What Homeowner DIY Job Do You Hate The Most?

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Drywall...

Precisely why so much of my house is paneled. But throwing mud into a joint is easier for me than plumbing. However...rocking a ceiling is best handled by pros on stilts.

[Jim Richards]

rolling in attic insulation

[Jrboulder]

1950's sprinkler systems are absolutely the worst things to deal with in the history of home ownership.

[Schrup]

Every year, year after year. Too cheap to pay someone else.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by DAEpperson

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!

I know why you ask. Well, I grew up in Echo park. I have been asked that alll my life due to my carelessness when writing, especially when typing because my brain is about 100 miles an hour ahead my fingers ( I type 14 words a minutes or something like that). I caught hell using a typewriter as a kid. Not proofing reading is my major fault in life as I constantly go back and insert missing word back into a sentence without paying real attention when typing. Lots of grammatical mistake along the way. I am shock when I actually reread my own post. My speech isn't like that at all.

Jeff

[1990C4S]

Drywall. Working in attic with fiberglass insulation in summer. Working on the second story of a roof with damp cedar shingles.

Soldering is is more difficult with no-lead. solder.

[intakexhaust]

Replacing old 4 inch diameter rotted out, stinky, dirty, heavy CAST iron SEWER pipes. Especially in a crawl space with spiders. Me no more!

[pavulon]

Currently loathe fixing appliances that are "built-in". Spent 15 minutes replacing a dryer heat element last night but over 2 hours wrestling with moving it out into a space where I couldn't lay flat to work on it. After disassembly, reassembly (twice...4 "extra" screws??), attaching the flexible exhaust hose...now kinked when dryer is pushed back in, pulling out the front-load washer out to get to said hose, moving the dryer back in with my shin while feeding the vent hose over the dryer pipe...uggghhh.

[Hugh R]

I buy a second wax ring, its a few bucks, and I hate going 10 miles back to HD for $2-$3.

[intakexhaust]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

I buy a second wax ring, its a few bucks, and I hate going 10 miles back to HD for $2-$3.

Oh yeh... learned to always buy two. If success on the first, return the second.... but then usually forget to do that... ^&%^$ toilets! No wonder those plumbers get paid well.

[Nostril Cheese]

Hot-mopping a roof or floating concrete.. In the San Fernando Valley... in August...