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Hate - stripping wallpaper
Love - mixing proper filler from powder and making walls super smooth and flat as well as creatively recreating complex shapes like cornices in filler 😉
I am slowly getting rid of all the wallpaper in my flat leaving just painted walls - and the surface has to be top notch or I get twitchy
Pretty much that.
Although TBH I hate all DIY that takes longer than an hour. Putting up shelves is fine, wasting a week of my life stripping and redecorating a couple of rooms is just another a week of my life I won't get back when I die.
I've always found painting walls and ceilings the most tedious, quite like everything else.
Hate - Sanding, not fond of decorating at all to be honest
Love - Anything in the garden. Brick / stone work, landscaping etc.
Hate - working at height
Love - POWER TOOLS!
Love - wallpapering. I'm a proper ninja at it.
Hate - Gardening.
Painting is just tedious. Especially white. Because it never ends - you do yet another coat and it looks good until it dries and you realise it's not quite white so you need to do yet another coat.
Building things is great. I subdivided a bedroom to make a home office and kids' bedroom, that was fun. Building stuff in the garden like a treehouse or things in the local park.
Love - demolition
Hate - clearing up
Love ... bleeding rads.... quick and easy with instant results ... Mmmm cosy.
Hate... Used to be sanding... but I must be getting old because I don't seem to mind it any more
Actually thinking about it I quite enjoy doing decorating, but only on my own. As soon as someone else gets involved its shit.
Having renovated a 300 yr old cottage, I basically hate anything DIY related.
I put up a workbench and shelving in the shed the other week which went surprisingly well & looks great, first time I've actually enjoyed making something in years.
I guess I like fixing things, but on my terms - don' want the pressure of it having to be done in a certain time.
I'm not going to be renovating another house again.
. Me too. I've got some cabling to put about 6m up along a wall and I'm not looking forward to being on the ladder at all. And that isn't even properly high 🙁Hate – working at height
Love - making things with wood. I don't know if they still teach woodwork at school but it will be very sad if they don't
I love taking my time on a project and getting things just as I want them. Sometimes that'll include learning a new skill or how to handle a particular tool to a satisfactory standard before starting on the final project.
and on the flip side of that.
Not always but more often than not I hate doing work for other people. They generally want something substandard or in a hurry that'll "do for a bit" or is "good enough". I get absolutely zero satisfaction out of that so it feels more like having a dead end job.
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As for heights: I'm happy enough on scaffolding or a tower and fine dangling from a rope in a harness but I'm really not keen on ladders.
Like power tools
hate unblocking the saniflow...
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After days spent doing stuff like this (Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth, I’m the one on the left) I tend to do as little diy as possible. I hate painting to be honest!
I do like anything that involves fabrication of some kind though.
Hate all diy, or as it's known in our house diyfs
Plumbing.
Especially the multiple trips for yet another bit.
Love skimming walls and what not.
Hate decorating. Really hate it
Another one that has driven me crackers is getting stuff level, straight and parallel - not easy in a 150 yr old attic where even the floors slope significantly.
Hate: All the faff involved in preparing to paint, clearing room, covering stuff, masking stuff, ....
love: painting.
hate hate hate: clearing up after painting.
love love love: proper gloss paint on a new door.
super love: Putting up shelving, only if it’s Vitsœ though, proper STW level shelving.
hate - handing over £200 quid a day to a trade when I could have done it myself
After days spent doing stuff like this (Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth, I’m the one on the left) I tend to do as little diy as possible. I hate painting to be honest!
I do like anything that involves fabrication of some kind though.
You weren’t one of the blokes doing the tethered window installations on The Shard, or any of the Spire steelwork on same?
Watching the programme about it the other evening, and I was impressed and terrified at the same time!
😱
Anything electrical. Fiddly as ****.😤
Hate.... Anything related to decorating
Love... Building stuff with power tools, hanging doors, glazing, fitting shelves, plumbing etc
£200 a day on trade sounds a bargain.
Hate getting covered in crap and sanding. trying to plan massive job that has loads of dependencies
love finishing a job, quite enjoying electrics at the moment. plumbing next.
(doing my own restoration job)
I live finding out that you did indeed get a 15mm olive to refit a trv.
Dislike the fact it's not big enough to compress in the fitting.
Love love love the pushfit end cap that meant I rendered it safe as the ice plug melted.
Dislike the fact it's a tamper proof one that I'll need to cut off.
