DIY Phobia...

[Nickpop]

Right so, i've booked a week of work cause i have tons of leave to use up. The missus landed in yesterday with 2 tins of paint, some brushes and a few other bits n bobs.

I said, what you doing with that, she said "well if your not doing anything else this week, you might aswell paint the kitchen.

I ****ing hate doing anything like this, so im sitting now trying to motivate my arse, and just can not be bothered.

Anything DIY just scares me, just not my bag. So any tips on not making a complete ****ing hash of this?

 

[ijjysmith]

I surprisingly love doing DIY.

I'm not very good at it, as our living room coffee table would suggest, but I love little house projects.

My next one is to give my garage a right sort out as it's full of crap with the aim of having a nice dart board area!

Good luck with your stuff mate.

My main tip would be to tell your mrs where to shove that paint and sit in your pants all week.

 

[Nickpop]

My main tip would be to tell your mrs where to shove that paint and sit in your pants all week.

She has one heck of a right hook mate, trust me!

 

[Username]

I'm with Ijjy but i'm actually half decent, i still live with my parents who aren't very practicle so anything DIY and it's my job to sort things out. My most recent work was doing some boxing in after we had new central heating fitted and have lots of exposed pipes as a result. My best work was a complete rebuild of my brothers room, me dad half fell through the ceiling leaving a hole in it and seeing as i had time off work me dad decided to re-do everything in the room, which looking back, was an assload of work.

I ripped the room down to bare bones and did everything except for plastering which a mate of mine did, thats re plasterboarding the walls and ceiling, strengthening creaky floor joists, building a fitted wardrobe by hand in built to the wall. Once the plasterer came in and gave it a good coating i then started on painting the room, fitting the laminate flooring and doing all the final bits like re fitting skirting boards, curtain rails etc. We recently had our house valued and the lady who had a look around was really impressed with the wardrobe, it's only a smallish room and makes the best of space, i'm still proud of meself for doing it!

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Unless you have a natural talent for it or have been trained how to do it properly, then DIY for the average man is a total ball ache, that takes 4 times as long to do as a skilled professional would & then looks like a dog's arse when complete.

You wouldn't attempt to have a go at DIY dentistry, but yet we're expected to be able to tile a bathroom with some form of male instinct.

I have the Yellow pages attitude to DIY these days.

 

[Nickpop]

I'm with Ijjy but i'm actually half decent, i still live with my parents who aren't very practicle so anything DIY and it's my job to sort things out. My most recent work was doing some boxing in after we had new central heating fitted and have lots of exposed pipes as a result. My best work was a complete rebuild of my brothers room, me dad half fell through the ceiling leaving a hole in it and seeing as i had time off work me dad decided to re-do everything in the room, which looking back, was an assload of work.

I ripped the room down to bare bones and did everything except for plastering which a mate of mine did, thats re plasterboarding the walls and ceiling, strengthening creaky floor joists, building a fitted wardrobe by hand in built to the wall. Once the plasterer came in and gave it a good coating i then started on painting the room, fitting the laminate flooring and doing all the final bits like re fitting skirting boards, curtain rails etc. We recently had our house valued and the lady who had a look around was really impressed with the wardrobe, it's only a smallish room and makes the best of space, i'm still proud of meself for doing it!

Well done, dont fancy doing a bit of painting?

 

[Sid James]

Ha did my kitchen a couple of weeks ago, I'm no expert just the victim of a the female need for having stuff painted every few years

As its the kitchen you'll need to clean the walls properly first, was them all down with sugar soap and again with clean water
Fill any holes with polly filler , sand off any rough patches

Any particular greasy areas try this Krud Kutter its amazing stuff

If you've got any stains that need covering use a "Problem solving primer" this will stop the stain coming thru you lovely paint work

I would also apply at least one coat of standard white emulsion (unless you're painting in the same colour, in which case don't paint white first).



Paint the ceiling next as you'll probably get bits on the walls , which wont matter too much as you'll be painting them

User a roller for large surface areas, get your missus to cut in for you (the corners etc where the roller wont go)

If your glossing as well, do this last, sanding down and undercoating first (prob best to do the undercoating before you start painting the walls)

Don't get too much paint on your brush, about a quarter of the way down the bristles when dipping into the paint

 

[Bungle]

I hate doing anything like this as well, guaranteed that paint will end up all over the carpet/floor and on the ceiling instead of the walls, fortunately my mrs dad is a builder/decorator so I just hint to him and the majority of the time he's well up for doing it, I just pay him in Guinness and he's happy with that arrangement.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Build a nice big wall in your kitchen.

 

[ArtetaMagic]

Just done our spare room, bloody nightmare took 3 coats ffs

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Loads of it to do, I just cba though.

Painting is one of the ones I despise the most.

 

[Ralphie Boy]

Far too much time on my hands, since i left HM Forces and so didn't realise how expensive things are in the real world i have:

Built a conservatory including electrics (certified/tested after completion).
Ripped out kitchen and re-fitted.
Ripped out bathrrom and re-fitted.
Layed a parquet floor (missus would not let me lay her - before that comment is sent).

But i can't for the life of me paint or wallpaper.

My latest project is an old motorhome I am refurbing and am just down to getting the hang of a sewing machine to make cushions.

Saved a fortunes and keeps me out of trouble.

 

[tommye]

Pick up yellow pages.
Phone painter man.
Sit back and watch the man do it properly.
Drink beer.


job done

 

[Degs62]

Done loads, much cheaper than hiring in if you've got the time to do it and are even slightly handy.

 

[Jacko93]

I love feeling of getting it finished, but hate the process of getting there. Have done every room in the house now, apart from the bathroom. Complete restart on everything, right down to skirting board ripped out, electrics and central heating, floors re-levelled. Gave me the opportunity to get it exactly how I wanted it.

In the living room I was able to lay conduit in the floor with all my surround sound cables in, then cover over the top of them so you'd never know they were there, and they run up in to the wall, with a small plug on the end, so the speaker just gets unplugged really easily if needed.

Beauty of DIY, is that it is entirely to your own liking and specification.

I shoulda just bought wireless speakers though.