Doing home repairs yourself is not very glamorous, but once you get the knack, you're wife, and you, will LOVE them!My suggestion - do simple home repairs yourself; you can't afford a plumber on a weekend just because the drain fell off the kitchen sink! Although the inside of the house is my wife's domain, when the toilet won't flush, or an electrical socket fails, or one of the boys gets slammed through sheet rock, I'm the one responsible! Any, and every home repair project falls on me - and they extend into the yard and gardens too! I made a terrible mistake just after we got married! I impressed my bride with my ability to fix her new (third-hand) washer and dryer. She lavished me with kisses and called her mom! Now I'm stuck with the "handy-man" image and have been told to do all home repairs yourself - washers, dryers, garbage disposals, light fixtures, drywall, electrical outlets, switches, curtains, drapes, pools, pumps, sprinklers, T.V's, and cars! In this section I'm going to show YOU how to do simple home repairs yourself, or at least, know when to call in a real professional! These photos are just a quick view of things around the house and yard that need constant attention. Don't worry! I'll go into a lot more detail and examples for each of these projects - Plus major appliances! As a bonus, I'll describe one of the most trivial "electrical" fixes I've ever done - just for my wife - that gets me hugs and kisses every night!!!
The kitchen's flooding, sprinkler heads are launching, the dryer won't start, and there's holes in the walls! - It's time to do home repairs yourself, and Do-It-Yourself-Better!Let's start with something scary, yet safe and easy (if you take precautions!), home electrical repairs. All it takes is a screwdriver, maybe two - slotted and Phillips, long-nose pliers, a 100' extension cord and fan. No, I'm not crazy, the cord and fan are pulled from the outlet to your electrical panel to verify the right breaker is off and you're safe! Here's a full treatment on repairing major holes in walls. Repairing Sheetrock. I'll show the simple tools and techniques I've used (too many times!) to cut out the bad, shape the good, set firm anchor timbers around the hole, tape, mud, and add texture for an "as new" wall! This is how it all got started for me, major appliances! In this section, I'll show you the most common failures for washers and dryers, and what you can do, and when to throw in the towel! Home Appliance Repair! Over the years I've added both a dishwasher and garbage disposal to our kitchen. Follow me as I show you how my incremental plumbing lead to a "Rube Goldberg" of assorted pipe fittings, how it totally failed, and how I rebuilt it! Home Repair Plumbing Projects - Done Right! This is a follow-up to the previous article on my kitchen plumbing project. It really did work, but a few weeks later my wife asked me to look under the sinks again - standing water! This sink repair started with a simple faucet replacement and went down-hill from there! After a new faucet, cold-water supply valve, four flex tubing sections, and three copper tube compression fitting replacements, it's finally leak-free!
I hope you've learned something useful in this section. Doing home repairs yourself is not as fun as fishing or golfing, but it's what keeps homes afloat! Back from Home Repairs Yourself to - Do It Yourself Better Home
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