D.I.Y from a female view...what is the most extreme you have tackled.

Golly gosh!!

bikergran I am very impressed indeed!
DH is great at DIY and I have never tackled anything on my own apart from painting - however, I've always been roped in as 'righthand-woman' so together we've tackled many large jobs in various houses including refitting kitchens, bathrooms etc.

Oh dear. My best project was tiling my kitchen splashbacks. However when it comes to cutting bits out im lost so i have bits of grout in funny places. I can put a strip of plain wallpaper on and paint a wall but not much else

I have done nothing in your league Bikergran! Respect to you! I have done only simple things like decorating, tiling, fitting new ballcock, arm and handle to loo cistern, replacing motor in bathroom ceiling extractor, building a foot high wall.

I have always dreamed of being a brickie and building a 'barley sugar' twisted chimney stack. As I suffer from vertigo it will never happen!

I’m hopeless. Lucky for me, DH is a very good DIYer. That said, when I lived alone between marriages, I was very proud of myself for putting together some flatpack bedroom furniture.

I'm so impressed with all the skills you have, in the past I've decorated my house, put up a garden shed with OH but nowadays it's a bit beyond me I'm afraid I did enjoy it .

I am an expert wallpaper hanger. I have tackled everything from tiny loos to huge stair cases.

I get a man in.

bikergran what a clever woman you are. And I'm sure any job is done properly not like some tradesmans idea of a good job.
Me personally can fit a plug, in the past have fixed a new diaphragm on a toilet and can build flat pack furniture.
Don't paint as I'm allergic to any paint (pass out). So when it's time for decorating I go and stay with mum.

I've only once papered a room. A good square room at that! I did it for DS when he was about 10, as his bedroom was desperately in need of new wallpaper. I hated every minute of it, but once it was up, I was quite proud of myself. DH is rubbish at DIY! He has dyslexia and sees everything back to front. We usually get a man in for home improvements and larger repairs.

Horses ! That sounds wonderful grannysyb.

Can do a bit of painting. Tiled behind a wash basin once. Tried wallpapering but it slowly peeled away from wall. I leave DIY to other half as he thinks it's a "manly" thing to do ?. But seriously I'm full of admiration bikergran. Well done you !

Is there a smiley for bowing down in respect? I’m in awe bikergran

Sadly the best I can come up with is wallpapering and paining a room or two. In my home that’s what my mum did, dad did the harder stuff (not that he did much) and I’m ashamed to say the gender division message stayed with me. I did buy a sander last summer with good intentions but it’s still in the box. I regret not learning how do so many things - OH is even less inclined than me and we spend a fortune on paying other people to do stuff.

Tiling (badly!) Painting a staircase, which wasnt hard but carrying the scaffolding up two flights of stairs in order to do it! We need to do some decorating but just the thought of it fills me with horses!

Mine too biker, what a handy woman to have around! I will have a go at taking things to bits, dismantled a kitchen once, not so good at putting things together. (Years ago, possibly a Play for Today so that long, there was one play about a woman who installed her own central heating. Cannot remember too much about it but the admiration I had for her stayed with me.). I think that if I had been born thirty years later I would have liked to go into a trade, there is so much more choice nowadays.

Respect! Will you come and live at my house?

You have my undying admiration, bikergran! I can just about wire a plug!