Do you do DIY household repairs? Or wait for OH or dad etc

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Last post: 08/03/2012 at 10:34 pm

Hey there, over the last two weeks I have taken the initiative to try household repairs-DIY myself rather than wait for a male member of my family which is usually the case. I have built a slide and little tikes car and today I repaired the bathroom door which was hanging off its hinges.
And I've even put air in my car tyres whoohoo.
Do any of you mummies do- it - yourself ??
Ive felt really empowered by this it may sound silly as I do all the normal chores & general care etc.
It would be great to here others opinions on this :)
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Yes I do stuff like that when it needs doing.

I bought a towel rail and toilet roll holder for our downstairs toilet and waited so long for DH to put it up, that in the end I gave up waiting and done it myself. I'd never used a drill properly before and he nearly had a fit when I phoned him at work and told him I had drilled into the wall and hung the things myself! Maybe next time he will pull his finger out and do it sooner...;) Ps. they towel/toilet holders are still in the wall, so i done a good job!!

Who needs men!! :lol:
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I'd like to think I wouldn't have to do simple things myself but sometimes I get sick of waiting for dh so do it myself! Anything simple & straight forward I'll attempt myself anything more complicated I'll start, get cross I can't do it, shout at him and then its generally done! ;)
If I deal with house/children/maintance/bills etc its his job to deal with the rest!
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I do! I leave anything electrical alone-to scary for me! But I can change taps/washers, paint, drill, mow/hedge trim, use a chain saw, build furniture, hang doors, and lay laminate floor (did that for the first time last yr with my sister-it was fun!!) OH works long hours, if I waited for him things would never get done!!
Plus I'm a bit rubbish at being dependant on anyone else, I was raised to be independent-I cant help it!
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I'd never get anything done if I waited for hubby. Only the other day, I changed mum's car wheel for her.

But in the passed I've hung cupboard doors, painted the boys rooms, built draw unit (when 1 week over due, this was so I could finish the baby room) done a oil change too.

Dad did try to teach me to wallpaper but at the time I had a 3 year old helper so he done most of it.

But I'm the one that puts the trampolline up and down (for the winter), and does all the gardening too.

Can't really complain too much as hubby will cook dinner and make lunches if he has too lol
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Mary c(187)
Mary c(187)
I'm so impressed with you all, though I know I shouldn't be really, why shouldn't you all be doing that, lol?

I don't except for painting. My OH has a kind of tag line, if something in our house breaks we say '**** fix it', and he does :lol:
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Ali (32)
as im single i do most of it myself

painted the whole of the house
layed carpets
built a shed
layed paving slabs
put fences up
changed tyres
put a security light up, holes were already there as the ex had done it before. He took the whole lot with him when he left :roll:
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