35 year old man I'm seeing doesn't know how to plumb a washing machine in. Would this be a turn off to you?!

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This made me feel weird about him. Completely over the top, I know. But does anyone else think this is un-sexy? Or is it just me?

I fancy practical men who are resourceful. I dont care if they are tall or short or thin or muscular or clever or even solvent..... but I do like someone who knows how to fix a dripping tap. However not just typical man jobs.....basically someone who is practical and self sufficient. I hadn't considered this made me shallow :(

Forget smiling cherubs or hairy chests. The new Babe Magnet is washing machine skills.

Ohh dear, DH doesn't know the first thing about ANYTHING diyish, and the only toolbox in the house is mine... he's 35 too - better get a divorce lawyer quick

Any idiot can plumb in a washer, it's hardly a technical challenge.
I'd be more annoyed that he/she was too lazy to look on google or youtube. We built the foundation of our conservatory via youtube

OP, a man doesn't actually have to know anything about the plumbing trade to role-play as a plumber; same goes for firefighting.

Implied sexism aside - it's not complicated or difficult.

On the back of the washer there are one (or two if it has a hot water feed as well as a cold) pipes with a screw thread inside them, and one (or two) taps with a screw thread on the outside. The taps even (usually) have blue and red levers on them, and the pipes (if there are two) are colour coded. Our washer has one pipe. There is one tap in the hole where the washer goes.

I would contend that anyone who couldn't have a go at 'plumbing' in a washer was a bit stupid, and could be unattractive on those grounds.

does he not know how to put his big tool in your box either? I can see that might be disappointing.

Dp gets very scared changing the lightbulb.... He has done two now. One because he is 6"2 and I am 5"0 and I was very pregnant, and one because we fell out. You have no problems!

I don't know if my husband can plumb in a washing machine. I will have to ask I can't sew or bake though.

What's stopping you learning how to do it OP?

To those who say look on Youtube: my mouse (complicated gaming jobby) stopped working. I looked up not one but two guides on Youtube for this type of mouse. I unscrewed it carefully as per the video, and a spring fell out. This spring did not fall out when the clever chaps on Youtube opened theirs. I cannot even work out exactly where the spring should go, let alone get it back in to the right slot/whatever. The whole device is now in a plastic bag in a drawer, awaiting a visit from my son the IT expert, who has the bad taste to live at the opposite end of the country.

Some of us, let's face it, may not be thick but DIY is just not our thing.

To be fair, I'm sure even I could probably attach washing machine hoses to pre-installed inlets and outlets. Probably. But the OP said plumb in and then ran away.

Actually op I'm with you.

Not being able to do basic stuff like connect (I assume you meant connect?) a washing machine, cook decent meals, change light bulbs, load a dishwasher and basic mending implies a degree of helplessness that I would find unattractive.

The last plumber I had in was quite cute.

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Clearly, it's just you.

I've managed to get to 50 without ever having plumbbed a washing machine in - I didn't know it was a pre-requisite of being sexy

namechangingagain..etc

the shallowness is because the OP had to post on here about her OHs lack of 'lackofwashingmachineplumbinginness'

too many lacks there I thing

jeez...think not thing!!!

ineed it's no good trying to type like that, put the spanner down first.

I think it's just you OP

I have a fairly good idea of how to plumb one in, and enough DIY savvy that I feel confident I would be able to work out any bits I didn't know.

Does that mean I'm sexy? [preens]

I suppose it's not unreasonable to find people attractive for being accomplished in being able to do things. Less reasonable if you're expecting a man to be able to do things and not putting in the effort to know it yourself.

No man should put his plums in the washing machine; that's what the sink is for.

I can do it myself thanks.

Just you O think.
I'm 39 and can just about change a lightbulb. Not all men are born knowing how to plumb in a washing machine. It is why there are skilled engineers.
Just like not all women yearn to get their knitting needles out.
I've been here 2 years and I have never heard anything more ridiculous.
Also how did. The conversation even come about,
I still don't know if my dp could plumb in a machine. Not something I've ever asked him.

I plumb in my washer/dryer so I would expect any 35 year old to be able to.
It's a necessary life skill, like changing a plug.