DIY is dead.

[Brian d marge]

Bit like some of the panel beating jobs i have seen!



And done....

My wife is quite good at panel beating, very creative she is to

Stephen

[ducatilover]

My wife is quite good at panel beating, very creative she is to

Stephen

Nothing like a wife special.....

[Flip]

It might just be the Scotts in me coming out but I just hate paying some one to do a job I do myself.

I have done up 2 houses, restored 3 cars and half a dozen bikes. I am a mechanical engineer by qualification and a fitter by trade, so I have a foot in both camps the theoretical and practical. About the only things I don't like doing is terminating a switch board and doing wall papering.

I have from time to time taken my bike/car in for servicing but only when I did not have the time to do it myself.

[jasonu]

I only read the manual after I've spent at least an hour (and sometimes half a day) swearing and hitting it with a hammer....

I do the 'google' thing before reading the manuel. Doesn't always work out though.

[The Stranger:Me]

My wife is quite good at panel beating, very creative she is to

Stephen

As I mentioned to someone the other day after his wife had been panel beating again - thank christ cars aren't hexagonal.

[R-Soul]

I rebuilt a 1965 SWB Land rover when I was younger, over three years, in the bush. I feel I have nothing to prove to anyone. The wife does...

Also, the DIY shops (mitre 10, bunnings, etc) in this place make DIY more bloody expensive than going to a tradie! There is one monopoly that NEEDS to be broken - for the sake of this country's manliness.

[Swoop]

> They also pointed out that only 32 per cent of men under 25 were able to fix the last practical dilemma they had in their home compared with 83 per cent of over 55s.

The problem is that playbox and X-station have not come out with a "DIY game" for the younger generation yet...

Also, the DIY shops (mitre 10, bunnings, etc) in this place make DIY more bloody expensive than going to a tradie! There is one monopoly that NEEDS to be broken

The "MEGA" stores did that quite well. Moving into an area and seriously undercutting the established stores so they closed down. Once that happened they upped their prices.