So, what do you choose not to do around the house? Why?

[whirlcool]

I also hate painting. When I paint the result looks good, but I am very slow at doing it. Before we moved into this house we painted every room. It took about two weeks. I am sure a team of painters could have done it in one week, but they wanted $2,000! So we did it ourselves. And now we have been in here 13 years so guess what needs to be done again?

The rooms where we used Pratt & Lambert Accolade still look fine. The rooms that we used Behr Premium in are chipping and flaking. And we used Valspar in another room and it's doing great.

 

[davetranter]

House/yard work

I do all my own maintenance work, but as little as possible. I have arranged my home (and that of my 'Good Lady') to be as 'low maintenance' as possible. The fact that I now work as a Gardener/Handyman means that (like others) I don't want to start doing the same stuff when I get home from work ;-)
I do any electrical, plumbing, woodworking, decorating, etc. work which needs to be done. The Good Lady handles most of the laundry, apart from pegging out on the lines, which falls to me.
I do all my own automotive and machinery repairs, apart from car body welding, which is a PITA because the metal is so thin nowadays :-(
I was encouraged to 'experiment' when I was a boy, and I now have the confidence to tackle pretty much anything. My late father would be proud that I can and will tackle jobs which he would never have dreamed of attempting.

As mentioned in earlier posts, I also despair of the 'younger generation' who seem either too afraid or too lazy to tackle even the simplest of jobs. As I said in a thread elsewhere, its a situation which will keep me in a 'job for life'....

All best

Dave T

 

[danemodsandy]

I Will Tackle Most Anything, But....

....There are a few jobs I loathe.

Chief among them is yard work. I grew up in a house with a very large yard; the front yard alone was more than a third of an acre. My parents considered children to be free slave labor. I spent every Saturday of my high-school years raking, mowing, edging and otherwise grooming the yard to my dad's standards. Once we all left home and Dad had to do the work himself, those standards relaxed very dramatically.

In my present house, the lawn area is about thirty feet by thirty, which is about as much as I want to take care of.

I'm not keen on plumbing and electrical, though I've done some of both and had success with my efforts.

And when it comes to anything that refrigerates - whether a fridge or an A/C unit - I don't even try.

 

[mattywashboy]

I am not very technically minded at all. I'm great at keeping house, cooking, cleaning, basic yard work and automotive cleaning and that's about me. I enjoy painting houses and will assist anyone who needs help with that.

I've got no clue about fixing things, electrics, mechanics, none of that. I could learn if I wanted to but I've never been inclined to do so. I'm numerically dyslexic too which doesn't help me with jobs that involve a lot of numbers/measurements etc...

My dad can turn his hand to almost any task and is currently renovating his and my mums home inside and out, single handed at 65 years if age. Sometimes I wish I had adopted his abilities but I'm quite ok as I am.

I r work as a live in support worker for people with Autism and that's my passion in life, helping and supporting people with disabilities to reach their goals and live life to the full. When I'm not there I'm cleaning my house, cooking meals and visiting and socialising with friends and spending time at home with my partner.

I'm about to dip my toe into community theatre too which will be interesting for sure

I love it!

Matt