The story of my life - or what do I do now? Maybe we could have a caption contest for this picture: What do you get when you cross a nail with a screw?
Seriously, the above pictured "screw" came from a Home Depot plastic packet which we purchased today as part of a repair project. Fortunately, because of other screws lying around the garage tool bench, I didn't have to interrupt my feverish pursuit of the repair job by making yet another trip to Home Depot.
The story behind this particular repair? Tiffany's parents gave us a beautiful wall mirror for our dining room several months ago. We thought the biggest problem would be hauling it from Simi Valley to Carmichael without breaking it into a million pieces. Miraculously, we got it here and even got it hung without damage.
However, in the middle of the night a couple of weeks ago, one of the wooden cleats on the back of the mirror came loose. The chain we used to hang the mirror on the wall was attached to this cleat. So the mirror was left hanging by one side of the chain only. It slid relatively gracefully to the floor damaging only the corner that hit the floor first. The mirror itself was unharmed.
We removed the mirror, reinforced all the corners, and reattached the hanging cleats with large screws.
We also glued some of the frame together in the corner that had suffered the damage. As soon as that sets, we hope to replace the mirror then hang it up again.
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