Love: plastering & putting up coving
Hate: tiling & stripping woodwork
Creating, making, fixing, repairing, nicely and properly is what I love to do and my diy-ing extends to maintaining and caring for two wooden traditional Broads sailing yachts and the associated necessaries and peripherals. A couple of weeks ago, my week off work consisted of 4 days wet n dry sanding with another couple applying two coats of varnish. Bliss!
I dislike anything to do with putting up curtain rails, poles and blinds of any type. Devils work that.
I love taking my time on a project and getting things just as I want them. Sometimes that’ll include learning a new skill or how to handle a particular tool to a satisfactory standard before starting on the final project.
was about to post similar - I enjoy anything i have the time to plan and execute well. Hate anything thats a rush or not planned well.
Unfortunately these days anything at work or home seems to be the latter.
I also don't particularly like vague instructions
Like - currently enjoying "doing" the kitchen. Complete tear down, radiators out, two walls knocked down, new plasterwork, leveling floor, leveling ceiling (4" out over 5m!), plumbing for utilities and radiators, installing units, cutting worktops, the lot. It's a lot of work for one man though.
Dislike - the week long delay while we find out if the pipe lagging in the attic is asbestos (it's not).
Also dislike - how each little problem goes arms and legs: e.g. removing skirting board in preparation for leveling the floor end up destroying the plasterboard, which as it turns out is nailed to a 2 x 1" frame mounted on dwangs forced into the mortar between the irregular sandstone block walls. So I'm going to have to remove it all, board & replaster the whole room.
I love making stuff and doing it at my own pace - getting the details right / levels / angles even when working on an Edwardian house where everything's a bit squiffy. Press-fit copper pipe fittings are a joy in comparison to Yorkshire fittings.
Refurbing the bathroom, except working out how the wall-hung cistern and toilet went together with zero instructions and no room for the soil pipe and then drilling through the cold-water feed off the shower embedded in the wall.....
Hate having to look for stuff I know I have, but can't find because it's in the house / garage / workshop, go buy another and literally find the old one the next day.
Love - Woodwork, not particularly good at but love it.
Hate - Plumbing, not very good at that either but really don't like. Not too keen on mains wiring either. (Didn't stop me working doing white good repairs for a few years though, the unholy alliance of both hatreds..)
For those that hate mains wiring and grappling with T&E, try Wagobox connectors and boxes
Resealing the bath/shower. Truly the work of Satan, if I could find someone to do it, I'd gladly pay them.
Hate painting indoors, don't mind outside. In fact, I enjoy most outdoor jobs, particularly building a deck or a fence, mainly cos I get to use the impact driver....
I hate decorating with a passion, painting anything in fact. And sanding stuff.
But building things using wood... yes please! I've done a nice gate, a stud wall, a door and frame from scratch to fit the stud wall, a behemoth of a swing set, currently doing a bridge over the pond. Various shelf units and the like. Those wooden structures will be there to enjoy and function for decades.
Painting the outdoor ones every couple of years though... shoot me!
I hate any form of DIY as I’m ridiculously bad at it. To my eternal shame I actually enjoy building flat pack furniture, beds, cupboards, drawers all of it. Put some music on, lay all the pieces out and take my time putting it together.
Put together an Asgard shed, alone, on what seemed like the windiest day of the year. Thoroughly enjoyed it until I realised there were two pieces missing. Shed became a paddling pool for a fortnight.
Love : Not doing DIY, decorating, gardening etc.
Hate : Doing DIY, decorating, gardening etc.
I hate the thought of decorating ..but once started I quite enjoy it .Currently doing the bathroom & sons bedroom...( glossed woodwork on both first ..undecided on colour scheme for bathroom !)
Not wallpapering mind ...paint only ..these walls have had nothing other from new and that's the way they will stay for as long as we live here ...
Other than decorating ..Im pretty useless at DIY !
I loved reclaiming our garden from overgrown cat toilet to a pleasant enough place to sit. Maintaining it is is also a pleasure.
I absolutely despise clearing out rooms & prepping rooms for decorating - the missus comes home on day one- "you haven't done much,have you?" aaaaaggghhhh.
Hate decorating, painting etc
Like just about anything else, bigger the better. Enjoy working at heights, scaffolding, from a harness it's all good.
Love: getting someone else in to do it (long since not bothered myself with anything major)
hate: paying for it
Hate – stripping wallpaper
You're missing out, it's a job I really love! Fire up the steamer and get stripping, it somehow seems to be so satisfying.
Love - when a job goes well with no hitches (very rare).
Hate- silicon sealant.