ES4498 model.
22:16 UTC
This clown set himself on fire
11:34 UTC
DIY Water Heater Flue
Correcting this DIY special I inherited (along with some carbon monoxide toxicity) from the previous owners. If I don't laugh, I'll cry! Hope y'all can appreciate.
20:21 UTC
Spark plug change nearly made expensive.
So funny little Story, I thought I could change my spark plugs myself, which I eventually did but not before mistakenly removing the Fuel injection plugs (if that’s what you even call them) while trying to locate the spark plugs. So I eventually got the spark plugs done and when I started my car, I discovered that I didn’t quite fix the fuel injector plugs the first time cause I had fuel leaking.
I think everything is okay now but I did inadvertently discover how to work on part of my fuel system so….yay?
01:05 UTC
My neighbor's DIY roofing job
13:21 UTC