My house needs decorating HELP!!!!

traceylouwilky

My hubby is a self employed decorator and my house is getting desperate for a make over. We even have the paint but still no joy. Any ideas how to get him to use his tools in my house :rotfl:

booter

I feel your pain! Mine's a mechanic, and my car needs some new bearings......and has done for around 6 months I've threatened that if they're not done soon, I'll have a go myself. That should get him started - as soon as I reach for the tool box he starts to twitch (and then apparently I'm "doing it all wrong" ) So maybe you should start the prepping and see how you go from there?

phill99

I run a maintenance company and my house is a dump! I never work on my house. I'm either too busy on other people's homes or doing my paperwork and typing up quotes.

Remember the saying: 'The cobblers son has no shoes'.

Ant give you any advice on motivating your husband, but you are no alone!

Lincoln_Imp

Pay him
Or better still get someone round to give you a qoute then tell him he will have to pay for it

stebiz

Give him the services the other ladies do when he's on a job. :rotfl:

nickj_2

as a painter myself i can understand your old man, the last thing that you want to do if you've been painting all day is painting at night or weekends , i normally do stuff in my own house over xmas and new year when things are quiet .
however i normally leap in to action when mrs j says she's going to do it herself ,or you could put on your lowest cut top and say you've got someone coming round to price up the job

mysk_girl

Feel it! OH and I are both structural engineers - how long did it take us to get the drawings done for our extension? About 6 months, and despite being totally au fait with the planning system we still didn't get our application in in time, so we had to start without permission (it came 10 days later, we weren't too bad...)

I would just start doing it. Or get quotes from other decorators and leave them lying around? Could you book it in as a 'proper' job and pay him yourselves, so to speak?

nickj_2

mysk_girl wrote: »

Feel it! OH and I are both structural engineers - how long did it take us to get the drawings done for our extension? About 6 months, and despite being totally au fait with the planning system we still didn't get our application in in time, so we had to start without permission (it came 10 days later, we weren't too bad...)

I would just start doing it. Or get quotes from other decorators and leave them lying around? Could you book it in as a 'proper' job and pay him yourselves, so to speak?

that's rushing things , it took me 3 years to do our bathroom