/r/DIYfail

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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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    7

    At least it's leveled...

    Walls are Tabique (portuguese old way to do walls)...

    1 Comment
    2024/10/04
    14:35 UTC

    26

    Not sure why this keeps blowing out.

    Need advice.

    2 Comments
    2024/09/29
    12:06 UTC

    34

    Who put the walls that close to the fan?

    3 Comments
    2024/07/08
    13:43 UTC

    12

    Quality costs extra

    1 Comment
    2024/06/27
    22:10 UTC

    9

    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

    1 Comment
    2024/06/25
    16:46 UTC

    0

    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?

    4 Comments
    2024/06/24
    00:25 UTC

    13

    How’d they do?

    I spotted this trampoline being installed a few houses down from me.

    3 Comments
    2024/06/24
    00:05 UTC

    43

    How's that new backsplash coming along?

    6 Comments
    2024/06/10
    12:13 UTC

    25

    When your condo doesn't have a pool

    7 Comments
    2024/06/09
    13:36 UTC

    29

    Amazing work

    4 Comments
    2024/04/19
    17:15 UTC

    13

    Structural spackle?

    0 Comments
    2024/04/05
    22:54 UTC

    25

    What to put on the shelf? Ideas?

    12 Comments
    2024/04/04
    18:52 UTC

    17

    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.

    1 Comment
    2024/03/12
    20:20 UTC

    59

    Previous Homeowners’ TV Mount

    Here is what the previous homeowners had the mount anchored to.

    11 Comments
    2024/02/17
    14:27 UTC

    0

    Battery Change fail

    I damaged the quartz coil when I tried to open the watch to change battery.

    Fossil ES4498 model.

    0 Comments
    2024/02/03
    22:16 UTC

    10

    This clown set himself on fire

    0 Comments
    2024/01/14
    11:34 UTC

    27

    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.

    7 Comments
    2023/08/09
    20:21 UTC

    11

    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?

    2 Comments
    2023/07/06
    01:05 UTC

    21

    My neighbor's DIY roofing job

    10 Comments
    2023/06/15
    13:21 UTC

    65

    The deck my landlord built today

    11 Comments
    2023/05/29
    22:51 UTC

    66

    Pool Deck

    14 Comments
    2023/04/11
    06:06 UTC

    40

    Mounting a bathroom cabinet turned into a modern art piece that I would like to call "everyone and everything is sh*t"

    2 Comments
    2023/04/03
    11:37 UTC

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