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To feel pissed off at my husbands attitide towards our home?!

120 replies

Dumbo412 · 18/04/2017 20:11

Today was the final straw, he took his car to get scrapped, walked home and trod oil onto the hallway carpet. It's so far been me and only me who has tried to get it out and I'm quietly fuming about it. I have anxiety about dirty carpets. No idea why but I do.

This all rests on other things.

The house hasn't been standing very long, in fact I've lived here for less than five months.

But still, in this time the kitchen cupboard has come off in my hand, he refuses to fix it.

The hallway is all dinged from when he tried to move the sofa through the hall and up the stairs.

Every bloody toilet seat in the house is broken.

The radiator in the hall was also knocked off the wall in the process of moving the sofa.

I also have only two sets of curtains up in the house (8 more sets to go) and not one solitary light shade.

Stuff that needed to go in the loft when we moved in was never moved up so the spare room that I intended on having as a dressing room is a junk room, and I have toolboxes is both the office and my bedroom.

Oh and I also have no mirrors up in the house either.

It doesn't feel homely and I'm pissed off with feeling like we've still just moved in.

Fwiw and so I don't drip feed, every issue he could sort. He's a builder and actually oversaw the build of the house we live in so it's not like he doesn't have the ability to do these things, and in fact would lose his shit if I saw it as something I wanted to do.

Maybe I'm being a cow, but I want a house to look nice and feel like home, but it doesn't. I fucking hate this house. I hate it.

OP posts:
Dumbo412 · 18/04/2017 20:54

How do you put a rail up? I've no idea? Otherwise I'd have put the rails up myself.

OP posts:
saoirse31 · 18/04/2017 20:56

Wow sloanepetersen, definitely u get award!!!!

Op, if u had to do those jobs you could, google and YouTube r ur friends. Do it.

kerryob · 18/04/2017 20:59

I'd be pissed as well, the carpet I'd be going mental!

I know lots of people have said do it yourself but he has the skills, that would piss me off. Why pay out money or spend ages doing something he could do quickly? Have you told him directly how you feel?

gettinfedduppathis · 18/04/2017 21:00

I bought this house from an electrician.

Ye Gods

Ecureuil · 18/04/2017 21:00

YouTube it!

GoodGirlGoneWrong · 18/04/2017 21:01

Apart from the radiator I'd do it all myself!

So much easier than waiting for DH to do it.

After watching lots of YouTube videos I'd probably even attempt the radiator too Grin with the plumber on standby.

HerBluebiro · 18/04/2017 21:02

That's the saying barbara thanks!

TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge · 18/04/2017 21:02

Putting a rail up is pretty obvious to work out.

FlyAwayPeter · 18/04/2017 21:03

YANBU

But you know the old saying" Doctors' wives die early, and cobblers' wives go barefoot.' And builders' families are doomed to live in unfinished houses my father was a builder

Dumbo412 · 18/04/2017 21:07

The radiators an easy one! It's just filling the hole, putting the bracket back on the wall, and hanging the radiator onto it,

Seems weird now I write it, but the curtains I doubt I could do.

There's part of me thinking well the carpet was a mistake...

I have just had a word with him, told him how I feel, he's taken it onboard. He says Saturday if he isn't at work he will crack on with the jobs as it's also pissing him off.... better than I though it would!

OP posts:
BluePeppersAndBroccoli · 18/04/2017 21:11

Well yes the OP COULD do lol those jobs.
But I have to ask, why is it that she is the only person edoing any of the jobs that need doing in the house?
Why is it that she should repair the radiator HE has broken when moving the sofa?
Why is it the OP that is cleaning a carpet when HE has spread the oil all over??

Some stuff is very much about organising the h Use when you move in. That's OK.
Some stuff is coming from his carelessness and I'm not sure why the OP should go on YouTube to learn how to repair her DH 'mistakes'....

I like the idea of a handyman though. Because I suspect that will piss him off big way mans might finally make him do something about it.

BluePeppersAndBroccoli · 18/04/2017 21:12

Xpost
Good that he seems to be on board :)

Remember that it's not because something is a mistake that he shouldn't do his best to repair it!!

gillybeanz · 18/04/2017 21:13

My friends dh is an electrician. She can wait for ages for him to do little electrical jobs for them. Nothing she can do herself btw, and he stops her everytime she says she'll pay someone else, insisting he'll do it when he gets round to it.
It drives her mad.

