To hate DIY?

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I love making and craft, I've been into interiors way before insta made it as popular, I even don't mind cleaning. So I'm saying I think it should be fore me. But I'm really not into DIY.
I'm posting as I'm in the middle of stripping a door and I'm beginning to regret starting it!

I feel like everyone on here and in the world buys houses and does them up. New builds are thought of as awful etc. We've done loads in our house this is just one of a few little jobs. But it's reminded me how much I dislike diy. The mess and disruption, inevitably running out of something or not realising you need it so doing a run to b&q or screwfix or where. Is it just me? Anyone else want to cheer me up by telling me how they dislike it? Or what I'm doing wrong so I can like it more?

I hate diy. The whole house ends up a mess. We have completed 2 bedrooms and a bathroom, wanting our bedroom, stairs, living room and kitchen done for Christmas which seemed manageable when we started in August and dh seems to have got loads of overtime at work and no time to decorate. So we are living amongst tins of paint, stripped walls, half plastered walls and I’m fed up with it all!

I am in painting hear neatening up the lounge and covering a stain from a small leak in the kitchen. I like having a focus, something that makes me feel like I've achieved something with my day.

And I always enjoy a cold beer in the evening more when I've worked hard.

But I agree with you on the mess and disruption. I've made the mistake of sitting down before taking all the paint tins back up to the loft and I really can't be arsed now.

God its awful isn't it! I genuinely feel better knowing its not just me. Our house was built in the 1880s I honestly think that the only think any previous owners or occupants did was spend time doing botched diy jobs. As inevitably you start something and there's some patch up solution unearthed. Urgh

Paint stripping sucks shit but sanding sucks even more.

I say this as someone who stripped 100 years of paint layers off all the skirting boards, picture rails, tiled fire places etc (So much lead paint!) in the house.
I got about 3 rooms in and wanted to change my mind (sadly it was my bloody idea)
Had a bit of a shit fit then got on with it.

DIY actually any work in your space while your living in it sucks shit.
A new bathroom at the end of last year made sooo much dust and mess it was shit but we now have a bathroom that isn’t like Russian roulette whether you fall through the floor or not when having a shower. So that’s nice.

I actually like painting though.

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Paint stripping sucks shit but sanding sucks even more.

I say this as someone who stripped 100 years of paint layers off all the skirting boards, picture rails, tiled fire places etc (So much lead paint!) in the house.
I got about 3 rooms in and wanted to change my mind (sadly it was my bloody idea)
Had a bit of a shit fit then got on with it.

DIY actually any work in your space while your living in it sucks shit.
A new bathroom at the end of last year made sooo much dust and mess it was shit but we now have a bathroom that isn’t like Russian roulette whether you fall through the floor or not when having a shower. So that’s nice.

I'm sanding now! I've close as many doors as I can and I've got a mask and glasses. But it's gross a and everywhere!

Also ye I am definitely having beer and takeaway tonight!

This is why we pay people to do anything that involves more than screwing in a few screws.

DH claims to like it but never makes the time to do it, so I call bullshit on that one.

I enjoy almost all DIY with the exception of gloss painting. Have just got in after wiring up a couple of sets of outdoor lights and am actively ignoring the mess in the workshop which is in dire need of purging and restacking.

In general though, my problem is that my standards for how stuff should be done are higher than my ability to do it myslef or my desire to pay someone else to do it. If it's going to be bodged I'm a lot happier if I choose how it's been done.

Depends on what it is but I cannot cope with mess, or disruption so I suppose its not really the actual DIY but the state of the house that stresses me out.

I hate DIY and I'm rubbish at it. Luckily DH is great at it. My mum is great at it too, so it's not that I think of it as man's work. I just hate it!

I LOATHE DIY!

I’m not too terrible at it but I LOATHE it!

I think I’d be ok with it if it was always at waist level (no kneeling on hard surfaces or reaching on step ladders), someone was there to pass me whatever tool I needed as and when I needed it, someone would do all the prep work for me, and someone would clean up and tidy away afterwards.

I don’t think I’m being unreasonably unrealistic

Ugh OP sanding is in the 9th circle if DIY. It’s down there with gloss painting and wallpapering.

It depends what it is, I'm currently stripping down the entire stairs which means taking up all the carpet and individual rung stair carpet - it's not all in one piece because the previous owner painted white gloss over dark brown varnish and surprise surprise it's all coming off.
He did this to sell the house and I didn't notice before chunks started falling off.
I have to strip and polish the entire staircase and all of the spindles and it's doing my head in. The varnish under the gloss is sticky and gloopy and I'm having to sand each piece by hand.
I'm exhausted. I hate the previous owner with all the heat of a thousand suns.

Oh god @madcatladyforever this sounds bloody horrific.

I'm getting closer to a finishing point. I do think the mess is a big part of the issue. I'm not bad at diy for the most part I just dislike it! If I'd realised this was going to be such a big job I would have just got someone to replace the door!

If it helps @madcatladyforever, I did exactly what you're doing 30odd years ago, right down to the gloopy, treacly varnish. I got there in the end, and all the bannisters, spindles and newel posts need now is a flick with a duster. It will be worth all your hard work.

I hate any kind of house renovation stuff:

DIY (which always seems to take far longer, make more mess, cost more, give you more stress, than any youtubers would lead you to believe)

Tradesmen: flakey as fuck, half of them. Don't commit to an appointment time, or if they do they don't turn up. "I'm busy just now but will call you in a few weeks". Like fuck they will. You're left hanging on and hanging on, and nothing ever gets done.

Taking delivery of items for the home: DH and I work over 100 hours a week between us. We aren't at home to take delivery and can't take a day off at short notice if you can't choose the delivery date. Due to COVID and being vulnerable our parents can no longer sit in our house to take delivery for us.

So here we are, in a house that's slowly deteriorating, with rooms unfinished, even if it's just finishing touches wise.

I got so fed up about it recently that I thought "I just need to find a different job where I can go part time". Just so I can sit in for bloody tradesmen and postmen!

I have no idea how people do it, I really don't. All these beautiful instagram renovation accounts. How do they fit it all into busy lives?

@CurlyhairedAssassin I understand about the issue of trades people. Almost as much of a mess on as diy. Waiting for them to come, not turning up, trying to get you to have more work done.

We both work at home at leat part time in non covid times so the delivery etc is less of an issue thankfully!

I do know what you mean with the renovations on Instagram. I don't even have kids! I do think it's different when you're not living in it. Or I do wonder howany of these people are semi professional bloggers.

@CurlyhairedAssassin omg this ... it makes me so angry. Why? Why can't they just say I'm too busy to take the job at the moment.

I hate the process, but I love the feeling of accomplishment when it's done, and I love saving money by doing it ourselves, when we can.

There are limits to what I'm willing to do, though, and I didn't have a handy husband, I'm not sure how much I'd attempt on my own.