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DH + DIY = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 .......(insert obscenity of choice, and AAARRRRRRGGGHHH)

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numptyvision · 09/01/2008 16:40

I should never have married a man who until the age of 7 had stars on the bottom of each left shoe so he could tell which was which.

I'm just offloading here, as opposed to tearing off his leg and beating him to death with the mushy stump.

He's sealing off a chimney in one of the bedrooms, leaving an open square hearth.

He's sawing plasterboard directly onto a thick pile rug. The plasterboard is jutting out of the fireplace and into the room by, ooh, at least two inches. He's already fixed it, probably Pritt-sticked it, into place, and he proposes to lop off 'what he can' pf the excess with a Stanley blade. There is talk of popping into to town to pick up some stuff to "even it out at the back where it's not quite level".

His response to my less than enthusiastic inspection?

"I cut it to size, I don't know what happened. You can always use filler on the front to neaten it up if it bothers you, don't stress".

He has made this house the spiritual home of Polyfilla.

  • that's a picture of me, with my twitch
OP posts:
moondog · 09/01/2008 16:41

lol
Sallystrawberry used to have me in stitches with tales of her dh's diy (I think he must have learnt a bit now though as she never speaks of it anymore.)

mimimilk · 09/01/2008 19:23

Have total sympathy with OP!!

I absolutely dread my DP attempting DIY as it always ends the same, namely with DP working himself up into a state of RAGE, swaering, shouting, throwing tolls etc and then somehow finding a reason why its all MY fault!!!

Nearly every job goes wrong and even putting together a childs toy causes major incident!!

have tried to talk rationally about this, and whenever possible i will find naff excuses to get out of the house but this just gets him even more pissed of as I think it makes him feel guilty about how he carries on.

Lately I have tried to do the jobs myself and am contemplating getting an 'odd job' man in to do things on the quiet as its a bit difficult with a 15mo DS.

KatyMac · 09/01/2008 19:26

Pritt stick?? Use no more nails - my house is held together with no more nails - so was my last house I think they condemned that

& he makes me feel guilty when I pay someone to do something grrrr

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