Are you a DIY type of person?

LighterGuy

Are you a DIY person yourself?

Stuff like... you want one of those Freesat satellites (free to air) .. why pay someone when you can install it yourself? Or if your laptop is messed up. But you learn to fix it yourself?

The type of jobs you can do yourself if you just learn a bit. Not talking about stipping apart a gas boiler :P


So, boardsie's ... are you DIY?

I am yes... But if my laptop is feked, I can't learn how to do anything. I've come to rely on google and youtube too much.

JKM

100% DIY. Don't have the patience to be waiting for anyone to do s**t for me. Put up a 18' x 12' fence plus put down a 12m sq laminate floor in roughly 36 hours recently (with OH of course.. i'm not [quite] superwoman!) . Need to do a bit of plumbing tommorrow and put up a new countertop.

Fallschirmjager

except water pipes and heavy electrical stuff...running cables for power, lighting etc okay but if there was something major i would get help. as for water pipes i have created a personal issue with that and scared myself off it for some reason.

built my own decking, actually 2, outside power, painting decorating, cat6 wiring, speaker wiring, tv, htpc own gaming pc's, all that crap i did myself and to be honest its not difficult. currently putting insulated flooring in the attic.

i think the issue with diy is there is a minimum of tools you need up front and that can cost a bit but i am using the same power tools i got nearly 10 years ago. if you try and do it with crap tools you get fed up frustrated and have poor workmanship IMHO.

Kiera

I try to do as much as i can.

gsxr1

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=116

michelledoh

I am quite good at it too! Putting up shelves, hanging doors etc!
Must be from having a carpenter father!

listermint

yes, what would you like done >?

Korvanica

Yes and Yes

JohnCleary

JKM wrote: »

100% DIY. Don't have the patience to be waiting for anyone to do s**t for me. Put up a 18' x 12' fence plus put down a 12m sq laminate floor in roughly 36 hours recently (with OH of course.. i'm not [quite] superwoman!) . Need to do a bit of plumbing tommorrow and put up a new countertop.

Congratulations, you're a lesbian.


I'm a bit DIY myself, but then again I re-build engines for fun so am quite DIY/mechanically minded. It's an escape from my paying IT job

Duggy747

I'm so good at DIY that if you gave me an elastic band and a paper clip I could build you MacGuyver!

pragmatic1

Try and figure it out myself. Can lead to disasters though.

seamus

I'll usually give it a go myself unless the consequences of getting it wrong are likely to cost me a few hundred euro.

For example - wiring up a light, with switches, into the attic, no problem. Modifying the attic floor to fit a set of folding stairs, no way.

I would be with simple car stuff and simple DIY stuff, wouldn't be into plastering, tiling or hanging doors or the like.

sbsquarepants

I wouldn't attempt to fix my car, but i'd try anything else, i'm fairly handy around the house alright. Yay me!

SeaFields

Love to try my hand at something. Restored an old cabinet there recently. Laid a concrete floor in a shed last week. Fixed the girlfriends virus ridden laptop before that. Am putting a new kitchen into the house next week.

Idle hands make the devils work and all that

jimthemental

Grew up on a farm so I'd be some failure if I wasn't able to do some things myself. I've built walls, roofed sheds, serviced cars and tractors, fixed my guitars and other broken crap since I was a teenager so I'd say I'm fairly handy at this kind of thing.

Daegerty

No.

When a light bulb blows and I have a friend who says he'll change it for me I start rabbling on about insurance, liability, qualifications, the law and how dangerous electricity is. Then I pay an electrician to do it for me

RedXIV

Pretty crap at most things although I'll try to fix anything involving computers.

Herself on the other hand paints, builds, wires plugs, pretty much everything an honest man should

CrazyRabbit

I've been responsible for DIY around the house since my dad died when I was aged 8. So, I've gotten pretty good at it. I'd mastered wallpapering by aged 10, and after a few electric shocks, I was decent with electrics. Carpentry is my 2nd love though, and it's the area I would have worked in had I not become an IT geek.

Right now though, I let my landlord pay for someone to do almost everything. I'll barely change a light bulb now.

tony 2 tone

Yes, used to fix simple things in my old job, block sinks, lights, chairs, some machines. My tool kit consisted of a stanley knife and a screwdriver. do bits around the house for herself, don't have the room to be building stuff though

Azureus

Im good at painting/wallpapering/simple electrics like connecting lights etc, and I went around the house filling holes in the walls (dont ask-crap plastering!) and sanding em over yesterday. Can fix the usual lil leaks under the sink etc aswell. Thats pretty much it though. I'll attempt pretty much anything but it has led to me getting skulled by a heavy iron curtain pole and having to make an emergency call to the bf to come over and give me a hand so I like to make these things a dual project as much as possible

Tar.Aldarion

Only insofar as gluing things and shelves etc.
of course I would fix my computer

Buceph

Yes to techy things like fixing and building computers.
No to any traditional DIY stuff.

ScumLord

I would always try to do DIY but may often end up just BIY (break it yourself)

Naikon

I know that if you want something done correctly, you are going to have to get your hands dirty.

Hal1

I've done all sorts of jobs that I learned myself, often the hard way. Some of these are painting and decorating, light electrical, put down 3 decks, attic insulation, building pc's and data networks, mechanical stuff on the car etc, all sorts of things. No call out charge .

Kasabian

I once fixed my oil heating system using instructions found using Google.

Stained Class

I was born to do skilled manual work, so Mrs Class doesn't have to nag me for too long to do anything DIY related round the place, or fix her car.

My family have always been like that.

Indeed, if myself, my Dad, brother & brother in law pooled our knowlege, we could rig up a Nuclear Reactor for you by Monday*!:)


*Cash in hand mind.;)

lil'bug

yes love DIY
all you need in life is wd40 google and tech 7 anything else may require a doctor

ronan45

crikey yeah. few tools im the kinda guy if im shown once i can it again
Weird thing is
i can fix
hydraulics
electrics
engines

BUT i need a deck fitted i wont do myselkf cos i need to be shown ! i could probably blag it but I NEED TO SEE it being done or i just cant attempt it

Hal1

ronan45 wrote: »

crikey yeah. few tools im the kinda guy if im shown once i can it again
Weird thing is
i can fix
hydraulics
electrics
engines

BUT i need a deck fitted i wont do myselkf cos i need to be shown ! i could probably blag it but I NEED TO SEE it being done or i just cant attempt it

Ah it's a piece of piss. Dig out a copy of google, youtube, and browse some of the diy fourms. That's how I learned to do it. a basic deck consists of subframe, posts, and the deck boards.

Jesus Wept

I'm a YDI person.