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Household repair tasks you hate the most

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Fixing leaky plumbing by far. Have an incident going on as I speak. If a new washer won't cure it tomorrow, a roll of duck tape certainly will.

Other "favorites" include cleaning the gutters by hand, and "mulching"
 
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WoodyWorshiper;680002; said:
Fixing leaky plumbing by far. Have an incident going on as I speak. If a new washer won't cure it tomorrow, a roll of duck tape certainly will.

Other "favorites" include cleaning the gutters by hand, and "mulching"
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I lived in an apartment in North Olmstead where Duct Tape was the answer for every problem that we had....

I hate fixing electrical problems... I swear I will burn the house down eventually.
 
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A lot of people are saying electrical, but that's something that I actually enjoy doing. The only part of electrical work that I dislike is that after I throw the main breaker off and back on, I have to go back through the house and reset every single eff'ing clock we own, re-scan the available cable channels on a VCR or two, and power all the computers back up.

It's like a 30-minute ordeal in our house. Ain't technology great? :biggrin:
 
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Washing machine drain backed up, so I decided to tackle that tonight. Our upstairs kitchen sink feeds straight down through the basement, where the washing machine drain taps into the drain pipe at a T. What a damn mess of cast iron and PVC and God only knows what else ... but Hey! Total repair cost: $10.68 for a 20'f drum auger at Lowes, and I used every last foot out of the reel.

I swear on my mother I will never, ever pour bacon grease down the kitchen sink 'just this one time, it'll flush with hot water!' again.

Oh, and when you're working downstream, I STRONGLY ADVISE you tell the wife not to run an upstream tap. Yuck!

Worst home repair job ever. Plumbing still reigns supreme. :sick1:
 
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Plumbing for sure #1

I find it hard to believe that I am the first one to mention Roof repair. Fucking pisses me off, I am not exaggerating when I say I have had to fix blown off shingles every single year that we have lived in this house.

#3. Drywall repair, only because you fix it, then the sanding (freaking dust gets everywhere), then you have to repaint.
 
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Hate:

Wallpaper removal. I've removed all of the paper and the backing. Unfortunately, the glue decided to stick around. Now I get to go over it again and take the glue off, before doing drywall repair to many many places, and then paint the walls. I think that I want to kill all of the people that lived in this house before I did.

Water main repair. I don't know if it can actually be called repair, since I had to replace the whole thing. Built in 1979, the geniuses that built up my area decided that PVC hose would make a sufficient water main. I'm just surprised that mine lasted 26 years (I learned later that most in my neighborhood had begun to leak years before I moved there) before flooding my front yard and producing a $300 water bill.

Love:

Anything that involves a hammmer, pry bar, drill, or circle saw.
 
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IronBuckI;859358; said:
Hate:

Wallpaper removal. I've removed all of the paper and the backing. Unfortunately, the glue decided to stick around. Now I get to go over it again and take the glue off, before doing drywall repair to many many places, and then paint the walls. I think that I want to kill all of the people that lived in this house before I did.

Water main repair. I don't know if it can actually be called repair, since I had to replace the whole thing. Built in 1979, the geniuses that built up my area decided that PVC hose would make a sufficient water main. I'm just surprised that mine lasted 26 years (I learned later that most in my neighborhood had begun to leak years before I moved there) before flooding my front yard and producing a $300 water bill.

Love:

Anything that involves a hammmer, pry bar, drill, or circle saw.
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For that pesky wallpaper, just get this stuff and a $1 plastic putty knife and you're golden. Works like a charm... It's incredible.
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