Your dh and you have separate roles, mine does all the DIY because I'm not the slightest bit interested.
I am default of the organisation of the home, business, kids when they were small.

wrenika · 18/04/2017 21:16

Get your tool kit out and get going. Everything in that list - apart from the radiator - is an easy job...it doesn't have to be the man of the house who does them!

Ecureuil · 18/04/2017 21:16

mine does all the DIY because I'm not the slightest bit interested

I'm not interested in it. I'm not interested in cleaning/ironing etc either! They're all just jobs that need to be done. DH isn't particularly interested in cooking but it's his 'job' in the house so he does it.

Berrybakecake1 · 18/04/2017 21:17

Me and the shoemakers wife.
Story of my life.

Bluntness100 · 18/04/2017 21:23

To be honest,my husband is shit at diy as in he'd rather not. Out of the jobs you list apart from the radiator I could do and I'm fairly shit too. I've replaced toilet seats, hung mirrors and lugged stuff about etc. To be fair when he sees me doing it he steps up, but me doing it is really the push for him to get on with it and we do it together. Well apart from the lugging and I popped to Homebase, bought loo seats and replaced them, no biggie, also hung mirrors when he was at work.

What I don't do though is live in a way I dislike, do nothing and then complain my husband hasn't done it, for me that's unreasonable. Yes he's a builder, mines an engineer, you need neither to shift stuff or replace a loo seat.

So yeah for me you're being unreasonable. Although the carpet would have driven me nuts. I also hate a dirty carpet.

IfYouGoDownToTheWoodsToday · 18/04/2017 21:24

Use YouTube for anything you don't how to do. It's brilliant!

My DH has never done a bit of DIY since about 1993Hmm but he does do lots of other stuff so I'll let him off. I do what I can and also use an odd job man for anything I can't do. I'm regrouting some of the shower tiles tomorrow, don't have a clue how to do it but will google!

Frouby · 18/04/2017 21:24

OP I feel your pain. Dp is also a builder. Wants to bodge stuff all the time, junk up the house with tools, doesn't want to spend the weekend 'working' etc.

I find asking him for the screwgun or where the house hammer is solves most issues. He gets all twitchy about me doing it so decides he will have time. If he procastinates too much I start talking about him taking ds (3) to softplay for a few hours Saturday afternoon while I crack on generally gets him busy.

And if all else fails I suggest paying someone else to do it.

I can do lots of diy bits and pieces. For stuff requiring any amount of patience I am better than dp. But he is bigger and stronger than me and much physically fitter due to being a builder so 'brute force' jobs are his. Because what takes him 10 minutes will take me an hour.

CoffeeChocolateWine · 18/04/2017 21:32

My DH isn't a builder or a handyman, but he is a very handy person and generally refuses to pay someone to do something that he can do himself.

A couple of years ago we had a few jobs around the house to do...like a half-tiled kitchen, unpainted skirting boards, a kitchen cupboard door that need replacing and a few other small bits and pieces. All stuff he said he could do himself but never found the time. Anyway, he needed to go away with work for a few days and during those few days he was away, I did all the little jobs myself and hired a tiler and a decorator to do the big stuff. When my DH got home it was all done. Yes, he probably would have got round to it eventually, but he was so surprised and so grateful that I'd just taken it off his hands and sorted it myself (when I say sorted, I mean got someone else to do it!) Do the same for your DH...I'm sure he'll love you for it!

FrancisCrawford · 18/04/2017 21:32

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Bluntness100 · 18/04/2017 21:34

I'd also say both of you are very similar,,,neither of you are doing anything. Buying some polyfilla ,filling in dings, then covering with a tester pot of paint is not a hard job as an example, Why don't you create a list of what needs doing and do it together? The situation you have where neither of you do it and just whinge isn't really sustainable.

PollytheDolly · 18/04/2017 21:39

Get a professional in and pay to get the jobs finished.

Tell DH and the price. See how long it takes......

Some of that you can do though.

Bluntness100 · 18/04/2017 21:42

You can't get a proffesional in to lug stuff, or fit lamp shades, or even fill in dings, hang curtains, or hang mirrors, these aren't complicated jobs. Well you could but you'd be nuts.Hmm

dontbesillyhenry · 18/04/2017 21:44

Bloody hell how do single parents have houses? No wonder the little woman stereotype is alive and kicking!