Would you marry for DIY skills? ?

Yes. Definitely. I would. Absolutely.

I wouldn't marry for DIY skills. However, now that I'm no longer married to someone who could build or fix just about anything I would certainly appreciate those attributes in a partner. After we split up, my car door jammed. I phoned my ex who, bless him, came straight round and fixed it. 'I never used to thank you for things like that, did I' I said to him. He sadly replied 'I'm an engineer; no one ever does'. . Having said that, he always had a project on the go; very rarely finished them [did a loft conversion as a playroom for the children that was finished just as they were about to leave home] and NEVER tidied up any of his mess; sometimes deciding to drill holes in ceilings just as the children were falling asleep [I could go on...].One day someone phoned asking for my husband; my son answered the phone and said his dad was in the loft. I had to point out that he wasn't in the loft..he was in Germany....he is now in the process of doing up a cottage he has bought and has been building a garage for several years. I do need to clear out his stuff from my garage [we've been divorced for over 15 years!].

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Yes, the 'other directions' are very important too!

I didn't marry him fir his diy skills - his appeal lay in other directions. It turns out, however, that he is good at diy too!

I've got one of those - a DH whose DIY skills are at Ninja level! Saved us a fortune over the years and I wouldn't swap him (or the mess that he leaves for me to clear up) for all the millionaires in the world.

I too discovered I had married a DIY-er, just wish he was also a tidier-up-er, or even a put-dust-sheets-down-and close-door-before-doing-dirty-work-er.

That we have the house we do is entirely due to his home improvements and his ability to find ingenious solutions to difficult problems. As someone born with 10 left thumbs I happily accept my jobs of cleaning up afterwards and doing the decorating.

Like Howcome age is now catching up with him and he can no longer manage major projects that require sustained effort or any heavy lifting or where flexibility is needed to get into small spaces, but he can still manage smaller projects. We have just returned from a visit to DS and family where he fitted a dressing table/desk unit into DGD's bedroom, part of a project to make a pretty girl's bedroom for a 10 year old moving into her own room rather than sharing with her brother.

No, never. I married a man who is my partner and my best friend. But, he got lucky when he married me for my DIY skills! He's rubbish at most DIY. Luckily I've never been one to rely on anyone else, male or female, to do what I can do for myself.

No way would I marry for DIY skills!! My husband is good at DIY, but its not why I married him. He is just a good man. I would rather get a professional in...easier to get rid of!!

Mine does S-I-Y ..... start-it-yourself. I have to get somebody in to finish it!

When DGS was about 16 and still at school he made pocket money putting together IKEA furniture his mother's friends had bought!

Anyone who can put together IKEA furniture has my utmost admiration!

Oh no!

Mine was not there much when the DC were small and only changed a nappy once or twice that I remember, but that was of necessity because of his job. However, the DC and DGC all adore him.

Being good at DIY he can mend bikes, make a good swing, pump up a football though, so is very useful in that direction.

Don't mention PC skills, I dread hearing him say 'Oh B****r can you help me please' as he deletes or loses something important yet again.

My husband is THE most useless man that was ever put on earth. I do everything....all the 'female' stuff and all the 'man' stuff !! We have been married 41 years... two kids...two grandkids . He's never 'babysat' changed a nappy, wiped a nose, kicked a ball in the garden,played with them, cuddled them , or in any way behaved like a father or grandfather in all that time. He was a good provider...and that is all there was to his contribution. He says that's how his father was and it should be good enough. It wasn't and isn't. Our kids ignore him for the most part and now his two beautiful grandkids are doing the same. You reap what you sow , do you not?!

Yes I do most things around the house, my dad was great at it and gave me my own set of proper tools years ago, most treasured possession.

My diy skills are pretty good. I have a drill, a circular saw, tile cutter, etc. I just get tired of doing it, and find I'm not strong enough anymore. Even holding the drill is an effort.

You lucky thing, mine is reasonably capable of diy but would rather do major works at the cricket club rather than at home. As a groundsman his idea of gardening was to bring his industrial tools rounds once a year and strim, slash and burn the poor garden to within an inch of its life leaving a pile of greenery for me to burn. Hates diy at home (we currently pull downstairs loo with a shoelace) and had a massive hole in our bedroom ceiling for five years until we could afford to get a man in. Believe it or not he is head of maintenance and grounds at a huge nursing home so project manages everything really well but does manage teams under him to do the physical stuff. I married cos he was tall dark and handsome!!

PS he is a great cook

Happily Married to a lovely man who knows Diddley Squat about DIY
He has what he calls Little Man Syndrome
As in just get a little man in who knows what he is doing, to do what needs to be done.

In another life I would definitely consider a craftsman as a partner.

I however take full blame for not learning some DIY skills myself.

I wonder whether you can go to a DIY shop and get that type of husband off a shelf. Mine bless him is absolutely hopeless, even measured the bathroom space wrong so tired meant when we moved in here I had the choice between a bath or a shower not both. It was the only room I didn't measure. I used to be a very competent person and would have a go at most things but ill health has curtailed that so I am now at the whim of paid help and we all know what that means. I love him to bits but I do so envy wives who have a husband who has more skills that the ability to work the TV control, lol.x

We fell in love in our teens when OH was still an apprentice electrician. I never realised when I married him what a keen DIYer he would become, but I should have guessed when he spent the second week of our honeymoon building in fitted wardrobes! There have been times when the noise and mess has driven me mad but mostly I'm afraid I take his skills for granted. I have one SiL who has great DIY skills and another who hasn't any at all (but cooks, cleans etc) and it brought home to me how lucky I have been.

My DH is useless at DIY but works in computers so a whiz when gadgets play up. Very useful.

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I can turn my hands to most things, I discovered only recently that I can decorate, DH has RA which affects his neck as well as hands, wrists, ankles, he also had a couple of strokes which have also not helped, so when the bedroom needed painting I said I'll do the ceiling, I enjoyed it and made a good job of it, I carried on to paint all of it and various other rooms. When DH was in the army and posted to N. Ireland, the unit he was based with in Germany did a car maintenance course with all the interested wives, I can still do most things but would struggle to change a wheel, but I could instruct!

Impressive petra; being able to weld I mean, I can't do that OR play chess.

Thankfully being pretty good at DIY is just one of Mr. S.'s many, many plus points. As you posted Luckylegs life doesn't get any better than being married to your soul mate.

How do you know my OH Grannyknot
And like you, I do know how lucky I am. He taught me to weld but gave up on chess