The Shoe Makers Daughter - Who's Your Daddy?

Debookkeeper

Okay - Time to fess up and come clean - no one here will look down on you, no tsk tsking!. How many of you guys are guilty of the ol "the shoe makers daughter has no shoes". I will start - my husband was a roofer when I met him (he is now a truck mechanic.) Guess WHOS ROOF LEAKS???

Me? Well, ummm my bills and paperwork are very disorganized, they are mixed in with the kids school papers half the time

Fess up, come clean, procrastinators unite!

Tom R

I don't procrastinate, - - I just start more jobs then I finish!!

mdshunk

Eh... me too. My wife's been bugging me for a few more receptacles in a few places for certain things. I still run an extension cord in the winter time for an engine block heater. Gonna put a receptacle out there some day. I make the kids change their own burned out light bulbs. But, my son does have a crystal chandelier in his room, because he thought it would be cool.

Glasshousebltr

I'll tell ya what....she might not have shoes....but the baby's got back.

Bob

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DelW

As I tell my wife when she asks when I'm going to paint our house. "I don't get paid to paint my own house"

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Big Dave

I hate working on my own house.....mainly because it cost me money and at the same time I ain't making any.

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DecksEtc

Well, it took me a year and a half, start to finish to do the deck on my last house. The cement piers were set in May 2004 and the last section of railing was completed December 2005.

In the same house, I did put in a complete basement apartment (had help), ceramic tile in the kitchen, hardwood flooring in the DR/LR and painted over 75% of the house alone over the same time period.

So, do I get away with the deck or not?

Crawdad

I have a lawn care service, mostly mowing and shrub trimming. I've had a real good year. However, though I keep the area up near the house looking good, the back field has gone without mowing for quite some time, and I may have to hire a bush hog to cut it.
The wildlife is starting to move in.

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slickshift

Ha ha
Good timing
I just yesterday painted my peeling house
Lol

Well, I did the front earlier in the week (that's all that get painted around here-the rest is natural shake), and the trim yesterday

The previous owners had put some real crappy paint on, and it was def. a multi-hued house
Pretty bad PR for a painter


Also, unfortunately my beloved wanted to help, so now the siding has lap marks and blobs
I'll have to sneak out and fix those when she's not here
(I said she did a great job helping ...hey I appreciate it, even if it's...well...you know)


The trim on th back and sides-I'm saving that for later
You can't see those from the road

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snapper21

I have 12 new windows that have needed installing for 4 months now, as much as they cost I thought they'd install themselves, so I layed the tools right beside them. Just like our previous house, all the work will probably get done right before we sell it. Then I get to hear the whole "we didn't get to enjoy it" thing again.

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IHI

LMAO!! This thread helps me cope. I learned on our last house that do not start what I cant finish....I'd get bored with a project and start another leaving the first unfinished, and the saga continued until we went to sell and then it was a mad dash.

Since growing older/wiser with this new to us house, I refuse to do any project I cannot finish....so has'nt had any started LOL!! First year I did the windows/siding and paid to have roof done...cost me less money to have it subbed out then if I did it myself since my time is worth something, unlike what other's seem to think...esspecially since this is what I do for a living. 4 yrs later we still got a mid matching falling apart deck that I was gonna replace...aainthappened yet. I did get all new hardwood floors installed and solid oak 6 panel doors for the bedrooms/living room/hallway done a few months ago and that zapped out my home ambetion for awhile.

To do: new bathroom in basement-kinda of a priority to we can redo the upstairs/main bathroom

new deck/patio around side of hose to backyard

kitchen

new carpet in bedrooms-I have the carpet/pad already just lack ambietion of moving all the stuff to pull old and have new installed LOL!!

BUT at least when I do something noow it's the best we can afford and it gets completed once I start it in short order, even when I pull my guys and pay their wages to see that it gets done

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Teetorbilt

Guilty as charged!

Funny thing is most of my contractor friends are just the same. One has been working on his home for 3 yrs. He even played it up at his last party using hardhats for chips, pretzels, etc., wheelbarrows to hold ice & beverages, sawbucks and plywood for tables, caution tape guided you to the working restroom. A good time was had by all and it sure made me feel better

All that I need to do is paint the exterior, finish the utility room, paint a hallway, replace some trim, replace the shed, install new hurricane shutters, convert from a 3/2 to a 2/2, replace the pool deck and that's just MY list. Ol#2's is much longer.

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Leo G

I am a cabinet maker and have lived in my house for 18 years now. It is paid off. The original kitchen is still there. And it is pretty bad. The thing is, is it has got to be a complete demo, floor, subfloor, walls ceiling, windows and electrical. Not looking forward to it. So I guess it ain't gunna happen.

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maj

Jeez, what is it with women having to continually rub it in our faces!!!!!!!!



I still haven't put in the new baseboard that I had planned when we bought and remodeled our house.......................... 20 years ago!!!
And yes, I tore the old out................................20 years ago.

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joasis

My wife and I were at a home show several years ago, and a siding salesman hit my wife up for an estimate on our house....she said she would love new siding, but since her hubby is a contractor, she would have to wait til I could do it...he persisted and said contractors were customers also...they would rather pay someone else to work on their house....

But.....I have an excuse now to not finish the remodel we started 8 years ago...we have to save for the new house I will start soon.

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dayexco

my brother is a small plumbing contractor. his wife was after him for couple of years at least to replace the kitchen faucet. he came home for lunch one day, there was his competitor/friend replacing it. all it cost my brother was replacing the faucet, and lunch. LOL

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Patty

.... Is he sure that's ALL it cost him?....

dougchips

I have a project completion goal of 90%(finished). LR, one outlet cover missing an one mull strip for a window. MBR one piece of 2.5 col above the patio door missing. I could complete all of the projects in a day but I don't. I love going to other contractors homes, trades people just can't finish projects at their own homes.

snapper21

All this talk about trim reminds me that I gutted the baseboard heater system outta this house 2 years ago and I still need to replace the baseboard so there isn't 3' voids on just about every wall. They were painted around previously so they're still the yellowish color that the walls were before they were painted white.
I'll get right on that one.

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joasis

My other half and I made a trip to Lowes this afternoon for paint...she said seven years of looking at unfinished drywall was bugging here....can you believe that? So tomorrow...paint...on my day off...what a rip.

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