To ask if you do your own DIY and can you help me please?

[UncleBunclesHouse]

After a blazing row this morning with DH who has yet again said ‘yes’ to doing a DIY type task I’ve asked him to do and then doing absolutely nothing about it (then having the nerve to say I’m ‘going on at him’ for getting annoyed) I have decided I’m done, I’m not asking anymore and I’m going to learn to do it myself.

I’m really not naturally good at practical things in general and when I say DIY it’s probably not really - things like changing spotlight bulbs, changing inner tubes/tyres on the buggy etc etc.

If anyone does this stuff and is ok at it, could you give me some tips? What are the basic things I need and where can I learn ‘for dummies’ style? Have tried watching a few you tube videos before but they often seem to assume a basic level of knowledge which I don’t have...TIA

As PPs have said, YouTube is your friend! There are "how to" videos on there for literally every task imaginable.

@Slippy78

Boilers? Yeah its easy if you're gas safe registered as a boiler repair involves working with gas, so only Gas Safe registered engineers can legally work on a gas boiler

Incorrect. You are only required to be qualified if working on the gas side of the boiler. Working on the wet side is fine.

No you cannot work on the boiler, the wet side is not the boiler!!!!!!

The PP said they had worked on the boiler

A non-registered person may carry out ‘wet work’, ie install water pipes and radiators for a heating system, but any work on the gas boiler itself and the final connection of the water pipework to the boiler, must be done by a Gas Safe registered engineer.

Not all boilers are gas boilers.

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Placemarking for youtube links. Thanks for posting OP. As a perennial single household I don't have a DH or other to do/obstruct any DIY but I hear this time and again. Likewise, fed up of trying to get someone in to do "small jobs" and the crap that involves. You and the replies have inspired me to believe i can do diy myself. Posted in DIY for recommendations for a drill and waiting to collect from Screwfix. I just want all these niggly jobs done and a nice home to live in seeing as I have to spend so much time inside it now! Good luck and enjoy the satisfaction of doing it yourself. Cheers c x

DH is the kind of person who will do something in 5 years, rather than today

Having waited 3 years for him to do all the DIY jobs we needed doing. knowing we want to put our house on the market early this year, I finally took matters into my own hands.

I made a list of all the DIY that needed doing, then I bought:

• decent drill
• a set of drill bits which include those which make holes, and those which screw things in
• pre-filled large tool box
• a screwdriver set
• wall plug and nails set
• a paint roller and extender
• paint brushes
• frog tape
• filler
• paint
• sandpaper
• long flat knife
• dust sheets

Then I got to work.

In the last few months, I've hung paintings, built bookcases and wardrobes, put up floating mirrors, towel rails and loo roll holders, and tidied the smaller bits of the garden.

I know my limits though, and have had people in to landscape garden, and install shutters and blinds. Jobs I neither had the time or inclination to figure out myself.

Everything I learned, I got from YouTube, it's brilliant! I don't have any particular people that I subscribe to, I just type in what I need e.g. how to paint a wall evenly, and something always comes up.

I'm almost done now with making the house feel like a genuine home, and we'll be moving soon!

Time waits for no man or woman OP, I'd ignore whatever your DH says about intentions to do any of the work required, and just get on with it yourself. Good luck!