Sloppy decorating

[Nattie]

We are titivating our house with a view to selling it. We've paid somebody to redo two rooms which needed particular attention but are doing the rest ourselves.

Dh has just finished a room and has made a big thing about having finished it. However, it is streaky, there are globs of gloss on the floor and overlapping the walls, and there are stray bristles embedded in the wall paint.

I've just got home from work and am on my hand and knees scrubbing and picking the bristles out of the wall! Dh is furious with me for thinking it's important and I'm furious with him for thinking that it's not. IMO we may as well have left it tatty rather than do a half-hearted sloppy job.

Oooh difficult - I do the painting in our house - to the best of my ability. DH procrastinates, won't get on with it and then criticises my handiwork. I think your DH has a point - you could have appreciated what he did even if it wasn't perfect.(sorry)

Oh I hate that!!

Also hate it when it's careless round light switches/ sockets!

Yanbu

YANBU. If you do sell, whoever comes to look at the house will see the patching up as something that's going to cost them time and money to do.

I had a similar argument with DP who insisted on tiling the bathroom himself and did a shoddy job, meaning that we either have to pay someone to do it or take the hit on property value when we sell.

YANBU our previous owners did a shitty tosh over job and tbh I wish they hadn't bothered.

CONNORTRACEPTIVE that's exactly what I think. Why've we bothered? It does influence people's experience of seeing the place for the first time. We're not speaking, now and the house isn't even on the market!

KURRI KURRI one side of me says I should have 'appreciated' what was done and the other says I knew it would be a sloppy job. DH also refuses to take his shoes off in the house - he's the only one as I've trained the children well.

There's no reasoning as his view is that it's my problem and I'm too anal.

Oh yes, been there. My husband thinks I should be grateful that anything has been done at all, I'm annoyed that it hasn't been done more carefully.

I do the painting now, so he's won, really.