DIY a dying breed

Bird · Jun 4, 2006

We had the same thing, Pete. I had one year of woodworking shop in junior high and that was it. Most of what I learned was from a grandfather who had been a farmer a good part of his life, a father who had sold welding supplies and equipment for 5 years, and who then owned a service station and auto parts store.

Bird · Jun 4, 2006

We had the same thing, Pete. I had one year of woodworking shop in junior high and that was it. Most of what I learned was from a grandfather who had been a farmer a good part of his life, a father who had sold welding supplies and equipment for 5 years, and who then owned a service station and auto parts store.

bobodu · Jun 4, 2006

DIY is making a comeback as folks who buy $400,000 homes can't hire a painter and still make the payments!! What I find odd is how they throw out something that just needs the old gas flushed out of it.While they can handle a paint brush...hand em a WRENCH and they will try to hit a golf ball with it.... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

bobodu · Jun 4, 2006

DIY is making a comeback as folks who buy $400,000 homes can't hire a painter and still make the payments!! What I find odd is how they throw out something that just needs the old gas flushed out of it.While they can handle a paint brush...hand em a WRENCH and they will try to hit a golf ball with it.... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

cp1969 · Jun 4, 2006

( ... the ability to use some of the most advanced enterprise planning software in the world...)

Makes you wonder...who wrote the enterprise planning software? Where did they get the knowledge? No better than some of it works, I'd have to guess some of them didn't have much to start with.

cp1969 · Jun 4, 2006

( ... the ability to use some of the most advanced enterprise planning software in the world...)

Makes you wonder...who wrote the enterprise planning software? Where did they get the knowledge? No better than some of it works, I'd have to guess some of them didn't have much to start with.

rox · Jun 4, 2006

My husband who had plumbers, electricians, and painters practically on retainer has been forced to become a DYS'er!

it si so much fun for me to watch the transofrmation. We bought the olive farm and tok a big hit in our income. So with the big hit in the income guess what he now has to do all knds of things he never would hve before. Here is an example. Our house in southern France has the typical round orange roof tiles. But there is one little nich that sticks out and this has a flat roof, tar with gravel. Well the roof leaked. he walked up the hill to talk with our neighbor Claude adn ask where he would find a roofer. Claude looked at hm and flat out told him, you don't call anybody you fix it yourself! I LOVE Claude!! So claude tell him how to do t, where to get the products and my husband is up on the roof shoveling of many many kilos of gravel and guess what he did fix the roof.

My husband was raised in an apartment and never did anything remotly close to home repair. I was raised where my dad did everything except car repair. I love do it yourself and learning and the pride in finishing a project that I/we did.

Claude is really teaching my hsuband so many things and it is just wonderful. This is the same neighbor who is a retired mechanic and jsut fixed our tractor.

rox · Jun 4, 2006

My husband who had plumbers, electricians, and painters practically on retainer has been forced to become a DYS'er!

it si so much fun for me to watch the transofrmation. We bought the olive farm and tok a big hit in our income. So with the big hit in the income guess what he now has to do all knds of things he never would hve before. Here is an example. Our house in southern France has the typical round orange roof tiles. But there is one little nich that sticks out and this has a flat roof, tar with gravel. Well the roof leaked. he walked up the hill to talk with our neighbor Claude adn ask where he would find a roofer. Claude looked at hm and flat out told him, you don't call anybody you fix it yourself! I LOVE Claude!! So claude tell him how to do t, where to get the products and my husband is up on the roof shoveling of many many kilos of gravel and guess what he did fix the roof.

My husband was raised in an apartment and never did anything remotly close to home repair. I was raised where my dad did everything except car repair. I love do it yourself and learning and the pride in finishing a project that I/we did.

Claude is really teaching my hsuband so many things and it is just wonderful. This is the same neighbor who is a retired mechanic and jsut fixed our tractor.

earthface · Jun 4, 2006

I only think that DIY is a booming industry. Home shops have become more and more equiped some are more like small manufacturing shops. As fas as working on Cars I agree due to the computerization of them there are less home mech. But most of the rest of the spectrum is widing. Of coarse as more people move to areas of limited space and code restrictions these people are moving out of DIY. I think there are many more years left before it dies. More years than I have left before the end is in sight.

earthface · Jun 4, 2006

I only think that DIY is a booming industry. Home shops have become more and more equiped some are more like small manufacturing shops. As fas as working on Cars I agree due to the computerization of them there are less home mech. But most of the rest of the spectrum is widing. Of coarse as more people move to areas of limited space and code restrictions these people are moving out of DIY. I think there are many more years left before it dies. More years than I have left before the end is in sight.