How cack-handed are you?...

I don't understand myself at all.

I will spend ages carefully cleaning my car, 2 bucket method wash, carefully drying it with multiple microfibre towels, followed by topping up the sealant, then various products to protect different bits etc.
Then a day later for some reason I'll not bother disassembling the bike fully when putting it in the boot and it'll cause me to whack a pedal or something on the paint and put a big scratch on the bumper/boot lip.

The other problem I have especially with DIY is perfectionism.

If something is not exactly right, I will keep working away at it, even if it makes it worse and worse.

For example trying to line up an integrated fridge door which was about 95% fine but had slight resistance when closing. No normal person would notice it. I ****ed around with the hinges and sliding mechanism, and now no amount of adjusting them will get it even back to how it was before. In fact I think then entire carcass of the kitchen unit containing the fridge has shifted slightly.
It now catches quite badly and will need more serious work to fix it, if it even can be fixed! Most likely it will now remain how it is and bug me forever!

Even for things like blemishes on my face, I will turn what was an imperceptible blackhead into what looks like a bleeding carbuncle in no time.

It's a curse!

I've got big fat hands so overtighten every thing.

I cannot hammer a nail in straight to save my life.

if you need a bolt stripping I am deffo your man.

some things I find I'm quite particular about, others I don't mind at all. Paintwork on the car or the bikes for instance, I'm generally not bothered about, they get knocks and dings, who cares? But if the gears are out of alignment...The thing I find is that I'll rush things unnecessarily, things like doing a lower leg service, I'll start with everything laid out neatly, within 10 mins I've spread every tool in the tool box within a 20m diameter, and all the parts are all other the place.

Having honed my spanning skills on a 1990s Landrover Defender i generally reach for the 24" breaker bar for everything..

For example trying to line up an integrated fridge door which was about 95% fine but had slight resistance when closing. No normal person would notice it. I **** around with the hinges and sliding mechanism, and now no amount of adjusting them will get it even back to how it was before. In fact I think then entire carcass of the kitchen unit containing the fridge has shifted slightly.

I'm in this post and I don't like it.

I can make lots of things and be very precise and faithful in the small details, be very careful and have them look pretty immaculate.

Myself however. My partner says I'm basically Pig Pen

If there's dirt to walk into the house or dust to roll in or soup to spill down myself, I'm there!

Mixed for me, on some things I am pretty good - for example I can plaster a room, hang a new door and then decorate the room with some basic plumbing to move the radiator. Ask me to service a cup and cone wheel and there will be swearing, bearings and grease everywhere within a 3 mile radius and a new wheel ordered from wiggle next day. Same for fitting spokes and truing.

followed by topping up the sealant

Topping up the sealant in/on what?

I can do something 100 times and 99/100 it's fine, but that 1 out of 100 I make a real mess of it because I've been lazy.

Hope brake bleed for example, done it so many times over so many years but I turned what should have been a straight bleed into a full piston and hose change because I was being a bit lazy and didn't chuck anything in to stop the pistons from shooting out and spraying fluid everywhere. Then, once they're out, you may as well...

My wife is a good cook but cannot serve food to save her life. I guaranty some will end up running down the side of a bowl or splashed across the counter. Every. Single. Time.

Not as cack-handed as my MiL, who has broken window handle in every house I've lived in over the last 20 years. Most of the time she hasn't even needed to close those windows, which is irritating.

small dint in where I’d used the lever

Fishing line for removing car badges.

I'm impressed you are all offering one example each. Lightweights.

I can do every single one of these errors. Sometimes simultaneously. What do I win?

I can do every single one of these errors. Sometimes simultaneously. What do I win?

A Saturday job in Halfords bike hut.

Fishing line for removing car badges.

I tried really thin strimmer wire - nearly took me fingers off! The bugger wasn't shifting! 🙂

I can usually muddle my way through. I need to have amply prodded myself first though.

Youtube is the place to get the lay of any land.

the-muffin-man the other day after fitting new badges on his car.....

Amateurs! I can’t make anything, do DIY or deal with complexity at all. I once had an agency job for a week demolishing an old cinema. It was like I had finally found my purpose in life. Breaking things on purpose was just a natural extension of breaking everything by accident.

So now that dint bugs me more than the faded badges that where on before.

Tip - use a heat gun on the badges to soften the adhesive, then carefully ease the tool you’re using underneath and gradually lever it up. I used to use a screen scraper for clearing ice, because they’re wide and flat and don’t create any pressure points.
What you can do now, is heat up the one in question, and lift it off, then move it along a fraction to cover the mark - believe me, nobody will notice, the badges are never aligned properly on the cars, so long as it’s level to your satisfaction, a couple of millimetres either way will not show.

I was applying vinyl decals to AA and BSM motoring school cars for a year, and some models of car had no cutouts to go over badges, particularly Peugeot 208 GT’s, so every one I put decals on, I had to lift off the two individual letters, very carefully to avoid the adhesive coming off, put the decals on, then heat up the letters to soften the adhesive and put them back on. I did it by eye and guesswork, because there was nothing to align it with, and the 208 on the other side had a cutout, but was never straight, or properly centred in the space. Honestly, the factory applied badges are just plonked on, often quite skewed.

Here’s one I prepared earlier…

When putting up shelves I go for the why drill one hole when 16 will do approach. By the end of it I’m not sure if the wall is holding the shelf or the other way around.

I am banned from putting up shelves.