a disasterous diy hubby (DIY in general)

Member Name: barbie84

Product:	DIY in general
Date:	09/03/08 (85 review reads)
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Advantages: i can do it

Disadvantages: hubby is an accident waiting to happen

When me and my hubby fist met many years ago now his flat was decorated by his landlord in woodchip and painted magnolia, i dont like anything plain so i talked, or rather should i say pushed him into decoratin. It was only after i realised why he hadnt done it before, he was useless.

We started on the hall, simple realy, or so i thought. I started on one wall and he started on another, i was half way down my wall and he was still working on the same small patch he had started with, when in asked him why he said that some idiot had put lots of sheets of brown paper on under the wall paper, when i looked the idiot was removing the plaster board one layer of paper at a time, i ended up stripping the room myself and fixing the mess he had made.

Next to painting the ceiling, i left him to do this wholst i went to chose the wall paper, there was no way i was going to let him pick the paper as he is colour blind, heaven only knows what i would have ended up with.

I returned from fetching the wall paper to find he had painted the ceiling, well done i thoght but i never asked you to pebble dash my floor aswell. Needless to say he has never been alowed near a paint brush again.

Then came hanging the wall paper, i can do that bit he said, iv done loads of decorating before you know, i let him have a go and ended up doing it my self as he was butting the paper up to the ceiling and the skirting as we were having one paper on the top and another on the bottom, he wasnt over hanging the paper them trimming it down to size so there were gaps of different sizes where the paper didnt quite meet the ceiling, no word of a lie some of those gaps were more than an inch.

This was the point where my other half got the sack from decorating for good and i did it all my self from then on in.

When we brought our first house the garden was a right mess, so i decided to replace the walls that held the dirt back on the garden from falling onto the patio as they had already half fallen down. Hubby was well convinced he knew how to build a wall and after all how hard could it be, its only like lego and surely he had lego as a kid. He put his first line of bricks in and all was going well untill i realised he was putting the bricks one on top of the other instead of staggering them, his answer, the other wall was built like that, yes and we all know why that fell down dont we. He got the sack from wall building too.

No one would believe me if i told them my hubby has 11 gcse at grade c or above, someone forgot the comon sence im sure.

Then came getting rid of the crazy paving, a lump hammer and a chisel and away i sent him after all how could he get this wrong, brut strength and breaking things was my hubbys speciality but i didnt expect him to break his wrist.
Half an hour later, a bit of broken up concrete in the skip and hubby lets out one hell of a scream, the bloody idiot only missed the chisle and hit his wrist fracturing the scafoid bone and ended up in plaster, i finished the crazy paving myself with a little help from a friend.

The next job i had lined up for hubby was cutting down the tree in our garden which was leaning very precariously towards my house, how hard could this be, i gave him an axe and left him to it, in the house he came hobbling not long after, he had managed to hit his shin with the axe, luckily it hadnt broken it but it cut quite badly. i mean realy was i ever going to find a job he could actually do.

This tree stayed there precariously balanced for another winter and all its leaves blocked my guttering, i asked hubby to clean the guttering out and later found out he was scared of heights, he didnt tell me this untill he was at the top of the ladder and couldnt come back down, i had to call the fire brigade to get him down.

Wel i think you get the gist of what i am saying anyway, my hubby is absolutley useless at anything that had to do with diy, his friends take the mickey out of him because i do it all and i think even hubby sees the funny side realy after all he brought me a cordless jcb drill for xmas this year, i mean realy most women get jewelery, i got a power tool.

I sometimes wander if he realy cant do it or thinks if he does it badly enough i wont ask him to do it again.

Summary: i get all the diy jobs now and actually manage quite well