Tumblr Thread: Millennials And Boomers Clash Over Home Repairs

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Oct 9, 2021 10:00 PM EDT

Sometimes the best move really is to leave the heavy lifting and meticulous repairing of various problems around the home, to the professionals. They've gone through all that training for a reason. When anyone ends up letting their pride get the best of them, completely avoidable injuries can tend to occur. On top of that, you might just end up making that problem in your home that much worse. Check out some more funny Tumblr gems to stifle the brooding darkness over here.

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    Font - Font - captainjonnitkessler Who wired my fing house. Give me a fl ting name. I just wanna talk cephalopodvictorious Ya know those articles that went around a while back about how Millenials know less about repairs/home repairs than boomers, and its framed as a “haha these idiots can diy a bathroom rug but HIRE a roofer, how incompetent!"
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    Font - Because everyone I know who has a house has at some point sat on the floor in tears because nothing is up to code and they're a heartbeat away from losing everything in a fire and l'm like. Maybe we don’t know less, maybe we just know more and have less hubris captainjonnitkessler You are exactly right. I have some old DIY books that are REALLY casual about things like “here's a one-page tutorial on how to knock out part of your foundation to add a cellar door!" “Here's how to run a 100 a
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    Font - subpanel yourself!" And i'm like cool! How did anyone survive the seventies! Look, contractors are expensive for a REASON. Doing a job correctly takes skill, knowledge, and experience. Doing the job wrong can literally be deadly. It can be fun and handy to learn DIY home repair, but like There's definitely a limit! cephalopodvictorious ...we are the children of the DIYers who didn't burn
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    Font - wickedlovelymad @thebibliosphere burntcopper oh god. I hear so many stories from customers in retail, and am so glad my parents have always believed in hiring people who knew what they were doing because it would be faster and probably cost less. reelaroundthedavekan
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    Font - As a homeowner you gotta know when a job is beyond your skills. You also need to factor in the consequences of fing it up. therustyskull Part of it is boomers grew up with parents who were part of this giant new suburban generation and their parents had this 'we can do anything, we won WWII! attitude - and new markets like Popular Mechanics drove all the DIY stuff before safety and regulations caught up. I am quite capable of doing some serious work but it does come down to - can I do it
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    Font - Will it be safe/up to code? Things like the shed I built, it ain't going anywhere but then again - no power wired to it and it is a small outbuilding. Not like tearing out a structural wall in my house. Also hitting my 50s my body disagrees on what I can accomplish too, time does equal money and skill too, so sometimes (most times) it’s better to pony up for a contractor. styro-sometimes My first house, when we renovated the kitchen we found out that the ENTIRE
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    Font - KITCHEN had been wired with ungrounded two-prong household 6' extension cords connected together, plugged into each other and secured with electrical tape on one end, with the other end spliced into the main house wiring. The fact that the house hadn’t burned down was a |miracle. laughterkey Follow My kitchen floor is cracking because someone before me DIY installed it and they didn't put the proper base in under the tile so they continually come loose and knock into each other/break the
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