see i don't have much time myself for that kind of thing but uh i have my father was uh quite handy he died recently but uh um
i have done limited things like for example i've built uh uh
tree house for my kids and uh
well that's a project
i really enjoy doing it i just don't have the time um
uh-huh
so
well we do a lot of our own repair just we enjoy doing it and
uh
kind of like you though it's finding the time to do it but oh things like uh
the inside of the house i always do the it all the painting in it
um-hum
and uh in fact come think of it we did the outside the trim of the house and that turned out to be quite a job since we have a two story house
um absolutely
and uh
well have you ever done any remodeling
well not really we added a room upstairs or finished off a room upstairs
but that was a that turned out to be quite a job too it was a game room and uh
it took us a long time
i mean i'm talking about a year to finish that
you know it's very interesting my uh father and i built a a home a uh new home for ourselves from basically from the ground up when i was a teenager
uh-huh
and uh it's amazing how these things work one of my most um amazing amazing things is to me is that what appears to be the major part of the work basically putting the structure up happens very quickly
um-hum
but then you know comes the inside and the trim and the
electrical work and the fixtures and the appliances and it seems like
ninety percent of the time it was very frustrating takes a long time to get that house done
uh-huh the fitting i think is what is
took us so long you know the measurement and fitting it trying it taking it down fitting it again that um
i see yeah
uh so we have recently built on a
a extra garage to our house and uh we had a lot of well we had the concrete and stuff poured first we didn't attempt that we talked about it but
decided that was gonna be a bit much and uh
but we did all the finishing out on it and my husband has a workshop in it or uh he races cars and we needed a spare garage there
hm
and that turned out to be quite a project uh
we're looking at uh a lot of small things to do around the house now like uh
i think we are on borrowed time on things like the
hot water heater it's that we're gonna change out our self that uh
um um-hum
i've learned to do some plumbing
do people change out these things before they fail or
well we do because uh we've had one fail and it was quite a mess for us that
uh-huh it can cause a lot of damage i know
yes and so uh
we can tell that it's going out because of the
we're running out of hot water and stuff we'll have some it's an electric heater and uh
we figure some of the burners or heated elements are going out and we priced them and kind of felt like it be just as cheap for us to go on and change it out and
and be done with it than this waiting for it to flood us and like it did before
um-hum
and uh and you can get them at discount stores fairly cheap and uh
we can do it ourselves it's not that much trouble just unscrewing a few pipes and screwing back some more
yeah the small those small projects are manageable you know i i fix toilets and things like that but when it comes to major
uh-huh
uh projects putting in stairways uh in extra stairways or putting on an extra room or something like that i just absolutely do not have the time to do that
um-hum well it is time consuming
yeah the the frustrating thing is that i enjoy doing it
oh um-hum
but um
you know i work twelve hours a day seven days a week as it is so i can't
just don't have time for
