It used to be plumbing for me too, until I discovered PEX pipe and shark bite fittings...now that I'm finishig my basement I'm looking foward to the bathroom installation, as well as installing a bar sink. No more soldering issues.

Now, if someone could invent a mess-free way to change the color of your walls!

Drywall...

All of it !!!!!!!! Live in a big OLD farm house. Everything is always broken. Now I'm old and ready for a patio home (downsize) and let sombody else cut the grass & do all the other work.

Wallpapering!

I hate plumbing, plain and simple. It always turns out to be more difficult than originally thought.

Anything that is water related.

Sweating copper pipe that has had water in it. Ladder work. Drywall.

Roofing.

Mr Look171 - you strike me a very nice, decent man. A gentleman too, yes?

Where are you from originally?

Sorry for my rudeness, but you just seem like a very decent dude!

Right now, I'm removing/replacing flagstone over concrete. Taking up the old, crumbly rock with a jack hammer was brutal. Cleaning the old mortar from the concrete was endless. Picking up the new stone and laying it, laborious and tedious. Now, the top step (pictured) took about 100# of grout and about 4 hours of stoop labor. My back and inner thighs are screaming!

But I'd rather spend a month of Sundays doing my front steps than deal with anything plumbing related. I HATE plumbing.

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Installing or Removing fiberglass insulation of any kind............total skin irratation for days later and love breathing in fine glass dust.

Drywall sanding and roofing very tall roofs (it's not the fall, it's the sudden stop at the bottom).

+1 on this.

I can never get the patched area to look the other areas. And I can't get the taped areas to blend properly and/or not crack after a few years.

Plumbing, even sweating joints or unclogging toilets, is cake by comparison - at least to me.

When doing some remodeling at a relative's house a few years back, we made a deal - I would take care of all the mechanicals and someone else would dry wall & paint. That worked out great.

I guess that why I would rather rebuild an engine than do body work any day.

Btw, I did quite a bit of roofing work quite a few years ago. Yes, it's nerve-wracking, especially on a steep pitch, but overall not too bad. Except that I still have the scar on my shoulder from hauling bundles of shingles and rolls of split-sheet up the ladder. Oh yeah, encountering bees under the old shingles - well, that's exciting.

This used to kill me until someone told me to wad up a piece of cheap bread (like Wonder) and shove it up the pipe. It will dry out the water that was there and hold off any new drips until you can get that joint done. The bread will dissolve when the water is turned back on.

i hate emergency jobs..the urgency makes it unbearable.

a non-emergency job can be fun..you have time to research the technique on youtube...check with PPOT..etc. if it all goes to hell in a handbasket, you can call in a pro.

fixing something because it is all about to become worse if you dont..not so fun.

Landscaping of a neglected property. Holy moly - I've literally spent the last two years off and on (spare time) cleaning no less than six full trailerloads of dead, decaying crap (leaves, brush, twigs, weeds, etc.) off my property. Finally it's starting to look semi respectable.

The worst was reclaiming the swimming pool last year. It had sat for 2-3 years with no cover on it before I bought the place and all kinds of leaves and God-knows-what had accumulated on the bottom. I had to drain it and spend about three weekends scooping nasty smelly muck out of it with shovels, then hoisting it out a bucket at a time. Awful. I was down there for probably 20 or 30 total hours. It's now crystal clear blue and (yes) a cover stays on it every time it's not in use.

Awful, dirty, smelly, nasty grunt work. The plumbing upgrades were nothing compared to the many hours that the pool reclamation and yard clean-up has taken.

guy thought this idea was better than sliced bread and did it at my house - the bread wad traveled to my instant on water heater and damaged it; the plumber said NEVER to try this -- the bread-stuffer guy had a nice bill to reimburse me for

I enjoy wood working and am a certified cabinet maker, not that I am any good at it...

right now, my trepidation, fear and loathing in the PNW is building up around anything having to do with "LEAVES"

I have to haul mine up hill to deal with them...

Mold.

Listening to the Wife SUPERVISE........

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How about this one. :eek: