Why have some British men lost their DIY skills?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co...e-now-hopeless-at-DIY

It cannot be because they haven't the time, since they enjoy more leisure time than in the past.

Then perhaps it is because they are more affluent and can afford to pay others to do the job?

Or maybe in this day of equality, men are far too busy doing the cleaning and the ironing etc? (TITC remark honest)

Or could the reason be the same of why today's children have also lost the skills once held by the children of yesterday?

[anotheoldgit]

An apology.

To all those that were obviously upset at me calling their Dads lazy, I do apologise.

It was not meant to insult your Dads, it was just an innocent remark in reply to all those that said "their Dads did nowt" (or words to that effect).

[LoftyLottie]

You are forgiven, seeing as it's you!

[RATTER15]

A trolley of the type Myself and AOG are referring.

http://s106.photobuck...ent=BogieBoxCartP.jpg

[modeller]

i've spent my life DIYing and I taught it but a time has come when I would rather pay someone to do the unpleasant jobs. It started when I decided to let someone else lie underneath the car and drain the oil while I stayed in the warm.
However for so many jobs there is a downside , no one ever does the job up to the standard that I would do myself. Which means it irritates every time I see it.

[Old_Geezer]

Know what you mean modeller, I find myself progressing from wanting to do it, to letting someone else try instead. That said not all you hire do a worst job than yourself. The plasterer I hired to skim my kitchen ceiling did 'miles' better than I believe I would have. On the other hand my old place had a lot of kitchen work done and the electrician was obviously a cowboy; should have told the builder I'd do the fitting of the extension myself. Took me about a year of weekends to get it all sorted properly since I only had a few hours at a time to work on it.

[RATTER15]

Pixi- well naturally, you would never cope with a "real" boys trolley, you would either fall off and cry or crash and break it!!! Stay off boys toys!!!!

[Old_Geezer]

I expect they were jutst humouring you during the build too :-)

[RATTER15]

No, not the backs :-)