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to hate it when DH takes the whole room apart?

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BlueWorrier · 12/05/2012 18:01

Today we have DSS with us and had planned to spend the day doing lots of indoor fun activities - baking, crafts, also had a nice visit from MIL.
Anyway, DH decides that we need some new speakers for our lounge TV - fair enough, the bass has blown in the ones we've got now and the whole unit vibrates and makes horrible noises each time something low comes on.
After he came home with the speakers (having missed the baking and crafts as he took so long), he has since spent the last 4 hours just taking everything in the lounge to bits (dining table, computer, sofa, coffee table) for no apparent reason. He's still not connected the new system up yet and it's then going to take at least an hour to put everything back where it was. In the meantime, DSS is running around with nothing to do plus I'm DH's slave and have to stand in exactly the right place, holding the random bits of stuff he gives me, plus cook and tidy up after he drops/breaks whatever he's pulling to bits.
I just don't get why he couldn't have just unplugged the old ones and plugged the new ones in - they are no different to the new ones!
Aaargh - I just want my house back to how it was and I feel like I've lost a whole day that I could've spent doing something much more constructive!

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jammydodger1 · 12/05/2012 18:13

its technical you see Grin it will just plug and play but being a man he wont have read the instructions and will be using the force!!

BlueWorrier · 12/05/2012 18:18

Ah I see, I get it now! I've been very clever...I managed to escape for a minute and then he moved even more around and has blocked the doorway so oh dear I can't get back into the lounge and therefore have to stay well away until it's all done!!

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jazzchickens · 12/05/2012 18:24

Last week DH tried to "fix" the TV as there was no picture. He dismantled all the wires/connections to the TV, DVD, Wii, Amplifier(?), playstation and X Box.

He was then getting the ladders out to go on the roof to "sort out the aerial".
This had me worried as he is accident prone.

I went into the living room, spent 30 seconds reading the instruction manual, pressed "auto-tune" and it was sorted Grin

Lovetats · 12/05/2012 18:25

Oh dear. I suppose he just thinks he's doing a 'nice thing' for the family and that you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

I'd still want to twat him around the head though.

Salmotrutta · 12/05/2012 18:28

You are a total killjoy OP! Do you not realise the days and days hours of enjoyment he will be getting from this? Grin

Don't think for one minute it will all be fixed today!
It will extend into infinity this connecting-up lark.

Such fun ...

Salmotrutta · 12/05/2012 18:30

Get hold of his nail-gun (he sounds just the type to have one) and nail the hems of his trousers to the floor when he's kneeling.

(Take care to miss his feet obviously)

Job done.

Gumby · 12/05/2012 18:32

Dh does this

When he has the kids in the holidays & I'm at work he'll decide to tidy the kids rooms

But this involves taking everything out of their rooms

Tidying all the toys in an anal way

The kids get fed up & bored

I'd rather a messy room & he took them out!!

BlueWorrier · 12/05/2012 18:33

lovetats you are exactly right, I know from experience that if I challenge him about it, I'll be the bitch from hell who doesn't realise just how much this farce has improved our lives. He'll flop onto the sofa once it's done and expect me to wait on him hand and foot in order to help him recover from all the strenuous work he's been doing.
He did actually offer to do some useful stuff while he was doing all this and was going to hang a few pics on the wall but they won't get done now.
He's also got a habit of stopping just as the tidying needs doing, so unless I want to live in a pigsty for the next few months, I'll need to finish it off for him.
Grrrrr!

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Lovetats · 12/05/2012 18:42

I'm so glad I'm divorced :)

But, there's worse things he could be doing, I guess.

Don't leave the bastard just yet

QuacksForDoughnuts · 12/05/2012 19:36

Get his son to 'help', for a bit of bonding. Then go and cook and have a drink while they fix the speakers and tidy. Wink

Antidote · 12/05/2012 19:39

Definitely get his son to help. I have never seen DH finish a DIY job so fast as when DS (18months) was helping. Handing daddy the drill, running away with the drill, eating the screws. Man those window nets flew up!

McHappyPants2012 · 12/05/2012 19:50

Lol antidote.

When dh cleans up it often needs tools and take 10 times longer and got to pull everything out

BlueWorrier · 12/05/2012 20:22

Oh my word, he's still at it! Managed to get it back together only to find he'd forgotten 1 lead and it all came back down again.

DSS "helped" for about 2 minutes, then he was packed off to bed!

Still another couple of hours to go at this rate... :(

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