Maybe it's me that's being unreasonable ?

HugoSP

Somerset wrote: »

Only if he was the tutor :rotfl:

I would LOVE to go on that DIY course!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

ormus

could be worse, my father was a perfectionist.
example:
he could (and did) spend all day replacing just 1 window cill.

eamon

I personally dislike DIY and as a result have very few tools. I'd rather chuck money at problems/projects and get the professionals in. Think though that its more a case of knowing your limits and abilities. I don't tend to get on well with power tools. I don't mind doing the labouring and prep work and can usually get a more (for me) reasonable price for such work.

yours

Eamon

Melissa177

I've just found this link on the Old Style Forum:

http://www.videojug.com/tag/diy


I think you should show it to your hubbie!

BobProperty

Somerset - your real surname isn't Taylor is it?


(as in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUtxOpASRzQ)

PurpleDuck

I do the DIY, dh does the cooking. We both know our limits and work to them Only exception to this is when I'm pregnant. Last time round he had to do some tiling and made a horrific job of it. I told him so :rolleyes: Made him get his dad here to show him how to do it right as there was no way I could live with it or the length of time I'd have to wait until I was well enough to do it myself.

After sulking for a few days he did admit I was right :rotfl:

Somerset

BobProperty wrote: »

Somerset - your real surname isn't Taylor is it?


(as in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUtxOpASRzQ)

?????????????????

RoCas

I wonder if it would help to take a some pics of the mess-ups ... not to post them here, but to show them to your OH. I know he sees the real thing every day but he might see it with "different eyes" viewing it afresh in a photo.

skylight

My OH is the same with DIY.

I get his Dad in to do it now (and pay him!) OH doesn't moan so much when its his Dad, and I use the line that OH is sooo busy with 2 jobs that its not worth tiring him out any more.

EG:
OH took the door off our bedroom in 1999. FIL replaced it last Nov.
OH took the handrail off the hall when redecorating in 2000. Was promised it would be back before baby due in 2002. Also promised it would be back for baby in 2004. OH coming in a few weeks to re-fit a new one.

My OH starts a job, and thats it. He starts it "today" because he is in the right frame of mind. Tomorrow he wont be. Or the next day or perhaps even for some weeks. Things are left unfinished.

I have forced him to go to B&Q now (he is there right now!) as FIL re-decorated the girls bedrooms in Nov and Amy's TV is situated on top of her wardrobe but she cannot watch it as the leads do not stretch as far as the sockets. 6 months of promises to do this, I got a bit cross at lunch and told him to just get the *** job done!

misgrace

Somerset wrote: »

It was a toss up between posting here or the 'vent' board. Atm I feeling annoyed with my OH, actually I'm feeling depressed, but that'll pass. The latest !!!!-up is laying a laminate kitchen floor. It's a tiny kitchen and I admit tricky along the appliances, but you should have seen the different size gaps everywhere where stuff was mismeasured. And what he always says is ''it'll have to do'' - well no it doesn't, it looks the botch it is. Yesterday I asked him to cut a bit off a small shelf, I marked the line he needed to cut to make it fit. He cut a completely different line, for no reason, and it's !!!!!!ed now.

Now you might say ''do it yourself then ''. I would, if he'd just be up-front about things. He'll never say he can't do something. It's always a ''10 minute job '' that's a piece of @@@@. And when I say anything during the 'doing' he accuses me of shouting or being negative - I can just see the mistakes as he does them.<quote> Somerset




If he is anything like my OH he is a lazy git as well, everything is, do it tomorrow, and when he does do anything, 7/10 he messes up, and when he does do anything right, my god, he is like a child always wanting praise.
If I have left him on a sat or sun morning morning to get on with anything, and I come in the front door, before I can actually see what he has done, he will tell me the ins and outs of it, and he goes on and on, and even though I have said well done, or it looks good, he still goes on and on as though its some magic feat he's performed, the times he has texted me on the mobile telling me he has hoovered.

Its his job to do husbandy things, as I work full time as a decorator, and I run the home, do the cooking washing cleaning shopping etc, he works in an office and he is so unfit.(lazy)

He has to be told time and time again, and he just wont listen, he only does the jobs that I cant pyhsically do, or I am useless at.

So in the end I was so fed up with him being a martyr always going on what he has done and he hasnt done,texting me when I have worked weekends on a job to let me know he has flicked a duster round, yes flicked, not actually polished or moved any of the things off before he does the flicking.

So, I now text him when he is at the office, saying stupid things like, 'peeled the spuds' 'opened tin of peas' 'changed toilet roll', and also bought some gold stars and a chart and stuck it on the cupboard door, and everytime he does something right, he gets a gold star.

I think he know gets the message to stop going on and on what a ferking super husband he is.<biggrin>

For some reason I cant get the emos to work. <confused>